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You're not attempting to understand what I say. To you it is obvious that our space is 3D, that there is no interpretation of the mind going on that m...

What if then, the point of philosophy, was to devise a way to change it?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Also, if the brain is made solely of particles as described in the current laws of physics, it is impo...

If you are experiencing thoughts, then by definition of "thought" and by definition of "occur", your thoughts are occurring.

There is some correlation between observed electrical activity in the brain and what someone experiences, but that does not imply that all you feel st...

I'm talking about your brain, what's obvious about assuming that your brain that you can see with your eyes (well, that you could see if you opened yo...

Well what you see with your eyes is one part of what you experience, what you feel is another part of what you experience, what's obvious about assumi...

What does it mean for you for something to "occur"? If something occurs it means you observe some change. The word occur would have no meaning to you ...

This is an assumption in itself, that everything we feel stems from our physical brain, that what we see through our eyes could in principle give us t...

What do you do philosophy for then? There is something you want to attain with it. If you don't do it to help you decide what you ought to do to attai...

That's one of the assumptions of modern psychiatry, that a lot of mental sufferings stem from the brain alone, but I think that's a flawed way to look...

You hold critical thinking in high esteem because you believe it is the path to attain your chosen ideal of Truth, in OP's words. But critical thinkin...

Yes I too have come very much to a similar train of thought. Fear leads to all kinds of sufferings and beliefs which reinforce fear in a vicious circl...

Someone who has been visually blind all their life wouldn't see what we see with our eyes. Maybe we do have other senses that we don't use much, that ...

I tend to agree that what we call matter and what we call light are closely related, that fundamentally they may be one and the same, just gotta be ca...

Whether implanted or not, you do think what you think and feel what you feel and experience what you experience right? Whether implanted or not you do...

Consider the word "star". Does it refer to a star you see in the night sky, does it refer to a star you have drawn on a piece of paper, or does it ref...

Yes induction is not logical proof, just because we observe something to behave the same n times doesn't mean it is going to behave the same the (n+1)...

The experience of red, of a sound, of love, any such experience I refer to as consciousness, and indeed it is subjective. It doesn't matter whether hu...

Have you never heard a physicist say that a ball thrown upwards decelerates because its kinetic energy is converted into potential energy, that a fast...

Some scientists and teachers use words in inconsistent ways so don't assume every sentence they say is necessarily true because then you end up in con...

I don't believe it can, I believe you cannot know it can't. I am keeping an open mind, you are not. If we were to destroy all trees and vegetation on ...

What happened at the dawn of the universe is based on a bunch of untestable assumptions. Electromagnetic energy is a tool in the sense that we don't s...

You believe it cannot be changed, that doesn't mean it cannot

Isn't something considered natural, real, simply because eye witnesses see it occur or because we find an explanation within what we consider to be re...

What you experience is real to you, and that's what matters. Logic cannot tell you what is going to happen next with absolute certainty, all it does i...

I think saying it is as God wills it is an excuse to not change the way things are, an excuse to not change what we believe is out of our control. But...

Same :smile: The problem with energy is, it's not a tangible thing, it's a mathematical tool. It took me a long time to grasp that. Physicists like to...

I think an even smarter thing to do would be to try to change things rather than believing we can't put down economics from its pedestal, it's not eas...

Okay, I agree I don't like infinity either, but I still stand by my point that time doesn't have to be fundamental to the universe, that it is superfl...

Well I agree it kinds of boggle the mind, but then if you don't want infinity you can think of an arbitrarily large universe and an arbitrarily large ...

What is expanding is the distance between galaxies, that's all we infer to expand, we don't actually observe some space substance expanding, the dista...

I think you're adding implicit assumptions there, why would a speed limit be required if the universe is infinite? (the universe could have been infin...

We observe change, not time, time is just a tool, there is no such thing as time beyond the clocks we use, the time that shows up in physical equation...

Time is simply a measure of change, without change there is no such thing as the concept of time. Maybe it's possible for the absence of change to giv...

It's very possible man-made global warming is an urgent existential threat, but even if it isn't yes we could do much much better to preserve the envi...

I don't think that you ought to be punished for believing such or such thing, it is through beliefs that we make sense of the world and decide what to...

The whole system is the barrier. You are not free to go somewhere and build your house and grow your food there, someone will come and say "this land ...

"How does Neural Activity produce Conscious Activity?" Neural activity is something that we see with the eyes through some instrument. According to th...

I would define it as having false beliefs about what we need to be happy. On a basic level material wealth allows us to survive more easily, so that m...

Yes you don't know why you feel what you feel just like you don't know why things move the way they do, general relativity and quantum mechanics and t...

The problem is we have incompatible beliefs and desires, some believe that climate change is man-made some don't, some believe it is urgent to do some...

Yes, and I would add that an apparatus is a tool used to focus on and fixate a part of 'reality' in a certain way, so as to investigate it more closel...

You satisfy your needs and wants because of how it makes you feel. Why did you make this thread? Because you felt the need to, you felt the want to do...

Fear isn't easy to overcome at all, it often creeps in insidious ways. If you try to help people by telling them how to act to overcome their fears, t...

If you want something practical, if you were next to me I would hold you in my arms and tell you that I'm here for you and I won't let you down, that ...

I'm not saying that, I say finding a point requires feeling a desire, and that it is meaningless to try to apply the concept of point to the whole of ...

Indeed what we desire shapes the world in many ways, through how we see the world, through how we feel, through what we do, which impacts what others ...

You see with your eyes what happens to others when their body dies. But what you see with your eyes is not all that is. If you look at me with your ey...

Yes I understand. Are you satisfied with the answer "you live because you want to live"? Everything you experience makes up your existence. Within tha...