You are absolutely right. Admittedly, I'm still at the stage of working out hypotheses. A problem, I suspect, is that we have become so sophisticated ...
Interesting. An admirable open pov, but if I needed that hurdle resolved to proceed, I'd say matter is matter, mind is Mind, and never the twain shall...
That is exactly my point; there is no real "you" and "your" body is not "yours". The question dualists need to consider is why a human body wouldn't b...
You're definitely challenging my, beyond complacent, settlements, which is good. But OK, please let me know what you think of this baby step. Even if ...
This I agree with. It's just that I go further than what is implied. I think Body is the only condition for being conscious. Mind are the projections ...
Because there is no language accessible to precisely express the point, these metaphors might be helpful, although also tricky. In my metaphor Mind do...
To answer that question, because the others require more focused attention, I'm trying to get at the fallacy we have trapped ourselves in because mind...
I'd say, it is because of the structure of our "thinking" that we even "desire" eternity/immortality. Of course our bodies are "temporal" in their liv...
The first, I agree without reason to disagree; the second, I agree, with the qualifier that I go a step further and doubt that Mind ever lived in the ...
In my opinion, not just illusions (that's ultimately what I would call the spin which human mind superimposes onto reality) but 'soul/spirit' are misu...
That is excellent. Granted that the mental (for humans) 'uses' matter/energy (whatever it's called, currently) to 'generate'. But, simply put, that wh...
Isn't that inescapably the case? Some adopted by convention for various reasons, including, as you say, proof; some fringe applications of the termino...
Perhaps it is our own definitions creating obstacles to further "discovery." Take non linguistic thought. I might argue that even the seemingly nonlin...
I don't think souls/spirit are real distinct beings. We apply those terms to the nonphysical, 'mental' processes which ultimately cause/include the il...
Ok. And applying the rules of this game (not meant to be disparaging, Im a participant), your points are likely, in the end (I still haven't considere...
I would only consider the third to be mind (a thing unique to humans). The first two, shared with animals, forms organic consciousness and provides th...
Yes. That's in line with 'my' point. . We cannot know what body is We can only be the body is-ing. But I still need to give due consideration to your ...
I really like your points, and they deserve deeper consideration. But, I think your (?) earlier question applies: where does body stop and mind begin?...
In fairness, it is more complicated than can be explained by someone with my skill level with language. This is necessarily over simplified and one-di...
On the (admittedly weak; but ultimately, all we've got) prima facie presumption (which has been mistakenly rejected) that what we sense is a real worl...
Not if this "mind" you assume to be distinct, is distinct, and does exist, but not in the real world. Rather, it exists as fleeting images which have ...
From my pespective: 1. They are the same, there is no real duality. We have used soul and spirit to identify that which we have misperceived to be a b...
Yes, the very subject of my analogy. We cannot know the external universe through our minds. We can only be the so called external universe as our bod...
Yes, I understand; but you are DaVinci having convinced me regarding the face of Mona Lisa. Still, I cannot access the real her by your art; you can p...
I bet that everything you said, I can easily agree with, but constructed, or constructed then deconstructed then reconstructed, you and I are not gett...
Have you considered that all of understanding is actually constructing, and that there is no end to make-beleve? I'm not denying the functional succes...
I respectfully submit that without organic feelings or some other unimaginable authentic reward system, it will not evolve its own interests, but will...
I agree that doing so is the only way for the 'end product' to stand any chance of being anything but an extension of human Mind. Unless 'we' / 'it' e...
I would say the word is being doubly applied, albeit the differences are arguably subtle. Legal innocence, even irrespective of poetic arguments to tg...
It's complex, but I'll be as simple as I can. I agree, except that, if the soul part--call it, also, the 'mental'--is not real, but only perceived (fo...
Maybe because of our approach. All of these items you listed are mechanisms in an autonomously moving deterministic process which is transmitted by so...
Apologies, I may be looking at a different page altogether. My final input. But if there is no reason, free decision, ok, lets say I agree on the face...
Another way to express what I'm angling toward, is that "reason" is defined to restrictively above (or, I assume). A decision is always based on a pre...
My questions are posed as exploratory, not argumentative. In case they seem otherwise. I'm not convinced there is a real self nor soul, if by those, w...
Agreed. We don't choose doubt, nor do we choose belief. We are cornered by the factors at play into settlement with respect to each. Deterministic, in...
Reminds me of one of my favorites: I love thee Wilma With hair like silk, Lips like cherries, Skin like milk, Your shell like ears, Your dainty hands,...
Can't doubt be a mechanism developed into, and operating within, a deterministic system; the "sense" that there is an agent doubting being, not a chal...
I agree. All we do with our so called scientific knowledge is fit bits and pieces of the universe into a format of "our" (actually, its) own construct...
Are they not just an extension of mind, and therefore, within its limitations? If the AI communicates in anything other than a human language, then I ...
Not to be a stickler, but shivering in the cold: if there is a God, It might stand responsible for that, and for the cold. But if I imagined the cold ...
I think it's like a preschooler asking if her parents also hate the monster in her closet tormententing her. For some it goes further; asking why her ...
If that's the result in logic, I accept. Now how to answer the residual unresolved question? How then is God to be conceived of, absolutely? I.e., whe...
No offense but how can "theism be true? As in ultimately/absolutely, independently of humans. We made it up. I like your definition, I agree with the ...
No. I don't think it's possible to affirm anything outside of the minds affirming. Does that mean there is no other access to "X"? In other words is "...
If included in the definition of God is a thing transcending the mundane; and if proof is a thing of the mundane, then you're not going to reach any c...
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