Well, suppose evolution is false. Let's look at slavery - it was practised worldwide by all cultures at one time. If we were to go back in time to pea...
Well, I would've liked to say "exactly" but then your last statement prevents me from doing that. The mind/consciousness/psyche, whatever you want to ...
Well, something inside me tells me I should agree with regarding some ideas like Ahimsa being too idealistic but then how does one make sense of the d...
Well, I was contemplating the possibility of a person recalling having memories of another person by fluke. It's not impossible, is it? For instance, ...
The possibility that a person can experience a memory of another person by fluke doesn't seem to impact reincarnation theories based on memory because...
Gave it some more thought and the results: If crocodile tears are better than genuine crying because not feeling sad is better than actually feeling s...
I haven't a clue but here's the intriguing bit...second guessing the Shakya sage, it's not entirely impossible that the Buddha knew there's something ...
Other possibilities: 1. Enlightenment is bogus 2. We don't know what enlightenment is and so, even if we do become enlightened, we don't know that we ...
All that I can say is that, going with your example of trees, there's a difference between trees and thoughts of trees. If not then, every time you th...
Could you point me to some sources that describe Heaven in as much detail as Hell? Could you also, if you're privy to that info, tell me whether descr...
Indeed. You're correct, if I catch your drift, about this whole self issue. The fluid nature of our persona precludes the identification of anything f...
The Moorean statement, "It's raining but I don't believe it is" is paradoxical only if it both makes sense and it doesn't. The reason why it makes sen...
I don't think we need to break our heads on the definition of "physical". Only recognize that thoughts aren't the same as, say, a pencil or a tree. No...
First things first. Since not-nice, for reasons that maybe obvious to you/some but not to me, has been, is, probably will be, associated with predator...
Can you use "I" in a sentence Harry Hindu? If you can then what that "I" refers to is Harry HIndu's self. If you can't then that'd be interesting. Tha...
Interesting thought. So you're saying hell contributes to the practice of ahimsa by appeasing people's desire for justice for the wrongs that are done...
What would be the correct term then? Ahimsa = non-violence. Also, as a matter of clarification, harming oneself is a different kettle of fish. Don't c...
Ok. That's how it looks and I won't disagree but if given to categorize a list of items, say, "thoughts", "water", "iron", "number", you surely wouldn...
Interesting theory of mind. You should work on it but I'm not really concerned about molecules in the brain. There's a difference between molecules an...
As far as I can tell, the scientific worldview seems to dominate the intellectual landscape and the view that science is about the truth and all else ...
But being unfalsifiable relegates any theory of reincarnation based solely on memories of past lives to pseudoscience. Can we do anything to repair su...
That's the million dollar question. Is it just thinking understood as data processing? Computers and flies can do that as inferrable from the way they...
All I'm saying is this: hell is a place of violence and a mind that can imagine, in gory detail, various ways of being tortured for eternity in the mo...
Why are you avoiding a simple question? I only asked you to provide 4 physical items that includes thoughts as one. :chin: You can measure the length ...
You maybe correct but here's what I'd like you to do: List 4 things that are physical starting with 1. thought. What would your list look like? I'm cu...
You have only pointed to articles by scientists that correlate particular physical brain phenomena with thinking but you haven't demonstrated, at leas...
Those are physical correlates of thinking and not thoughts themselves. I ask tne two of you again the simple question: what are the physical propertie...
Let's suppose the mind = brain and that physicalism is true. What are the physical properties of thoughts? At the very least, something - thoughts - a...
Really? You remember your dreams. That seems to contradict the well known fact that to remember dreams one has to be woken up in the middle of it. The...
It seems there are two dimensions to this problem. There are thoughts and then there is consciousness. REM sleep (dreaming) clearly demonstrates that ...
I'm mainly concerned about the brain activity being the same between awake and REM sleep states. If the mind is the brain, we should be conscious on b...
At this juncture we must take note of the fact that in dualism, the mind is distinct from thoughts. Minds in dualism do the thinking and are not the t...
Ok. I agree that some ideas like Jain ahimsa are, let's say, unrealistic and probably too much to ask from a species that's, to tell you the truth, ju...
If pareidolia is false then patterns are objective properties of physical objects but then you'd have to believe this pattern is real and whatever it ...
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