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Yes, I agree. I am not sure if it is a lack of understanding of the problem, evasion, or what, but this essential basic problem seems to be either mis...

Hmm, I'm not sure why God has to be in the picture here. Are you equating mental events with God? How about rephrase it "Everything is 'experience' an...

Can we prove that is actually how the process got started? I would agree this seems a plausible theory, I'm just wondering if any anthropologists, lin...

Yeah, I don't really think the whole "mental events are just physical events inside you" is saying very much except redescribing what mental events ar...

Is that wrong to advocate for something? Convincing people is part of living in a society with others. You affect people, people affect you. Changing ...

I wonder if you can speak to the idea that I had that emergence only works from physical to physical events. I see emergence as incoherent from physic...

I will no longer engage in them. Enjoy the forums.

But we have, specifically in a very long thread before this. I think we explained our positions pretty fully there and the conclusions are there to re...

I get it buddy. You don't like the topic.

@"Thorongil" @"Agustino" @"Ciceronianus the White" Since you all missed my point about how it is not as much about the ethical credo as it is a jumpin...

I am not saying we should force the prevention of procreation. It is simply an argument that one can agree or disagree with. I liken it to vegans who ...

I have a few objections. I just don't put too much stock in the outcome. I do encourage good parenting, and think it will lead to better outcomes, but...

But we are here and can bring more people here. What is it that makes here something so necessary that some new person needs to experience it? What of...

As I stated: So why put more people into the world? What is gained? Are you familiar with my position? It is not all just contingent suffering (the us...

I am interested, hence a forum rather than a journal. So why put more people into the world? What is gained? Are you familiar with my position? It is ...

Well, let's see: This is a bit suspect to me for several reasons. 1) You are assuming future people will reduce suffering in the same way as the paren...

So the same can be said about arguments on the limits of ethics- abortion, eating animals or animal by-products, assisted suicide, etc. These are thin...

Abductive reasoning? Does it effectively change the subject? Does it prevent people from asking difficult questions? Perhaps this was picked up as eff...

Sure there is, but I am not bringing it up on this thread because I literally have dozens on this topic where I do just that. If you want, I can refer...

A specific person may not be identified, but the counterfactual of not procreating is no future person will exist where there could have been. Not sur...

This is (admittedly) about antinatalism (not procreating future people). So are you saying it is? What's your claim that it is or is not? Abductive re...

Say you. Nah nah nah pooh pooh True.

Thanks :D! I cleaned up the post a bit, I think you copied my original one. The Elves fought with the evil Amelakites and Edomites in the Battle of Be...

I think they piece it together and Gandalf provides the sacred texts to Moses in the Shire and they go on a great adventure to Egypt where Sauron and ...

I think you are misinterpreting me.. the parallel there is funny. Easy to misinterpret any text ;). So I hold a historical-critical approach. What I m...

I think it shows the historical nature of the document and its evolution. Historically, this just proves that the Bible and its interpretations have a...

But wait, there's more!. What about how to APPLY the words to make it an everyday thing? So the "Oral Torah" (essentially, traditions surrounding the ...

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0316.htm#29 http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0323.htm#27 These passages from Leviticus 16 and Leviticus 23 are pr...

Does suffering get prevented or just gets more refined? In a time of war, living without being shot might be the most important thing. Perhaps the hur...

Is self-actualizing itself a form of authenticity or buying into what makes "a good person" in an individualistic modern society? That sounds like cul...

It's hard to be an overman with serious mental illness. It's hard to be an overman with ailments and setbacks that can be quite limiting. Sure maybe t...

Because if it is not you having the pleasurable life, then that would clearly suck. But of course, you might point to the writings that people through...

I guess they do own Campbell's. I like that ketchup product of theirs.

Oh didn't see the other soup connection, duh.. I was trying to keep up.. couldn't think of too many soup-mythology analogies. Primordial soup?

For some critics, Joseph Campbell is as pedestrian as Campbell's soup. Meant for the masses.

>:O . Interesting articles on that: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/07/science/finding-genetic-traces-of-jewish-priesthood.html?mcubz=0 http://www.nyti...

Huh? Some inside joke, but not sure what you're getting at.

Yep, funny how ancient human cultures devise similar myths in different regions. Some may have been influenced by others (Israelite traditions definit...

Define emergent product without having a hidden dualism (i.e that which constituted the product and the product itself).

The Hebrew Scriptures probably came about as an evolution of fragments and wholesale revisions. Parts of Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers were probably th...

Good overview.

Not really. I accept its process philosophy basically. It is you who accuse I propose otherwise. However, I do also claim the "shocking" idea that the...

So far I've seen plenty of experiencers in your model, but they are hidden. There is emerging. There is interpretant. There is degrees of freedom. The...

Concepts/impressions don't live in a vacuum. They have the quality of being experienced by an experiencer. Thus cart before horse. Or perhaps simply m...

In context of the experiential self, how does that translate? Sounds all map.. Local degrees of freedom? Is that the experience? Why does green "feel"...

But this goes beyond counterfactual to what is. Experience is a phenomena. What is the phenomena of experience? Your insistence on counterfactuals her...

The fact that there is a feels-like-something along with the modelling. The feels like something is the flipside/inner quality whatever you want to ca...

But that's the point! It exists qua its own phenomena. There is no counterfactual as there is just feeling-like-something, the territory that you keep...

But that's not the point. The point is WHAT is experience? You at least have to admit of the dualism of the constituents AND the "Feels like" first pe...

WHAT is experience as opposed to its constituents. If you read the thread from the beginning and other ones between me and apokrisis, it should be app...