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['Member']Joined: May 22, 2018 at 13:23Last active: June 13, 2018 at 18:592 discussions6 comments

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I agree. That certainly would flow from our brain function, since the primary function of the brain is "reactive". The secondary, which we would descr...
May 24, 2018 at 16:30
I think that we typically don't have enough meta-cognitive perception in order to recognize that our brain mechanism works through finding patterns in...
May 23, 2018 at 16:58
I'm guessing Wakandans would. I think the whole point of this imaginary country is to ponder what would happen if you've mixed African tribalism with ...
May 22, 2018 at 22:37
individual beliefs, attitudes and practices are directed by cultural presets, which in turn perpetuate cultural loops. In such, the differences betwee...
May 22, 2018 at 20:39
Thank you for these. Will check these out. By "totalitarian" I mean a cultural preset that intentionally narrows individual perception of choices in o...
May 22, 2018 at 18:23
Nothing is a verbal abstraction that signifies absence. It exists for a narrow range of utility, and I think that philosophers take it way too far whe...
May 22, 2018 at 15:56