It should be! It means those with the condition can't do what normal people can. Also, to use a computer metaphor, your visualization app has been dis...
What does one mean by past? Elapsed time ending in the present (now). So, if the past is infinite, an infinite amount of time must've elapsed. You can...
I'm not a mathematician, I'd love to be one but my love of math is an unrequited one, just like my other loves. Anyway, from what I know, if conscious...
Indeed! You're right. I've always had trouble thinking of energy (electricity being one of them) as physical. I'm told this was a recent development i...
You might want to revisit a Daoist cliché/trope: The Tower Of Babel, the objective being to keep humans out of heaven. That's what you get when you me...
When it comes to measuring, roping in mathematics, it's more about making a decision than getting it right. So, wisdom maybe as slippery as an eel but...
Aphantasia: Difficulty/inability to visualize voluntarily! A coupla interesting points that might help you, 1. What's your opinion on the fact that yo...
I want to run something by you. Consciousness can't be a physical pattern like ocean waves are of water - the brain would have to literally jiggle as ...
:clap: :up: A script from a 1970's movie (paraphrasing) Student: Talking to you is like talking to a wall. Master: The Buddha once gained enlightenmen...
I've been pondering upon the nexus between God and meaning for the past 7 years or so, off and on though. Here's what I discovered: It's all got to do...
I just want to explore one particular interpretation of the notion of ineffables. Is the ineffable a linguistic issue in that we're missing the langua...
A quote of some relevance, The seed of the psychology of the subconscious is just about discernible in Schopenhauer's statement. I watched a youtube v...
You're right, assuming of course mainstream views in paleontology and evolutionary biology are. However, I'm sure there are fringe theories in both th...
Yes, Graham Priest's thinks so too (I'm not sure). I can't quite remember the argument he makes but it rests on a technicality. It goes something like...
Well, to be fair, even though I'm probably inviting strong criticism, back then people...didn't know any better...right? Yes, ignorantia juris non exc...
You can say that again! They were...er...dead serious. Sorry, couldn't avoid that pun. Someone mentioned it in another thread many Earth Sols ago. I c...
On behalf of that which you've been kicking around, even if it's only an idea, OUCH! OUCH! AND one more OUCH! just to give me a sense of closure. I do...
Teaching the history (of European exploration), despite the countless ways it went horribly wrong, in an entertaining way isn't all that bad. In fact,...
You might've hit the nail on the head there. Anekantavada (not-one-sidedness doctrine) By the way, it appears that anekantavada is precisely the view ...
Graham Priest believes that the Buddha would've considered such queries as a, I quote, "...waste of time..." Why do I feel like I've been pondering th...
The matter is, to my reckoning, wholly determined by some pecking order for properties à la Hume's notion of primary and secondary qualities. If not, ...
May not be relevant but I've installed this strategy game on my old laptop - Civilization VI - and when I begin a new game, I get a settler unit close...
If I take a red sphere and put it on a conveyor belt, part of which is hidden by a curtain, and out on the other side emerges a yellow sphere, the usu...
Sorry for the double post but I really need your opinion on this. The Mu state of mind that we were discussing is also humorously reffered to as N/A (...
Read the linked article. Almost felt him as a kindred spirit but Priest is a full-time philosopher and I'm just a beginner. :sad: Anyway, here's what ...
I propose a set of equations: 1. Physicalism: Brain + Thoughts = Consciousness 2. Nonphysicalism: Brain + Immaterial Mind + Thoughts = Xonsciousness W...
For obvious reasons, consciousness has been defined as thinking (about something) i.e. it's understood as awareness (of something) and there's a lot o...
Try Nagarjuna's tetralemma "technique" (some find this description fails to do justice to the idea). Take a proposition or sentence, say this one, "I'...
The existence of a God is simply our expectations in re a perfect moral authority (one who knows his stuff) being met. A perfect moral authority would...
This is the heart of the matter. Those who deny an intelligent designer must concede that evolution is an intelligent design. Thus, those who deny the...
A simple question: Given what we know and what we don't how would you design evolution? In other words, if you were on the team that designs evolution...
That's an entirely different question. God may not exist but we know now what God is - the ultimate moral theory that enables us to assert, without an...
We'll need to explore the matter of Kantian morality very carefully. What's relevant to the OP is how Kant's position on lying being immoral is non-ne...
Is Enformationism your pet theory? I'm inclined to agree that everything is about information. Why? Take a model toy car for example. We convert it in...
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