TheMadFool

A bug's eye view: Would I like to be stepped on with an adidas rip-off housing a malodorous foot?

I recall a conversation I had with the sister of an old friend just yesterday. She brought up her brother while we were talking and I told her how dif...

The Good Fool, Bad Fool Paradox A. The 3 Poisons (Buddhism) 1. Moha (Ignorance) 2. Raga (Attachment) 3. Dvesha (Hatred) B. Intellectual Disability C. ...

Ex-president Donald Trump has been labelled, on innumerable occasions, as a buffoon and that because he makes bad decisions - from climate denial to r...

:ok: Correctamundo! Two ways of looking at it: 1. Non-pandeistically: The world is amoral 2. Pandeistically: The world is immoral

I guess responsibility comes when beliefs have moral consequences. However, what's usually recommended is logic (rationality) and that's always been b...

This I believe is the problem: The mind's ability to grasp/comprehend/understand has been, for the better part of our evolutionary history, been direc...

Ego-suspension! Yes! I need to make a note of that!

Update 1. My take on yin-yang is that they are opposites in a mathematical sense, like +y and -y. Bring them together like so: +y + -y and you get 0, ...

Will reply later.

What's your definition of opposite?

Good to know I brought back bitter-sweet memories. :smile: Self-awareness creates the self-other distinction and that, according to Buddhism is the fi...

Righto!

It's everywhere. You just have to be on the lookout for it.

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:up: I'll have to take your word for it. Still, as per the Wikipedia article on Schrödinger's cat, there is something fishy going on and that wierdnes...

:fire: Moral of the story: I'm gonna need a bigger boat. https://youtu.be/2I91DJZKRxs By the way, very Buddhist (anatt?).

? :chin: You say it as if it's (self-awareness) is a bad thing. Why, may I ask?

What I meant was justice or other moral entities are more a thing of human minds, internal, than a thing of the world, external. You will not, I repea...

There's an underlying paradox to this issue. I call it The Right-Truth Paradox 1. People want to be right. Ergo, 2. People value truth. 3. Challenges ...

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Indeed. It's as if our unconscious, your domain of expertise, realized quite a long time ago in our evolutionary history, that if we ever learnt the t...

I wonder how stoicism relates to antinatalism? The stoic acknowledges the pain aspect of life but I haven't heard of a stoic recommending antinatalism...

:up: That's a perspective I haven't seen in a long time. Good to know people aren't using their brains for just mundane activities. Imagination is a m...

This just popped into my head. Why do we have false beliefs? This is inexplicable in some sense because the truth is what keeps us safe e.g. back when...

So, the way out of this maze is to change perspective? I like that. Thank you!

Note that im the case of vision, specifically color, there really is nothing in the optic nerves, nor in the signals that travel through these nerves ...

Noble Lie/Gennaion Pseudos/Pious Fiction: Religion and its baby Morality

:ok: So, she (Mary) learns something new. We're on the same page then. She experiences redness/color for the first time as she ventures out of her mon...

That's what I was getting at. What about Schrödinger's cat thought experiment? I suppose it's a veiled criticism of the Copenhagen interpretation whic...

Indeed but...the fact remains, morality is an anthropic notion having no parallel in the rest of the living world. One might come up with some idea an...

Yes, I think so. I can't seem to find the thought experiment that asks the question "is my red the same as your red?" It looks like it's about the sub...

I thought your opinion would be the exact opposite. Morality is not observable in the real world - some ants take slaves. Morality is made up by human...

Who that?

Then why all the hullabaloo about Schrödinger's cat? There's something odd about quantum mechanics, that's for sure. I like the recommendation to intr...

To All There are two important things to consider: 1. Red as what it truly is. 750 nm? 2. Red, the color, as it is perceived. We can have knowledge of...

The New Wittgenstein A few key points associated with Cora Diamond et al as regards Wittgenstein: 1.,Philosophical problems are symptoms of illusions ...

Gennaion Pseudos/Pious Fiction/Noble Lie White Lie Truth is not the only game in town. Hedonism is a strong contender to the title of ultimas meta. It...

White. White is a mixture of, at the very least, red, blue, and green. Each has a specific wavelength.

Loner to Social Butterfly: Are We Alone? Where is everybody?

Red is light with a wavelength of 750 nm. This is not equivalent to saying red is red. The definition isn't circular as some seem to be claiming. Poin...

That sounds like consequentialism, a full-fledged although incomplete moral theory, unless you have something else in mind when you speak of "implicat...

I don't get it. The OP, rather vaguely and elliptically, makes truth claims about morality being not truth-apt or something like that. By what standar...

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You don't have to be so condescendingly sarcastic. Come back, if you wish, when your mood improves. G'day.

Biology & physics. Sorry to have forgotten about that.

I hadn't thought it through too. It just seemed to make sense to me, intuitively that is. I guess it's nothing. G'day.