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Yes. I agree. "Attributed parts of its behavior," the point being that "evil" has no place in that chemical soup. Rather, some of the emergent behavio...

If I am understanding correctly, yes, it is fair to do so. But note, the emergence of free will in humanity. That is, free will too, is a construct, a...

...which illustrates the point: we call it torture, as a result of a chain reaction involving images in memory, once properly input into "all" of us. ...

I think you might not accept my premise, which is that all of the points you raise in your last post apply to the human acting in history, i.e., the p...

I think whatever it is that is inherent, stops being that once we apply "judging." Im saying we don't have a natural tendency to judge period. You mig...

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Ethics are necessary and functional, but not to civilize the evil out; rather, because mind/history has alienated us from our nature

I agree it is not negative. I likely present it as "negative" when it is posed beside the common view that we humans are a violent, aggressive, inhere...

Im saying that because bonding is inherent, we recognize the so called "good" as preferable. So if anything, we are inherently good

Im suggesting both are constructions. Our inherent nature requires/permits no judgement. So saying we are inherently evil or have a nature incapable o...

Yes, and while they serve a positive function, they are made up, and they inevitably give rise to their antitheses, yhe breaking of rules, and evil. S...

Thank you. I will look into this.

While I do not dispute your points, I should clarify. As we inevitably have violence in our conditioning, the violence is not in our natures. Killing ...

Yes. I agree. So completely that the latter has virtually displaced the former, alienating the human animal from our nature

That might be an angle. But not unlocking as if it was already there. Constructed. Im saying the human mind, collectively, "history," by way of constr...

Not to dispute your statements, but to clarify mine. All of what you refer to, I suggest is "made ip" by that process, so called History. By bonding b...

I believe that, yes.

I am not a theist, nor conventionally religious. When it comes to God, ultimately, I defer to my body and, at least, try to transcend thinking. But in...

Thank you. Same!

Yes I recognize that "we", especially philosophy as a discipline, require reason(s) in order to establish a proposition as a truth. For phiolosophy an...

You are correct. I'm not referring to belief in its strictly conventional use, as in one believes in x or that y will occur. It's the same word with t...

Yes I'm taking it, that that's what those who pursue the phenomenological reduction are after--something like the soul. But I'm suggesting that the tr...

Or, belief may be irrational, but it is inevitable, built-in to mind's process of manifesting to the body (real consciousness) and world (nature and t...

Very possible. I acknowledge and apologize for my laziness and shortcomings, plus appreciate the value in presenting the thoughts logically. You're ri...

And was this kind of characterization, "characterization" itself, not a construction? And if not, did it pre-exist human mind/history? Who or what put...

Knowledge and so called truth are constructions. rational and irrational are too. A so called "truth" is a settlement which mind arrives at following ...

I completely agree. That includes your belief that all knowledge/truth settlements start as belief. And, that includes my confidence that your belief ...

I agree with you, that you cannot force "enlightenment." However, I would vary from what seems to be implied in your suggestion that one must be ripe ...

This is likely the case. I am persuaded by both your arguments and SK's. I know you addressed love. But perhaps the "resolution" comes from seeing the...

Throw in some whereas(es) and a few "now be it, therefore(s) and it's perfect. Present it to your students in the fine print and remind them they must...

Yes, I agree. Likely, we can't help but to speculate; the starting point of all constructions. And yet, like you suggest: end of the day, they never s...

Understood. That would require reason to pre-exist and transcend mind, and to either do same re body, or to somehow be built into body. I think reason...

Would you consider Mind being a/the process you just described, and "mind" being an example of that representational, binary/dialectical based, proces...

Here’s a relatively safer introduction to this Hypothesis. What do you believe Mind is? If it’s a spirit, any entity separate from the body and from e...

In varying degrees depending upon levels of sophistication of the biological infrastructure. Branches reach for sunlight, protozoa "find" food. We sta...

Agreed. But the "trigger" Mind/History "provides" for us to go and find out, is the discussion. By analogy, that's why a common idea in Zen, for examp...

Agreed. The practice. Not the preceding, corresponding or after thoughts

Yes, it too is unreal. It is functional, but unreal.

Only our "idea of" is unreal, "we" as in humans organisms/species are real. You already are and you already are consciousness. The minute you "step ou...

Then so be it. To access reality one must be taken out of thinking. When it comes to metaphysics: Philosophy is a useful tool for understanding the sy...

"Real" is the aware-ing organism, aware of its drives, feelings, sensations, image-ing etc. Shared by all living organisms in varying degrees The "unr...

I would hypothesize that it's, rather, because of our attachment to the Narrative we've built, and the "I" which takes center stage; both of which are...

I assume you would hold that rocketships, skyscrapers, leprechauns and unicorns are part of nature? If Mind is part of Nature, it does. But I agree, N...

do the fact finder(s) (judge/jury) see the testimonies? Although also subject to bias and prejudice, an important way to judge credibility is seeing a...

Maybe it’s only because we have Mind which constructs and projects fictions, that we think there's some truth to our complaint that/if it's all just c...

Yes. But not like plants. Like animals. Stimulus and response. There's nothing necessarily "bad." It might even be bliss. Maybe our infatuation with c...

I don't believe so. No disrespect to anyone who does. You might ask, "then how do you even talk about 'God' ?" I don't think Scriptures or any other f...

Right, from our perspective. If what we call loving and merciful is eternally true, God's either not that, or not there. But, who's to say from the pe...

Maybe it's our thoughts which cloud our senses with ideas, making them susceptible to doubt. And as for the contents of our thoughts, they're made up ...

Maybe the "options" are illusion. The determinism in neural processes seem obvious to us since science has constructed that Narrative and it is conven...