Thanks to @"Gregory" & @"Hermeticus" for their comments. Much of the debate around Jesus (the Son) and God (the father) revolves around existence (did...
:ok: Darkness and sleep, something's going on between the two. Neurons may have begun their evolutionary journey as simple light sensors (eyes). The e...
That's what @"Raymond" has been hinting at right from the beginning. What the clock measures. Basic idea = Something that can't be broken down into si...
I learnt it later on, from biology books. Plus, a brain is more alien to me than my mind is. I feel as though, in physicalist terms, I'm a verb (think...
It's rather obvious why the brain switches off at night although that's no longer true with artificial lighting and all. There's nothing for the brain...
@"Banno" The paradox of hair. There's a dog, Timmy, hairy Timmy, Timmy's warm. I zero in on one, single hair. I pluck it, nuthin' happens. Timmy's sti...
Indeed, any form of anything, art too, that includes order (Apollo) & chaos (Dionysus) is necessarily complete (knowledge of good and evil)! There's t...
Google Definitions: Pretend: behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not. "I closed my eyes and pretended I was a...
Correctamundo! Hindsight is 20/20 and youth is wasted on the young! There's nuthin' we can do about it I'm afraid. Don't you smell a conspiracy? Why d...
So light = flkts (meaningless)? We can and do use frequency & wavelength to define light. Too, if light is problematic (circularity), how about Do Re ...
You raise a good point. Animals are slaves to their drives - on occasion I've seen dogs hesitate (almost as if they were asking "should I take that?")...
That, my friend, is a fascinating subject although at present it's well above my pay grade. Suffice it to say that many phenomena e.g. light (Hz) beco...
Justice is the essence of morality. While we do impose restrictions (no theft, no murder, no rape allowed), we don't have an ethico-legal system that'...
If time is an illusion, contradictions are meaningless, or more accurately, they lose their logical significance. I could then say time is real, in op...
Between book smart (rationalist) & street smart (empiricist), IQ, since it tests children too, is biased in favor of the latter. I recall an article o...
Yep, Wittgenstein is a form of relativism:the language game, the form of life has no rationale, it can be anything we want it to be (meaning is use, t...
There's more than one way to skin a cat. Rain, cloud, two thoughts, "connected" because they're thoughts, but also connected in a causal sense. I'm in...
:rofl: There are patterns, which suggest determinism, in human thought but these are not all-encompassing i.e. there are exceptions. Most do this or t...
Yes, consciousness is something that can be known only through first-hand experience; it can't be taught to you from a book (re Mary's room, re Wittge...
Well said! :up: Now I lost my train of thought. Anyway, the point is humans can do idiotic stuff, there's nothing remotely stupid about the universe. ...
@"Bitter Crank" You're right. We do have a definition of art even though it isn't as good as we'd like it to be. Who knows, art may not be definable e...
I fear we have to tread carefully in the domain of theology - its booby-trapped. Religion employs the well-proven technique of Bait (morality)-and-Swi...
I rely on the good sense of others and from a cursory study of voting outcomes, win-margins are always > 1 i.e. my 1 vote makes no difference. Voting,...
Wittgenstein, on pain of a contradiction, simply can't possess an essence; no essence, a free for all, no holds barred, law of the jungle, anything go...
All I can say at the moment is that consciousness is information extracted from raw data and as such is rather ethereal and subjective (re infrared im...
If I'm correct, every philosophy should condense into a single word e.g. Buddhism can be summed up as anicca (impermanence/change). If so Wittgenstein...
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