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Another deleted post. Outta here then. All the best guys, I enjoyed it otherwise.

AFK for a time guys. Sorry for any lack of responses

AFK for a time guys. Sorry for any lack of responses

AFK for a time guys. Sorry for any lack of responses

Welcome dude.

That brought to mind those short Japanese haiku poems. Maybe the kind of background anthropomorphism describes is a way we secretly relate to the worl...

I remember hearing an early HIV +ve guy interviewed on this. He said the diagnosis really shook him (unsurprisingly). Although traumatised, for months...

I think the term "valid" is usually reserved for an argument structure. But it's possible I am afflicted by opposing of states pedantry and accuracy.

Yeah, that last bit. Gives you the willies! ("willees"?)

Yeah, that notion got kicked around a lttle yesterday I think

By the way, if there's anyone reading this who is worried they might actually be a pZombie themselves, please don't hesitate to share your feelings ab...

Alas the Guru effect. Even at its best it's a very poor substitute for one's own faculties. It its worst it devolves into a 'psychological game' (e.g....

And at the same time sidestep the dreaded guru pitfall for that matter

Yeah. Here at the end of history it's not like the world really needs the luxury of widespread critical thinking skills. (wink)

It's kind of hard to speak for all Buddhism, since its practice is so fantastically diverse. But it's true that some of the more 'hard-core' schools h...

A while back on wikpedia it was pretty much open slather to edit other's texts. A lot of superflous waffle got cut this way. Anyway a culture of minim...

I heartily agree. <Hands over one of the many small buckets littering the hulll>

I seriously toyed with the notion of working in this field. So I did my Philo degree back in the early 90's (in a second-tier, formerly leftish Austra...

Yeah. If I wasn't just stuck in this era of history I'd be looking down the barrel like a dead donkey at some other kind of cultural excess. Could be ...

Sorry dude.

Oh ... right. Desire was it? Ok I was snoozing there, hoping you'd wake me gently when you'd all settled on the definition. I haven't followed all the...

Lol, my first uni study was Psychology run by a rampant B.F Skinner loving behaviourist who would have no truck with the mention of any mental states....

Few years back I found myself working with fiesty philosophy graduate and earned some contempt when I let slip that I might be a panpsychist. "So you ...

No, I don't think this is an experiment doomed to failure. In fact I suspect the Greeks got a lot of their ideas via the silk road. So perhaps there's...

This is awkward for me since I'm secretly a determinist with a predilection for bottom-up explanation wherever possible (Occam's razor etc.). Yet, no ...

The Unversal Mind Topic I think I've already hinted that I have a lot respect for the phenomenon of mystical experience - however tainted it can becom...

It certainly does. The Zombie position is not one I agree with. I'm pretty sure Chalmers disagreed with it too. But rather, he was laying out all the ...

Yeah. I find it easy to use use some terms a bit fast and loose. Itchy trigger finger.

No I haven't. That's another big hole I need to bung up in this leaky boat. Any good/short/accessible intro text you'd recomment for beginners?

Hi guys! I didn't think to look for a welcome thread. Too self-obsessed I guess. Anyway this is a really nice set up. And the people are surprisingly ...

Wow, that's tough love right there. Yes, this has become a big problem since it's introduction to the West. The 'cultural corruption' I mentioned, but...

Thanks, I'll get down to reading that link properly. Meanwhile I must confess I've been at a loss to take on the idea of Universal Mind. 1. It seems s...

Hi Jess. Do you mean to imply there are actually women on this forum? I was wondering. The term belongs first I think to Chalmers. But nevertheless go...

I think we are perhaps in agreement just there. Except maybe you might be a tad more optimistiic tham me about achieving full understanding. But I lik...

OK thanks for the link. I'll let that sleeping dog lie just here. But PM me if you do want to open that discussion. Meanwhile I checked of the thread ...

Would 'delusion' be a better term? Consciousness is deluded? I scratch about for the correct words in this area (check the x-ray)

Thanks for that vid. My take on the issue is that the mental construction of 'self' is one of the "interesting distorting fictions" I've been circling...

Yeah, it's just a lack of various god-like powers that is hampering my effectiveness to make any kind of changes really.

You just need to check again on my x-ray occasionally

BTW, I attended a small audience of Thich Nhat Hanh's in Sydney, years ago. He discussed the issue of his students' self-immoliations during Vietnam's...

Yes. This speaks of a very important disjuncture between 'academic' and 'lived' understandings (to grope for some terms) A huge chasm dividing my own ...

Even if that Sutra is dead right, the apparent nihlism of it all seems so terrifying. It's like looking down the gullet of a black hole.

I think there I was trying to head off being tagged with a strict correspondence theory of consciousness. Sure we see the world, but that vision is di...

Well, I can tell you for certain that my mob certainly liked to chant it a lot. I have to admit it used to stick in my throat though.

I'm not sure I've done enough reading of the Physicalist boffins to answer for them. But years back asked a big-time Zen teacher why Buddhists said we...

Amen to that brother

Hello I think this idea of a single conscious entity has been misleading assumption in the debate since Descartes (at least). Me, I see it as a two-wa...

He allways said he was bad at math too. I just find reasons to like that guy more and more!

Howdy pardners (adjusts his white Stetson), Actually, other than my Philo degree my other so-called-training has been in Mahayana Buddhism via Zen. Wh...

Sorry guys, I've been reclining rather than rebutting. I kind of regret using my own 'Black Hole's Don’t Suck' example here. Really, I don't hold it i...