Arts & Humanities: Philosophy: “Question: Does Consciousness exist?” plus 5 more

Question: Does Consciousness exist?
Question: What are the moral obligations of the strong towards the weak?
Question: Why are determinists so convinced they're correct that there is no free will?
Question: Please only answer if you are under 25?
Question: If a gingerbread man lives in a gingerbread house, does he live in a house of flesh or is the house made of him?
Question: Silence confers meaning to reality? Why? How?

Posted: 24 Nov 2016 08:56 AM PST

It depends on what you mean by "Consciousness".

We certainly do think about ourselves and what we are doing and how we do it.

Where consciousness is an illusion is when some claim to be able to change belief or other just by willing it.

NB:
I am curious, why did you list "physics,philosophy are neurology"? And miss the most important study of Consciousness, that is psychology?

Question: What are the moral obligations of the strong towards the weak?

Posted: 24 Nov 2016 08:53 AM PST

Life has always favored the strong, those who bravely face the struggles of life and accept the challenge of the same without fear of death.

Such persons should, in the natural order, rule however, even the herdsman has obligation to the sheep as well as to all of the herd.

What obligations and moral considerations should the strong give to the weak?

Question: Why are determinists so convinced they're correct that there is no free will?

Posted: 24 Nov 2016 05:15 AM PST

Why are determinists so convinced they're correct that there is no free will?

Personally, I'm still undecided on the free will/determinism debate.
Speaking as a biologist, the feeling of volition, as well as qualia and consciousness make no sense from an evolutionary perspective if there is no free will.
As if we're just 'causal machines' with no outside influence, the above traits of experience just aren't required in a materialistic universe, as we'd function exactly the same without them, they're simply wasted energy, and since the so called 'illusion' of free will is so great, it must use up a lot of energy. Anyone who knows anything about evolution would know that development of useless traits, and very energetically expensive ones at that, makes 0 sense.
But then on the other hand you have the seemingly unmoveable laws of physics which suggest every action must have antecedent causes.
So these two pillars of information both seem indisputable, yet not at all compatible.
Is it just that determinists don't tend to know much about biology, natural selection and evolution, so assert determinism to be fact without taking into account the biological contradictions?
And it's hypothesised by many that the physics of a biological system are not the same as the physics of say a table or a weather system. So this clearly leaves room for a type of emergent free will.
From what I can gather it seems that determinists just look at the physics side of things, and not the biological side of things?
Would be eager to here any differing opinions on the matter!

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Posted: 23 Nov 2016 10:15 PM PST

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