What a coincidence. I watched this video too not a while ago. I also didn't get it but the takeaway for me was that the pattern doesn't repeat. I supp...
It appears that before we can answer the question of whether Buddhism is a philosophy or religion, we need to first get a handle on what these three a...
Addendum I would like you to explore the self-refuting nature of the statement, N = never say never, never say always, because N does exactly what it ...
Thanks! If I may I'd like to pick your brain on the difference between purpose and use. As for what I think, using Sisyphus as a case in point, Sisyph...
I'm not too sure. The methodology - observational repeatability, experimentation - is undeniably the best but there are a lot of steps/stages between ...
My issue with your theory of "chaotic dynamics" in re the brain is very simple. Your chaotic brain idea explains the differences. In fact it's express...
The thought did cross my mind but dive a bit deeper and the words "never" and "always" can never be used in the sense they're defined. The only usage ...
Rocks have incredible, Zeno-level, composure. Do you think being a rock/Zeno is healthy? There are no correct answers to the questions I've posed abov...
My two cents: The notion of the "greater good" taken to its logical conclusion would entail that nothing is good enough to be the greater good. To cla...
Firstly, I didn't offer you religion as a route to goodness. Quite the opposite, I only reminded you of the devil - veritably a religious figure albei...
Sadist or fiction or neutral. Imagine yourself to be a parent and you'll know how painful it is to take sides when your children get into a fight. You...
Words dripping with wisdom! You've answered your own question. However, one mustn't forget that religious rules do exist, those that prohibit one from...
Science, to me, is the one thing we can all agree on because its fundamental modus operandi is based wholly on what is demonstrable. Imagine if this s...
Between what is entailed by the above and god's omnibenevolence, Christians have a clear choice: 1. either believe that god wants us to "rule of the f...
To my reckoning, all religions share the same theme - there's a benevolent being looking out for us - we call this being god - and in direct conflict ...
Ok, the contents of the hard drive are mental content. Changes in the fine structure of the hard drive alters the contents of the hard drive just like...
This analogy doesn't work for the simple reason that it doesn't include a functional aspect. The brain is the hard drive, ok. However, the brain has a...
In keeping with your theory, the chaos manifests at the level of behavior (mental AND physical) but there are similarities at those levels which shoul...
I don't mean to be rude but you're trying to eat the cake and have it too. Firstly, you and some others are trying to explain differences between indi...
This is a good point but... First things first, tigers behave quite differently from llamas. This seems to bespeak a correlation between brain and beh...
Do you see people behaving chaotically? You're focusing on minor differences and ignoring major similarities. What you're doing here is like taking tw...
Excellent detective work! Where better to plant the clues than on the detective's own person. The DNA code is quaternary (base four) - the four dimens...
The above statement is damning evidence of what I just said. No matter what god does or doesn't do, people will always find an excuse to love faer. It...
If I were part of the team that recycled the universe in the sense managed to reset the entropy level back to a lower level like in a Big Bang singula...
Reminds me of god. Everyone, including the devout, the faithful, the ones with unshakable faith, knows that any way you cut it, the problem of evil wi...
I disagree. If it were a loop then those who engineered the loop would've left clues, hints, on how to stabilize the universe in order to prevent havi...
You lost me. I'm under the impression that you're talking about moods to prove that beliefs depend on them in a very important way, to wit that they'r...
Given that the details contradict but that there's an overall thematic similarity, I can say that the question is a sensible. Answerable in any satisf...
No, of course not. Your argument is in agreement with truths as they stand but these are contingent truths, something you've failed to address in your...
Right! There is no need to perpetuate an agonizing experience. I'm with you on that one. However, don't forget that happiness is something real and th...
Take your brain and mine for comparison. It's quite obvious that they differ in terms of actual number of neurons, the number and complexity of synaps...
As I said @"Caldwell", to use a sexual metaphor, one can get some, "adequate"???, idea of what a home run means if you get to first base. Praticals, a...
I don't think so. Unfairness is the hallmark of being a child. It has to be taught to them, this implying, at some level, that fairness is an adult co...
The general idea behind such a theory is dualistic, the yin-yang. I've always had a hard time understanding yin-yang. The claim is that to understand ...
This still doesn't make sense. You mean to say that if someone were to introduce me to atheism/theism, my response to it depends on variations in sodi...
Not to contradict you but learning is traditionally divided into theory and practicals. I think @"schopenhauer1" is referring to the latter when he sa...
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