I'm an advocate of skepticism - there's no point to thinking, forget about overthinking. It's not that you'll get to truth anyway for the infinite reg...
Indeed, that far back in history the boundary between truth and myth is blurred to the point of being of no real value. As for Zhuangzhi needing a shr...
Daoism, some say, utilizes the metaphor of dihydrogen monoxide (water) when it describes itself. Water (liquids and even gases) is adaptive i.e. no ma...
:up: If only we knew how the brain makes such jumps in its capabilities, we could bring them about at will instead of relying on luck. We could trigge...
The monolith is inscrutable, mysterious, enigmatic, bewildering, undecipherable, i.e. it's an unknown and is an attempt to physically embody the lacun...
Democracy as a personal ethic: a way of living, an approach to not only life but to everything, a technique to achieve harmony between selfishness & a...
I like to look at modus tollens and other (argument) forms based on it in terms of possibility Modus ponens 1. If I punch X then X feels pain (assumin...
If existence is tied to perception (existence \to perception), what we don't perceive doesn't exist (modus tollens). However, what is behind us is wha...
Like a moth to a flame. It's true, moths are attracted to light and, just as biologists say, they do spiral to their doom towards the flame and ... bu...
Gender is meaningless i.e. there's no such thing as a male/female mind. :chin: Eureka! I propose The Mohini Test (named after the only female avatar o...
Oh! Well souls having experienced a different sex in a previous life and that carrying over into this life, manifesting as gender dysphoria is an expl...
For me too it remains a mystery how he rebuilt philosophy, after having demolished it, on the cogito? This is no small feat by all accounts. Remember ...
A possibility worth exploring. My hunch, the autonomic nervous system, but what goes on in one's heart & belly is was once beyond our event horizon; w...
:up: So what you're sayin' is what I'm sayin'. There's a phase in our development when males & females are more similar than they're different. It's t...
Yes, by dirty work I mean precisely that! On point mon ami! I hear veterans aren't treated all that well - no surprises there because how many of 'em ...
I recall dividing up the human race into 1. Thinkers (mind) 2. Feelers (heart) 3. Workers (body) Collectively, we're balanced; individually, we're unb...
In my humble opinion, animals, you can say, are moral/ethical beings. The objective is to find out why? A tidbit to chew on while you're at it: Animal...
For a photon, so says a Neil deGrasse Tyson, time doesn't exist. Sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach us, but that's onoy from our frame of reference. Fr...
I haven't read the original argument made by Aristotle - Wikipedia offers only a rough sketch. It seems as though Aristotle considered real/actual ent...
The present is 2022 AD. I exist. We're in the future relative to 1997. I exist. We're in the past relative to 2060. I exist. Yep, the past, the presen...
Jeanne d'Arc dressing as a man was, to French soldiers, good enough for government work if you catch my drift. Why do men have nipples? Just in case, ...
Dance of the seven veils? :smile: I should drop everything right now and go to a strip club. Nuda Veritas? Must ask her to be more oblique! Can't have...
I don't see how subscribing to a yin-yang model and then delegitimizing opposition to that model is being faithful to one's philosophy. Even this posi...
What's depicted as male & female on the Golden Record stored in Voyager II Pioneer Plaque that's, as of now, hurtling through the vacuum of space? Let...
It is only an extension of your "behind us" idea which is basically a reserved skeptical argument; I just went the whole nine yards mon ami and let th...
Hume's The Problem of Induction means that the so-called laws of nature aren't immutable. They could change at any moment as doing so doesn't entail a...
https://youtu.be/rxU3UQOkAMY The universe is inside Krishna (you)! Solipsism can be refuted if you can prove the existence of other minds, but I'm afr...
It might be worth looking into (super)models (men & women). Going by how the perfect male and perfect female are portrayed in magazines and movies, ve...
The trilemma doesn't explain why Jesus of Nazareth was executed. Lunatics aren't put to death, neither are liars, and who would even dream of killing ...
A good observation mon ami! There's this Wikipedia article on randomness that claims that true randomness is, get this, impossible. There's always a p...
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