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We can't be located in the brain, as the body is located in the outer world. Even if you said "I am my brain" you still wouldn't be saying "I'm in my ...
September 16, 2021 at 20:42
I didn't find an explanation in this.
September 15, 2021 at 22:18
Are we dealing with a lack of anything? I would argue that... Well, first I would argue that everything is living, but barring that...the lives of the...
September 06, 2021 at 11:05
Some people just can't accept that it's a mystery, a dead space of reason, pure illogic underlying everything. But we must. We must embrace mystery an...
September 01, 2021 at 06:48
Probabalism was a way to try and force determinism onto a mystery, IMO. The maths add up...until they don't.
September 01, 2021 at 06:46
Agree completely. Probabilistic notions maybe especially...contrived formulas for Platonic, as you put it, "realities" that are neither here nor there...
September 01, 2021 at 06:41
I don't know, but I steadfastly refuse to believe time comes in literal bite-sized intervals... That doesn't make sense on so many levels. My intuitio...
September 01, 2021 at 02:07
I feel like the brain generates thought as a qualitative result of direct communication with the environment. It practices thought, and can generate l...
August 29, 2021 at 03:36
*hugs the universe* They'll never figure you out.
August 27, 2021 at 17:24
I wouldn't be surprised at all if all philosophers are, indeed, sophists.
August 26, 2021 at 04:30
I think he said he knew nothing to elevate the self-esteem of the people he spoke with. He would allow them to pontificate to "a fool" so that they th...
August 24, 2021 at 21:52
People transcend time all the time. Just watch a movie. You'll witness people who have been dead for generations still believing they're real. ; )
August 24, 2021 at 12:05
Sorry, the button for "reply" is too small on my screen. There could be infinite, separate dimensions of time, all moving in discrete directions. That...
August 24, 2021 at 11:17
Agnosticism is greater, because it's acceptable that one may be disinterested in the existence of God. Theism is acceptable, as it's wholly acceptable...
August 24, 2021 at 11:11
All premises revolving around a limited framework of linear time, they're fundamentally gobbledygook. It isn't sensible to speak in terms of before an...
August 24, 2021 at 04:37
You're gonna have a hard time proving things could occur that never do occur. Technically, only events which do occur were ever possible. It's easy to...
August 24, 2021 at 04:33
In order to explain consciousness, which seems to require Time in which to exist, one must explain Time itself. It isn't enough even to find that neur...
August 24, 2021 at 01:30
Over my head. My propensity is to see things in black and white, that it's not possible to imagine anything completely impossible, technically speakin...
August 23, 2021 at 03:34
We can if we want -- there's nothing that absolutely forces us to, however. There can be doubt, philosophically, that we even truly know we have brain...
August 23, 2021 at 02:38
Oh neat. I wouldn't say it is that, either. Scientifically, it's really something we're still trying to understand. You don't have to believe it was G...
August 22, 2021 at 12:28
I'm against the whole taking the Bible absolutely literally thing. God never was the property of man. There are things I choose to believe God is, but...
August 22, 2021 at 12:24
To enable richer diversity in thought, we really should rely on the term "seems to" more often. The Universe seems to have begun to expand exponential...
August 22, 2021 at 11:24
The Big Bang began as a theological concept. There's nothing about the Big Bang that is exclusive of God. There's nothing about the "Big Bang" (which ...
August 22, 2021 at 11:19
Absolutely, but it goes way beyond Biden. Social media itself is a way to monopolize speech. Notice the decline of internet forums like these and the ...
August 22, 2021 at 11:10
The thing outside of itself is actually very natural to us. We are the thing (persons) living in a universe (outside). We are "the thing" outside of i...
August 22, 2021 at 11:05
New to this convo., but I only see God as needing replacement with another name for the same thing. Try "Omnimax." A lot has been attached to God that...
August 22, 2021 at 11:03
I feel it's a vaccine for something that's going to mutate, and that we should be developing a natural immunity to. I think it's creating a virus that...
August 22, 2021 at 04:29
I think the answer is that the universe is really self-sufficient. God or the universe is really chicken or egg, though, and doesn't matter. It's all ...
August 20, 2021 at 01:19
No. Just no.
August 12, 2021 at 18:52
Which is totally irrelevant anyway, as I'm speaking of truth in terms of things that exist, and falsehoods in terms of things that don't. Nonsense, ev...
August 10, 2021 at 23:43
What are you rolling your eyes at, dude? What I said is absolutely accurate. Even if it's just the state of affairs that the baby is mimicking someone...
August 10, 2021 at 23:35
There is a major difference between words being accurate and words being true.
August 10, 2021 at 17:47
Words don't carry such weight that they can create non-realities. Objectively speaking, the details are irrelevant. Everything that exists is real and...
August 10, 2021 at 17:45
The idea that nonsense can't possibly be known to be false or true is itself nonsense. All language, even baby talk, refers to some state of affairs. ...
August 10, 2021 at 17:43
Nonsense exists or it doesn't...
August 10, 2021 at 17:37
You are a soul. Our lack of perspective is what creates the confusion. Stop seeing the past as dead and gone, but a living thing. All time coexists si...
August 09, 2021 at 17:00
It might have something to do with the fact that language creates a perceived identity within, while the truth is not only are we "in" the mind, but w...
August 09, 2021 at 16:49
I'm not sure what you mean. Nonsense is just another word for something that is untrue, and God could possibly know if something deemed "nonsense" is ...
August 09, 2021 at 14:21
Totally. I've had a really rough life, and I don't really believe in fault and blame. I'm a forty year-old virgin, in fact, and my name is Andy. lol A...
August 09, 2021 at 05:27
I agree completely, but not everyone was born with the gift of logic like you or I. Inceldom is a knee-jerk reaction. I can just see why it's happenin...
August 09, 2021 at 01:51
We can only perceive in 3 measly dimensions, so I doubt it does get the whole picture of reality.
August 09, 2021 at 01:48
Good question, there's essentially no way of telling. The brain both could and may not see itself accurately. Obviously, it's impossible to tell by us...
August 09, 2021 at 01:42
Basically: Fuck the weak. We're chosen by nature. Which is essentially Nazism.
August 09, 2021 at 01:38
To their defense, women are recklessly and needlessly cruel to those with mental problems or general insecurities. It goes beyond just it being their ...
August 09, 2021 at 01:37
A cloud?
August 08, 2021 at 15:18
It can't, logically, ultimately be explained, because first and foremost it is experienced. In addition to that, there's no possible way of determinin...
August 08, 2021 at 11:25
In a sense, the Earth is both flat and round. On the surface of any sphere, there are flat (at least reasonably speaking) areas. If you're standing on...
August 08, 2021 at 08:06
I dunno. I think "I am that I am" is ultimately more profound than "I think, therefore I am." For one thing, I occasionally just stare, and I still AM...
August 08, 2021 at 07:59
y?
August 08, 2021 at 05:57
But key here is the insight that things which can't possibly be known to be false tend to be true.
August 07, 2021 at 21:15