I guess. I've experienced the homeless in two different countries, one in Europe, one the US. I didn't recognize what you described as the rule. I cer...
This and all the aggression are not qualities I experience with most homeless who look weak, depressed, submissive and traumatized, recently or back i...
I think this whole sentient robots we built combining with sentient robots some other species made might be 'our' in some possessive sense, but not in...
That's fine. I am not sure how physicists would manage to communicate without forms of 'to be' but I can see them managing to avoid 'exist.' In formal...
For example, I think this is confused. He had an idea which he used this word for: This idea was embedded in arguments about reality (ontology), for e...
Though physics includes metaphysics (or better put some of what it includes metaphysical ideas/conclusoins and preconclusion model-postulating) The ch...
I still don't see how I am comflating ontology with epistemology. He was criticizing metaphysics for being just a bunch of made up stuff with no purpo...
Can you be specific. I'm pretty sure I raised a whole bunch of ontological issues and examples. I also added issues to my previous post while you resp...
I'm not saying there is a common thread under metaphysics. I'm arguing that it's not just people making stuff up. I got into some detail here... https...
Ontology is a branch of metaphysics and philosophical writings influence physicists for example. They give tools for thinking about and exploring fund...
Well, I agree. But doesn't that make it different from math. Yes, math is abstract in that it doesn't refer to concrete examples, and in physics it mi...
I think metaphysics is to philosophy what metaphysics is to physics, only more focused. What is the nature of reality, time, matter and all the ontolo...
I think it's fair to view it as insane or delusional. Descartes wasn't insane, but you do need some kind of negative delusion (if based on culture and...
Well, we can, especially if other people at that time were different. IOW we can say that he had the failing of his time, which others did not. Which ...
He believed they were not experiencers. It's a kind of monumental stupidy and denial of the obvious. It doesn't mean he's a sadist. But such denials a...
It's true that animals were treated differently. Though generally even then they were treated as conscious entities - which Descartes denied - and not...
I would say, no. It couldn't have formed some kind of contract pre-existence. We can't expect it to be beholden to something it arises in. I don't thi...
One problem with free speech absolutism is that it would create its own contradiction. Someone with power over media could destroy the free speech of ...
I think the more productive question is 'why to we get it right so often?' If you think of walking down stairs, most of us are remarkably effective at...
I don't think that's what I'm saying. In fact I gave examples of species that were not like us, just not in the way you assumed. Further that species ...
Right it depends on the people involved, the issue, etc. I wish I could say I was good at this. I'm much better with receiving than I was when younger...
Those are likely better. (though say that in a condescending tone and it can regain the knife). But I agree it focuses on the action, not the person. ...
Here's what I see happened. Instead of responding to the points I made, you went ad hom. The insult was open. You're in a phase. (one that I, Agent Sm...
Ah, the other dog just put his leg up on my back and thinks he going to sniff my balls first. I think you're denying a truth that is staring you in th...
Yes, and there are not easy rules or processes to figure out what is happening. Someone could milk something in such a dynamic. While in another relat...
On a verbal level, yes. A kind of trained indifference. But on a practice level, you are cutting off the connection between the emotions and expressio...
I don't think so. No. And the suffering does not go away in Buddhism. That's cultural. I don't think that's universal at all. The difference between I...
Yes, he noticed that he was suffering. And that's peachy. I notice it also and dislike all the pretending and denial. Fine. But that's not his program...
Yes, it seems to me it makes for two victims. If someone hits me and I get angry and express this (verbally), the first person can't really claim a vi...
I think I agree, but I would emphasize that he gives us a way to hate ourselves that looks like compassion. More or less the Buddha was saying Oh, you...
Sure. It wouldn't be ok to mimic what happened. Let's say they tell something you told them in confidence to other people. I don't think it's a good i...
expectations are a part of reality. So, there is a subtle dualism in Buddhism. What is outside us, we should accept and/or have no expectations about....
Well, that's by definition, regardless of the closeness or vastness of the differences. I am not arguing that the differences between beliefs between ...
It's not just the deities rules, it's their identities, personalities, powers, length of lifetime, how they are conceived (the differences between Lok...
You have quite different versions of time, identity, afterlife, objects. In the Maori what we might call a gift includes both some thing and part of t...
Or as a method to not be so upset by them/affected by them. You want your patients on the ward to be easier to handle, a higher dose of their antispsy...
Apart from anthropology showing that intra-species diversity even regarding ontology is going strong, sociology shows this intra-nation. -religion, -e...
I don't think this is true. Again you might not buy that product, but you come to see the world through the values and associations they throw at chil...
It can't force you to buy the product. But if you start with kids, I think it can force you to see the world in a certain way. So, you don't think tha...
Social pressure is extremely effective, even when it has to do with simple observations. If the people around you believe something that in itself exe...
I think you're in trouble regardless. People can, and not unfairly, assume that you are an adult and are going along with them. Perhaps you don't end ...
Yes. And I am not sure any process that would 'catch' them and ban them would be one I'd vote for. But I do think the issue should be thought about. T...
It wouldn't affect me, though you may be right in that it would affect others. I just don't look that carefully 'up there' and have only understood la...
It would be the staining of the character of a made up name that a person has on a philosophy forum whose members can be from anywhere in the world. I...
I think perhaps some people who are in psychosis are reacting to or their state came into being because of facets of society: but also their families ...
I think subtle trolling can be premeditated, especially in heavily moderated forums. But I've noticed the seemingly oxymoronic phrase is now fairly co...
Yes. Just to muddy the waters, I'd like to broaden the category of respect (and civility). There are a number of ways to be disrespectful without bein...
I find it a very hard scenario to imagine, which is why I tried to get at it through teasing it away from the movie. I think the use of the Matrix sce...
A quibble first. I think for most people it couldn't give everything we want, since a part of us would like to know what is really going on. I get it....
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