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Xav

['Member']Joined: January 28, 2018 at 21:24Last active: February 17, 2019 at 08:194 discussions32 comments
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Xavier Enright
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Alan Watts

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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

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Who are we?

January 06, 2019 at 01:50 0 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

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Sounds like an interesting read, we also have no idea what further or less intelligence does to your perception and experience of emotion. What is an ...
January 20, 2019 at 06:43
I don't think we can be as certain about the mental capacity of severely mentally disabled humans, which is why euthanasia is such a controversial top...
January 16, 2019 at 01:18
Fair points, I suppose the only way I can justify my meat consumption is that if an intelligence form with as much on me as I have on the chicken come...
January 15, 2019 at 04:22
a) Chickens do a lot to avoid death when confronted by a recognizable danger but I could easily stroll up to a domesticated chicken with a gun or perh...
January 14, 2019 at 06:28
Emphasis on the unattainable. Most people become very agitated in the search of peace. Thinking it can be found via routes such as ending suffering or...
January 13, 2019 at 06:34
What would you say if I let the chicken do as it pleased it whole life and then, without any sort of anticipation or a single other chicken around, in...
January 13, 2019 at 05:45
I'm not sure I would relate morality to docile nature. For starters morals are incredibly diverse among individuals and cultures. If it is empathy you...
January 13, 2019 at 04:31
Human's psychological traits do not reflect those of an apex predator and nor did we develop them in such a role. Sapiens (and a few other big brained...
January 13, 2019 at 04:19
To clarify yes, I think different expressions of the universe's perspective is a nice way of putting it.
January 10, 2019 at 22:56
It may be the most complex structure on earth but is it as complex as the galaxy we live in? Is it as complex as the workings of a sub atomic particle...
January 10, 2019 at 22:55
Yes, I don't mean a conventional reincarnation more that we will, have and currently may be experiencing other perspectives. Concepts like memory and ...
January 10, 2019 at 22:51
I see no reason to believe only the human mind should be capable of generating experience, it is no different or more complex to many systems in the u...
January 07, 2019 at 22:05
A scary thought we might simply be the construction of others perceptions and knowledge of us or our actions, but what of secrets and deep unshared th...
January 07, 2019 at 22:02
I think it is incredibly arrogant to say everything is purely physical as 'I think therefore I am.' My problem with a lot of spiritual ideas is that t...
January 06, 2019 at 21:33
I carefully replaced every use of the word conscious with experience in my article before posting it to avoid this exact debate. Free-will is a concep...
January 06, 2019 at 20:57
exactly, that's why the notion we could all be the very same experience thrills me, maybe one day (excuse the implication we haven't already been) I o...
January 06, 2019 at 08:09
ye i checked on another computer, thanks for the help though
January 06, 2019 at 07:42
I posted a question in the Metaphysics section about 4 hours ago (thought Phil. of Mind may have been a better category, in hindsight)
January 06, 2019 at 07:23
oh it goes grey once you've viewed something
January 06, 2019 at 06:56
any solution or idea as to what the issue is?
January 06, 2019 at 06:54
i don't think my post is going through onto the forum? the text is a light grey and there isn't any conversation on it thought it's been up for 3 hour...
January 06, 2019 at 06:34
In the grand scheme of the universe I don't see a great purpose or relevance to human life I completely agree. But in order to make decisions and func...
January 31, 2018 at 22:37
Thanks for the feedback, I will be at university next year and am considering a philosophy minor perhaps.
January 31, 2018 at 22:34
possibly my entire surrounding is generated by my mind I suppose there would be no knowing but I don't believe that to be the case. If it were then I ...
January 29, 2018 at 18:27
Thanks very much for the link that's very informative :) But I don't believe the being should transcend the concept because by all means where the phy...
January 29, 2018 at 18:18
I don't think it was created by a god. I don't know how the universe came to be but I think when approaching the matter it's worth considering that ma...
January 29, 2018 at 18:07
Perhaps in a similar way that the context of the human brain is me, evolution was a designing god. It would be contradictory to my initial thoughts to...
January 29, 2018 at 08:34
fundamental in what way the transformation of energy, the conservation of information and mathematics entirely rely fundamentally on the absence of cr...
January 29, 2018 at 05:36
I agree I think logic is a helpful tool for decision making and discovery but it cannot govern the universe as it is useless without some degree of as...
January 29, 2018 at 02:58
I essentially believe that though outside of my own perspective and from a truly rational view of the universe my personal desires have no real value ...
January 29, 2018 at 02:42
I think the idea of creation is an inherently flawed concept. It just coming back to what created what created what. I can only logically conclude tha...
January 29, 2018 at 01:36
what we think does not dictate the physical universe. If anything the physical universe strongly dictates what we are capable of thinking.
January 28, 2018 at 22:38