Did you notice? Every study on emotions - philosophy, psychology, you name it - is either entirely about eliminating them or reigning them in. Isn't i...
Not by the definition that X is real IFF X exists when no one perceives it. You do realize that anything one perceives is rendered useless as evidence...
Stoicism strikes me as resignation to one's circumstances as encapsulated in its spirit of acceptance - to not grieve over one's misfortunes and not r...
@"Jack Cummins" X is real IFF X exists independent of our perceptions. What does that mean? It means that X exists even when no one perceives X. For i...
Well, prejudice seems to be not only about hostility towards other races (racism) but also includes a judgement viz. such antagonism is unwarranted. R...
Looks like a work in progress. I hope we get done with the preliminaries ASAP so that we can finally get down to the brass tacks of time perception. @...
You have a suspicion that "...there might be something more universal here with mental capabilities than all the things we give names to" but what are...
Go to timestamp 10:59 in the video below, https://youtu.be/fjbWr3ODbAo Painting by Bernado Bellotto Two kinds of beauty: 1. Real beauty: Details, deta...
You're correct that "some dogs are black" and "no dogs are black" are contradictory (both can't be true and both can't be false or, in other words, on...
I don't know what the OP is on about but if I may offer my two cents, it's this: The brain/mind can be subdivided into 3 parts: 1. Memory 2. Executive...
Yes but I'm not talking about disproving N which is equivalent to proving E. I'm interested in knowing whether it's easier to prove N or easier to pro...
:chin: We have two claims to consider: E = some dogs are black and N = no dogs are black. What I'm saying is it's easier to prove E than N for the sim...
Excelente! :up: Here's my own version of difficulty in re proof for the two statements, "some dogs are black" and "no dogs are black" Difficulty: how ...
@"I like sushi" I concur. Racism boils down to one race considering and treating other races as inferior. On the other hand we have prejudice. A Googl...
It seems we were talking about two entirely different issues. What I had in mind was how many scientific achievements (discoveries/inventions) seem to...
This :point: Speaking for myself, I'd say we need to look at science's 1) course correction mechanism and 2) timing of the course correction mechanism...
1. Either I'm sane or I'm insane 2. If I'm sane then, I'm logical 3. If I'm logical then, logic determines my choices 4. If logic determines my choice...
I recall someone else starting a thread in the same vein: 1. Assume U = the set that contains everything 2. If there's a that U contains everything, U...
Agreed but the question, to me, is which is the delusion? Descartes' cogito argument or Cotard "delusion"? Don't be fooled by the word "delusion" in C...
Do you mind explaining that? Thanks. :clap: So, what's the status of nihilism vis-à-vis humans? Is its "departure" imminent or has it already taken pl...
Indeed! The implications of solipsisim hasn't really sunk in for me. My experience with it has been more as a disinterested observer than anything tha...
I don't know if this makes any kind of sense or even whether this has any significant philosophical meaning but much of the 5 or so years I've been pa...
Well, I don't know how real detectives handle actual cases - I suspect it's some combination of evidence gathering, talking to suspects and witnesses,...
Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (Max Erik Tegmark) I know where you're coming from. I think I have a name for it - Spock Paradox which is the hard-to...
I'm sorry to say I can't seem to find an overarching principle/theory/concept but as @"Echarmion" pointed out, it's related to epistemology. Two thing...
Same here! I enjoyed math in my teens, especially geometry and I, sadly, failed to make the connection between geometry in particular, mathematics in ...
A few things that seem intriguing about the late Paul Gaugin ( :flower: :death: ): 1. My own experience with so-called suicidal ideation has been whol...
While I'm not going to disagree with you since you're right of course (double-edged swords are the norm), the fact that everything (actions, thoughts,...
Come to think of it, this question - do atheists hope there is no God? - gets right to the crux of the issue of theism-atheism. For theists, it's a pr...
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