You're right on that score but my concern is about, I realize now, a paradox in fantasy-VR. Allow me to explain. The holy grail of VR is to make it id...
@"180 Proof" Sorry, I'm a bit confused here so please do forgive the double post but allow me to clarify. What I mean is people don't mind living the ...
Then that means the direction VR is taking - improvement in graphics and sound - is wrong . The idea isn't to make the world, the objects, the charact...
The way I see it, every person is part of two narratives - one, faer real life and two, faer fantasy life. The only reason that people are drawn to th...
I'm a bit confused about the whole idea of VR/fantasy. Correct me if I'm wrong but VR has to be realistic for it to be taken seriously by people. Howe...
It's tough on philosophers, to be deprived of obvious choices. I know between certainty and doubt, one has to go but to disallow both is going to leav...
I think psychology has two parts to it: 1. finding out how we think, patterns in them obviously and 2. constructing theories that explain how we think...
Exactly! Imagine you went to a drug cartel meeting and one of the things they discuss is how to make the drugs less addictive. Whether it makes sense ...
:ok: but... humanity's "baseness" is a rather harsh verdict to be given for actions that have their roots in primeval instincts and proclivities that ...
Abolishment of slavery and indentured labor, the decalogue, the eight-fold path, PETA, RSPCA, etc. ? We've covered some ground, no? If you ask me, hum...
What bothers me is how fantasizing seems to prefigure virtual reality as it exists today. VR is getting more and more realistic every month it seems. ...
Randomness can be simulated by a mind capable of understanding its mathematical interpretation. Imagine X is such a mind and Y is us. Suppose there's ...
:lol: On a more serious note, Wikipedia, according to many, is unreliable. All these allegedly severe moral transgressions occur, are commonplace, in ...
The idea is to fit our minds into the way the world is and not to try making the world fit into our minds. Many have suffered not knowing that differe...
You're right about that. Both western and eastern philosophy began from a sense of general dissatisfaction/discontentment with life, the way people we...
I had my doubts about that one but why split hairs. Obviously, Diogenes Laërtius hadn't seen it all. To be fair though, ceteris paribus, this, the fou...
Well, if the machine were random, it could display anything from 0000000000 to 9999999999 at the designated date every year. The possibility space inc...
Interesting. I've skimmed through the Wikipedia entries on Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, and sexology. Informative but only to extent that it held my ...
Gn?thi seauton: Know thyself. I never quite understood what it means. Is it a call to understand one's strengths and weaknesses and chart one's course...
I remember reading one of those psychiatry handbooks my friend, who's a doctor, used for exam preparations. Being a handbook the letters were really t...
Just needed to get this off my chest. It's too funny to resist. Socrates aka the father of western philosophy was Greek, ugly(take a look at his bust)...
This sentiment is precisely what I wanted to express earlier. The issue of pornography - how the demand for it sustains a large-scale industry and how...
What's your take on how eerily similar fantasy and virtual reality is? If fantasies are good in that they're legitimate modes of experience then shoul...
You might be confusing efficiency with laziness. If a person can do more than another person in the same time, you might mistake the more efficient on...
Choices can be purely mental/internal as when I have concepts/hypotheses/beliefs to choose from and exclusively worldly/external as when I'm asked to ...
Doesn't mean that there are good reasons for disbelieving either. I'm agnostic. @"Wayfarer" What would be good reasons to believe in god? The way athe...
Probability is uncertainty. If x + 1 = 1, then I'm absolutely certain, I have no doubts whatsoever, that x = 0. Probability has no role here. On the o...
It was a well-crafted sentence with a meaning of deep significance to me. Given any proposition and that's what our weltanschauungs are made of, right...
Truth be told, sex can be viewed as a very strategic move by nature to keep the game alive so to speak. Nature must keep the torch of life burning aga...
This is one of those times when I wish I could think better. I suppose the first order of business is to understand the problem. What in god's name is...
:up: Death is a choice...for some at least but only when it comes to when and...quite possibly there are some among us for whom it's an if question to...
Three-quarters of that time was spent in an oppressive haze of confusion. Believe me, I need all the help I can get. Thanks though and felicitations t...
But by E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-NG I didn't mean to leave everything to someone or some group. I meant it in the sense that when I die, I must/have to/for cert...
Thank you. It appears that either I'm a very bad referee/judge - ever ready to look the other way when rules are being violated or I'm criminally orie...
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