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It sounds like there would be, from your analysis, a large conversion to religion, on the cusp of adulthood. Or a reinvigoration of religious worship ...

I don't think the research has to go like this. You are assuming there is a chosen right answer and that people are judged from deviating from that. B...

It sounds like you are arguing that there is a cognitive bias in the research that has concluded there is cognitive bias. If humans who are trying to ...

Survival would seem to require a lot of truth. And since what made brains survive or really the creatures that have them was very complicated. All the...

Every problem we encounter, from our perspective might be solvable. That's enough of a window, even in not correct in some cases (and we wouldn't reco...

I would say i psychoanalyzed us, we humans, I wouldn't know your psychology from Schrödinger's cat's. Or is that cats'.

I think the fact that you chose a social suffering is good because it raises a nice (for me) side issue. You say you know that you are an illusion. I ...

I don't see why. Hey, let's learn as much as we can. I don't think we need to assume that all can be known by sentient creatures. If we found out - ho...

1 - to some degree. As written it sounds like we know we can figure it all out. 2 - what is a physical substance and does this mean if we discover 'so...

But then, let's say that ghosts are real. I would then see no reason to say they are outside/beyond nature. We have magnetic fields and neutrinos pass...

It doesn't show the person is sane, but it might be a rational conclusion on that person's part. I am saying that we tend not to be binary, completely...

Which could lead to all sorts of poor heuristics. We don't really have a quality like doubt. We engage in an activity of doubting. So, how often? on w...

but then some beliefs.... and then there must be many beliefs that lead you to trust the sources of information that led to these assertions of belief...

I would think any methodology would have some ontological assumptions built into it. Why it would work. Why our memory of it having worked is correct ...

Minds are things not activities. You seemed to be arguing that minds are nouns and thus not activities. Activities is a plural noun. So, how does mind...

'activity' is a noun also.

I appreciate that you just threw us in the middle and asked for help. Utterly rare. It seems to me you have a deontological position. Something in the...

I think this is true and I would add that there is a conflation between science, technology and all the processes that lead to what technology is deve...

I think we are agreeing with each other. I could have said this. I should have read the whole thread, but in any case my last post was not meant to be...

Much language is based on dead metaphors, yes. We make new ideas out of old ones. We make abstractions from physical things. Tenor and vehicle are the...

as I said.... In a philosophical text the single word, if implicitly referring to something else without it being mentioned, then it could be a metaph...

This is fussy and probably tangential, but 'yes, if the other word is implicit'. If my boss walks in the room and I cry out in a buttlicking way 'Lion...

This argument is weak because livestock feed off agriculture. IOW we grow stuff and thus kill animals in the process of that wing of agriculture to fe...

I think that was a sentence worth finishing. I certainly think scientific methodology is incredibly useful, but other processes lead me to opinions an...

Well, I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I think it's useful to focus on arguments regardless of the people who make them. You may well be right that he w...

This is a kind of implicit ad hom. IOW your argument may or may not be good, but since I can't tell if your intentions are to undermine the government...

I think it is confused to put it in moral terms. People don't want to continue suffering. Or in the I would rather not live scenario, they don't want ...

You used the terms 'I' and 'you'. I think you can only point at fractions of what those terms are referring to so your conclusions are fruit of a tree...

I don't mind optimistic people. The problem is if they are Polyanish. If they gloss over the negative. If their optimism needs to push down on the neg...

And, of course, it's not just the indigenous people who are suffering, though they are more so. Even the vaccinated have to, in big brother style, reg...

When I look at Buddhism in the US and other parts of the West, it seems most appealing to middle class people. Yes, some of the middle and upper class...

I don't think 'the blind fury recognizes the need....' etc. I think it is like an immune response, imflammation. It wants to fight it off. Which makes...

I actually don't think this is true. I see parallels in the corporate world, where Buddhism fits nicely with a kind of stoicism. The popularity of min...

Sure, But I am not arguing they do this quickly. And the effects on one's relation to emotions would take many years. But that is the goal. The practi...

But I didn't say that there are low numbers of adults who immature in some way.. And certainly in the sense of not being able to hold them accountable...

I think this argument would make sense in relation to Cartuna if he was using the school system as an authority.

If you can give me a link to a searchable Pali Canon, I can see what's there. It's been decades since I've read that. I am going by Buddhist practice ...

Sure, all cultures have limits and taboos and encourage suppression of emotions. But in Buddhism you have a complete disidentification with them. You ...

It would be a very rare case that lacked maturity in general. As far as certain social relations, absolutely. But then what they lack is neuroplasty i...

It's not a matter of IQ, it's a matter of brain development. Children's brains are still forming, including those parts of the brain that allow one to...

But we don't have to choose between those two, we can use both and use both well. In fact we all rely on intuition all the time. Some of better, some ...

Well, Buddhism does separate emotion from expression Instead of a natural feeling----> expression with sound, facial expression, posture we have a wit...

Could you rephrase this. I said I think some people do frame their sexual interaction with an adult when they were a child as sexual abuse. I think th...

If you have a pathologist who finds scar tissue in the heart of a deceased person and considers this natural until he also find very high amounts, unn...

What do you see as the difference between blame and holding someone responsible. I can't see a problem with someone who is sexually abused blaming som...

That doesn't hold for me as a generalization. If someone shot me in the spine, I would blame them for that and certainly some of my misfortune. One ca...

It's a useful distinction. The artificial and the natural. If unnatural is meant in the pejorative, I would have a problem if every human-made object ...

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If you are a pure physicalist, saying you have a spirituality, it seems to me, would be strange. You could have an ethics, you could have a philosophy...

I really can't see why a sexist put down of human experts enjoying what they study is the position to have. Yes, we could eliminate the word impressiv...