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• December 8th, 2008

  How do you know you exist?

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• December 9th, 2008

  How do you know you exist?

  We care about this, because without existential certainty, everything we say cannot be taken seriously, and life therefor can be nothing but a dream. Ergo, the wise man takes nothing seriously. Just to restate for those intent on validating their existence rather than demonstrating knowledge thereof – senses, perception, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, etc. do not yield knowledge of existence, just perception of existence. How do we know we’re not brains in a vat, or plugged into some multisensory I/O media contraption? How do we know we exist?
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• December 8th, 2008

  Why is there Something rather than Nothing?

  Great question and some very good answers. In order to answer this question, and for that matter most every other question, we must first understand how we know what we know. We cannot know there is something until we know how we know and to do that we have to have something called epistemological certainty. That is our method of knowing is valid. To do this, several conditions have to be made – #1. There must be a perceiving entity to perceive the something. #2. This entity has to have infallible perception. #3 This entity has to have immutable metrics (space and time) for describing that something. #4 This entity has to be able to communicate via a shared and irrefutable language. #5 This entity has to have access to some immutable absolute vantage point from which to perceive, measure and communicate this something. None of these are provable, and as such our somethings in our waking life are as valid as the somethings in our dreams.
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• December 8th, 2008

  If alcohol was discovered tomorrow for the first time. Should it be banned, like other mind altering drugs?

  It depends whether you value liberty (equality of rights) more than some other moral ideal, such as sobriety. For all our country’s talk of freedom, we’re very attached to a certain moral ideal which include sobriety for the youth and those at work, extracting harsh elements from the mainstream (prisons, etc.). There are obviously many things we value more than liberty.
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