They're not on off and it's not just neurons. Google glial cells and intelligence. Glial cells have been discovered to play a role in mind and intelli...
I don't think I suggested they are.Sure, and I am not a determinist. But a parallel unpleasance comes from free will. I am hungry. I remember that I w...
It might not even entail a creator, just some kind of universal desire for life. Like entropy is something you observe in microsystems and perhaps in ...
If you showed physicists evidence that put multiverse theories beyond the pale then advocates in nearly all cases would stop being advocates.Right, th...
Well, we even have diversity in this one. With other less fine tuning the universe would be 6 foot cube of neutrinos, and the cube wouldn't able to be...
The thing about the multiverse is it is one way to eliminate the seeming problem with FT AND to maintain determinism. It could also deal with the oddn...
The real context here is not theist vs. non-theist, but one group of physicists (and not a group of theists) arguing with others. FT came out of non-t...
in philosophy, generally, and for me, I find hunger as part of my mind, my experiencing of myself, part of the feelings and thoughts I have,. Rather t...
The point is not that the universe is perfect for life, but that it is perfect enough for life to evolve even if individual organisms can suffer, whil...
I didn't say anything about fantasies. I wasn't saying anything to denigrate them. When I said 'fancy' I did not mean 'fantasy' but rather complicated...
Those are just fancy desires. I desire to be good to others and not just myself. I desire to achieve such and such a goal because of X. It's just more...
I thought the idea was a tripartite set of watchers watching the watchers, each with the ability to intervene. Not that the President was the single u...
I wouldn't want to act against all desires. More or less by definition.But in the end it isn't bigger than that. I want to take care of me. That's a b...
I'm not sure what the difference is between those two wording with money. I have a belief, either way, in relation to the existence of God. I have no ...
I don't see the mind and the brain as different, just self on a spectrum. This is because I don't think 'physical' means anything other than 'real'. I...
I'm not taking a stand on free will or determinism and in fact I consider myself agnostic on the issue. I do think we can do to minds something that p...
It was used by all members of society. We're social mammals and our success is based on social skills and our large brains, it seems, evolved in part ...
I do think philosophy can help, I think active relationship type experiences are even more important. Cross cultural experience, learning other langua...
I doubt that is what a person would think. I am being a bit fussy, since you might be able to change the wording to make it seem more believable to me...
The psychic driving experiments by that sick doctor in Canada showed one pattern where you shatter the personality and break the person down into an o...
I agree, and the fact that you came up with something like REddy's critique of how language works means that you managed to get around a cultural bias...
Oh, sure you did. Since I disagreed I MUST be ignoring the problem. So, if I don't agree with your approach, this entails that I cannot see the proble...
Yes, I think everyone would break. And in his example, the POWs the Japanese had, they generally just tortured them. They suffered, some broke, some d...
I don't think it's simple, at all. But none of what you write changes the fact that ideas have been pouring into you for years from others. That you m...
There's nothing I have said that remotely implies or acts as evidence I didn't know this.And, in fact I did know the Japanse treated, for example, POW...
Nope, I don't ignore that. So, what you are saying is 'my idea that we hate ourselves is the only approach that can work.' I don't think that approach...
He died in a very short time. He did not have his personality mind and body ravaged over a long period of time. I could not possibly sit still like he...
Lots of things can be resolved, perhaps the big questions cannot. But all this is a long way from 'insanity'. Further I think some of the big question...
Well, if you had actually read the full post that you quoted from I was talking about cameras and what you quoted referred to cameras in my dialogue w...
Yes. I think so. Hard to demonstrate. I think combinations of sleep deprivation, pain, isolation from any social contact, sensory overload and depriva...
Wow, that's harsh. Been through torture yourself? Minds can be broken. You don't decide to break, though there are likely gray areas and some who deci...
Setting aside the issue of telepathy for now, you use language right, when you think. That language has, for example, dead metaphors THROUGHOUT which ...
useful to? well to that person and potentially others, depending on that individuals goals. But what I meant was that individuals are both separate fr...
It's a very social field and one is immersed in the other philosophers, as one must be. And there are very strong currents in philosophy. You can't ju...
I agreeI have no idea what an AI would be like as a philosopher. Symbolic logic can be programmed but applying that to reality - iow semantics, and un...
IN terms of changing their beliefs, success would be where they are so broken they want to please you and will take in your ideas much as a child will...
I guess that my gut reaction is that self-hate will nto improve things and I see self-hate as causal in the way we damage the environment. Our disench...
People have used undoctered photos to show ghosts, auras, bigfoot, ufos and more. One can say that these are not good evidence or one can say that som...
I think they can, but generally if they do it, then they wanted to, to some degree, and went looking for experiences and arguments that undermined the...
I think it is rare that someone can decide to have as a goal to change someone's mind and then do it - regarding deep set beliefs. Unless one can tort...
I agree with this. It is misused and misunderstood. However...the idea is not to look for simple explanations. It is that if one is given a choice bet...
There are a few different spiritual disciplines that count on cameras to record miraculous things without using any tricks. It's a myth that a camera ...
What do you mean by 'hate of self' here. Are you actually suggesting we learn to hate ourselves? Isn't our denial of our connection to nature already ...
You would be fooled less, in the context of a philosophical discussion. Being fooled less - by your own poor arguments, by the poor arguments of other...
Well, I agree that it shouldn't be called the Chinese virus. Here's a WHO statement put out in 2015 with their justification for avoiding such things....
Do mean you the guy I was responding to should have written 'stupidity' instead of 'insanity'? For whatever it's worth, I've seen both versions a few ...
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