I think suffering is certainly a motive,but there is something else. To be unified. To work well with oneself. To play well together. To be able to ex...
It depends on whether you would call the sum of all that exists anywhere the universe or, if there are different pockets, you decide to call these mor...
Which means that it is philosophy interest grounded in real life experiences. That's not problematic per se. The point of saying I can throw lables is...
It might be a side effect of the meds. This is not me saying go off them, but find the full list of side effects and adverse reactions. Read them all,...
Could be. I reread it and it's seems more ambigous now. It would certainly presuppose values, but not necessarily a fully thought out system. He may h...
Totally agree. And I have gotten so much shit over the years for saying the T should be taken out. First, because it implies that there are two criter...
If the critique is good, then it is very useful. If it is not, then it is not. It seems to me you are ruling out the value of critique in the absence ...
It matters to people existing now. It might mean something that no sentient life continues. You have your values and you are universalizing and object...
No, it doesn't (me agreeing). Another word for them we could use are heuristics, which are rarely infallible, but that's ok since heuristics save us t...
Fair enough. I wasn't saying you shouldn't ask for arguments, and in a sense I am chiding both sides (I realize there are nuances in these sides and i...
In the context of me saying we have no idea what the mechanism is, I am happy to have someone from the 'we know a lot about it' camp couch it as unkno...
I didn't say live your life or kill yourself. I just note, again, that people want to continue living, including anti-natalists. That's not how I reac...
And then the damage on the broader level if anti-natalism became the norm or the rule. From their perspective the end of the human race is fine, and p...
Amen. But even more: we are both. Getting rid of negative emotions, so called, is a bit like saying, get rid of the negative organs (like the spleen a...
The mechanism is not understood at all. We do not know what creatures have and which do not. There is a growing number of scientists that think plants...
A belief that is not a proposition would be something like an expectation. Sort of like a sense that there is a natural law that one never has articul...
For me it seems odd that these sorts of things could be worked out by assessing claims on paper or on screen. Of course both theists and atheists seem...
get better at analogies, take a look at an overview of Synectics, for example, then actually force some friends to try that with you. Read widely, gen...
I wasn't setting the bar. I was saying what I said, which was that the continued catastrophic predictions from both sides about something so incredibl...
I believe it is responding with understated incredulity to something that seemed to imply that the person did not go. Did you not do X. Like, did you ...
I peeked at the other thread. Depression is a very complex phenomenon, and if we take the example of the Buddhists, we are talking about decades of di...
They are not you. You train yourself to watch them as if they were something other than you. They do this with thoughts also and any phenomena. In fac...
NOt sure what you mean by bigger fish. Then that's what you like. I mean, I am certainly not going to tell someone else they should want tumult and pa...
Because science tracks physical interactions and presumes that most of these have no 'inner dimension'. What would give rise to something so different...
l Well, if they actually lost the ability to prefer or even notice any difference in experience. IOW they got no feedback at all about pain and unplea...
I would happily replace neurotic worrying with equanimity, sure. But I also like things more rajasic. IOW passion is peachy, if it is focused on proce...
I didn't argue it shouldn't involve harm. I criticized your arguments that we should not risk harm, and in that specific place in regarding the fact t...
I meant in the poltical sense. I don't think it helps the debate, the discussion of political outcomes, the weighing of options, the understanding the...
Pretty much any positive attribute can be problematic if other positive attributes are not present or if that attribute is extreme. I just don't see t...
I don't agree with this, but i'l focus on: you are not eliminating your harm. Here you are at a bird's eye view looking at an 'if everyone agrees scen...
It simply takes consent off the table. So this means that neither antinatalist nor natalist arguments could be able to bring up consent. So this means...
Sure, but I was focusing on the reasons people believe. That doesn't contradict my points. I am not saying that all people who are raised in the churc...
I don't see why one should choose, and confidence in both is important. A surgeon needs confidence both in her effort to do all she can for the patien...
I disagree. For a couple of reasons. First it is as if one is not already in a belief system and looking at some options. And then one notes that one ...
Another similar take is what if what they are experiencing is real, but when they try to translate it to everyday reality it gets taken the wrong way....
They cannot, unless one goes off on some extremely skeptical tangent in relation to the make up of mundane earthly reality as we know it, the dice sce...
He may be honest about the fact that he believes that, but it's a ludicrous claim. I can only assume he meant to mean something like, extremely unlike...
You have to suffer, not clean yourself, not work well, mess up relationships to get the heavier diagnoses, in general. You do your work, function in a...
Precisely. Because test reports do not explain how physicist think in general. And in the mainstream astrophysicist position is that there is dark mat...
There is a vast range of values that can be hidden in deteriorate and improve. And more of your values. You keep repeating your values as if they are ...
See, I find all this extremely speculative. But even nere their might be facets that are predictable in the ways that intelligence responses are predi...
But they have interventionist gods, with interventions with physical effects. They also have communicative gods. Both these phenomena, should they be ...
I have a number of objections to this... 1) it depends on the deity, some versions do interacti with or even encompass the physical. Nearly all have e...
And further many people do not value just in terms of pleasure and pain. Most life, as far as I can see, in humans and elsewhere, decides with great p...
I don't see why, but I was not sure what you meant in your first paragraph. I think strong players of just about anything learn how not to let the occ...
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