Kippo

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That was a big whine made while running on absolute full frazzle. Anyhow, I've got a new perspective on matters. and I can improve further I hope. It ...

This is something that affects me too. It is quite possible in the age of mobile phones to be harrassed and observed, and for your reputation to be tr...

I know what you mean. So I really am out of here now, It's been a hell-uva ride. A rollercoaster of downs and downs. But I feel on the level now. Peac...

I seem to remember a poster who looked like that "Bertrand Russell" bird would say Anne of Green Gables! BTW I like your sequence of favourite philoso...

OMG I'm in the matrix! I understand now how schizophrenia or something similar could flood a person. It;s like conspiracy theory - to find a denial is...

I'm back & I'm fine. I feel just like THX now.

I also have to accept that I musrt give up posting on the internet altogether. So adios.

Recognising that one has mental health issues of any sorts sounds like an important first step, but maybe very hard to take. I am coming to recognise ...

As long as everything is safe, informed consensual and people feel menatlly secure about what they do, then any activity is ok I would say, as a first...

I know from my experience that communication is everything in this situation. It can take time to reestablish, but it is worth doing. Eventually a cha...

You are right in a sort of reduction ad absurdium sense I guess. But also, a fault in his maxim that I see is that people often do different things. F...

Yes but there are complications in that concept because what is the it in "its"?? Humans have a body, but computers can connect, So I can see why some...

I sense something fishy with that statement... I think the last line is the most fishy. We do not know that being programmed deterministically rules o...

You could use this observation to promote feeling. Feeling is undeniable.

Is this because you are equating free will with a soul? If it is a soul you really want then you can have one without free will. Free will is not nece...

I'm guessing wildly here on entry - but I bet this thread would be more coherent if it was titled "Is it immoral to take recreational drugs?".

The real world doesn't work in words, and definitions. For example, consciousness can be present in different species to a greater or lesser extent; a...

I'm no expert but just because we cannot find out position and momentum of a particle simultaneously it does not mean that these things are undefined ...

We are at risk of confusion on this thread between "biological determinsm" which is how influential biological material components are in determining ...

Do ideas in different languages convey exactly the same information? Do speakers of the same language, even, extract exactly the same information from...

Think of self replication as a special event because it causes an infinite chain reaction going forwards in time. Once self replication is established...

Why aren't they sitting on those nice looking mahogany chairs instead of those plastic things? Is it a fake backdrop or something?

But as you have indicated, every idea has a physical counterpart. So there is no idea that exists independently of physical reality. There is a differ...

I don't think that's proven scientifically, not even by HUC, which, I believe, limits only our grasp of reality and not reality itself. In any case, o...

We absolutely agree that biology is a bigger determinant of behaviour than physics in as much as biological structures have direct relevance at the le...

Biology is the wrong level to consider determinsm - surely it is a physics question. Biological structures definitely contribute to our opinions in kn...

Well I am inclined to agree with them, but I agree the huge mass thing that is implied by the equations of motion is difficult to grasp. Do they say t...

Yes but everything else accompanying the clocks aged less too. During the "fast" motion all was appearing normal on board. I think maybe the "anomaly"...

What Is this an anomaly though? Surely it would be a conformation that the laws of physics are holding up. I'm not sure anyone is saying that moving a...

I think that Scruton comes across as completely uncaring about some of the dangerous developments in western politics. It's not so much what he says -...

Given that experiments hold up the theory, maybe it would be more interesting to discuss how to visualise it all and get a handle on it?

That is not what physicists say. You would be able to know how fast you are travelling by measuring how long it takes to reach a star or planet of kno...

OK! here goes Sure - there are bound to be many things in a state-of-affairs that you don't care about. I'm not quite sure what you mean by happiness ...

What about the notion that time has a start point but it can never be reached ... sort of asymptotic singularity style?

What you got? https://paylessmoke.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/marlon-gif11.gif?w=640

You don't have to know the exact value of (Si - Sc). Actually it is very unlikely in most contexts - i.e. beyond the smple goal driven states of primi...

What if we abandon our common sense notions of time?

Very well..... Let us define happiness as inversely proportional to some amount of change you would like to make to yourself and everything external t...

Does the question "why is there something rather than nothing" accurately refelect the emotions and feelings of people who ask it? Are they not really...

The waters are muddied somewhat by 1) The vote was close 2) There are many ways to leave, but that was barely an issue at the time, so vague was the w...

I'm tempted to say, for a cheap thrill, that objectivity is an illusion too, as illustrated by the intangible quantum world which will forever be out ...

Wouldn't he put it more like " there is the illusion of subjective experience"? Also that this illusion can be faintly present - as in primitive creat...

Daniel Dennett would be a good writer to read in order about the nature of consciousness I would imagine. I have only read his "Darwin's Dangerous Ide...

It is possible to feel that one know all things at once though.

Only sudden realisations seem powerful - often overwhelming. Gradual build up is for pussies. Miaow!

This book "The Happiness Hypotheisis" by Jonathan Haidt examines ten pieces of wisdom handed down through various "ancients" and discusses their usefu...

It depends how you define "game". If you include actual date, time, place and players then a game must always exist by definition. I think my definiti...

I was suggesting a core curriculum for schooling rather than a purpose of education. I think there are many possible purposes for education in general...

Stupid can be gradually trained away, not booted away, according to modern pyschological theory - our consciousness represents a weak rider guiding a ...