It is a means of divination, or as a mirror to the self. I also studied those books years ago and pay little attention to it now. However as I am focu...
Sorry, it's my clumsy choice of words. Really I meant the perception of fulfilment in their eyes. A typical delusion experienced by addicts. Anyway my...
You need to look at your whole horoscope, to get a more accurate reflection. Do you know what sign the moon was in(your rising sign), that will have a...
So the beer, and the drugs, are an alternative path of fulfilment, to the path of personal growth? I am reminded of the problems with alcohol addictio...
Ok, so when most jobs are performed by robotics and software, what will people do, would they then be obsolete, or would they have to be creative and ...
I agree, we in the west find comfort in and blindeness to our privelidge. Although as I said in our last interaction, we are going to have to get used...
Ego,... the leading ego of the free world, the highest level indeed. I noticed that when the news story was aired on TV last night, that phrase was ed...
Mysticism can overcome both of these barriers through the study of orientation. By example, imagine looking through a kaleidoscope, all the philosophi...
Simply, the human being is a mechanism in which there is an interaction between mind and matter. One can influence the other, so naturally physical na...
No, the robots pay the taxes. The people just do the consumerism. You're to old fashioned. The workforce is becoming increasingly automated, putting p...
Very Machiavellian of you. I know there are gaping holes in the theory when one looks to apply it to the world as it is now. But it is an idea I hear ...
Surely we're moving into a period where everyone gets paid an amount by the state, equivalent to a wage and robots do all the work? It doesn't matter ...
Causality is sometimes simple and sometimes convoluted. However when it's convoluted, when it's happening it may as well be simple. My comments are mo...
Yes, Al kaida bit back on 9:11, leading to a knee jerk reaction in invading Iraq. Then countries in the Middle East and Asia start falling like domino...
Yes, that was the fight against the Commies, I know about that and how it led to Al kaida etc etc. But what is going on now? Why did the U.S go into I...
Yes that might be accurate mathematically but on the ground, it's more of a group activity. For example a politician might say something at the last m...
I am an ex Tory who turned Green. I was a Thatcherite in the 80's, but think that the whole ideology of the conservatives is now out dated and is star...
Yes there probably is something in what you say. Although I think that UKIP is an exception to the rule. The issue of Europe has resulted in a grounds...
The trouble is a lot of us in the UK are in safe seats, so our votes are irrelevant to the result. My whole life I've been in safe Conservative seats,...
Perhaps you can with materialism, but not with mysticism. This is because mysticism is, or is as far as I am concerned, not necessarily concerned with...
Quite, the way I put it is, say you take all the knowledge of humanity, all the understanding about who, how and where we are and when it is all compl...
Yes I know it is difficult to imagine, personally I would pull away from the focus on some kind of radical indeterminism as is implied by the great in...
I don't think we can split these(I'm treating "materially" in its broadest terms). This is because as I see it the reality is likely to be more subtle...
Yes, but that is only the material conditions we experience, which might be like navel gazing in reference to the bigger picture. Perhaps this whole u...
Then we (Kim jong-un, or Trump) should press the red button then, and get back on track. Apart from the apparent Nihilism in this perspective, it begs...
I listened to an interesting programme yesterday about blind sight (The Digital Human, BBC Radio 4). In which they interviewed people who sleepwalk an...
I'm with you. "Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And...
This is a rendition of the Matterhorn I painted about 15 years ago. I was reframing it so took the opportunity to photograph it. https://s9.postimg.or...
Are you talking about bodies, or beings? Bodies enact qualia, but don't have them. Beings experience qualia, but cannot experience anything absent a b...
I agree, when one visualises a triangle, there is a specific dimensional image in the minds eye and there can't be am image, a visual image, that is n...
I would think that true photographic memory is possible. Not in the sense that there is a person who is recording accurate photographic knowledge many...
. They wouldn't be conscious though(I'm not saying this is any less worrying). You give a nice summary of thought processes, I would agree and indeed ...
Could you recommend a better place to spend time, I'd really like to know. It took me a long time to find my way here, so I'm not leaving now I've arr...
Quite, this issue is one which flies in the face of medical science day in day out. I am not familiar with the theories given to explain it. Personall...
Yes, I wouldn't limit it to behaviour though, its more physiological, I think. A person follows a behaviour pattern determined by their personality, w...
Yes it might be a bit dry. I don't think any of the arguments against the p-zombie argument hold any water. Because an independent zombie universe mig...
Yes placebo is problematic for materialists and physicalists. However I don't see how it can be conclusive in any way. The problems facing materialist...
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