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Possible!

Shakespeare? I didn't know the phrase "dreamless sleep" was the English bard's handiwork. Good to know.

Very Buddhist! The Truth will set you Free! Siddhartha's religion (Buddhism), though apparently hedonic, treats heaven (rapture) and hell (torment) as...

:grin: Can you please repeat the question!

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@"180 Proof" :up: We define an unknown (death) in terms of a known (dreamless sleep).

:ok: You might find :point: Truth over Pleasure interesting!

I don't know how to say this, but a quote from Zen Buddhism and one Zhuangzi should do the trick. \downarrow

This is precisely what Dennett's saying is the illusion of consciousness.

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The clock, is what it measures (time) as real as it itself is?

Yes! Discernment of subtlety/nuance isn't my strong suit. I'd like to hear more if you feel so disposed.

Wow! :clap:

Tautology.

The universe is asymmetrical and yet within this asymmetry we have symmetry, at least mirror symmetry (yin-yang).

Yep, but that's not the kind of survival, post-death, that people have in mind. :up:

Romanticized accounts of family life, my friend. Read Agatha Christie. It follows naturally.

My question actually inquires into ground already covered, but indeed, the nature of truth is a profound question. :ok:

I'm certain your undertsanding of the subject is far better than mine. I have a question. Is there a line straighter than straight, that is to say :po...

I don't think my question is so profound as to require an exposition on the limits of reality /truth? Anyway, thanks!

Possible, quite possible. However truth in what sense truth, epistemologically that is?

To the extent it can be said I grasped Wittgenstein, I reaffirm my position which is there's no samyak-d???i (right view) when it comes to Wittgenstei...

The clue to mass extinctions, that they're real and do happen, is embedded in our DNA - they're mutable, meaning life wants to field as many players a...

Isn't so called (velocity/gravitational) time dilation, a case of warping the 4th dimension (time); however, unlike space in which case a straight lin...

What a shame. Just when he was about to crack the problem - the way to a man's heart is through his stomach! :lol:

Anitnatalism is correct. You might, if I understand you, point to happiness experienced (by the privileged few), but what if I told you that any and a...

I'm uninformed of many, many things. What I've learned is this: learning the truth is hard work (find a good resource, reading it, analyzing what you'...

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I'm reading this book on philosophy. I was under the (false) impression that Chrstianity owed much of what it is, doctrinally speaking, to sound, well...

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Finally, now we can put crooks (that's the majority) in the senate. Not being able to do anything remotely illegal, there's no need at all to distingu...

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To, Daniel Dennett, Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University Dear Sir, There's no difference between me, asleep, and me, awake! Th...

Magnifique! A sensible answer/post/reply. Sorry, slipped my mind. The Holy Spirit = The Force (Star wars)

No, no! We're natalists because we're masochists (we get off on pain).

Nice! The Father = (Master)Mind Holy Spirit = Speech (breath) The Son = Body (Physical manifestation)

What is real?

Yep, we could all be masochists, assuming antinatalism is correct.

I've engaged you and others with the intent of discovering what Daniel Dennett actually means when he claims that consciousness is an illusion. It has...

Where \rightarrow means became/transformed into, Religion \rightarrow Philosophy \rightarrow Science. All these fields are avatars of each other that,...

Is the universe symmetrical? So little or virtually nonexistent antimatter! Mathematical symmetry figures (prominently) in models of the universe (phy...

Kudos OP for such a profound question. If "digital space" can be sanctified/consecrated/made sacred, does it mean God/the divine/the holy is/are digit...

Gos becomes one, merges with, His creation! He no longer exists as separate from His creation aka the universe/multiverse. This is pantheism. Intrigui...

An idea can fail 1. At conception stage (think) 2. At implementation stage (act) It's unclear to me at which stage socialism fails.

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "errors" doesn't it? I wish philosophy and other stuff humans do were like that - built not on correctness, but ...

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Therein lies the rub. We don't experience ourselves directly as brains - we're told we're brains.

I have a feeling that we're confusing verbs with nouns here. The mind is, at the end of the day, a verb (thinking/thoughts), but we seem to mislabelin...

I have a feeling that we're confusing verbs with nouns here. The mind is, at the end of the day, a verb (thinking/thoughts), but we seem to mislabelin...