What about metacognition or self-reflection? I could train to be a neuroscientist, self-experiment and come to some objective conclusions regarding my...
It's a rather simple matter: We haven't found the answers yet. For certain then ideas/theories won't match reality on the ground. Odd that ideas about...
What if, just what if, ambiguity & vagueness aren't accidental? In other words, there's a rationale why some words/terms/phrases are vague and ambiguo...
Philosophy is the systematic analysis - rationality (mainstay), examination of structure - of questions, answers to those questions and, on the whole,...
We needn't worry about the decay of science. Good ideas tend to resurrect even if they do die at a certain point in history. Look at Democritus' atomi...
Yes, but WHY? A webage I found claims that those who are congenitally blind dream in sounds and surely their imagination can't be in images - they lac...
You brought up an issue that's been at the back of my mind for quite some time now - that we aren't really aware of the actual processes (neuronal fir...
:chin: I recall a thread a coupla weeks ago (for better or worse I can't find it) about how it might be important, even necessary, to maintain a certa...
:ok: I'd very much like to see the revenue statistics for fines levied on criminal activity from traffic transgressions to felony fraud. How much does...
It's all about money it seems. The racial theories thought up to justify discrimination were/are just a smokescreen to make the dehumanizing of fellow...
:brow: Amazing! So, we need criminally-oriented people - traffic violations being a first step towards becoming an outlaw - to fund our municipality? ...
Indeed, one can't argue against the numbers: black-on-black crime is out of proportion. That's the current situation, the state of affairs, the realit...
Imagination (Merriam-Webster Dictionary): The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly per...
My stance is that people can't imagine smells/tastes/touch/sounds as they can visual images or if they can only to a lesser extent. You claim that thi...
I never got round to reading Dorian Gray but fun fact: we look older in our pictures than in real life - something to do with distortions caused by ca...
No, no metaphor implied or expressed. First off, I'm not interested in the kind of thought experiment that deals in imagining being something nonhuman...
Suppose you've never smoked in your life or if you're smoker like me, you're not smoking as of now. Now, imagine that you are taking a puff of your br...
I was wondering how if our senses don't give an accurate picture of reality, it would aid us in survival? That goes against the received wisdom that t...
As I see it, a life in the sense used by the OP - fulfillment - is what people would opt for only if there's no such thing as a soul. Were it that the...
How then? Indeed but there's a difference between working for survival and working to earn enough to have a good time every now and then. When I said ...
Scenario 1 1. Work \rightarrow Money \rightarrow Food \rightarrow Work The arrow stands for converted to. :cry: :sad: The money we get from work simpl...
Like... The only distinction between dreams and daydreams (the OP's focus) is volitional in character. Yes, it's possible that dreams could be experie...
A risk management approach. It makes sense if survival is the prime directive, the be all and end all of life in general and humans in particular. I d...
All time favorite space travel trope: wormholes There maybe other ways: According to Inflation Theory, space is being created - between the galaxies. ...
Family resemblance goes to show that meaning assignment of words is arbitrary but not that words are essenceless. Perhaps it's an issue of scope. When...
:lol: My question is simple: Are there proof-independent qualities truth possesses? If yes, we could find them and then use them as a criteria for dis...
Coincidence?! :chin: That messes things up doesn't it? No good reason why we all arrived at the same conclusion in re moral codes - it was just a fluk...
:lol: What happened to all the talk about how astronauts have to be in peak physical & mental condition for spaceflights? I'm about 99.99% certain tha...
It isn't as simple as that. The claim meaning is use is ambiguous. As far as I can tell, Wittgenstein made that declaration as a refutation of the ide...
My mind draws a blank except for the widely held belief that truth has an aesthetic quality and elegance to it that would put women to shame. Euler's ...
Maybe I would, maybe I wouldn't. Having only caught but a glimpse of that side - its innate beauty - I'm not in a position to state anything definitiv...
The first virus discovered was the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Both tobacco (inhaled form - cigarettes, cigars) and pandemic-causing viruses (influenza & CO...
No! Your post is wrong from beginning to end! :grin: I've been wanting to say that for ages. I picked it up from a book, forgot the title, just a coup...
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