So, I predict that technology-based sentience will, per the above speculations, eventually spawn unique sentience not programmed which, in turn, will ...
Skalidris seems to be saying that consciousness, in the form of subjectivity, holds insuperable. If so, then no objective perception of consciousness ...
I think your point above makes an important clarification: there's something about the native point of view of the sentient that obstructs, so far, ou...
It is known by you what it's like to be a person. It is known that the transitive property can be configured with word arrangements that make valid st...
From the above I understand the theme of your response to my first of two main conjectures to be "difference." My counter-narrative to your theme is "...
What if there is not only individualized what-it's-like-to-be selfhoods but also a one-size-fits-all what-it's-like-to-be selfhood both universal and ...
What I've learned from this conversation: Summation The existence of a material thing, when viewed outside the constraining scope of strategic incompl...
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premise | ?prem?s | noun •an assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory: the fundamental premise of the report. verb (premise...
My title is my guide: Art Lies Beyond Morality. This is my premise, and I see now it is related to existentialism as I understand it: blooming creatio...
So, you think morals and purpose entwined. That positions us inside the frame of goals. Things in themselves as such have no goals. Once a sentient ex...
Your statement makes it clear you are following. If I stretch the meaning of "inert" a bit and construe "inactive" as being "neutral-adjacent," then l...
Even if they were the same, an identity is not empty, nor is it a contradiction. They are not the same claim; they are similar claims about two differ...
Life is lived beyond morality in that it is more inclusive. I base this claim on the assumption that we as humans, existentially speaking, are more th...
I'll venture to surmise from your statement above we agree that art lies beyond morality, the central theme of this conversation. I think the weaponiz...
What I've underlined immediately above is my defense of your attack: Its the combination of the two parts that refutes your ascription of contradictio...
By my definition, Love and War both include: marriage, home, family, community. If this is true, then they can't be contradictory when defined as I've...
in your quote directly above, you make an approach to arranging my words into a configuration that shows it is a contradiction: "You cannot have both ...
I've underlined the first sentence in your quote directly above. It's the gist of your argument for refuting my two quoted statements at the top. Your...
"With God on our side" mentality running high, battalions enter battlefields. Can a song be musical art and propaganda simultaneously? Is there an aes...
If God consciousness is a sub-division of human psychology (the savior was fully human), then I can advance an argument claiming that what the divine ...
In the above quote you make a claim about my statement. Can you show that my statement is a contradiction? I'm asking you to take the words in my stat...
As I've already stated, love and war are both about marriage, home, family and community. They share a large region of common ground. They stand apart...
A singular person who enlists in the armed services during wartime finds home and family within his platoon; he finds marriage through his belief in h...
I think love and war are two broad categories that encompass most of the important experiences humans have. Likewise, marriage, home, family and commu...
By "adventure" I mean taking action in the world towards a goal and gaining experience as a result. I mean how far can I go outside the established bo...
Art and morality within the context of this thread reduce to four elements: Love | War Love -- Marriage, home, family, community War -- Power & Money ...
Some see life on earth as a time of tribulation before one's appointment with their final reckoning. Pain management, during the time of tribulation, ...
Your option (b) is getting close. Death is the human tragedy forestalled by the necessary oscillation between the two poles before finally succumbing....
This is excellent. Thank-you for making it available herein. Yes, the existent makes adaptive choices for survival and otherwise and, of necessity, mu...
Why do you think setting the boundary of morality (within the mind) dismantles my premise (my quote at the top)? Of course what's interesting, or not,...
:up: Yes. The struggle is both external and internal. As for the external struggle, there's a monster out there lurking, on the hunt for victims (Fran...
You have an excellent idea going here. What's to be made of the lives of the saints when they are viewed through the lens of aesthetics? Poet Keats de...
On the contrary, I see virtue in the mind's transformation of ugliness into beauty. This process is essential to human perception encountering the rad...
:up: Thank-you for bringing my attention to Schiller's pertinent ideas. It is the equilibrium of evils, vitality/constraint, that compound into beauty...
It's true I'm a very fearful person, however, I've received deliverance to a quality of life beyond my own merits, and for that I'm grateful. It took ...
Firstly, I've received the direction that I should fear the higher-power. Without my fear, my arrogance would have me at the bottom of the oubliette b...
Well said. We're agreeing interest arises when human life within an existing world passes time with adventures. To this I add further interest by seei...
I plead guilty. I acknowledge that they are. I posted here because I need to have my points examined critically. I plead guilty. Yes, I am repeating t...
On a planet with no life, nothing interesting happens. Life on earth is interesting, and art and morality, in turn, are also interesting to the extent...
While the human individual lives s/he struggles with what is best to do going forward. Having a higher power to take direction from provides comfort. ...
As humanity survives across the march of time, human nature continues to open new chapters of revelation. The artist works to present substantial deta...
What is NMorality? This is true. However, some things in life bump against the filter with more force than other things. Pain. It may not be moral in ...
ideology | ?id??äl?j?, ??d??äl?j? | noun (plural ideologies) 2 archaic the science of ideas; the study of their origin and nature. The Apple Dictionar...
From your post I see a triad of three things: substance - a raw material with the potential to take on form (I note that a raw material has an innate ...
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