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More this than anything. My assumption is people are already overly engaged, so this is the suggestion. I guess you can frame it "withdrawing" vs. the...

You would have to show that the negative dramas, et al that come from engaging with friendships would ever be more than the dopamine supposedly receiv...

When you are done ad homming and put your philosopher pants on, I'll wait for you. For now, ignore.

He only skipped desert that day.

Philia and Agape may be actually more acutely understood through withdrawal. Philia by way of not imposing more harms than necessary. Agape would be e...

Oh, and if anyone posts Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am a Rock," don’t even bother- I’ve already called that cliché. You can try to romanticize being a "s...

It’s caused when you are conscious, and amplified and a difference even in kind of suffering through self-awareness of existence.. In that regard, Sch...

And yet, you deny the basic fundamentals of cause and effect. Suffering is caused by being born. It's that simple. No more.

The Middle Path, already shows defeat. Mama and papa.. Buddhist societies go on. Crying at birth won't do no good. It happened.

Yes, but as you know, I don't believe in the soteriology that Buddhist peddles. It's my suspicion that often spiritual terms get mixed with everyday p...

Schopenhauer in a nutshell. The process is something like described here from Wayfarer's post: That is to say, the irrevocable breach of our existence...

I enjoyed the essay on boredom, thanks. Will is Schopenhauer's label for the restlessness. The boredom essay sort of captures it. Boredom was very imp...

Read some of the previous posts to understand what I'm getting at. The gist is a pessimistic understanding. Self-awareness of existence entails an und...

What are we aware of by being self-aware of existence? What is the content of our/everyone's existence?

Damn that comes close to a lot of themes I've explored on here. That's a good one. I like... Yes, great point. Good point. Yes it does, and correspond...

@"Wayfarer" I wonder, with the profusion of media, that comedy and the overuse of irony adds to the diversions from the stream. More stones. As long a...

@"Wayfarer" Added a bigger part of the quote from the linked post above.

Ok, so not quite following this request: :razz: But I think the way that was phrased it was unclear that I didn't want any mention of Buddhism, just e...

But, is there something axiologically entailed for a being with self-awareness of existence?

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15556/existential-self-awareness/p1 @"Wayfarer" My guess is you will bring some Buddhist concepts to this. S...

I'm going by this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_theory That is to say, I see ethics as a type of value, not the other way around. Ax...

I know you were being ironic and silly. But even this can be instructive to my point. Please do add more, maybe not about the plight of Bambi, but the...

That's not entirely true in the animal that is SELF-AWARE OF EXISTENCE. Is there not something in this understanding that is quite clear and leads to ...

Which is why I said this in reply to Shawn: If the ancient Israelites were correct, and we are reflection of God, then God is also a reflection of us....

:lol: The morbid justifications of the Pollyannas... Echoes of Pangloss?

Ok, so you are focusing on Schopenhauer's Will, and not the idea that it can just be a metaphor, got it. I wasn't sure. As for the notion of the Will ...

You'd have to explain more for me to respond to what you are actually saying.

I mean that's the point. The kind of species of animal with self-awareness of existence cannot but help but know this. And clearly I'm indicating that...

:up: One of the hugest stones is the pursuit of X.. (love is a big one...but insert any lofty goal). Schopenhauer identified it as variations of Will ...

:up: You've identified (informally, through example), the inevitable conclusion. And you even recognized some underlying factors for the diversions:

So using the OP's point as a starting point, there is the "fact" that some animals are "self-aware". There is an indication that this leads to a certa...

:up: Very good. But I want to actually see the deviations in action. You mentioned gratitude. There's an example. I want to see the the stones trying ...

Funny thing is, children are usually deemed not fully "self-aware", so that might be even more of a case against the initial claim. But I'd like to ta...

I mean, this is kind of circular. Being self-aware allows for gratitude in the first place. But also, it allows for so many other things, that to pick...

Here's the thing, the angst-driven "What do I focus my attention on?" precedes everything. Even someone who represents naive physicalism, someone like...

I think the throughline through all this is a self-awareness.. a sort of Russian Doll Effect, whereby a sort of awareness of "something" is gleaned, b...

This of course brings up metaphysical notions of emergence. This is taken for granted in naive physicalism / scientism.

The problem I have with these definitions is it implicitly indicates a Kantian response, but then denies epistemology proper for some deflationary "lo...

Sure, but then, what of the propensity for uniformity or rules in the first place? The fact that it does act with regularities? Hume wants to skeptici...

Good stuff, but the question becomes, "Are the equations being imposed or simply reflected in the mathematics?". Some neo-Logos philosophies might say...

And yet the world presents to us regularities that we capture in empirical research. The regularities that our minds create and the regularities of na...

This seems to relate to what I was saying here:

I know Nagel thinks that the universe is directed in some way to reveal objective truths, or something of this nature. It's sort of a neo-Logos philos...

Yeah, but remember Kant thought math was synthetic a priori. In other words, our minds are still structuring time and space and experience. The math w...

I just want to add, that I don't see how this discussion can move forward without at least acknowledging the various debates of Hume and Kant. Kant, a...

I'm with you in terms of, I'm not much for evolutionary psychological "just so" theories, but if it's not some sort of naturalistic/biological reason ...

I get it, but I think this point still stands and is important:

I'll take a look.. :up: As Baden was indicating, if you provide physicalism with the baggage of every phenonemon, it loses its explanatory power as to...

Interestingly though, your joke post in the Lounge kind of proves a point where formal logics can lead to errors by simply abiding by the rules withou...

Yes so I guess to equate with your terminology, "Whence intellection"?