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I think that it does.



Continuity, or at least the appearance of continuity. But perhaps not identity. Certainly not identity in the strong logical sense.

Instead of thinking that there's...

That would probably depend on the nature of the duplication, I guess. If Dave's body was precisely measured in all of its particulars, and then an identical new-Dave was constructed in a future 3-D...

Assuming that's true, I doubt that it cost them very much.



Here's what I wrote in the post you were quoting:

If the scientific and the engineering communities actually believed what we are...

That's the thing. In my opinion, this endless thread is more suggestive of religious faith than it is of science. It's about believing things on the basis of authority. It's basically about faith.
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Exactly.

This thread isn't really a science thread at all.

It's basically a thread about trust in authority, about credulity in other words. Names of scientists that nobody has heard of are...

Why not? He seems to be introducing the creationists' 'irreducible complexity' idea there, and it needs to be defended.



Langan's excursion into heterodox Christian theology isn't really...

"Spirit is awareness"? What does that mean?

I just opened my 'Oxford Guide to Philosophy' to two pages at random and looked at the first two philosophical sounding words that met my eye. They...

I like these personal identity thought-experiments.

I'd say that the situation is like the letter 'Y', and both of them probably have an equal claim to being continuous with, to being the same...

I think that it's possible for people to think that many religious paths might conceivably exist, but X happens to be the one that's best for me. In other words, the "most superior" might just mean...

I'd classify belief in the continuation of one's personal life after death as a religious belief. It's an idea that in various forms is very widespread in religions all around the world. Belief in a...

I think that the likelihood of the Judeo-Christian God actually existing (as something more than religious mythology) is so low that I feel confident in ignoring it. It's the same thing for Zeus and...

There's plenty of injustice, poverty and fundamentalism in western Eurasia too. Imperfection is the human condition, something that all of us share.

I personally think that some of the Asian...

It's certainly ironic. That's the human condition, I guess.

If we choose to describe Buddhism as a path that seeks to arrive at the end of seeking, then we would probably have to say that once...

I've never met a stupid scientist. I doubt whether such an animal exists. A student has to have quite a bit of native intelligence to make it through undergraduate and postgraduate science majors.
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I used to occasionally visit a discussion forum where lots of seniors posted. One of them was a sweet old lady whose eyesight was failing. She had trouble reading computer screens, but could if...

I don't like to use the word "plagiarize" for this kind of thing.

Islam is more of a development of Judaism, I think. To the extent that it recognizes Jesus, it recognizes him as being a...

That "better sit down" remark would presumably be directed at Christians. The absence of God and Jesus in a heavenly rebirth would be pretty much what a Buddhist or a Jain would expect.



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I don't agree that's true. Nor am I convinced that it's important.



The same thing would be true of every religion on earth, right? And every scientific theory, for that matter. They all take...

I'm not convinced that there is a logical proof. (A proof of what, exactly? The existence of God?) Even if there is a proof of something somewhere, the truth of its conclusions would still be...

I'm not familiar with the guy. All I know about him is that several posters on internet discussion boards have been fascinated with his boasts about his own intelligence.



It's a style that...

The word "sand" refers to some large number of sand grains, but use of a single noun to collectively refer to sand doesn't imply that there's some "single being" called "sand" that exists in addition...

Ok.



I was just suggesting that authenticating this gospel as an actual ancient document doesn't in itself verify sweeping conclusions about what Jesus supposedly really thought about his own...

That's an excellent question, MR. It delivers us to the heart of epistemology.

Indian philosophy has traditionally defined its epistemologies by asking this question, and different schools of...

Right. I think that it's important to note that 'theism' isn't synonymous with 'religion'. It's entirely possible to be be a religious non-theist. Millions of Buddhists, Jains and Confucians would...

Uh... what??

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I think that one thing that the internet might be doing is shortening our attention spans.

Text just seems... longer... when it's presented on a screen, compared to when...