I totally agree. There's always a way. This point is more important even than what it sounds! I mean, one cannot stress it enough. This has been my an...
What does that mean? Please be clear. The second sentence cannot be connected to the first one. It's not what one would logically expect. Both their s...
Is it? Who is using that argument against theism? If you are referring to atheism/atheists, you should state that. Anyway, not so important. 1) What i...
"Why" is not a question. It's just an interrogative adverb. One has to use his imagination to turn the "question of the meaning of life" into one that...
How can we consider all possible options? How would we know they will be all? Regardless of that, even if we think of and select just a single option,...
This sounds like the classical philosophical questions: "Does everything has a cause?", "Is there a primary cause to everything?", etc. The word "expl...
Free will is not being able to do anything one wants! It is the ability and power to act by one's choice. Omnipotence is not being able to do anything...
Saying that "atheism is invalid" makes no sense. It connects two things that are incompatible with each other: The word "invalid", in a philosophical ...
:up: The passage from Aristotle that you brought in is very interesting. It's a very long time I have not read Aristotles --since school maybe-- and I...
But I have supported your view! :smile: More particularily, I said "In that sense, it is synonymous with consciousness" and also "Which is also what y...
You have betrayed yourself! :smile: You said "As far as I'm aware". Can you equally say, "As far as I'm conscious"? Most probably not. Of course, "as ...
Let me get that straight. Because the negation and the justification part ("not justified") somewhat perplexes me. Do you mean that we should absolute...
The exact quote is: “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself”. It's one of my favorite quotes! I don't miss the op...
I couldn't know that. I personally use my imagination for pleasure or creative purposes ... And it doesn't gnaw at me. I'm the one who gnaws at it! :s...
OK, but as physicists, their imagination would still wander around protons, electrons, quanta and that sort of things. And they most probably are usin...
The pursuit of pleasure is in the nature of every living being, together with its opposite, avoiding pain. In Man, however it has a broader sense, as ...
So you don't have that "taboo", as @Baker says. :smile: Well, I don't have it either, but although I enjoy all that, I certainly don't believe that th...
Why "tabooed"? It's not a forbidden subject. Most people believe they are here to enjoy all that and that this is the purpose of life! And it's not an...
I had to look up "interloper" ... I learned a new word today. Thanks! :smile: I really have no problem with that. If I could say I have a problem --I ...
If you think that questions like whether "the fundamental quanta are in-fact 'field excitements' and have 'no definte edge' and are 'cloud like' etc."...
OK, since you look for a serious confrontation on the subject, I will point out the weaknesses and unsound points in your long quote of Schopenhauer. ...
You are right. You weren't addressing to someone in particular. I was misled by your quoting me. So, getting back to your previous post ... The distan...
Where in my above statements that you have quoted --or even the whole post to which they belong-- do I talk about "depression"? Anyway, I know well th...
I assume that you mean that (the existing) depression pills are useless --hence "treated and untreated". I not only agree with that but Ialso believe ...
Depression is a "higher" state on a livingness scale. It is a feeling of loss of hope or courage, and often being guilty and inadequate or useless. En...
Right. There's this too. Well, as I wrote to @schopenhauer1 a while ago, I have felt pathological boredom to my bones. I know well what it is. It migh...
Listen. I know about boredom as a few know ... Boredom can become pathological, a mental disease. I suffered from it for about two years, during my co...
I'm sorry, I didn't. But reading other posts won't change what I think about "boredom" being at the the heart of human condition. It's too dramatic an...
Why boredom, especially? Wasn't he certain about fear or grief or anger or any other among of a host of feelings too? Boredom is just one of the many ...
If you mean that there's nothing physical that is infinite, it seems true but I cannot be sure about it. For example, I think that it has not been pro...
I cannot know whether I fall into a trap or not. If I knew, it wouldn't be a trap, would it? :smile: And certainly, you cannot know myself better than...
Ah, OK. Well, I have mentioned that paper 3 or 4 times already in this thread. Here's one more: "Consciousness: New Concepts and Neural Networks"(http...
Do you mean that your body plays piano automatically, like a robot? :smile: What is that directs it, not just to play (i.e. tap on the keys), but also...
What does "AP" stand for? I already explained the lack of validity regarding "wakefulenss", and also that this is just an attribute and cannot stand f...
You don't have to "believe" ... Statistics talk for themselves! :smile: About crime, from https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z2cqrwx/revision/8: "T...
Very right. In the beggining, the material world --later represented by science-- was part of philosophy, but I believe that philosophers could distin...
This is a totally different thing, and I generally agree with it. But it's not what the paper I referred to was talking about ("Consciousness: New Con...
Glad we are both viewing things from quite a similar perspective. It's always good to have allies! :grin: Certainly not. I have stressed that point ea...
I know, I have told you that I can't support you in your topic, i.e. support your position, but maybe I can help in indicating its vulnerabilities. (N...
They are wrong even in that limited --if not wrong-- view of consciousness: even when we are asleep, a part of our consciousness still works! How can ...
Right. And I am afraid that the neuroscientists refers to (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2019.00302/full) totally ignore this fac...
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