Me again, sorry but I can't seem to have enough of the Tao. I have a very severe mental handicap - I can't think logicallu even if it were the case th...
What bothers me is the difference between "supernatural" and "unnatural"; the former has an aesthetically pleasing ring to it while the latter smacks ...
Excellent! A word to the wise though...the world is not what it seems. Anyone who spends 5 minutes in a street in New York knows that. :lol: https://e...
I wonder what the implications of the above sentence are for Plato's view that we're all chained to the floor of a cave, forced to perceive only the s...
There was this other time when I saw a small crowd gathered in a street corner. In the the center was a man talking in as loud a voice as he could man...
I believe the above is the crux of what Taoism is all about. Lao Tzu attempts to point at "something" that can't be pointed at. It reminds me of the t...
What is a person? What defines a person? This, I believe, is where we should begin in order to resolve the problem that has you and me in its grips. Y...
That's another story. Up to the point when the copy is created, since both mind and body are identical, both the original and the copy are the same. B...
First off we need to be clear on what a person is i.e. what makes me me or you you? What defines a person's identity? For my money both the mind and t...
I agree. I need to keep my end of the bargain which I must admit I haven't. Until later then...as and when we can cross swords again - your longsword ...
The last question seems to be self-refuting. The "you" refers to mind and not the body. Ergo, it's ok within this framework of identity to have two bo...
To tell you the truth, or if it's all the same to you, I'm asking you to, well, expand and explain (yourself). If it's too much trouble you can declin...
Something feels slightly off here. On one hand science claims to know stuff about reality and insists that it has sufficient proof to back up its clai...
Mostly, yes but, do keep an open mind. You never know where the next big scientific discovery will be made. By the way, and this is where ESP, if real...
Sorry but I don't catch your drift. What is the definition of a person? In asking that I request you remain faithful to the common man's, the non-phil...
We should doubt everything, in fact we should even cast doubt on Descartes' much-discussed and perfectly good argument, the cogito ergo sum. You know ...
Yes, there will be two bodies and two minds presumably but both would be the same person. If you disagree you have a heavy burden on your shoulders wh...
Good point! I see no difference between the two. In both cases there's an interval, one between going off the sleep and waking up and the other betwee...
What do you mean? At the risk of sounding bigoted myself, do you feel attracted to ugly, morally bankrupt, idiots? I'm fairly certain that I speak for...
What do you think of my take on human nature? Do the set of emotions humans are capable of define human nature or, because these same emotions are pre...
Maybe you're reading too much into Descartes' work. Nothing wrong, happens to all of us but a word of caution - don't put your words in other people's...
From Wikipedia: Attraction is based on physical features which have to be aesthetically pleasing (beautiful/handsome) and/or on traits such as intelli...
In that "yeah" is the seed of a possibility which you might wish to consider in the context of the distinction between "ego-fantasy beauty" and "ego-s...
:ok: So, "no comment" contains information unlike silence but, for my money, silence on the part of "politicians" can be construed in the same way, ri...
In other words then "no comment" is not the same as keeping one's mouth shut. Last I checked the "no comment" response is usually seen when government...
Have you never encountered something, formed an opinion of it, then changed your mind for whatever reason, and reverted back to what you thought of it...
There are only a handful of animals any single person is familiar with and presumably the same animals will be part of the list of flashcards in the e...
Sticking to the example question, "does god exist?", I provided, remaining silent and replying, "no comment" BOTH provide zero bytes of information on...
Attraction, whether conscious or subconscious, is a value judgment and, as far as I know, one likes something because one values that thing...over oth...
Interesting! So, you think the square root of 2 could be something other than a number. Well, the square root operation is closed over real numbers i....
Let's leave aside our differences for the moment and discuss something else - the link between aesthetics and ethics and what I suppose is the specter...
I see but you do realize that perfection in beauty would mean the conjunction of both "superficial beauty" and "deep beauty", right? I mean the best c...
To All: Question: Does god exist? Type 1 Answer: Yes (Theism)/No (Atheism) Type 2 Answer: I don't know (Agnosticism) Type 3 Answer: Silence Type 4 Ans...
So, you do have a low opinion of "ego-fantasy beauty" and prefer "ego-suspension beauty" over it. If so, my question is, could you be mistaken in your...
It seems that I haven't been able to get my point across at all. All I'm asking: is the distinction between "ego-fantasy beauty" and "ego-suspension b...
Well, that's exactly what I said your view of the "ego-fantasy" kind of beauty is - derogatory. You have a dim view of it. What makes you think that w...
Thi It doesn't make sense. Causation, as I understand, is one event leading to another in a chain of events in such a way that there's no temporal del...
Well, in my universe these two are two sides of the same coin - to answer one is to answer the other, no? Why is there something rather than nothing? ...
There's nothing to it really. Some kind of morality/ethics must be in place for social organization, right? God entered the scene, so to speak, only a...
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