:up: To Those Interested The Desire Conundrum: Buddha: Desire leads to suffering. To be free from suffering, extinguish desire. Bikkhu: To extinguish ...
That's exactly the point! Psychology isn't/can't be a science. For it to come anywhere close to being a science, it needs people to be honest when rep...
First off, thanks for filling me in in the details of Protagoras' technique (counterdilemma) - I didn't know Protagoras was part of the legal curricul...
All that I know and you haven't been able to refute it is there's moral ambiguity - telling the truth is good but letting a murderer know where faer n...
Just pointing you in the right direction as I did would be doing you a big favor - you would be disabused of your erroneous view that psychology has a...
Non sequitur. Nothing I said would imply that. All that needs to be borne in mind is that both vision and thought are information processing - the eye...
I'm sorry, I'm too tired to search for references to that effect. Suffice it to say they exist and a Google search will take you to numerous criticism...
Something doesn't add up. Property includes stuff like land, houses, diamonds, couches, lamps, mirrors, cars, etc., objects that most people can't get...
Why is it stupid wrong? Criteria for accepting expert testimony: 1. The expert must be unbiased 2. The expert's comments must be limited to his area o...
I said what I wanted to say. It's obvious that psychology is far from being a science at par with physics or even for that matter biology. Why else al...
A concept is a pattern. For e.g. the concept of love, I chose a hard one, is, on the whole, a positive attitude - that's a pattern of emotions/feeling...
:up: Psychology is exactly as you describe it - more, some even might want to say mere, speculation than anything substantive. A poster even compared ...
I'm somehow not convinced. Pattern detection (sensing) is what the brain/mind literally does - the laws of nature (science) are patterns in the behavi...
@"Harry Hindu" I'm not so sure. This has been bothering me for a while and I'd like to pick your brains regarding the issue of mind as a sensory organ...
You haven't really addressed any of the points I made. Nonetheless, thanks for relating the interesting story of a Mr. John Astor. G'day. Again, you'r...
For finite sets, 1. K = {a, b, c}, L = {a} 2. Set difference: K - L = {b, c} 3. K - L =/= K Where n(A) is the number of elements in set A, n(K) = 3 n(...
The book that Thales Of Miletus (the first philosopher) read :point: Egyptian Geometry Texts. Don't even think of saying what Thales did with those bo...
I humby disagree. You know the heart of the issues is dilemmas of moral ambiguity, perfect settings for counterdilemmas of the Protagorain kind. Ignor...
1. If x exists then x is perceived. 1a. If x is not perceived then x doesn't exist Now, what about x doesn't exist? What does that imply in terms of p...
They are the same thing. That was my point! If to exist is to be perceived, to not be perceived is to not exist. The problem is to not be perceived is...
Interesting! So, we're treating fetuses like corpses but then the crucial difference - one is alive but the other is not! Moral value? I guess, going ...
In other words, if perceived then either exists (like a stone) or doesn't exist (like a dream/hallucination). There's nothing to disprove since the co...
That's not good, not good at all. You have a good handle on history (philosophy, politics, religion, science, whathaveyou). You, unlike me, have time ...
What's up-to-date? :rofl: Jokes aside, my favorite database updating tool is Google News - it provides a balanced mix of the latest in almost every ar...
One or a few simple rule(s) and we have chaos :point: https://youtu.be/aV_gZP-Cr_c Complexity (chaos) is an illusion then, no? The rule with gas molec...
Some of the issues you raise seem like waypoints that should've already been passed to discuss materialism vs idealism. You know, like what "object" a...
:up: Genius! Luckily or not, you decide, psychology seems chockablock with multiple theories that seem to lack overlap zones giving nothing for theori...
The point of ethical theories is to sift through all the incidentals and zero in on the essence and see if it's possible to build a working ethical mo...
Medicine isn't the same thing as work - the former improves the situation (you become whole again) but the latter no matter what else it does, definit...
Will do! 1. "Nobody wants to labor" :ok: 2. "Everybody, however, needs to be financially independent" :ok: The catch is if 2 is true, 3. Everybody has...
Exactly! So, best-case scenario: 1. Men have to work (for survival)Men don't want to work and men don't have to work (alignment of want with circumsta...
Nobody wants work! Ask anybody you know. Also, children literally hate school, their abhorrence of homework being stuff of legend. I guess ergophobia ...
How can you be so sure? 1. Neither men nor women want to work (obvious). 2. Men have to work (for survival). 3. Women have to work (for surivival + fo...
Yes, you're right about all that you said. We're on the same page on that score. What bothers me is no one really wants to work. If given the opportun...
I was thinking if a bird (the New Caledonian Crow) can manage such feats of intelligence, why not a blue whale? The size difference between a crow bra...
Sentience seems to be key in re your position but if I may say so, I maybe completely wrong of course, the problem with slavery wasn't a deficiency/ab...
I was just wondering if we might see a little bit of our painful history as slaves in the way we treat (mistreat?) robots and if that might make us at...
Me (to my boss): I can't do the task you assigned me. It's beyond my ken. I need help, experts would be great, if possible that is. My boss (to me): G...
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