Aylaine said:
That's more just a stupid question.
It reminds me of "What is the meaning of life?" which is equally as interesting and thought provoking as "What is the meaning of rock?"
Basically folks found gibberish questions and started asking them like they were profound
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Most of the "profound questions" are just moronic but worded in such a way that folks don't realize it, that profound feeling is just the brain trying to make sense of the senseless.
As for questions with no right answer, I'd assume most questions have some level of gray area.
That whole hooker thing. "Would you have sex with me for a million?" "Yeah." "What about a penny?" "No." "Oh so we are just working out the price then."
The only real easy questions are those extremes like "Should we rape and kill everyone on the planet?" You then say no, but once you get down off extreme examples it becomes much more complicated.
You being whoever is unfortunate enough to be reading this post.
alexwbyrd said:
Sensenmann said:
Does the paranormal or the soul exist or can we already discount it because science cannot measure it?
I'm sure that one has been asked several times before but that is because it's a damn good question.
...is it really? :/
Just because someone can put a question mark at the end of things doesn't mean its a valid question.
As Dawkins...I think...put it: "Why are Unicorns hollow?"
If we are going to start just adding gravity to questions that better stroke our hubris, then why deal with reason at all? It would be much easier to just assume outlandish things that only have as much reason to be real as Harry Potter. "They both could be imagined to be real."
Sensenmann said:
What is the meaning of life?
What is the duty of an artist, if there is any?
Does the paranormal or the soul exist or can we already discount it because science cannot measure it?
Where does consciousness come from?
What is the meaning of life? You are correct, this has no right answer. Because it is silly.
What is the duty of an artist, if there is any? I've never heard this one before, but given that art is the most subjective act on the planet I would guess it falls under the same paradigm as the meaning of life one.
Does the paranormal or the soul exist or can we already discount it because science cannot measure it? - Same as top question.
Where does consciousness come from? - This one has a bit of a complication. The tool being used to measure the question is the thing being measured. Considering that you can vastly alter someone's personality by damaging or routing their brain I would suspect that consciousness is largely just what we call the act of being alive with our level of brain power.
It's said that the day you could put a person and a computer in a box, speak with them, and not be able to figure out if the computer or the person is the one responding we will have reached the point where computers should be treated with the same laws as people.
If we do not then we must define what is life and consciousness. Not what the meaning of those things are, but objectively, what are they. Obviously aren't there yet, but I hope it happens in my lifetime because I'd love to watch the chaos it would cause. Forum chaos, mind you, not like...stabbing one another.
