List of Postings of User ntadepalli
The laws of nature 10-2
Free Will III 38-5
Dennett's Consciousness Explained 36-7
Mind and Brain 34-1 47-10
Philosophy. Why bother? 12-9
Questions about the ME delusion 12-10
Defining Faith from the Theist's Perspective 1-9
Dualism - refuted? 12-1
Monist, Dualist or Pluralist? 4-8
Are objectivity and truth the same thing? What follows? 2-8 3-1
Philosophically - why believe in god? 1-6
My critique of moral objectivism. 7-6 8-9
Schrödinger's cat 28-4
cognitive closure 1-9 2-4 2-9
Altruism; Selfless Love. Real, or illusions? 1-3 2-8 3-3 5-5
Moral relativism as a defense for religion. 3-6
How extreme does the "love of nature" get ? 1-2 2-6 3-9 4-1 4-4 4-10 5-4 5-5
Science: insight v knowledge 2-2 2-8 2-10
Conscious Electromagnetic Field Theory 2-2 3-6 3-10
Does the Motivation Behind Morality Matter? 7-3 7-7 7-8 8-10 9-4
What is the 'will' in 'free will'? 1-10
It wasn't me, it was my genes! 1-10 2-5 3-1 3-3
Normlessness & Existentialism 1-3 1-6
What could convince you materialism is false? 6-6 7-1 8-3 8-10 15-2 15-5 15-7 15-9
The evolutionary advantage of consciousness 2-5
Evolution theory agnostic on origin of consciousness? 2-9
The idea of "consciousness" is overrated 4-10 7-2
I'm having a problem with existence 2-8 3-1 3-4
Implications of Materialism 2-2 8-1 8-3 8-5
Getting Things Wrong. Brains v Computers. 5-1
POLL: theories of truth 2-9 3-8 5-4 6-2 6-5
Neurath and physicalism 10-10
Perfection and existence of God 1-10
Neutral Monism? No, Causal Neutrality. 8-3
a hard philosophical question for people 3-6
Qualia 2-4 6-2
The Just Cause. 4-4
RE: Yoga 2-5 2-8 3-3 3-4 3-7 4-6 6-9 7-1 7-5 7-9 8-5 10-9 11-7 11-10 12-1
Does the Free Will Defense Succeed? 3-1 6-8 7-3
An Argument for Determinism 2-6
Help needed in understanding a passage 1-8 2-2 2-4
You and I are reasonable people 1-5
Why am I me? 11-6 11-10
Inner Experience and Measurement 5-1
What is the supernatural? Is it a coherent concept? 3-2 3-7
eSkeptic: Consciousness is Nothing but a Word 4-5 4-10 5-5
Collective Unconscious 2-4 3-1
Pragmatism and Relativism 2-7 6-4
Believing in luck... 1-5
Can Someone Please Bring This Guy Down A Notch? 1-9
The question of identity 1-8 2-2
Sense of Self 1-3
Science...Wittgenstein...Naive Realism 4-8 4-10 5-2 5-4
Moral relativism and the fallacy of "non-judgementalism" 6-5
What is 'self'? Substance, abstraction, illusion or...? 1-6 2-6 2-8 3-3 4-4 6-7 6-9 7-1 7-3
David Hume and the Existence of Electrons 1-4 1-10
Consciousness versus reality 2-3 2-5 2-7 5-5 5-7
The physics contradictions of materialism/conscioussnes 1-7 13-10
A Riddle 1-6
Strong Emergence 5-5 5-7 8-9 9-1 18-5 21-2 21-3 22-10 28-9
Free Will 60-1 71-3 134-9 136-4
Even Artificial Intelligence Would Claim "Cogito, Ergo Sum" 1-6 1-8 2-2 2-3 2-9 2-10
Freedom Evolves. Can we change ourselves? 1-9
Karma and Atheism 9-9
What is the purpose of existence? 22-4
Perception and reality 1-8
Thinking is usually a consequence of sensation 3-3
The Random Hypothesis is unscientific 4-4
Sartre's Atheistic Existentialism 1-7 2-2 2-4
Concerning the ego as a barrier to truth 6-5 6-8
A no-bullshit consciousness debate. 25-1 26-7 27-5
No truths 37-6
On logic: For IanRaugh and everyone 2-6
The Experience of Nothing 8-7 8-10
What is materialism? 4-5 12-4 14-4 14-8
Ruling out the supernatural 3-5
What's wrong with Nihilism? 6-9
Are thoughts material? 74-9 83-7
What makes chance exist within the universe? 4-3 4-5
Need Help: The Problem of Induction 2-8
Are thoughts material? Pt. 2 7-4 7-10 8-5
POLL: anti-materialism 3-7
A topic that has been discussed so many times... (ontology) 4-6
Reality 5-1 33-1 33-7
The origin of Our Morality is naturalistic 1-10 3-5 3-7 4-1
nothingness 3-6 4-9 5-8 6-5
Randomness is unproveble 2-7
Why is identity theory insuficient? 13-4
How different ideologies deal with the problem of suffering 2-9 3-1 3-3
So where does conciousness come into play? 14-8
The purpose of X 2-1
Why there is only human civilization on Earth? 3-3
Multiple Types of Causation 4-4 21-2 23-6 34-1 34-4 34-7
Science is Unreasonable 2-2
Laws of Logic - proof of (a) god? 7-2
The value of introspection 6-1
Philosophical nature of evolutionary explanations 3-4
Materialism and the body 1-9 2-3
Between the idea and the action lies the...??? 4-6 5-3
Consciousness and Experience have no Ontological Depth 6-8
There is no subjectivity 2-7 3-9
Free Will V 40-6 40-8 40-10 71-1 71-4 71-6 71-8 85-1 85-3 85-5 85-8 85-10 86-3 86-7 86-9 87-1 87-3 87-8 87-9 88-1 88-3 88-5 88-7 91-1 91-3
"Relativism is Self-Refuting" — commentary thread 3 25-9 30-8 51-9 60-1 65-6 65-8 67-4 89-7 89-9 90-1 90-6 91-1
The Philosophy of Jerôme Serpenti 4-1 11-5 23-1 25-1 25-8 25-9 26-1 26-8 26-10 27-8
Absolute certainty? 1-10 2-5
A question of self 1-7 2-2
What is "absolute certainty"? 1-4
Human nature anyone? 1-9
Magical Thinking 2-5 2-7
What inherently exists? 1-4 1-7 1-10 3-4 3-6 3-7 3-9 3-10 4-2 6-5 7-3 7-9 7-10 8-1 8-4 8-7 8-9 9-2
Sympathy v. Empathy 1-9
When is something "supernatural"? 5-2
"1-argument-debate" between nonmaterialists and materialists 3-1 7-5 9-3 10-8 10-10 14-6 14-8 14-9 15-1 17-4
How certain can we be that know the whole truth? 1-8
Carvaka/Lokayata, a Hindu atheist philosophy 1-4
What is meant by X is conscious? 1-10 2-7 3-6 6-1 6-9 7-10
Predetermination – philosophically puzzling? 2-3 2-10 3-2 3-4
How do you define being 'real' in the world we live in ? 1-4
Beyond thinking 1-5 1-9 2-5 3-5 3-6 3-9 4-6 4-7 5-1 5-2 5-6 5-7 5-9 6-2
Pain in my toe, worry in my brain? 2-9
Inductive Reasoning: Epistemologically Sound? 2-9 2-10
"Relativism is Self-Refuting" — commentary thread 4 39-3 39-9 68-6 69-4 69-6 73-8
Criticism of Idealism 1-3 1-6 2-5
Why does there exist something rather than nothing? 2-7
Humanism & Naturalism: Destined to Conflict? 2-2
The 'Pleasure Coma' 4-3
Define 'Self' 2-1
Nature vs. nurture 1-8 2-3
Self evident 2-4
Sources of Knowledge - Questions for Realists 1-6 7-4 9-8
Human thinking is fundamentally binary 2-8
Sameness and Difference are fundamental 7-3 7-10 9-5 11-3 11-4 14-7 14-10
Concepts are Generalizations 1-2 5-7
Are we the same? 1-7
Help with Basics of Free-Will Debate? 1-5 1-7 2-2
Bloody Mary 8-5 8-7 9-8
The Concept of Self is an Illusion 1-4 2-1 3-8 4-2 5-1 5-10
There is no such thing as counter-intuition 2-3
Mental Images in Materialism 2-1
Absolute versus Necessary 1-9
Meaninglessness and Motivation 3-5
Epiphenomenon 3-5 3-9 4-9 5-1 5-3
Is consciousness observable? Part 2 26-7 50-8
Interesting exract. 2-4
Is consciousness observable? Part 4 27-10 28-8
Uncaused events 1-6 1-8