Fine-Tuning

 If we are the only inhabitants of this universe, why a whole universe just to create life on one super small planet? The universe was not fine-tuned for us. No, we are fine-tuned to exist is the universe.

Free Will

 Free will doesn’t exist.

All our experiences within our particular environments, combined with our bodily constructs and genetics, create the prefrontal cortex that defines our actions.

That explains unconscious actions

Cosmology Again

 The usual thinking is that the mother universe is either eternal or created. If immortal, then infinite and probably cosmologically boring without entropy or causality. Given that our observable universe appears to be expanding, our baby universe could be a spin-off from the mamma, thus the Big Bang, spacetime, entropy, and causality.

Philosophy Outline

 

Philosophy Category Outline

Metaphysics

• Ontology (Study of Being)
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Space and Time
• Free Will and Determinism
• Identity and Change
• Possibility and Necessity

Epistemology

• Theories of Knowledge
• Skepticism
• Rationalism vs. Empiricism
• Truth Theories
• Testimony and Memory
• Social Epistemology

Ethics

• Normative Ethics
  • Consequentialism
  • Deontology
  • Virtue Ethics
• Meta-Ethics
• Applied Ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Business Ethics
• Moral Psychology

Logic

• Formal Logic
• Informal Logic
• Philosophy of Logic
• Paradoxes
• Argumentation Theory

Aesthetics

• Theories of Art
• Beauty and Taste
• Philosophy of Criticism
• Environmental Aesthetics

Political Philosophy

• Theories of Justice
• Liberty and Rights
• Authority and Legitimacy
• Democracy and Representation
• Global Justice

Philosophy of Science

• Scientific Method
• Realism vs. Anti-realism
• Philosophy of Physics
• Philosophy of Biology
• Philosophy of Social Sciences

Philosophy of Language

• Meaning and Reference
• Speech Acts
• Philosophy of Linguistics
• Pragmatics

Philosophy of Religion

• Arguments for/against God's Existence
• Religious Experience
• Faith and Reason
• Problem of Evil
• Religious Pluralism

Non-Western Philosophical Traditions

• Chinese Philosophy
• Indian Philosophy
• African Philosophy
• Indigenous Philosophies
• Islamic Philosophy

History of Philosophy

• Ancient Philosophy
• Medieval Philosophy
• Modern Philosophy
• Contemporary Philosophy
• Feminist Philosophy
• Continental vs. Analytic Traditions

Objectivism

 Objectivism - Wikipedia

After studying loosely for a time on various philosophical concepts, I have settled on Objectivism as being the most reasonable and most probably the one I, unknowingly, have accordingly lived my life. Heh, it is what it is.
1. Cosmology: The universe is and has always existed in one or another form. There is no creator or supernatural entity. 
2. Metaphysics: Existence is something detectible by our senses, however, whether or not sensed or thought about, everything exists and all is independent of consiousness.

3. Epistemology: Reason is the only way to acquire knowledge.

5. Ethisc: Rational egoism asserts that we have a duty to act in ways that promote our own best interest. Self-sacrifice for others is distructive.

Words without Experential Meaning

 Have you ever noticed that our language possesses words that exist beyond direct human experience - we can understand them intellectually, but can't fully experience them in their pure, absolute form. Our understanding of them is often relative or conceptual rather than experiential. Some like "nothing" can't even be satesfactorily explained or underrstood.

Perfection

Absolute

Eternity

Omnipotence

Omniscience

Impossible

Everything

Nowhere

Void

Completeness

Never

Forever

Infinity

Always

Nothing

Consciousness and Sentience

 I have concluded that consciousness is unique to everything that lives and that it is the result of brain activity.

Consciousness is generally defined by philosophers as our ability to be aware that we are aware, that we can think about our thoughts while sentience allows for feelings like pain, pleasure, fear, joy, etc. and emotional integration. So, they exist separately but dependently in the mind. Causality can be seen to work herein. For example, a felt pain (sentience at work) will produce a thought to act (consciousness at work) to reduce or eliminate the pain and plan how to avoid it in the future. Now we pretty much know through experience that this is how the Homo Sapien mind functions. How, though, can we know which animals, plants, insects, and AI possess consciousness and/or sentience? Again, we know from experience that most animals have some degree of sentience. When harmed physically, they react. As much as we would like to believe it, we cannot know if they are aware that they are aware. Higher order plants have also been shown to react to physical harm. Insects, I don't know about but expect that they, as well, have some degree of sentience. Even single-cell organisms appear to move to avoid harm. The thing is animals, plants, insects, and other organisms do not demonstrate or communicate their degree of consciousness, if any. We simply don't know. AI, as far as we know, has not yet achieved conciousness or sentience. If it did, would we be able to recognize it? We don't even know what human consciousness is or how it is developed.