Just because history has brought you, me and Russell to a 'place' where we are alienated from nature, doesn't mean we are, by nature so alienated. We ...
It is fun, I'll admit; trying out arguments like moving chess pieces across the board. Especially when you're skilled, or have the necessary focus, wh...
As for suffering, vulgar time and mouthfuls proffered: suffering is an illusion because it is pain made to linger by mouthfuls proffered through vulga...
Ok, I liked that (unsarcastically) but.. among other things which I've yet to consider, or process, my admittedly shallow review of the Lorenz you pre...
I most assuredly don't. But am intrigued by your so noting. Please explain if you are so inclined. I won't be back to read it for several hours, feel ...
The concept "quantum vacuum." That's the fearure you won't find in the Tao. Sorry, you could probably run circles around me regarding quantum vacuum. ...
Yah, everything conditioning those of us born into human history is not the Tao. To borrow from Zen, the Tao is your original face, the face you had b...
The "mark" is the "problem." The mark is not a place, or a fact, or a destination. You're already the mark. If the mark is the hand pointing, of cours...
No strong reasoning. Not dogma, hyperbole. Sorry. Did not intend to pass it off as either reasoning or law. If I feel inclined, I might provide more o...
My intuition tells me that could be the tacky superficial replica of a human. Its words, ie thinking would certainly make our words/thinking fall prey...
My objection would be nearly the opposite. AI might think like we do. Other animals might not. But animals are sentient. AI are not. Because AI doesn'...
Exactly. Whether there is a God(s) or not isnt relevant to my view which follows. In my view the Eden myth referred to in the opening, was designed to...
Am I oversimplifying your conundrum? Is it not because the human processes of reflection and perception are structured and conditioned by language, an...
Thank you. My thinking is that my dog did that too. And likely other advanced animals. Likely, if it weren’t for thinking, any spare time we had prehi...
Without the extensive explanation required, and which you are entitled to. Yes, precisely. But I think Mind is structured by/emerged with (or out of) ...
Sorry, but this is an essential final point. For all we know, every time a sophisticated animal, or prehistoric human animal looked at nature the way ...
Yes, exactly. I would dare to go as far as your parenthetical 'not at all'. Your experience was one thing: real, natural, felt organically by the real...
I agree with you. They exist. But they are ultimately make-believe. Functional tools we have constructed, projected into the natural world as such, an...
I used 'so-called' because, given I am not a brain scientist (etc) I wish to reserve the possibility that I am mistaken/open to tweaking needed for pr...
I believe your sense don't deceive you. When you hear a loud crash behind you and you jump, your senses were functioning in truth, and effectively. It...
I would suggest that at the instant that your eyes saw, your body had a/some real feeling(s)--perhaps an organic bonding with Nature (or, your place w...
Granted, certain animals may sense differently than humans. But the 'subjective' you are alluding to and discuss in your very interesting paper (offsi...
The idea and application in our lives of "purpose" is made-up. If it serves one well, so be it. Often, however, it is distracting, misleading, even bl...
I can imagine. So would actually turning the other cheek. And, anyway, what really is ethics? Yet if decisions were made in the direction of these ide...
I think of the Middle Way, even in its ethical application, as not so much a behavioural/choices path of moderation, as a 'place' or 'state' or 'persp...
Yes, but my own thoughts may not align fully with either yours or Lett's (based on my extremely limited exposure here). While not wishing to put any o...
Suicide is necessarily a settlement of the Mind, imposed upon the Body. If you think, as I do, that the Mind constructs and projects Fictions, to supp...
Your good points aside, in case my thought needs clarifying. I'm suggesting that only a living organism has (among other things which might apply) fee...
Subject to the caveat that I am weighing in on the strength of structures I have stored in my memory up to this moment, and without delving deeper, 1....
When we back up and stop 'playing', that's probably the healthier of starting points if we're willing to think in terms of assessing not just the prin...
Fair enough. Then if the essence of Christianity is strict adherence to its rules, I suppose any claim to membership requires acceptance of the ressur...
Philosophy is fit for purpose. But if ever it claims to provide direct access to ultimate or eternal truths, it has engaged in a dysfunctional misrepr...
What I find perplexing is that we all know this: scriptures are riddled with contradictions; and yet we toil, even the least fanatical and fundamental...
Are you still playing christianity if there is no ressurection? If not, but you are still playing, why does the modification matter? Because you have ...
You are correct and I was hasty. I believe that notwithstanding most philosophers rejecting the issues I raised, they are still dragged by them. But I...
We are animals. It is unpopular because the minute we accept that we are animals, dualism, ego/spirit, anamnesis, eternal truths, heaven, hell, and im...
Ok. Yah. Splice that sentence from our entire exchange, and you and I agree generally on what Mind is and how it's different from Body, though it emer...
I agree it appears that way. That’s because Mind requires Body as its infrastructure and response; there is a seeming grey area with an apparent overl...
Mind craves an afterlife because the mechanism of the subject creates the illusion of continuing. I think, harsh as it is a pill to swallow, the so ca...
Knows=mind constructing, and settling on what fits by triggering body to feel 'good' Observes=the aware-ing body observes, attaching no words to the o...
Very simplified: Obviously speaking hypothetically from what I have gathered and without any authority nor claim thereto, that is exactly the point I ...
I consider myself religious; however, I suspect that unlike science which requires empirical or mathematical proof to support fact claims, religion ha...
As a metaphorical recap of tge Hypothesis, think of cats and dogs, how we imagine them with personalities, dogs are loving and loyal, cats are aloof a...
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