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:grin: Something like that. :up: As a specific case of sorrow and as a general case of agony.

I like where you're going with this. May be we could turn it into a game if sorts.

Will is associated with choice is what I meant.

True, true!

I agree. In there's a puzzle I haven't been able to solve. Perhaps it's a pseudoproblem like many of my problems are. --- To both of the above posters...

arelationship between will and consciousness? Ok, but what kinda relationship is it? Will, to me, is simply a kind of desire.

Saint Nicholas = Santa Claus. He's no more yes, but Saint Nicholas = Santa Claus.

I'm relyin' on me intuition mate - it doesn't mean anything. Talking out of me bung hole? :chin:

Good strategy.

The will seems related to the idea of self, to the idea of independence, to the idea of responsbility (you mentioned that) but then that amounts to ov...

That's one, but here's the thing Saint Nicholas was a real person. :chin: I don't know how to deal with that (historical) fact and how it relates to S...

The education system is not an issue then - if it has been, as you say, reworked. I'm not complaining, being myself a beneficiary of the US education ...

Will is, in a sense, nature; nature is in a sense habit; habit is in a sense a compulsion; compulsion is the absence of will. :grin: Good question OP.

That's one way to look at it. What follows if I may ask?

Gracias. Too dense, don't have the time. tl;dr moment.

Please don't think I didn't read your post carefully. Sometimes, it seems, someone with not so a high IQ like myself can come off as rude & arrogant. ...

:grin: I don't know. As I said I'm not sure I understand duality. Can ya help? What's duality?

Well, if photons and matter waves, surely there's a duality that isn't complementary, rather they're annihilatory (MAD) and although Gnomon's BothAnd ...

I hear ya, but it makes sense in my universe.

xAy: x is aware of y SKYNET (s) is self-aware: sAs sAs since 2:14 AM Eastern Time, August 29th, 1997 :cool:

An afterlife makes sense only in Buddhism (reincarnation, determined by karma).

According to Yuval Noah Harari, our brains have actually decreased in size; as per evolutionary medicine, we have a short gestation period of approx. ...

That follows. One well-versed in linguistics (especially the history of its evolution) should be able to shed some light on the matter. Where's a ling...

The counterweight to NDE is all of the times people have lost consciousness, had convulsions, were in critical conditionc(MI/CVA), etc. and didn't hav...

:grin: In the neurosurgical procedure you described, what exactly is your self that's being transferred from organic substrate (brain) to inorganic su...

You're right of course - education would need to be overhauled in order to meet the challenges & capitalize on the opportunities of emerging realities...

The procedure you describe (brain surgery) sounds like a primitive way to download the mind. Why not get right to the point - its the software (apps +...

Compare the following 4 entities 1. Vladimir Putin 2. Santa Claus 3. Sherlock Holmes 4. Arthur Conan Doyle

There are quite a few events antinatalists can choose to celebrate.

Ok. The issue was whether education makes a difference/not. How would you go about answering this question? You're of course correct, but we were disc...

Good questions. As far as I can tell, we can't also do the opposite of what you said we can't do.

Santa Claus, alas, doesn't exist.

Mushrooms can talk :cool:

I never understood Wittgenstein - all I know is he found holes in the up-to-that-point understanding of meaning (has something to do with essence appa...

I find Mary's room to be quite a cozy spot for nonphysicalists. The ineffable can't be as ineffable as some things that have been effed, now even by k...

NDEs tend to be varied - there are accounts of people having seen hell and heaven. An OBE is one category of NDE that I find very interesting. Imagine...

There's a tank, a giant one, it be old, the cover be round, crusted with rust, red, red, rust. The water's stained the sides, looks like a painting, t...

Since information is uploadable and downloadable, does that mean, 180 Proof, information is nonphysical? What follows? Yer namesake Mark \uparrow

Very Dennettian. I like Daniel Dennett. I hope he doesn't take offense but he reminds me of Santa Claus. :grin: Anyway, it's undeniable that if someth...

How about if I ask "what would most Americans/Iranians do?" Does that make sense?

I'm a physicalist 180 Proof. What do you make of Chalmer's so-called hard problem of consciousness?

:smile:

True, 180 Proof, that Gnomon's idea of Enformationism is speculative - that's part of the territory (metaphysics). Also true that BothAnd is rather un...

Yep! We're in back in the neolithic age, in some respects.

The average person, how would you define him/her?

:rofl: Pardon me if I've insulted math in anyway.

Oh, now I see what happened there! A crossing of wires, a confusion minds. A regular day for a philosopher.

This was an old post. I've actually forgotten that I ever wrote it. Thanks for the reminder. A long, long time ago in my universe buddy. I would say t...

Education is important and by education I mean a wholesome one. Statistics should aid you and @"Vera Mont" decide who's right even if only partially. ...

Possible, very possible.