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I didn't at all. But, we can get there once we get past the first proposition.
February 27, 2022 at 21:16
That's not how this stuff works. There's no such thing as a quote of such a kind. The process is distributed over billions of neurons that compute sen...
February 27, 2022 at 21:15
So, the pfc's function, how the brain differentiates between data signals, and the recuurent neural networks that integrate data have no relevance... ...
February 27, 2022 at 21:05
Which is..... Reason! Ding Ding! This, of course, all true. But, active human thought and logic and reasoning itself isn't strictly formal. Wittgenste...
February 27, 2022 at 21:04
Are you deliberately choosing not to read? Here, let me help. And remember, I said the conditions were that we do this right, no bullshit. So, let's n...
February 27, 2022 at 21:00
No, I'm not. This is quite literally you expressing a value, and you developed it through sensory data accrual, no shit. It's a complete contradiction...
February 27, 2022 at 20:56
No, that's absurd. C'mon, let's not be silly. Reason is the method by which the brain uses all of those functions to create abstractions from data tha...
February 27, 2022 at 20:55
No, I posted you some stuff that opens up the doorway to underwstanding the process of conceptualizations and abstractions. I'll post again so you can...
February 27, 2022 at 20:51
It's valuable because you get to understand that you are in fact an independent, co-equal producer of the source of value in the world. And that only ...
February 27, 2022 at 20:50
Joshs... My friend. You're too smart to be saying stuff like this. Reason is : think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic. Do you rea...
February 27, 2022 at 20:48
No, not as equals. Reason has the frontal cortex dedicated to its processing of the kinds of executive function. It is specifically your reason that u...
February 27, 2022 at 20:44
That love and connections and everything else you enumerated are all predicated on the reasoning process by which standardized those connections. No w...
February 27, 2022 at 20:42
Feeling is a part of the reasoning process, it isn't a stand alone system. There's nothing about having the capacity for Positive Energy that is not i...
February 27, 2022 at 20:40
In your experience (accrual of data), values are not conceptual understandings (a conceptual understanding derived from data). You just contradicted y...
February 27, 2022 at 20:34
No, because we have an immense amount of data over just the past 70 years showing us what markets produce for the world, and how states ruin the world...
February 27, 2022 at 20:33
Um, what are talking about? The transitions from classical mechanics to relativity wasn't rational? From universal constant to Hubble constant wasn't ...
February 27, 2022 at 20:30
Nothing said were fair points. The proposition has remained entirely unaddress by anything other than simple opinion that isn't consistent with any mo...
February 27, 2022 at 20:26
This is getting silly. No, I didn't. You asked a question about people, then asked a question about me. I don't expect reasonable people to agree. I c...
February 27, 2022 at 20:22
That is specifically my argument here, thanks. Sure, all part of the reasoning process.
February 27, 2022 at 19:49
Again, all attributes that, without the employment of the reasoning faculty, are not sufficient for basic human survival. All of those psychological t...
February 27, 2022 at 19:48
I know it is not. To get to the selfish part, one has to go through the logic. That's why I said we will "start" here. The terms have already been lai...
February 27, 2022 at 19:42
This is the last time I will address this, because I did easily point it out. The proposition is not a categorical one regarding behavior, there is no...
February 27, 2022 at 19:22
No it's just not making a "disregard for known science fallacy" one learns in basic logic: This fallacy is committed when a person makes a claim that ...
February 27, 2022 at 19:03
Which is fine. Rand was an advocate of a voluntary system of contribution to basic needs being developed. In which case, if a government goes overboar...
February 27, 2022 at 18:54
Sure, but, to the degree one makes an emotional decision, one makes a harmful decision that goes against one furthering their life. Which is exactly w...
February 27, 2022 at 18:52
It's a game, damnit, just play along! lol
February 27, 2022 at 18:42
Hey man, if you're not going to address the proposition, then take a hike. I'm not going around with you. This is not a categorical proposition descri...
February 27, 2022 at 18:40
Agreed, in essence, but let's be honest here: she clearly delineates from selfishness and rational selfishness. Meaning, if this is a discussion about...
February 27, 2022 at 18:28
Truth is the only thing that is relevant to any proposition, and whether or not one chooses to not use reason is itself a non sequitur. The premise mu...
February 27, 2022 at 18:16
Yes, but don't you undertand that if I live in a society that values me enough to respect my basic right to pursue my own ends rationally, that I'm MO...
February 27, 2022 at 17:52
All of this, yes! I'd give anything to have these societies back and people behaving like them. You need to see this history, man. Epicurus is the rea...
February 27, 2022 at 17:35
Not my problem. Immoral behavior. I agree. Rand wasn't against you helping them and she's given her condolences for those situations, even. Rand wasn'...
February 27, 2022 at 17:33
No, you're just delimiting the view of it, and how it has been used throughout history, and the actions of people and states that it has been used to ...
February 27, 2022 at 17:18
Specifically, yes. As in, these are specifically what Romanticism highlights. Haven't you ever read Les Miserables?
February 27, 2022 at 17:03
The way I see it, all of your behavior is predicated on the knowledge that your brain assimilates through sensory observation. Meaning, your primary m...
February 27, 2022 at 17:02
You'll find your ally instead. For example, how many Randians have been known to kill people, as opposed to christians, socialists, and statists? Some...
February 27, 2022 at 16:58
Of course. But, the idea is that it is immoral for you to predicate your actions on such, hence the "It is not a license “to do as he pleases”and it i...
February 27, 2022 at 16:56
Will try to from here on. Lot's of these questions have to be explained in modern terms, I've noticed, but yeah. No prob.
February 27, 2022 at 16:32
To Epicurus it was. And it was the expansion of his societies, who lived by his code, that established the tradition as a consistent culture throughou...
February 27, 2022 at 16:31
No, I think that our only means of actually surviving in the world relies on it. That was the premise. Exclusively. That's the problem. This is differ...
February 27, 2022 at 16:27
Yes. Taking care of them was their creators' responsibility. If you desire people to adopt that responsibility, you will need to appeal to them throug...
February 27, 2022 at 16:14
He was the first to formalize it into a moral code and sort of traditionalize it, as it were, as opposed to the Platonic and Aristotelian models, whic...
February 27, 2022 at 16:11
It will be, just like with children, the responsibility of those who created them to take care of them. Same thing. If you have a child who is autisti...
February 27, 2022 at 16:05
Fair enough.
February 27, 2022 at 16:04
What would it be then? What allows you to do anything? You'll need to expand this beyond internal confusion. Cool, explain. Where do we get our values...
February 27, 2022 at 16:03
Not assuming such. No, she regards it as evil because it asserts that it is proper for the human to be regard as a fit subject for the practice of sac...
February 27, 2022 at 15:59
Arguments, got any?
February 27, 2022 at 15:51
Yo, Clark, no well-poisoning. The deal was, we were going to actually do this, and not act like a bunch of PhD's who have never taken a logic course. ...
February 27, 2022 at 15:51
What do you mean, the two are entirely not related. One describes just mindless self-pursuits, and the other is a principle of rationally understandin...
February 27, 2022 at 15:46
Sorry about the typos, I wrote it at like 2 in the morning, lol. P1. if humans are generated by natural processes with reason (logic, rationality, con...
February 27, 2022 at 15:34