Freedom? No, not freedom, Arendt shares my opinion on freedom. It's the concept of sovereignty that doesn't add anything of value, as far as I can tel...
To be honest about the nature of the article, though, it is actually not quoting Arendt on an asserted position she was positing; she wasn't actually ...
The point was the definitons. My curiosity is regarding just who this concept of relinquishing sovereignty is relevant to, considering that it isn't a...
Again, I accept the historical context of this definition. But 'state' is not restricted itself to the state that is government. I'm talking from an i...
The funny thing about this is that it just isn't applicable to me, even if I totally get what this is to mean from a historical perspective. Sovereign...
A fabulous point, I agree. But, let us just keep it with virtue for now, and see if we can, just from that perspective alone derive a workable framewo...
Since life is self-perpetuating in accordance with its genetic code, by extension the brain, provided through evolution by natural selection, that wou...
In short, we can't. We have to use reason, evidence, induction, hypothesis, data analysis to inform of us the best possible conclusion. Which is an ex...
Yeah, I guess if that's really what you think. It's not like the human brain is the single most advanced system in the known universe that neuroscient...
That's a really funny way of saying "I have no clue what I'm talking about on this particular subject, I just go with how I feel about the stuff." Whi...
No, it quite literally doesn't. But, it doesn't matter because you're simply just going to dismiss the entire corpus of scientific work on the subject...
An absolutely excellent point. I literally just jotted that down in my private writings last night. I'm working on an epistemology of ethics that open...
I would highly recommend venturing into all of them to learn their value, but you really should familiarize yourself with what Rand's arguments were f...
100% agree, no issues here. The issue I take with this, is that, if you review the term 'will' in all of its various modern and historical definitions...
If find the incoherence with which you think to be dissapointing, mister ad hominem non-argument. Keep your insults to yourself, and just present some...
And as I have explained to you here, unconscious is not a state of neural inactivity. When unconscious, you are still the expression of all the operat...
Funny, banno says "shoe" in a list of things that quite literally defines what he is as a living entity, in an attempt to strawman a position he hasn'...
As if I haven't provided numerous current definitions, compared them to the ones in question, presented current journals in neuroscience, and argued m...
Okay, this aligns with what I've discussed. The brain controls colors, shapes, sounds, and motions. Where does the "you" part come in that you were me...
Yes, that's right. Your unique experiences and the values you adopt are used by the brain to inform future action. Overtime, the greater the reward (r...
You shape the appearance of the outside world? In what manner? You make things change form, color? Telekinesis? Lou Kang style fire balls? Petronus ch...
I am in accord with everything you've said. However, on this point I have to ask. Given the definitions I provided, what you know of the science; does...
No, your brain controls the entire body you see in the mirror. In fact, that which you are seeing in the mirror, is quite literally the sum total of a...
No on both of these. I'm not claiming I have solved any problem. I'm saying I have created, using only the definitions, the historical understandings ...
No, although for most that would be correct. If you remember, I regard freedom as nothing more than the freedom of the self-generated will (all action...
No, that's an utterly ludicrous analogy. It would be more akin to if a rock flew into your house, hit something that was serving as the foundation for...
All of which, except external world, is controlled and maintained by the brain. That's why if an air bubble makes it's way to your brain, you go veget...
On that point, as it is being discussed in a separate forum I'm involved in, have a look at this and tell me what you think: Definitions of Will: the ...
"You" are your brain. The part of you controlling your heart beat and motor functions that isn't "you," is the same thing producing executive function...
Lol, this sentence pretty much sums up Kant's approach at ethics, except reorganized into unreadable, carefully fabricated terms that convey as little...
I can understand the emotional aspect in that, it's not the emotions are meaningles or anything. It's simply that, much like with scientific framework...
I don't do guilt. I am either responsible, or I am not. Guilt is little more than a childhood emotion, generated to reinforce lessons of right and wro...
The only thing that is going to help people stay afloat, is if they swim their asses off, preferably in the direction of a shoreline. Now, does that m...
So, a little bit of information on this subject, as I happened to have the bandwidth available from work, school, and writing to make it to the end of...
No, and I would never expect them to do as much for me. Now, if I had children of my own, then perhaps, if it genuinely meant that they lived. Childre...
Yeah, that's fundamnetally what the articles I posted suggest from data, when read together. And what I mean when I say "will is the sum total of all ...
These inner turmoils come from the fact that what has been informing your morality, the world's morailty, the ethical standards by which your idea of ...
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