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I saw my father mentally deteriorating as his bodily health was failing losing memory and clarity in speech content and consciousness before his death...

I am sure it will not continue forever. The time will come for everyone, when their memories fail, their bodies ache without reason, eyes can't see pr...

Fair enough. I myself was totally oblivious on Freud for years since I read his book on Dreams. But this thread made me to add Freud in the Re-reading...

I also think that Freud is the one of the great thinker and philosopher in history with all the reasons already mentioned here. But he is neglected an...

Jesus went and spent 40 days, and Zarathustra 10 years in the wilderness. Buddha had given up his royal life and family, and went up to the mountain f...

Death / thought and belief about death, is the source of Nihilism, Pessimism and Existentialism. It is one of the mysterious events in life. No one se...

Never watched it in my life. Obviously you have been. :)

"Philosophy is thinking about thinking." - A. Quinton ??

I feel that the recent development of Science drives people less intelligent and less creative due to their increasing hyper-dependency on the tech ga...

Nature can mean so many different entities, and value? On what respect and aspect? Monetary value? Ethical? Aesthetic? Legal? Moral? Religious? Politi...

It would help, if you could define what you mean by nature.

It would depend on one's mind set, religion, culture and his beliefs and view on the nature. I don't believe personally nature itself has souls, thoug...

Time doesn't exist. What we call time is a contract between all humans and its societies in this world. It is only memories we all have about past eve...

I am not interested in Psychology or Psychiatry. I don't think I need to know who the Stevenson is, what his methods of researches were, to be able to...

I don't know who he is, but you should also bear in mind that there is a big debate, whether psychology can be classed as a science. You should read s...

I think I said it in the beginning. You seem replying even without reading the posts. Scientists use facts, concrete evidences and proofs for their tr...

Never said I was a scientist. They were calling themselves scientists.

Common sense.

I don't think I have ever did. I am only a philosophy reader. You are still too hyper imaginative.

I have see them on youtube. You seem have wild, dark and unhealthy imagination. Without facts, concrete evidence and proof, no one should call themsel...

Aha, now this sounds like a religion :D a cult. In fact, in the past, I have seen some esoteric and magical secret society people call themselves as s...

But scientific knowledge needs concrete evidence and proof on their theories.

That sounds like they were having some sort of hallucinations. This sounds like some sort of mysticism rather than Philosophical topics?

But the concept of "consciousness" seems imply inherently, if it exists, then it would make contact, communicate and interact. When consciousness is a...

One things for sure is that, we never hear from the dead, how they are doing since their deaths. Surely if their consciousness exist somewhere in some...

Logical Investigations Vol. 1 & 2 by E. Husserl

If there had been ever, then they must had been for their own personal reasons, which must have been their own private and psychological state.

You are welcome.

In that case, you shouldn't have said, "But that's not what the thread is about". Everything and anything can be related to each other, and I was just...

You are the one who brought it into the thread.

Another highly doubtful and debatable statement. Problem of Self is a big topic of its own. It has many arguments and theories on the issues.

Of course, if one says that he just believes in reincarnation, then it is problem of faith, and doesn't need justification. But I was saying that, the...

When you die, it evaporates forever too. Don't be afraid to admit that you won't know where it has gone to.

I am afraid your conjecture and thought are wrong. That is 100% from my opinion. What is the point, copying ideas or texts from Wiki or some dodgy int...

Another point I would like to add is that, immaterial objects such as souls cannot be used with concept such as existence. The word "exist" only appli...

I gave my own opinion on the proof of reincarnation issues on the OP. Even if, I seem remember on something, that cannot qualify as proof of existence...

Theoretical possibility of existence of immaterial existence sounds illusional imagination without strong concrete evidence. OK, you talk about someon...

It proves that reincarnation can never be proven. Therefore the OP is a meaningless question.

Physical existence is not the issue here. The souls (mental entities, most significance being memories) are??

Even if, we could prove one does reincarnate, if one does not remember his / her past life, how could one ever know that one has reincarnated? Is then...

Maybe it costed $50 to treat the poodle in the local vet? Whereas the terminally ill child has been told there is no cure (that is what terminally ill...

Valuable has many different meanings, and does not necessarily equates to morally right. For instance, financially valuable things and actions are not...

Or "No one knows yet."

People know he or she is "I" by seeing their own hands, feet, their own face (in the mirror) etc in front of them, feeling hungry (and they say I am b...

yes, I also feel that Ethical issues are more complicated than Aesthetics. I even used to think that they are totally different kind in nature. There ...

Can't agree. It sounds like if one had no logical deductive reasoning capability (such as children or non philosophical people - who don't know a thin...

I don't see a necessary linkage between beauty and right. What is beautiful is not necessarily right for everyone and every case, and vice versa.

I feel that there are 3 aspects on reality. 1. Reality as the preliminary condition for life and things. It must exist prior to all life and all thing...

"I" is a perceived being. It is not a logically deduced or proved by reason being.

I used to think that statement has been always wrong. One cannot deduce "am" from "think". It is a category mistake. Existence cannot be logically pro...