P-zombies have unconscious mental (brain) processing, so they may have something performing the same function as belief going on in the brain(like a s...
Yes and combined with overpopulation and the problems of hygiene in densely populated areas. Combine this with capitalist exploitation of resources an...
I don't mean to denigrate simple, pure, morally good folk, but they are not going to lead us through this troubling time. I meant morally good, not go...
Yes, I see two issues here, firstly where we should go from here, so as you say recalibrate, aiming for a good and meaningful life. Spirituality would...
I agree with your observation about the development of a moral evolution. I think that amongst the intelligentsia, that would include most posters on ...
I agree on the whole with your position here and everyone who has contributed has made good and interesting points, which help to set out our current ...
I don't know where you got the 33%, or 1 in 3 from? But as I said before it is a binary choice, hence 50/50. This is because there can only be two alt...
I would suggest that it is important to bare in mind that the current accepted academic interpretation of the history and development of art is itself...
Yes, there is I think, in the human stage in evolution, an opportunity/necessity for responsible action. The biosphere has brought us to this point, w...
It's one of my takes on it. What it means in the bible is I think uncertain and in reference to the being and nature of God. Something I wouldn't prof...
I agree with your point here, but with the nuance, which you do point out in a later post, that it is not the experience itself which is mediated, but...
Yes, I am with you and the Buddha and your agnosticism. It was only when I started posting on these western orientated sites that I began getting invo...
Yes, I can see a non-teleological perspective, with teleological realities on the smaller scale within the cosmos. But then one is confronted with the...
Do your ears not hear what your mouth has spoken? You say you don't believe in God but then straight away add that you can't imagine what a world with...
Yes and people differ in opinion on that. The end result? Theism for those who think god is useful and atheism for those who think otherwise. This is ...
Perhaps humans are God shaped, so a religious person is realising this as Wayfarer suggests. Also if God exists there is a purpose and goal towards wh...
I wonder - would there be anyone here who doesn't believe in God, yet want one to exist? Or vice versa? I am that person, I don't believe in God, but ...
More precisely, enable people to be aware when they are committing sin. Cut out the middle man. Remember God (via the Christ) will forgive you when yo...
I can't answer your pole because I regard my whimsical want to be irrelevant. Also God is far to undefined and limited by any pronouncement. Also I am...
Its a crisis if the philosopher seeks to look beyond the conceptual schemas. Short of asking an advanced alien, or a god what it's like, how are we to...
This reminds me of the Truman Show. In the Truman Show the world is artificial and is provided and directed by a hidden controller. Also the purpose b...
Yes, very much so. I have found when I'm overly fatigued, or hungover, I start seeng faces in everything, especially textured surfaces, or something w...
I have an interest in postmodernism in the arts, also I see a parallel process going on to that which is going on in philosophy. I would say that post...
The regret was that I had missed an opportunity due to my own failings. I agree with what you say about the foolishness of youth and don't blame my yo...
I agree that all animals love and that it is known and felt in experience, perhaps in humans, the kind of love is more self aware than in animals. Als...
Who was talking about Blavatsky? Also what does western philosophy say about love again ( Remember you spoke with authority to begin with)? Apart from...
Alice Bailey's work is an example of a western interpretation of Hinduism, as such it derives from the eastern philosophical tradition and is inline w...
The two passages were comments made to different posters, so amount to different conversations. My comment to Wayfarer was an observation about humani...
Nice account, I appreciate your reference to the pitfalls of sexual, or erotic love and why you brought it up. I suppose what I am alluding to is a re...
Yes, we are left with personal anecdotal testimony. However I do think that philosophy can go further than this, given some preliminary assumptions. S...
Yes I was thinking this, that all spiritual and religious thought and aspiration can fall within an evolutionary explanation. However, I would not agr...
Perhaps, so what is all this religious and spiritual love? What purpose does it have, in terms of survival of the species? I do know the answer to thi...
I see the examples you give as indicative of a spiritual reality in which the person awakens from ordinary emotional love and realises a more, as you ...
I was not questioning whether we experience love, but rather asking if from your perspective, it is solely within experience? I agree with the rest of...
I love the King James Bible. Yes I agree with your observation of a "withered and partial account" and the extent to which who we are is shaped by our...
Quite, the capacity for love in humans does seem to exceed that required for survival of the species though. What about ones love for existence, the w...
I didn't suggest it is about erotic love. I am refering to the mating/pairing between partners and the bonding process between family members etc, as ...
Yes, in true, or selfless love. This is not specific enough though because both forms can conceivably be due to some physical phenomena. Even if an un...
Yes, I know what you mean. This comes to the heart of the issue I am considering. I am looking for something about loves which reaches, or expresses s...
I see how you consider love to be universal, in the expression of experience in beings who experience. I consider the divine, because the divine might...
Yes, I am considering the distinction between the perspective of "evolutionism", as opposed to something "immaterial", or transcendent. I wish to iden...
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