https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid "Typically information is defined in terms of data, knowledge in terms of information, and wisdom in terms ...
Precisely. Masochists do exactly that, associating pleasure with pain. Yes. More accurately, the person is unhappy because they knew happiness before....
Care to explain how survival is an extrinsic benefit? Still means that extrinsic benefits have been adopted for intrinsic purposes (thriving rather th...
I'm not even sure where the line between intrinsic and extrinsic is. What's the most baseline intrinsic behaviour there is? Survival, no? So all these...
That's simply due to how we define good and evil. Or rather it's due to us defining death as evil. The other view is that death is a part of life just...
It also works the other way around: The first step to creating a problem is thinking there is a problem. All was well in Garden of Eden until humans g...
Indeed. They ate the apple and became self-aware thereafter, immediately proceeding to cover themselves up because they became ashamed of their naked ...
On a lot of points I'm with @"James Riley" on this. I'm a bit of a nature guy myself. At the very least I know that I have a tendency to get into bad ...
I am in a similar position, something along the lines of a faithful agnostic. I have a similar reason to be inclined to believe as well - although my ...
Option 3: You're the only guest that is going to the party at all. I'll agree with @"180 Proof" though, we're not alone in our intelligence. Intellige...
I quite like the Oxford definition of art. The "application of human creative skill and imagination" here is key imo. I understand it not just as the ...
Both logic and ideals are developed over time through experience. A baby learns through intuition - so both rational as well as idealistic thinking is...
I think so too. It seems reasonable enough to me that humanities first experiences with mysticism and spirituality was due to the consumption of drugs...
This doesn't make any sense at all. As @"TheMadFool" says with his not so accurate but lovely quote: Also you contradict yourself with it. If knowing ...
I think that goes along rather well with what I said. It's obvious then that a higher number of influencing factors (more particles interacting at mac...
This is if we look at the quantum dice as an isolated system. There are no isolated systems in reality though (except maybe the universe itself - we d...
I think apokrisis does a great job at describing my observation and raises a very important point in the discussion about "finding yourself" vs "losin...
And since I already mentioned ecstasy - drugs, especially the psychedelic kind, follow much of the same recipe. In fact, those who have some experienc...
How does it not? You can re-educate mind, just how AI can edit the proposed dynamic segment. You can not re-edit biology (by yourself) just like AI ca...
Keep in mind that we have to differentiate between biology (AI core) and mind. This is merely the biology. There is nothing intelligent about followin...
You're right, this is not possible. Since we're drawing the comparison to humans, let's do so all the way and say: This is as if you're performing bra...
I would like to understand, what in your opinion, the alternative is? To me, the game of life is full of choice. Yes, there are certain rules to it bu...
Karma means and is to be understood as "action". There is the common misconception that karma works like a bank account, I do good and the universe ma...
This captures my problem with the analogy. There is some experience to be made outside of the villain's game. As far as we know, that is not the case ...
Would you chill out? Whether Banno gaslighted you or not, this adds nothing to the thread, it doesn't belong here. I don't think weaponizing language ...
I don't think you'll ever see a sensical counter-argument. You've chosen how you wish to perceive the world. Likewise, I won't ever see a sensical arg...
That is your subjective experience. Many others have a very different experience of life. In regard to my experience, I can not agree with a single on...
I think what we mean with deep philosophical problems are questions, with no definite answer, which would have an enormous impact on how we perceive a...
Position = Measurement of space Time = Measurement of time Velocity = Measurement of motion If there is no motion, even over an infinite period of tim...
Yes, philosophy can be a helpful tool. Perhaps let me rephrase: Philosophy can give us answers - but only ever in the human context. When it's about "...
It's a bit of a paradox for me. I don't think philosophy has much to offer in terms of truth, understanding reality or happiness. Of course, that's a ...
That is the origin of their use, yes. The impact they had on humanity, the improvements they brought to everyday life, got them deified along the line...
As an online discussion grows in the number of Hitler references, the probability of mentioning Godwin's law approaches 1? Many stupid people engage i...
These animals that have been intertwined with human culture all have/had a strong practical implication on human life. Herding cattle became a major f...
Disagree. 1. Stupidity is subjective. 2. Stupidity has always been a companion of mankind. 3. Stupidity has been necessary for mankind to thrive. 4. S...
Are you sure about that? Consider how we go through life, from our days in the cradle to our dying bed. We come to life as basically a blank slate. So...
I'd say it's a bit of a mix. Our belief is based on what we perceive. But what we perceive is also based on what we belief. Selective awareness. Gener...
My point exactly. How is a tool going to allow a tiger to transcend his capabilities? Is it going to carry a butcher knife in its maw? Seems impractic...
Even the aspect of tool making is only practicable for a very limited number of species - mostly Hominids. A majority of animals can not grab tools li...
In a similar reasoning to Rileys reply: Why would they? What life-lessons could they possibly learn from us? How to drive a car? How to philosophize? ...
There's two ways to look at this. Consider how language must have formed back in the day. We went from random noises to words to complete and ever inc...
Just imagine a world where Homo Sapiens doesn't invent language. We'd still be in the stone age. Other Hominin species had bipedalism, tools and fire ...
1. See the problems that have been pointed out already. Good and bad are far too subjective to serve as a reasonable premise for a generalized stateme...
Huxley having done a fair amount of experiments with psychedelics as well, perhaps his ulterior motive was simply to sell both governments and consume...
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