Philosophical Speculations

Redefine "omni" as "maximum extent possible" instead of "all". Problem of evil solved.

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Cosmic fine-tuning requires either fundamental omniscience or an evolved intellect. Describing how the intellect evolved seems intractable, so I assume omniscience. Omniscience entails omnibenovelence, so I sacrifice omnipotence.

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Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Sun Feb 21, 2021 2:54 pm Clearly BK is finding more time for interviews again ~ who is up for a hero's dose ~ the latest being well over 4 hours

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Soul_of_Shu, I'm in favor of publishing linkable longer works and conversing with short fragments. Much of longer posts are performance or talking past one another.

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AshvinP, only.

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Peterson would be better if he only published writings, where readers could be more critical and not swayed by charisma.

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I like Peterson's passion but not his overconfidence. He makes occasional vague or fallacious claims that people accept on delivery.

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Why are you improbably existing now amongst an eternity of unconsciousness? Why are you experiencing this moment and not any other?

That God always exists is the most promising resolution to "why something". What's mysterious to me is how there was a first Universe.

Stanford's Plato is also notable.

So let me get this straight ... If I happen to believe in free will, to the free will denier I'm deluded and I have no choice to believe otherwise It's possible to change one's mind but unlikely. The issue is prone to perpetual confusion and believers, not deniers or agnostics, seem to have multipl...