Originally posted by RookRAKSixth seed, but no chance of winning.
Tournament update!
Here's the current entry list, along with what the seeds would be if we started now.
You'll see I'm on a run and have clawed my way out of the #11 spot - the first person in the bottom half always plays the top seed in round 1.
A few people would like to wait until after the new year to start, so I'll see if I can round up a f ...[text shortened]... zakkwylder1302
17Aiko1281
18invigorate1257
19Freddie20041203
20Whats goin on eh1195
I feel like Tim Henman (and that ain't good).
Originally posted by abejnoodYou don't. I just know that I exist, and I'm not sure about you. You may very well have the same feelings. It's an interesting thought; I have no way of knowing whether or not anyone besides me exists.
How do we know you aren't a robot who downloaded himself into this site to escape a killer virus destroying ark1-ark12?
Originally posted by ark13Ark - two days in a row I've had to rescue the dead thread from yourclutches on page 2....you're getting better!
You don't. I just know that I exist, and I'm not sure about you. You may very well have the same feelings. It's an interesting thought; I have no way of knowing whether or not anyone besides me exists.
Originally posted by The PlumberThanks for rescuing it. Keep up the good work - especially while I am in Germany and won't be able to check in so often. I am leaving in twenty minutes.
Ark - two days in a row I've had to rescue the dead thread from yourclutches on page 2....you're getting better!
God jul!
Originally posted by ark13Either reality is more or less as it seems or we are a figment of your imagination - in which case we exist, albeit as figments of your imagination, just as much as we do anyway.
You don't. I just know that I exist, and I'm not sure about you. You may very well have the same feelings. It's an interesting thought; I have no way of knowing whether or not anyone besides me exists.
Originally posted by DeepThoughtBut in that case you wouldn't exist on the same level as myself. I can make decisions, and have my personality based on the matter that I'm made of. Your personality and decisions are determined by me, allbeit subconciously. I wouldn't even say that you exist. I believe that things I'm thinking about only exist as chemicals and electrical signals of the brain.
Either reality is more or less as it seems or we are a figment of your imagination - in which case we exist, albeit as figments of your imagination, just as much as we do anyway.
I guess it's true that I have no guarantee that my body is a part of the material world that I know (similar to The Matrix). But at least my mind must exist somewhere and be made of matter. In contrast, if you're a figment of my imagination, you exist materially no where.
So the only way you can exist is if reality is just as it seems. Descartes reasoned (rather faultily) that reality must be as it seems by first proving that there is a god, and next saying that god wouldn't be a deceiver since he is perfect. I don't know how he thinks he's proved there's a god, but it must've been illogically. I'm agnostic, so I have no assurance that reality is how it seems. And thus, I have no way of knowing that anyone or anything around actually exists on the same scale I do.
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Originally posted by ark13Well, if Descartes can start with thinking and conclude existence ('I think, therefore I am'😉, surely he can just as successfully you St. Anselm's Ontological reasoning to "prove" the existence of God (defined as 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived'😉.
So the only way you can exist is if reality is just as it seems. Descartes reasoned (rather faultily) that reality must be as it seems by first proving that there is a god, and next saying that god wouldn't be a deceiver since he is perfect. I don't know how he thinks he's proved there's a god, but it must've been illogically. I'm agnostic, so I have ...[text shortened]... I have no way of knowing that anyone or anything around actually exists on the same scale I do.
Don't you think? 😉
Originally posted by The PlumberNot very often. It's an unfortunate side effect of all the drugs and alcohol.
Well, if Descartes can start with thinking and conclude existence ('I think, therefore I am'😉, surely he can just as successfully you St. Anselm's Ontological reasoning to "prove" the existence of God (defined as 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived'😉.
Don't you think? 😉
Plus, I'm part of the apatheic generation so by the time I'm half way through something like thinking I just giv...