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If we just pop into existence as aware, conscious, conceptually blank organisms what's to say that doesn't just happen again?
February 21, 2018 at 04:26
If Socrates can do without one, anyone can
December 16, 2017 at 03:09
Interesting, I think it's a mix. I agree that it's nearly entirely automatic and occurs subconsciously (except in cases of ambiguity -- where there is...
June 04, 2017 at 15:55
I think it's pretty clear: " it's all essentially a subjective matter and therefore just an arbitrary question of utility as to how we arrange a consi...
March 10, 2017 at 02:28
I'd imagine it's encoded in some network of neurons.
January 30, 2017 at 00:21
Right, everything is dynamic but different things change at different rates. Either way, I should have said -- 'presuming an individual has fixed thei...
December 18, 2016 at 21:24
How do you define cultural? I feel we're as much 'physio-chemical' as we are 'cultural' as we are 'biological'. The biological aspect involves the act...
December 18, 2016 at 21:10
I wouldn't say that that's learnt behavior. The values and beliefs are learnt but not the pull towards psychological/behavioral coherence. Practicalit...
December 11, 2016 at 21:37
But it's not just habits and creative unpredictability. There're values, deeply held beliefs, feelings. Acting / living / habituating oneself in accor...
December 11, 2016 at 16:36
I like this. I'm weary and skeptical of inner intuitions. They don't all point to the same course of action and sometimes they're in direct conflict. ...
December 10, 2016 at 21:34
I think what causes an issue is the 'mutual exclusivity' of essences. if something has the essence of 'human' it can't have any other sort of essence....
December 10, 2016 at 20:35
I guess that's the statement I have an issue with. I think of raw experience as 'overlaid' or bound up with conceptual structures: Again --I think it'...
December 09, 2016 at 03:23
Okay. Let me know if this clears things up: Presumably, there is a continuous information stream from the surrounding environment to the receptors/sen...
November 28, 2016 at 17:05
Right, I should have said 'undifferentiated' whole -- merely a whole or a 'thing' or object. But I think you can still apprehend something which is un...
November 27, 2016 at 19:27
Well I think we do perceive objects, but we can intuit that objects aren't essential, invariant elements of experience. What does seem to be that way ...
November 27, 2016 at 16:43
Based on the definition, it seems like the opposite: where apperception involves the classing of an object into a learned object category-- understand...
November 27, 2016 at 16:03
In: Work  — view comment
I think it really depends. If that work involves things that sufficiently align with your interests or values then it'd definitely be more enjoyable t...
November 20, 2016 at 16:49
It seems like there are differences between heuristic decision-making, impulsive-immediate feeling based decision-making, and intuition-based decision...
November 20, 2016 at 16:32
Dust:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA-LaKuVSKI
November 07, 2016 at 04:49
I think this is akin to asking: after all humans go extinct, is it possible for 'experiencing' at all to come into existence (i.e. would it be possibl...
November 06, 2016 at 12:33
How do you define 'ways that work'. Can you give an example? So from what I understand you'd say our innate impulses, when sufficiently constrained, c...
November 01, 2016 at 01:36
Do you accept that there is a noumenon? Yes. I don't believe there could be phenomena without a noumenon. (Phenomena -> Noumenon). Do you think it can...
November 01, 2016 at 00:36
In: Living  — view comment
I think there're two things of issue here. If it is your view that there is no joy in life then that only is your view. The reality of the situation i...
October 20, 2016 at 02:57
There seems to be a jump here. It's clear that pleasure is pleasurable and pain is painful but what makes that good or bad for me? Would you say this ...
October 20, 2016 at 02:19