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Skalidris

['Member']Joined: May 05, 2022 at 17:17Last active: February 04, 2026 at 17:3420 discussions127 comments

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I’m a philosophy heretic: I love exploring philosophical topics using a totally different method than academic philosophy.

My passion is to rationalize intuitive concepts and create a bottom up approach from concepts that were built less intuitively, like scientific concepts.
Most philosophy uses a top down approach, and aims at explaining the top rather than changing it so that it fits a bottom up approach like hard sciences do. It goes without saying that I’m not an academic philosopher and don’t wish to follow its method. I find it quite frustrating that people consider this as an offense to philosophy: I don’t claim that my method is better, I simply like it a lot better, and am able to construct a stable environment in it, which I am not able to do with the conventional method.

Discussions (20)

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In: Must Do Better  — view comment
This is quite the irony. I criticise the rigour and adherence to rigid principles that prevent the exploration of other possibilities, and you suggest...
June 25, 2025 at 15:56
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
It’s fine, I just think you misunderstand and think I used this to prove my point, which I did not. If we let this method run for another 5000 thousan...
June 25, 2025 at 14:14
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
Absolutely, it all depends on the perspective. If someone changes a detail in your bedroom, you'll likely notice it because you know all about your be...
June 24, 2025 at 14:51
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
No, not like Kripke. From my understanding, the method he used was textbook analytic philosophy, even though his results were unconventional. Picasso'...
June 24, 2025 at 11:07
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
Imagine someone like Picasso but in philosophy. They start deconstructing what philosophers deeply value and build something totally different that's ...
June 24, 2025 at 10:42
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
You could do the same analogy with art, and it would be a totally different picture. In art, it can be a good thing to avoid art school and just play ...
June 24, 2025 at 00:18
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
Yes I misunderstood what you meant. I still don't understand how you think I've excluded science. Even when science was part of philosophy, it was sti...
June 23, 2025 at 21:58
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
I'm pretty sure you could argue that anything is grounded in philosophical worldviews but that's besides the point. Art and philosophy don't depend on...
June 23, 2025 at 21:17
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
I disagree, the ways to do art for example have completely exploded in the last century, basically anything is "allowed", and you can share anything y...
June 23, 2025 at 19:02
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
My point wasn’t to make a graph about how creativity changed over time in philosophy. I didn’t even mention a specific period of time in the past, I w...
June 23, 2025 at 18:52
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
It’s a bit like saying evolutionary adaptations are the result of billions of years of trial and errors therefore living beings don’t need to evolve a...
June 23, 2025 at 16:51
In: The decline of creativity in philosophy  — view comment
You can see similarities everywhere if you dig deep enough, just like you can see new elements even in theories or objects that look the same. I'm ref...
June 23, 2025 at 15:27
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
You did, you used multiple in the definition. If you only want to used attractor, when you define attractor, you'll still have two use a word similar ...
November 25, 2024 at 23:28
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
So you're saying that the way you defined "and" isn't A = A? You defined it as: "the "and" operator is an attractor that puts multiple members into on...
November 24, 2024 at 18:36
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
Define several. I don't understand what you mean. Do you agree that it's circular? If it's circular, if it sends back to itself directly, then you can...
November 17, 2024 at 21:37
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
Okay, now define "multiple" :razz: . Have you ever tried following the definitions in a dictionary, looking up each word used in a definition, only to...
November 16, 2024 at 19:53
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
I think there's been a misunderstanding: I don't believe consciousness is an illusion, and I don't believe it is immaterial, I believe we cannot know ...
October 25, 2024 at 18:23
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
No, consciousness is obviously a flying unicorn, or maybe a rock, or a planet. Consciousness can indeed associate itself with all kinds of objects, bu...
October 25, 2024 at 10:18
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
You have so much to say but yet you don't have anything else to add to my remark? You wanted a more formal proof of this logic impossibility, are you ...
October 18, 2024 at 21:48
In: Gödels Incompleteness Theorem's contra Wittgenstein  — view comment
It’s easy to dismiss the implications of formal systems by saying they don’t apply to language because it’s informal. Following that logic, one could ...
October 15, 2024 at 14:20
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
Of course, the analogy isn’t perfect, and here, it requires some elements to simply be “out of reach” for a human while it seems that other humans can...
October 13, 2024 at 17:08
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
This would require a little more than improvements in transportation or communication… This would require that our mind is restructured in a way that ...
October 12, 2024 at 20:58
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
It's not so much about whether things "actually" are physical or not but about our representation of what's physical. And since that representation re...
October 12, 2024 at 12:03
In: Logical proof that the hard problem of consciousness is impossible to “solve”  — view comment
Well, I'm also talking about the " first person experience", and people who explore the hard problem of consciousness are also talking about this, are...
October 12, 2024 at 10:33
In: Limitations of the human mind  — view comment
What trajectory? The one where we’ll keep on understanding the universe better and better? Sure, I agree, our knowledge will most likely keep on exten...
October 06, 2024 at 09:57
In: Limitations of the human mind  — view comment
That's how science works now, because we can't perfectly isolate the phenomena we're studying, and even if we were, there would still be uncertainties...
July 29, 2024 at 08:38
In: "This sentence is false" - impossible premise  — view comment
Yes that is probably the case. Yes, my reaction exactly. The most intriguing thing about this paradox is that a lot of people don't mind reasoning wit...
February 04, 2024 at 22:48
In: Deconstructing our intuitions of consciousness  — view comment
I don't see how the unique part makes sense. If we were to clone two human beings, they wouldn't feel like two different persons anymore because their...
January 15, 2024 at 13:45
In: Deconstructing our intuitions of consciousness  — view comment
First of all, thank you for reading and actually replying to my thread, unlike most of the replies here. Replying to your comment, the "ball of energy...
January 13, 2024 at 18:09
In: Deconstructing our intuitions of consciousness  — view comment
I understand that my thread is quite long, but I did not expect that level of misunderstanding. That is not my opinion, all I said is that knowledge d...
January 01, 2024 at 23:39
In: About Weltschmerz: "I know too much for my own good"  — view comment
Several of your quick answers to my questions from the OP imply that a "perfect" knowledge is possible, and desirable. And that anything that doesn't ...
November 17, 2023 at 19:05
In: Why is alcohol so deeply rooted in our society?  — view comment
No, I asked what the benefits could be: Of course some of it is related to genetics, so? Almost everything about us is driven by both genetics and the...
November 13, 2023 at 13:03
In: About Weltschmerz: "I know too much for my own good"  — view comment
If these fields were trying to replace the intuitive concepts that are misleading about human nature, we wouldn't spend hours on this forum pointing o...
November 13, 2023 at 12:37
In: Why is alcohol so deeply rooted in our society?  — view comment
What is your point exactly? That society and education are mostly helpless about alcohol consumption and that it's mostly genetic and there isn't much...
November 13, 2023 at 12:10
In: About Weltschmerz: "I know too much for my own good"  — view comment
Just because some humans do some things doesn't mean everyone should do it, that has nothing to do with being closer to human nature. When I mentioned...
November 12, 2023 at 19:47
In: Why is alcohol so deeply rooted in our society?  — view comment
Some people with mental disorders can be considered as "weak willed", and some studies showed that some mental disorders have a higher risk of substan...
November 12, 2023 at 18:51
In: Why is alcohol so deeply rooted in our society?  — view comment
I seriously doubt that someone can be resistant to all kinds of drugs. It's not just about alcohol but about any mind altering drug. Some people just ...
November 12, 2023 at 02:06
In: Whence the idea that morality can be conceived of without reference to religion?  — view comment
I had a similar thoughts about morals being tied to religion/spirituality. I made these concept to explain their relation: Dogmatic intuition: The ext...
November 09, 2023 at 17:11
In: Proposed new "law" of evolution  — view comment
Well, it's not a tautology according to them since the new element is that they call certain phenomena "selection" because it would be similar to the ...
November 09, 2023 at 15:12
In: Proposed new "law" of evolution  — view comment
Yes absolutely! To me, what they call "selection" has nothing to do with evolutionary selection, they created similar words to state the obvious, unle...
November 09, 2023 at 14:50
In: Proposed new "law" of evolution  — view comment
A missing law to be added to Darwin's theory? Darwin's theory was made in 1859 and is outdated... Darwin didn't even know about genes, we've unraveled...
November 09, 2023 at 14:04
In: Why is alcohol so deeply rooted in our society?  — view comment
The difference is, it's easy to see an advantage for all of these activities: it "makes sense" that we get pleasure from sex, or else we wouldn't repr...
October 27, 2023 at 12:34
In: To what extent can academic philosophy evolve, and at what pace?  — view comment
Why would it be a catastrophe?
October 07, 2023 at 22:14
In: Ken Liu short stories: do people need simplistic characters?  — view comment
To me, a story, or a character is "logic" if it is a logic continuum of the premises, whether they are realistic or not. If in the story, there are a ...
October 01, 2023 at 19:48
In: Ken Liu short stories: do people need simplistic characters?  — view comment
But can a story with surrealistic characters be thought provoking? To me it’s like saying you had a revelation about a philosophical topic by reading ...
September 30, 2023 at 14:09
In: To what extent can academic philosophy evolve, and at what pace?  — view comment
You mean he would need to learn the philosophical terminology? Or the terminology of the closest discipline (here sciences)? If so, I agree, if he use...
September 29, 2023 at 11:04
In: The Rules of Intelligibly Named Terms  — view comment
Maybe I didn't understand your point but why should "INTs" be treated any differently than "IRTs"? In the end it's just easier for most people to gues...
September 28, 2023 at 22:19
In: Apolitical without personal values  — view comment
We can't analyze a political opinion and be certain it is better or worse than another, politics is very subjective. And most people derive their poli...
September 22, 2023 at 16:42
In: "Are humans selfish?" I can't make sense of this question  — view comment
Aside from judging, we categorize everything. Without that, there wouldn’t be any knowledge. I find it useful in my everyday life to be able to tell t...
August 28, 2023 at 18:40
In: "Are humans selfish?" I can't make sense of this question  — view comment
Maybe that's it, what's missing in the definition is that "holy" aspect of morality, of what's good and bad. If there is some kind of higher judgement...
August 28, 2023 at 16:41
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