@"creativesoul" & others. Mary's Room Does Mary learn anything new when she actually, with her own eyes, sees the color Red? Qualia: Ineffable, yes, b...
I would suggest this: Delete the word "nonexistence" from the dictionary. Instead broaden the definition of existence like Meinong did. Kinda like get...
:smile: As anyone with even a single neuron for a brain would've noticed, nonphysicalism requires an overhaul of the definitions of real, existence, p...
Lets... Begin with something easy & familiar viz. God God 1. Exists 2. Is not perceivable/detectable with either senses/instruments. Existence: Is an ...
Numbers, laws (abstractions really) can be considered to exist but not in the same sense as a chair or a seashell. In other words we need to redefine ...
Do people cheat on IQ tests? There are a lot of devices available nowadays that make cheating a walk in the park! Washington Post Headline: Cheaters i...
I'm going to talk about physicalism/nonphysicalism vis-à-vis existence. --- Existence: That which can be detected/perceived by our senses/instruments....
No, I don't think so. Both parties benefit. The poor intellectual's basic physiological needs + more are met with the help of a rich patron who, in tu...
:ok: I'm watching this video series on the history of mathematics and according to it the 17th & 18th centuries were characterized by mathematicians s...
I'm merely stating a fact - we don't know that lepidopteran wing-flaps don't cause large-scale weather events. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's just...
Between luck/Fortuna and IQ/Sapientia, which plays a bigger role in survival? In Darwinism, blind chance (evolution) beats blind chance (extinction le...
:up: Count yourself lucky. Many are still struggling with poverty. I'm afraid I don't know what my personal, very own, self-actualization is. I suspec...
You've hit the nail on the head as far as I'n concerned. I'd like to share an analogy. Imagine you want to put a sculpture in your garden. You've pick...
What's the connection between a rule and a definition? Is there one or none? I have a feeling that Wittgenstein had a different view of language and p...
Oh, I see. A normal/optimal physiological state (breathing, drinking, and feeding, etc. well) is a need. Compare this to the fact that self-actualizat...
The way a word is being used (following a rule) let's us know what its definition (comprehension of the rule) is in a particular language game. The de...
To add... A world devoid of (physical) pain becomes indistinguishable from a dream. We do suffer psychologically in our dreams (nightmares) and so men...
You really want children to be born, huh? Are you sure you can guarantee their wellbeing and not just any wellbeing mind you, wellbeing that ensures t...
Better a false diamond than no diamond. I completely forgot how human minds work. Better a fool's paradise than no paradise at all. Better an illusion...
The opposite of +2 is -2. The negation of +2 is x > +2 OR x < + 2 Salient points. 1. There's only one opposite or opposites come in pairs. A negation ...
I've been staying in a hotel since the 19th of Jan 2022 (just basic services, nothing fancy). So, yesterday I was walking past this room (501) and I h...
The problem of induction (Hume-Wittgenstein): There's no necessity to a law of nature - things might've been a certain way, are that way, but there's ...
Issues that may be important: 1. The population growth is because of increased birth rates. 2. The population growth is because of decreased mortality...
As a dead person you finally "comprehend/experience" eternity - you stay dead forever! Death, in some ways, is \infty. Think of it as a ride on a trai...
Consider the following scenarios 1. Family scenario. A parent P sees his son R grow from child to soldier to general. 2. Stranger scenario: A stranger...
Good question Bitter Crank. Overheard: I'm too tired to care. Of course one can aggravate the situation by rubbing salt on someone's wound, adding ins...
Since we're talking of God (self-created among other things, right?) and suicide, I would like to lay dowm the following for consideration: 1. Self-de...
I second your motion. A metaphysical question like what is time? becomes easier to answer. Time is, in the most basic sense one of many things we use ...
I get what you mean. The word "identical", central to the meaning of symmetry, has an empty extension. It doesn't apply in the real world. If memory s...
I suspect Maslow's schema is hedonic in character. The bottom levels are about pain (negative utilitarian) and the top levels are about pleasure (posi...
Change in an x takes place with respect to something else, a y for instance. An image that displays change in color left-right, up-down, diagonally, o...
More or less. If we figure out a pattern, we have a rule that helps you find the next term in a sequence. If we work out a word's usage pattern, we ha...
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