How can that be? The Buddha thinks maya is the source of our dukkha; dismantle the illusion and we see the truth...nirvana. The beautician, on the oth...
I suppose Socrates examined the pros and cons of different forms of government very closely. His analysis may have looked something like: 1. King: Pow...
downplay? I don't mean to contradict you but, for me, poetry is more about language itself (the medium) rather than what is conveyed (the message). Tr...
Update There are two ways we conceive of things: 1. Imagination: Past experience plays a role only to the extent it provides some basic material e.g. ...
:fire: :up: :ok: :chin: In poetry, words come alive; words are the medium for a specific message, yes, but unlike prose where we're simply interested ...
My hunch is Einstein was saying something that the math in QM didn't support while Bohr's position was true to the math of QM. What I find most intrig...
If you really think about it, when we consider the notion of cyclical time, what we're actually saying/claiming is that matter & energy, their innumer...
If NDE are, on the whole, similar then that implies there's a standard exit protocol suggestive of a well-organized system in place for all the dying....
I was referring to human pattern recognition by what I said and yes, the immune system and computers could be treated as functioning analogously but n...
Poetry is to thought as makeup is to a woman. A poet is a beautician - enhances beauty and conceals ugliness. The metaphysics of beauty is simply our ...
There seems to be a link between infinity and time, perhaps it's better to describe it as infinity is, paradoxically, constrained by time. Infinity, f...
To be philosophical about it, bashing is precisely what's in order, it's the essence of philosophy. The truth is impossible to establish, might as wel...
I didn't imply science didn't have benefits but it comes at a cost, something we should've realized a long time ago given that we all seem quite famil...
Good point. There are people who are oblivious to the downsides of science or, for various reasons, ignore them. They're like little children in a toy...
Had it not been for science (industrial revolution) we wouldn't have been in this mess. True! Had it not been for science (climatology/ecology) we wou...
For what it's worth, here's what I think. To try and bring to light the flaws/downsides/disadvantages of science is not something worthwhile in any se...
I thought Socrates' antipathy towards democracy was no secret. If memory serves, he was more in favor of wise kings. The so-called Philosopher King wa...
Good question but pay attention to the analogy - how would you conceive of a "dead" pen? What happens to a pen that has reached its end-of-life? It no...
Wittgenstein would've said, "It's not that there is no such thing as value, it's just that "value" means different things to different people" Axiolog...
My suggestion to climatologists is simple. Yes, thermometers are the gold standard, the best current science and technology can offer but they need to...
All that the claim "information is physical" means is that it's either matter or energy or both, in and of themselves, or changes in them. So, either ...
There's nothing to it. A pen can be used to draw itself when its whole and in fine condition - it can, in a sense, form a picture of itself "alive". W...
Christianity = Buddhism + God Buddhism = Christianity - God The paradox: Christianity has, on its side, an omniscient being (God) but Buddhism seems v...
Dr. Johnston, the patient's condition is deteriorating rapidly. Fae's language abilities have taken a turn for the worse and I fear fae's losing fae's...
Niel deGrasse Tyson, in one interview, admits that the universe could be a simulation but then he takes utmost care to distances himself from religion...
I don't know what it is but my gut instincts tell me that Wittgenstein's wrong. I know you idolize him (I read your profile) and I hope we can discuss...
The image in the mirror, a good mirror, is perfect - every scar, every beauty spot, every thing, is exactly where it's supposed to be - and yet one, h...
A rhesus monkey looks at a perfect hi-fi image of itself when it looks into a mirror but for the monkey, the image is another rhesus monkey, a strange...
Then that's Wittgenstein's problem, no? To have multiple referents doesn't imply that there are no referents - the arbitrary nature of how we assign m...
Indeed. However, I was wondering about the possibility of Wittgenstein's theory of meaning as use being an auxiliary to the more widely held belief of...
My bad for the misunderstanding apparent. Religion, insofar as what I said earlier matters, stands for what seems to be missing in non-religious world...
Not exactly, the pen can be used to draw its own end (broken). Take it one step further, take a pen, press its nib on a piece of blank paper and that'...
Not yet but I'm getting there. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer here. Yes, and I find it fascinating how Wittgenstein's theory of meaning (of word...
Just last night I was listening to an audio on Socrates' trial. True, the great luminary of western philosophy was charged with two counts of miscondu...
I thought calculus was about infinitesimals - a controversial concept no doubt but if memory serves, two mathematicians defined it so that it ceased t...
@"Banno" I wasn't trying to say you were equivocating as such. A frisson of excitement passed through my body when I realized that the question, "what...
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