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Watch a master. It doesn’t involve ‘not speaking’ to those you oppose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7R-X1CXiI8

Just popped back in to reassess the issue. I haven’t seen any comments made by mods that show anything but a modicum of self-realisation. Almost nothi...

Why is it? In that thread StreetlightX insults several people, calling them stupid, fuck wits and such. Is that okay? Clear case of one rule for mods ...

And who said that? The person banned or StreetlightX? I’m guessing you’re quoting the person who was banned. StreetlightX doesn’t appear to have the t...

Are you going to ban yourself for your hostile comments? If you have the power to ban and repeatedly provoke and call people names there is something ...

You’re just embarrassing yourself. Don’t you see?

A rational discussion HERE is possible - not only that I believe that is the point of this kind of forum. I don’t think anyone commenting here is look...

I think everyone’s got the message. The thing is a few bad people can make a helluva mess giving the misconception that more foul play is at work than...

I was hoping for some kind of discussion about what is happening, how it can/could be handled, and what steps to take towards a future goal - and what...

Knowledge of both is essential to recognise them. Someone only interested in ‘the good’ is setting themselves up for denial of their potentially ‘evil...

Has the situation at least improved in part over the past few decades? I don’t buy into the idea that these are isolated instances. If we see one horr...

HELLO! Is there a chance of a discussion about where this may lead the state of US politics in the near/far future? It looks like the general public a...

I think that’s a SLIGHT overreaction. I don’t think we’re there yet. I don’t believe most people in the US want the country to split. If it did that w...

What makes you think others countries want you there? First of all you need relevant skills, money and/or youth on your side. Canada has been actively...

That sums it up for me. Sum people approach them with distain believing they’re meant to guide everyone to sum kind of ‘ethical’ consensus. They are, ...

I think your view of their purpose is absurd. The point of ethical thought experiments is not to debate and come to some consensus of right or wrong. ...

So you were just playing dumb. Look where that’s got you ... Bye!

1 is wrong. 3 is stupid. Convince me otherwise

Are you seriously asking me how the ‘social contract theory’ is relevant to this topic? You appear to have given up before you’ve even got started. Ma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract

Next to non-consciousness.

Who’s stopping you?

That doesn’t clarify anything. Clearly there is an error in what you wrote, just wondered what you meant to say - I make enough goofs myself (just ask...

What process? I looked back at the origin of that line and it makes no sense whatsoever: The part in bold? Say what?

Why do you think? Take a stab at it as a given and maybe you’ll find something.

Regardless, what we belief is always going to be overruled by what we feel - in terms of our claim to authorship of our actions that is!

And that is a conflation. State does not equate to community. I was quite clear, as others have been, about the difference between a community of huma...

Here’s one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle

‘What we are’ is the bedrock your question lies on though. To explain further, I meant that ‘what is best’ can only be addressed with a fuller underst...

There was more to it than the bold part ... I think there is just as good an argument from the position that religion developed our sense of individua...

I don’t believe I missed the point from what you’ve stated above. I posed my position in terms of the many iterations of poorly articulated positions ...

The point was that it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the ‘heat’ of a molecule. I am saying it makes just as much sense to talk about ‘conscio...

And Dennett uses a very particular definition of ‘free will’ to frame his position as ‘compatibilist’. That was the reason I stated that such terms ne...

Ethically, yes. In terms of the physical world he is more of a hard-determinism with leeway given to quantum weirdness. That is nothing extraordinary ...

Anyway, I have a good question for you ... If you determinism is correct (in the fatalistic sense you seem to have displayed) then it makes no differe...

I reckon you’d be better off looking more into the neuroscience of consciousness than focusing primarily on philosophical meanderings. Within the fiel...

Start by making strict delineations between terms like ‘fatalism,’ ‘determinism’ (in all its variegated guises), and ‘compatibilism’ (in all its varie...

What’s so ‘mysterious’ about emergent properties? This is where most of the panpsychism ideas look juvenile at worst and idiotic at best. Emergence is...

From the gist of the opening page I think I know what you’re thinking about. Simply put it’s extremely nuanced. Generally speaking humans operate as i...

Certainly not farmers. We know that much.

I think you were overly optimistic! I don’t see it becoming accepted within the next century. Possibly ‘laws’ will be loosened to some degree. I can i...

Write whatever suits your idea best (whatever your idea is). Once you’ve written some/most/all of it you can then ask yourself if it works and adjust ...

That isn’t ‘depression’ it’s just dealing with the hardships of life. Certain environmental factors can trigger depression and some people are much mo...

Explaining this in the text would’ve helped. Maybe some other people knew what you were talking about, or inferred enough from it, but I didn’t. The o...

I think it’s a poor choice for a title. If you aim to reach a large number of people drop ‘philosophy’ from the title into the subtitle OR present an ...

Clearly in today’s world it’s nationalism/religion. There is no other method that comes close to surpassing either just yet. That said consumerism is ...

Not sure what this is? It’s less than 500 words and seems truncated. More poetical than philosophical. What was the intent?

Are you saying having experienced an altered state of consciousness automatically makes someone a ‘mystic’?

I’m doing these on Saturdays instead ... so will give new prompt tomorrow.

It’s just dedication to thinking. Today people call themselves ‘philosophers’ because it sounds better than saying ‘I’m just thinking about stuff’ - h...