theRiddler

We don't know what the physical or mental are, so saying we're "physical" is a moot point. You can't possibly know what you mean by that, as you lack ...

It's just an interesting idea.

Or it might. What is required is a hegemony between the two, regardless of how horrific. And let's acknowledge that eternal life is infinitely scarier...

Leave that shir behind already. In acting like it has no prowess you're granting it power. What of the facts we've seen?!

There can, honestly, be life beyond the parameters of time without these notions of beginnings or endings. If you're going to revolve your whole philo...

Theology definitely. But we. as wild men, shouldn't be throwing anything out with the bathwater. It's just a treatise with death. Honestly, the univer...

There is zero scientific evidence one way or the other. What makes me angry is when people lie to support their personal bias.

OMG I've had this startling revelation, everyone! Death is "harmful"!

That's not your claim. Your claim is that death is totally horrendous so people instinctively try desperately to avoid it, ergo it must be awful. Whic...

We don't try that hard to avoid death. We border on seeking it out. Your premise that we avoid death because "it must be really bad" is plain old dumb...

Yes, I'm sure the vast proliferation of life is a conspiracy. You've considered death. Now consider that the content of every person's life is, withou...

To be enlightened isn't glorious at all. At best it's a twinkle in the eye for life, with no guarantee of respect. When you've seen things, and you kn...

Thank you _db for not being an idiot.

Every facet of our society is idiotic, so it figures. I can tell people are getting dumber; it's pretty pronounced, actually.

God what a sociopathic "theory." My brain's in my head, want to cut it up? Yeah, that's normal.

Science is 50% math, 50% imaginary.

Our very physical form is already outside of its respective mind, entering the minds of others, and alive. Enough of the materialist cult that only se...

Time is far nearer than distance. Time is Now. Describe Now.

The last thing we need is for philosophy to become an institution like science, directing people's thought to someone's whim. No.

There are deeper questions, like is anything real temporal, that pertain, that don't rely on a linear framework of time, and time is not linear as we ...

It truly doesn't matter what happens after death. It's just hard to be rendered something that stiffens and rots. But surely the dead have the last la...

All matter on Earth is moving at least at the rate the Earth moves, which is really fucking fast. Faster than our fastest vehicle, much faster. But we...

I think the multiverse is lame. It's a good plot device for resurrecting dead characters, and that's it. How redundant are infinite worlds? Completely...

We utilize brains to perceive brains. That's the real hard problem, IMO. Why, in the first place, grant your brains magical clarity to infinitely perc...

Our experience of ourselves does not reduce to the brain. Most of our conscious lives are out here on the surface.

Thank you. I think I agree.

What were you trying to say?

A complete description of how the human brain relates to the cosmos? Anyone? Anyone? No? Then stfu.

He didn't succeed in any of that. Like all men, is only recalled in the heart, whatever that entails. Unevolved and thus buried deep in DNA. There is ...

So...what we are conscious of is an illusion...except our interpretation of our brains?

What's the difference between these fields and convenient math?

It's an illusion like time is an illusion, existing in a broader sphere than we can possibly comprehend. I loathe it when people say we're just here t...

I'm a Mysterian. There are no answers I'm particularly interested in. I just understand that reality is ineffable, to a delineating degree.

We can tell certain limits.

You wouldn't understand or care, yet you speak.

Such a simple way of viewing things. Nice fractions.

I don't see the sense in it. It's no explanation. It's simply a means of saying "It's complicated" and hoping for the best. It isn't complicated. And ...

I think the hard problem is that people have a surface level/qualia, too, that can't be explained through dissection. We are not brains and a spine; w...

Hard problem as opposed to the simple problem of why it's so sensible for dead matter to coalesce and go around identifying itself as people? I'm conf...

You can't explain consciousness without having objective, universal perspective as to the environment in which it exists. I'm not sure why it's so oft...

I mean I get the claim that activating neurons creates consciousness... We know we're conscious and we surmise the brain is made of active neurons... ...

I don't know how old you are, but... I'm an idealist, and the existential nightmare is still persistent. Eventually, with luck, you stop trying to mak...

Fantasies like the infallibility of human perception?

What is the physical, material, and if your "conscious mind" is so feeble, how can we trust you to ascertain any of that?

I think there's something to be said for life, as we know it (which is, by-and-large, a fulfilling thing.) One could argue that the universe is natura...

It seems like if you're proposing there's a God you're saying anything that seems random may not be. I'd like to know how you prove that randomness is...

To me, describing "very little" as nothing is an attempt to jump the theistic gun, hoping there's no room for God in "very little," but of course ther...

Um...I'm not calling you unintelligent at all, but also not not saying you're conceited. I just think we're seeing this all wrong. We know it's futile...

:up: It isn't conceit that creates "haunted heavens." If Heaven is whimsical, it's only because we don't have a way to quantify the meaning of humanit...

The idea that nature is a zombie or "something scary/ugly" is just contrary to experience and what seems to be. It's weird that what seems to be is cl...