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  1. NathantheProfit

    Religion and the Singularity of Observation and Environment

    yes ;)
  2. NathantheProfit

    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    I was just joking. I'm god ;)
  3. NathantheProfit

    Everything came forth from nothing?

    That's such a dismally nihilist viewpoint. .. I love it.
  4. NathantheProfit

    Everything came forth from nothing?

    You sir, share a similar sentiment to humanity as the late great George Carlin.
  5. NathantheProfit

    Where A.I get its Social-values

    At risk of offending some of you, I'm going to posit that, in my opinion, A.I will likely never be able to create certain values. My rationale behind all of this is that many or all social and personal values are based on an appreciation for the self, which, in my opinion, is based on scale of...
  6. NathantheProfit

    Coming down from a God trip

    Ouch. What happened?
  7. NathantheProfit

    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    For the record, since making this thread I've received a lot of material debunking evolution that's shifted me from being agnostic on the subject to outrightly suppressing the theory. I wrote a thread on this site called "Do we control our beliefs?" where I entertain the position of 'doxastic...
  8. NathantheProfit

    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    From what I know, each species was created independently. Humans were created roughly 6000 years ago. But the other species were created according to an old-earth model based on what modern science claims about their age. Technically their view is everything was created incrementally in a way...
  9. NathantheProfit

    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    I dont really understand your position. I thought you believe you have the truth? If you do, then I shouldn't need faith; I should just need proper understanding. Are you saying I should just continue believing in evolution, which you think it untrue, because this is somehow who I am? This is...
  10. NathantheProfit

    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    Do you mean hypnotism? I've given up on trying to use imagination or logic. I need magic.
  11. NathantheProfit

    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    I treat my mind like a Ginea pig. I'm an epistemic utilitarian. Utility is more important than truth, in theory. I only act this way because I'm not in a position of power and have no influence. If I was a teacher I wouldn't be acting this way. Right now I still 'believe' in evolution. It's...
  12. NathantheProfit

    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    Yes. I'm in desperate need of help. In the past I've been able to will myself to believe all sorts of absurd things. I used to think that 80% of the world was clones. Lately I'm too level-headed to will myself into accepting radical beliefs like that. My logic tells me if I could believe that...
  13. NathantheProfit

    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    I've recently committed to rejoining my family's religion (the Jehovah's Witnesses). In doing so I'm obligated to give up my belief in evolution. This is hard for me because I find evolution so logical. To combat my resistance to rejecting evolution, I've been researching all the objections to...
  14. NathantheProfit

    Is Our Death Predetermined?

    I meant the exact nature of your death: when where how and even why.
  15. NathantheProfit

    Is Our Death Predetermined?

    Better load up on life insurance while you still can. If the insurance companies found out about that prediction, it might affect your premiums.
  16. NathantheProfit

    Is Our Death Predetermined?

    It seems to me that concluding that an individual's trajectory is fixed because, in theory, all the laws that effect consciousness are fixed is a logical fallacy. Consciousness is different enough to non-consciousness (if there is such a thing) to open the possibility for it to operate by...
  17. NathantheProfit

    Do we Control our Beliefs?

    I referred to this at the very end when I mentioned the subconscious, which includes emotions. I have a good discussion with a friend about how bias effects belief. I never said belief was completely rational.
  18. NathantheProfit

    Do we Control our Beliefs?

    Are you referring to the subconscious mind?
  19. NathantheProfit

    Do we Control our Beliefs?

    You have to look at belief evolution more microscopically. Maximal autonomy of belief is absurd, obviously.. Like willing yourself to believe to fly. But, and I would like your opinion on this, influencing positions that are in limbo (i.e. agnostic) like, for instance, the morality of abortion...
  20. NathantheProfit

    Do we Control our Beliefs?

    I think there can be an addictive element of creating your own beliefs. Once you create new axioms (perhaps original ones) then you can get a dopamine high by expanding the axioms to encompass more and more observations. I think the original creation and thereafter sincere adoption of axioms...
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