Our own needs and wants creates demands of others, and vice versa. Social controls direct this need for survival into a socially defined way. I was ju...
Perhaps the goals are maximize production? Yep. So with these laws, education, exemplars, etc. what is society trying to get out of the individual? Ho...
Your little logic doesn't apply to what I'm saying, so I will not repeat myself. Morality is not pointless or unnecessary if there are humans around. ...
Let me put it this way: Fish swim, eat, hide, makes decisions based on some stimuli. Birds do a more complex version of this. Many mammals have a comp...
I don't know how to explain this, but this is almost like a sub-division of the bigger question. The more general question is: How do brain states hav...
So? The explanatory gap has to be explained by both camps. I don't necessarily agree with dualists either. In a way dualism seems to be bypassing all ...
So someone raised a question about qualia in stackexchange and this means the hard problem must be one only dualists care about? It is a problem all o...
I don't think the problem entails dualism. I believe Chalmers is a kind of panpsychist, so more like a neutral monist, but he could have various posit...
But that is not. It is sufficient if we are explaining the causes of subjective mental states. It is not sufficient in explaining how neurons, bio/che...
Again, I see no problem. No humans = no need for morality. Humans are not around to see that morality gets enacted. Morality is enacted when humans ar...
Well, yeah, you are just reiterating the point of the hard questioners.. Why/what/how is it that bio/chemical/physical processes of the brain-body are...
I see here that you started a whole new thread so I'm going to answer you in here. This is not necessarily a true characterization of the hard questio...
Right, but the hard question is asking what actually "is" this interpreting to begin with. A misrepresentation, is still a presentation, whether it ha...
Yes, it is like veganism. It is a choice, and one can convince others of its merits. But the point is that it is not forced, just influencing and maki...
Mental states are the internal aspect of what is going on in an individual subject. So, if you see an object, it's the feeling, thinking, sensation, a...
What are brain functions taken together then? At some point there is "something" that we currently refer to as mind, and at some point not.. You are s...
Ha, I can understand that sentiment. It just seems to me positing a duality in different terms (illusion/real). The illusion itself has to be explaine...
So what is this integrated experience we feel in any given time? If you say "brain states" how are they the same? That's simply the hard question, not...
Wow, you brought back one of my oldie but goody threads. Yes, the non-accounting for things like qualia and the primary experiences themselves is neve...
Again, this is about us not having control of our own birth (obviously), rather that is in the parent's control. Well, if we are discussing antinatali...
@"Possibility" I guess a central question to this, and something @"Hanover" sort of touched on is the difference between affectivity and emotion. How ...
How early does she think that emotions are constructed? Is it something that is learned very young and then is relatively fixed, or in her view, is it...
I've never read Being and Nothingness, but have read snippets and the novel Nausea by Sartre. I'm aware mainly of his ideas of "radical freedom" and h...
No, but that's not my argument, which suffering will be greater. My argument is that the parents' suffering is irrelevant as it is causing suffering f...
1) I've definitely heard this argument before and my general response is that if it causes other people's suffering, one that will continually appear ...
The efficacy of Will manifests in desires, for example, the desire to have children. I believe Schop's idea is to limit one's desires (i.e. asceticism...
Well, I did explain it was in Schopenhauerian terms. So you can look up Schopenhauer's theory of Will i you want. The OP mentions him as well. No, you...
I've had a few threads on the evolution and origin of language. There are so many various theories and many of them start from different starting poin...
That is his point. No one really has control. If it was in Schopenhauerian terms, it is the Will manifesting itself over and over. What is the case is...
Schopenhauer criticized the Stoics, as they were still fully rooted in the world of Will. Schopenhauer wanted to pull the roots completely, by suggest...
But this is very Schopenhauerian as I see it. It is the constant need to get rid of a feeling lack. We are lacking the sensation of not being bothered...
I agree with your points mainly but much of this comes down to business practices. People for example, are afraid to be home from work for more than a...
I don't get what you are asking really. Well, as you probably note, pessimists like Schopenhauer had a high regard for art as a way to get oneself out...
Great points. I invite you to read my threads on antinatalism, pessimism, and Schopenhauer (which are most of them). These are along the lines of what...
Yes, excellent point. I'm just going to respond by reiterating so far one of the best reiterations I've seen of philosophical pessimism: Also, I'd lik...
And Coben, I also recognize you don't agree with certain positions of antinatalism/pessimism. If I remember, you are vehemently against certain things...
Great points. Can't add much else. This is the heart of what is so wrong with this whole thread and argumentation. Again, well-stated. This is another...
This is the last time, otherwise I am not responding to you on this thread. Look at all my answers throughout the thread. Also take a look at Inyenzi'...
See all the posts I wrote first. Look at what Inyenzi wrote. Already answered this sufficiently. What else are you looking for? But you see, nothing i...
I'm not going to talk to you on this as you have ignored all previous posts related to this topic, from those of myself and others on here. I've notic...
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