"Other" I guess. We demarcate ourselves by how far our sense of authorship extends. We are novelty and pattern seekers. The regular "thing" that steer...
By definition it implies everything else? So, yes. If concepts are created then this implies Values are concepts that have been created. This is all s...
A subsidiary role at best I would say. The whole "opiate of the masses" idea is dubious, but not without effect. Undoubtedly anything that falls into ...
Stories are not just stories. They are meant to teach not necessarily comfort. Literacy is a relatively recent invention. This is something I do not b...
If you don't dig deeper you miss the entire point. "Religion" is not a solid concept. If you wish not to engage in my point no need to. Why religion e...
I think a helluva has already been looked into. Undoubtedly people will look to this or that idea to fortify their sense of reality. Modern religious ...
This is a super simplistic view. All 'religions' stem from specific instances of alter states of consciousness. Experiences in these states are felt a...
For starters, just because the Western traditions are obsessed with an existential threat (death) it does not mean other traditions are. They are not....
I was just stating that newborns are often overwhelmed by stimuli because they lack the ability to filter. There are parallels with cases of autism. T...
Every creature does this to some degree. The sensations are painted onto the experiential landscape in splashes and dabs. We just happen to be able to...
Look at Lynne Kelly. That is a major part of how religion developed. There is a lot more to mnemonic techniques that people realise because literacy c...
This is also speculation. No one has been cruel enough to test this out. The one comparable instance in Nicaragua has since been looked at more closel...
Some linguists are happy to say bees have a language. I guess others insist on this or that definition. Even Wittgenstein fell prey to saying there ca...
I would suggest not bothering if you are young. Just go and think about stuff then come back to it in a few years. I say this because it can be easy t...
I would call this "language" it is just not as prominent and familiar to many because we are told what "language" is and what "grammar" is. I can abso...
I have not watched the video. The answer is it is massively important. We live in the world not apart from it. The reason many feral children cannot d...
Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden: https://youtu.be/GMXgb2EIi7o Pretty good reference book packed with information covering ancient Gr...
A common theory. Maybe there is something in this, but I am not convinced it is as big a deal as some make out. We know for a fact that stories were t...
It is a completely normal thing to have. Just shunned in modern society. Plenty of people hear voices and live perfectly normal lives benefiting from ...
Read Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Spaces and Happiness recently, by Emanuele Coccia. I reviewed it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXRGXX6y-...
Write. Let questions come out. Try to answer them as best you can. People often suggest starting with Plato too. There is a good reason for that. The ...
Did you know that mammalian pregnancy evolved from a virus combining with our DNA? The body's adaptation is partially an adaptation to this virus. I h...
Little reboot of this topic in a way. Some other ideas and research attached to how religions evolved from Robin Dunbar: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
That makes no sense. Write more clearly. No. What is there to explain? Either you understand the words used or you do not. That is because "words" do ...
Okay. I'll bite. Predictions (Possible outcomes of projections) > Projections (How we directing towards future goals based on understanding of the Map...
The problem is no one is banning them. Children having access to these devices is fairly insane. I never said that. Maybe? I am 46 years old. I grew u...
Possibly. I just see it in classrooms and in the streets. People are hooked to their screens. I think the rate of change is so fast that there is litt...
I think the opposite is happening. People are becoming more disconnected because of technology. The landscapes people spend a lot of their time in is ...
When the sun rises it heats the ground. (Causal Perspective) If played in reverse, when the 'sun rises' the it 'heats' the ground. (reverse-Causal Per...
It is not a question of WHO is it more or less a question of HOW MANY or WHERE. The tabloids distort the rhetoric more often than not. If we focus on ...
Turning to Isaiah Berlin in The Hedgehog and The Fox: It is the part in bold that can allow us to view the human-centric view (as Baden put it) as som...
In terms of time reversed. The 'cause' of our existence would see us 'born' in a variety of ways (usually after being dug up or rising from ashes), ye...
I will think on that. I am inclined to avoid doing so at the moment in fear of straying too far afield. It might help to think of time 'running backwa...
It appears so. :) It does state they are often regarded as 'real' cause though. Which is primarily what I am questioning here. I am wondering about te...
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