‘Non-Duality’ is a particular philosophy, related to Eastern philosophy and religion, that privileges the mental over the physical. It is the claim that the only...
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Humans are obviously far more capable than other animals. There’s no comparison in personal capacities and social achievement. But what physically distinguishes humans?...
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Is this a joke? Our world, with its vast evils, the ‘best possible world’? It seems absurd. Yet some do claim that ultimately our world will be the best possible...
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God is often defined in terms of infinities: God has infinite power, knows infinite thing, is infinitely good. But do real, actual infinities make sense when refering to God...
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What is the difference between God knowing an infinite amount of things and God knowing literally everything? ‘Everything’ is vastly larger than infinity, if that...
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What would it mean for God to be more than one person? ‘Three persons in one God’ is the Christian claim, and in what sense can ‘one God consisting of three...
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For God not to know the future in every last detail threatens traditional theologies. There’d be worry over God’s providence, God’s promises. If the future...
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What would it mean for God to know the future? Know the general patterns of history and lives? Or know every last, minute fact about every possible thing that happens? Next,...
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What does it mean to have an ‘afterlife’? Are there different kinds of afterlives? What would it feel like to be in an afterlife? If one samples the various...
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Who’s the boss, me or my brain? Brain data does not favor free will. In the famous Libet experiment, my brain makes decisions prior to my conscious sense of making that...
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Free will is a classic and perennial problem in philosophy. It is a probe of profound issues of how the world works as well as how the mind works. What are the primary issues...
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Our human sense is that our will is fully free. Our scientific sense is that every action is determined by a prior action. Free will versus determinism is a big question...
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