Assange's philosophy is that the entities who have great power over the lives of people ought to be transparent so people can have control over their ...
It seems the root of the argument has to do with the fact that the person is forced, which is a bad thing. But I disagree that we have to objectively ...
Ok. If you're forcing that game/event/challenge/adventure/maze/treadmill on someone and they love it, then in my view it was a good thing. If they hat...
You got decent answers from 0 thru 9 and Wayfarer. Don't take things too personally though, we don't all think in the same ways, something you see as ...
It is not that I assess now that it was "good" back then, it is that I remember assessing it as "good" back then. I remember waking up eager to have f...
Sure we could do away with money. Other animals go on without money just fine. If you can provide for yourself, if you don't need others to do things ...
There is gonna be some speculation here, but anyway here is my take: Language is a tool we use to communicate what we experience, if there was no one ...
I understood what you said, and I attempted to explain why I disagree with it. Your premise is that life is objectively an obstacle course or a relent...
I think this is more a limitation of language than a limitation of the brain. Our experiences and thoughts can be full of details, but words refer to ...
But the problem with this view is that it is your own subjective view based on how you experience life, and not one shared by everyone. The same thing...
Do you have a hypothetical example of something that evolution selected for, that could be connected to the existence of the mind (the existence of ou...
You classify a part of your experiences as coming from a world filtered through what you call your senses, then at some point you come to assume that ...
So in this case the mind would be connected to the motions of electrons and molecules, which leads to panpsychism. But still, the problem with assumin...
You have a sensation of mind, and through that mind you experience phenomena that you call chemical and energetic processes, now how can you conclude ...
Here is how he referred to this childhood sexual experience: "What I made the decision to do twenty years ago was not against my will" "I willingly de...
I am of the idea to let people do whatever they want, as long as it is what they want and no one is forced in the process. I don't think it's too unco...
But then our desire to achieve more and more leads us to destroy other species and the environment. We don't just want to 'survive', we don't just wan...
Some people love that treadmill, they are glad to be alive, their hardships make their joys even stronger. And then they have the amazing experience o...
Hello, Have you recently received an email telling you that you have been recorded on your webcam while watching pornographic material? If so, that is...
Consciousness has value in the sense that there are experiences that make consciousness worth it, there are experiences that make you glad to be alive...
You completely misinterpreted my post, I suggest you re-read what I wrote, if you actually care about understanding my point of view. I gave the examp...
Competition is also what leads us to eat rather than being eaten. You care about other human beings. If you care about other animals, then I suppose y...
Again I feel examples go more clearly to the heart of the point. It used to be a mental illness to be a slave wanting to escape, and it used to be a m...
You could have an infinite universe that contains a finite number of living beings, an infinite universe where there are only living beings in our gal...
If they're traveling at 99.999% at the speed of light, presumably they would be going very fast towards galaxies in one direction, and very fast away ...
Really great post, thank you, you explained it better than I could. I would give it as compulsory reading to all psychiatrists and would-be psychiatri...
It was a direct reply to your remark that there is appearance of agreement, you're the one initiating tangents. You can say that "this text is written...
Sure, there are perceptions of agreement. You may have noticed throughout your life that you uncovered beliefs you hadn't realized you had, and that y...
Not exactly, I wouldn't call "where you and I agree" the objective world, that would just be the parts where our subjective worlds are similar. I don'...
I didn't conclude this, I said that saying the tree exists independently of us when we do not perceive it is a belief. Do you agree that this is a bel...
I see thanks, that was just a poor formulation on my part, when I say people "see the world in different ways", I mean to say people have their own su...
An objective world is a world many seem to have in mind when they say things such as Jupiter has an objective existence independently of us. In contra...
I don't see how that is misleading. You seem used to interpret subjectivity as referring solely to feelings or tastes or thoughts, because on many occ...
You don't have to stick to the concept of neurological activity though, which itself stems from experiences you have had. You could say that all we ha...
But do you realize that subjectivity includes perception itself and not just feeling or taste? A simple example is that there are people who are visua...
But what makes you think that, what makes you arrive at that objective 'fact' or 'truth'? People have reported seeing some specific shape through thei...
It's quite deeper than that. The majority may believe that some specific thing is going to happen at some point in time, and to them it would be truth...
The underlying sad state of affairs is that life is a competition. We kill other species to survive. It feels good to rule the world, but it probably ...
It becomes a matter of objective fact if people agree that the rocket fails to launch, or that the bridge collapses, or that the patient dies, it is t...
Yes I'm not disagreeing, I was just giving my point of view on the 'paradox'. We can say things such as "This sound is purple" or "This smell is true"...
We need to compare a statement with something to determine its truth value. When we say "This statement is false", it can be given a truth value when ...
You see what you call a cat on what you call a mat, how does that make it not a subjective statement? Other people might disagree that what they see i...
I realize this thread is one month old, but still I agree, scientific education is about accepting, memorizing and applying, then scientific research ...
I think the problem is I wouldn't know how to make the difference between reality and imagination, between what exists and what does not. Sure I can b...
What is a scientific understanding? It is an explanation given in terms of what scientists deem to be real, of what they deem to exist. But different ...
Well I don't know and I don't think we can know for sure, I see it as a matter of belief. Like the belief in an afterlife, some people believe we are ...
There is so much to say. The material world is the world we construct out of our usual five senses, out of colors sounds touch smell and taste. They a...
Philosophers attempt to answer some questions, Wittgenstein attempted to answer most of them, he just didn't give the answer they wanted. One doesn't ...
What do you call objective truth? Something that everyone can agree on? What do you call subjective truth? Something that someone believes? How could ...
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