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That's a sweet idea.

It's odd that the word physical is in the definition, since in physics there are no other phenomena. I have seen it mentioned like this in a variety o...

Though like a dead metaphor, it's still a metaphor. (not that that contradicts anything you wrote) Enjoyed the Hail Mary pass response....

Overreactions are infectious, and that holds true for the various political groups. And is especially true nowadays. For good and for ill. I am quite ...

Britain will survive either way. That many on both sides couch it and so binary and end of Britain if the wrong choice is made isn't helping anybody.

I have a very selfish reaction to people on one level. How much can I be myself around them and what happens if I am? And then also how would I be vie...

Yes, and for my whole adult life and part of my non-adult life, much of it working class work, and yes, i know lots of people who are not college educ...

And even then, if they did all that, it'd still just be manipulative riding on the achievements of others to use that symbol. It's a sneaker made for ...

The really rather disgusting thing is that however you see Betsy Ross' flag what the hell is it doing on a sneaker. Frankly I think those who see the ...

Which is ironic in the context of Nike since branding, which is all about such persuasion in its branding and branding of symbols and then branding wi...

I have a hard time understanding that quote. I am not sure what he is saying. I don't think postmodernism is touchy feely, quite the opposite. More de...

I started what you quoted with 'one aspect' I later gave a couple of examples of how postmodernism, in more charged areas does not necessarily go agai...

ONe aspect of postmodernism was the idea that there isn't high and low art, just art, which opened the door to all sorts of things not really consider...

Certain types of thinking may lead to improvement, that improvement evauluate in different ways by people of different values. But everybody thinks. P...

Perhaps so, but it still doesn't make it analogous to the situation with the coin. Further shouldn't we patriots dislike someone putting the flag on a...

I think using his reasonsing we should conclude that it's not a great idea to use fascist symbols on our coins, that's the parallel conclusion. I woul...

I don't think we can ever use reasoning without also using intuition. In those cases where we have we can certainly use inducution and deduction and c...

what do you mean by consciousness here? I don't think being aware, having subjective experiences, is dependent on language. I think even not particula...

I agree. I once did an independent study in the phenomology of metaphors. A fancy ass way of saying that I read lines of poetry with metaphors and try...

This doesn't contradict what I am saying. It is exactly what I am saying. I am not saying Krishna is wrong about this. I agree with this part. My poin...

I didn't mean that you had to reveal their name or even details so it is clear who it is, but something about what facet of philosophy it was and how ...

By choices even including those of both sides. IOW you have to go to war with people in certain situations, even if and in fact because of the fact th...

Anger does have a function. It is present in most adults in every culture ever encountered. There is no evidence it is a juvenile phase only. This app...

People who on certain occasions get angry are stuck in an emotional state of development? How do you know this? No, it's not. The definitions are quit...

An early memory: another kid jumped on my back and pushed me down in mud. I got angry and rolled him off me, then I yelled at him for a moment, then w...

I guess the idea that a portion of our natural responses could be unhealthy, hence the analogy with noses and skin. A particular pattern of anger coul...

I think so. One can be confused and think one has been wronged when this is not the case. One can focus on anger because one thinks that gives one pow...

Thanks for the honest answer. I enjoy philosophical discussions and I am pretty damn sure philosophy has helped me questions some assumptions that wer...

I don't think are fear based. There are other emotions and there are also desires. I do think emotions underly the bulk of our choices. And no, I thin...

Those are beliefs and i was talking about emotions and emotional reactions. So these are completely different categories. If I tell you am afraid of n...

I think that is true in a lot of cases, maybe most. Politeness, wanting to seem nice, guilt stopping the expression of certain emotions, not wanting t...

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that it's fear. Having a morality is a set of rules. It is not clear to me that that means people become go...

There's a lot of warfare, but the major powers are not directly warring. I think the consquences are so devastating that even fairly loony people are ...

People don't like violence, at least, in general. And I think there are common morals around that. Violence only if.... Of course that varies, but the...

they are also types of ethical theory, they don't get into specifics. Deontologists have a long history of going to war with each other and alt.right ...

I think the biggest threat is still between neo-cons and regions that are not under that roof. There are certainly a lot more incidents and wars creat...

I only know anything at all because I'm an experiencer.

I don't disagree with 'experience' being different, however, I am not sure that the argument implicit in this question works. What would you point at ...

And materialism no longer means anything. Waht is considered material is a set of 'things' that now includes fields, massless particles, particles in ...

As I said in my previous post, I was mainly trying to tease out what was really going on in the OP and suggesting that answering that quesiton was a b...

My question was more rhetorical. IOW I found the OP strange and was trying to both tease out what was really going on, what was behind it, and also su...

So, what are examples of this? How does it happen? Is there a concrete change that you attribute to philosophy? Could a similar change have happen wit...

I think I understand the distinction and think it is a useful one, however I don't really like the word 'fact' for that one. I would prefer even an ev...

Organisms need to respond to the environment and have ways to learn, and we are used to being conscious while doing this. But is it necessary, or coul...

If you want to say philosophy is useful, it might be implied by the fact that smart people do it, but it is more clearer shown, it seems to me, by sho...

It seems like there are two main ideas above: 1) Philosophy is primarily for really smart people (there's even what I think is a Freudian slip in the ...

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So far this is sounding deeply related to Reddy's Conduit Metaphor essay and its criticism of folk theories of language use.

Though it would be fair to say, in those scenarios, that what you are calling 'our univerise' is a portion of The Universe, the whole shebang, rerasin...

Right. I agree with that. But the point I am also making is that an ethical egoism who is not altruistic is also not egotistical. He or she is not tak...