Quote (Trademarks @ Dec 16 2011 06:58pm)

I have nothing to prove, you're the one that has to prove me that Africa exist.

Quote (Trademarks @ Dec 16 2011 05:40pm)

If I introduce you to a brand new animal specie you have never seen before, how would you react?

Quote (Trademarks @ Dec 16 2011 07:40pm)

If I introduce you to a brand new animal specie you have never seen before, how would you react?

Quote (Derkaderk @ Dec 17 2011 03:59am)

huh?

i'd probably say, "oh that's cool" cause there're a ton of species i've never encountered before

you seem to avoid any points i make

Quote (Trademarks @ Dec 17 2011 10:27am)

All of your past years of your life where you didn't know this animal existed, can you consider that this animal never really existed until you have seen it? Your mind had no idea at all that such an animal could exist, you have never seen, smelled, touched one. It wasn't something until you met it.

Quote (Derkaderk @ Dec 16 2011 06:18pm)

But why do you feel that:
"I don't know if it exists, therefore it doesn't exist" is logically sound? That conclusion isn't necessarily entailed by that premise.
And by obtain proof I meant observe it. Like, you don't know if Africa exists -> it doesn't exist. You go to Africa -> it exists. Did it suddenly begin existing when you arrived, or were you wrong before?
It sounds like you refuse axiomatic logic, so do you disagree with mathematics?

Quote (kayeto @ Dec 11 2011 09:26pm)

dictionary.com defines the word real as



My question to you is: Are human thoughts and emotions "real"?

When a human thinks or feels something, neurons in their brain are firing and sending chemical signals to other parts of the brain. Are these things any less 'real' than other physical things, like a knife or a car?

Quote (kayeto @ Dec 11 2011 11:26pm)

dictionary.com defines the word real as



My question to you is: Are human thoughts and emotions "real"?

When a human thinks or feels something, neurons in their brain are firing and sending chemical signals to other parts of the brain. Are these things any less 'real' than other physical things, like a knife or a car?