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['Member']Joined: October 23, 2016 at 23:46Last active: August 07, 2017 at 10:5914 discussions192 comments

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I experience the strawberries as looking red from a non close up view. I experience the strawberries as looking grey when I zoom in very close on the ...
March 11, 2017 at 03:01
We don't know this at all. Regardless, let's say panpsychism is the case, there's still the problem of how the individual (?) inner lives of electrons...
March 03, 2017 at 00:11
Most people seem to have this strong drive to reproduce, which I suspect a lot of pessimists lack. For a lot of people, what comes first is this drive...
March 02, 2017 at 03:17
Again, you're just begging the question of the nature of things in the world. An idealist would dispute that the table is made of matter. An idealist ...
February 22, 2017 at 04:02
Begs the question.
February 21, 2017 at 21:15
Here you're just assuming, or begging the question that what we perceive with our sense IS a physical world, which the idealist disputes. The idealist...
February 21, 2017 at 01:24
Why do you not in return though, need to explain where the physical world comes from? The idealist/spiritualist believes reality exists on an experien...
February 21, 2017 at 01:14
I think the word "spiritual" is bringing a lot of confusion to this conversation. By my reading of this thread, it appears as if you are arguing again...
February 21, 2017 at 00:49
The problem here though is that if we can't comprehend god, then what are we actually believing in? We can't even comprehend the nature of the content...
February 20, 2017 at 03:13
You can't escape the fact that this is you attributing consciousness. You are here personally saying that x has consciousness.
January 22, 2017 at 12:32
So the difference here is that you don't attribute consciousness to p-zombies, whereas you do attribute consciousness to 'normal' people. My point is ...
January 22, 2017 at 11:54
I think there's an issue here with our own access to the brain that is (allegedly) causing our conscious experience. I'd liken it to something like an...
January 22, 2017 at 10:46
It's like two people playing chess against one-another, but are on other sides of the planet. There's two chess sets which corresponds to each other, ...
January 20, 2017 at 09:19
Why do you have such a negative attitude towards drug use?
January 12, 2017 at 05:43
This just assumes that people operate best/ideally when sober, and all drugs decrease how one functions. I don't buy it. People can work longer and ha...
January 12, 2017 at 01:05
This made me laugh! If it's any comfort I feel the exact same way. What about drug use? Have you tried that for your misery? What's your thoughts on i...
January 09, 2017 at 14:46
To be fair a lot of those 'comfortable pessimists' espoused anti-natalistism, something which really would 'end the problem once and for all' once imp...
January 09, 2017 at 14:23
If pleasure is merely an absence or negation of suffering, then graveyards must be filled with the happiest people of all! Personally I think genuine ...
January 09, 2017 at 06:38
Then graveyards must be the happiest places on earth...
January 02, 2017 at 10:24
Doxylamine works for me when I can't sleep, better than most prescription sleeping meds I've tried.
December 25, 2016 at 23:41
Internet poker, mostly 2-7 triple draw and baduci. Primarily on pokerstars. Triple draw is so frustrating, manic depression - the card game version. H...
December 12, 2016 at 02:45
Suffering motivates us to act, in order to stop feeling it, or prevent it being felt. This is perpetual. We will do this till the day we day, because ...
December 11, 2016 at 04:55
If you press on the side of your eye, your vision doubles. If you lose your eyes, you become blind, losing your tongue means you can't taste anything....
December 07, 2016 at 02:04
What about just "I am suffering, therefore suicide." Seems perfectly logical. Everyone still living is blue-pilled as fuck.
December 05, 2016 at 06:02
But if it was truly subjectively indistinguishable, it would just be a choice between continuing to experience the suffering of real life, or for your...
December 05, 2016 at 05:01
The thing is that if you believe pleasure machine experiences could be subjectively indistinguishable from real life experiences, then you at the very...
December 05, 2016 at 04:16
Lets say physiological sense organs/nervous systems give rise/cause this experience that you are presently undergoing. But the problem here is that ou...
December 05, 2016 at 01:27
No argument here. I'm never having children either, life is full of suffering and it would br immoral to inflict it upon someone who can't consent, an...
December 05, 2016 at 01:00
Does this actually make sense though, to defer current pleasure for future ones? The only time pleasure can ever be experienced is now. When you defer...
December 05, 2016 at 00:26
Yeah but the default position is realism, and one generally comes to idealsim through epistemic concerns about realism. And so it only seems logical t...
December 04, 2016 at 13:30
I believe OP is arguing against a subjective idealism where the only minds that exist are human minds (and possibly, some animals). Whereas the drugge...
December 04, 2016 at 13:23
Then doesn't this do away with the notion of anything causing our perceptions altogether? What's causing our perceptions is a 'thing-in-itself' (if it...
December 04, 2016 at 13:17
Actually, my suffering analogy is wrong. Think of it as like 6 hands stuck in the fish tank holding heat lamps. So, the beetle doesn't strive away fro...
December 04, 2016 at 12:49
I think what's missing from the Cyrenaic position is the importance of suffering - how huge a part of existence it is. The Cyrenaic sees pleasure as s...
December 04, 2016 at 12:33
But we only have one reference point, which is us here right now. We can't even know there are others. This is the type of thinking I am referring to,...
December 04, 2016 at 10:54
OP isn't arguing against Berkeley's idealism though, and neither am I. Granted, I shouldn't have wrote "esse est percipi", as it's confusing.
December 04, 2016 at 09:59
The best argument against subjective idealism is "account for intersubjectivity." If esse est percipi, then others are exhausted by your perception of...
December 04, 2016 at 09:41
Doesn't it make more sense to see the 'underlying case' in evolutionary terms though? Because biologically speaking, what makes us continue to exist i...
December 04, 2016 at 09:38
Sobriety is intoxication, alcohol sobers one up.
December 04, 2016 at 09:14
Reminds me of how when you watch the news on TV, the voice of the person talking appears to be coming from their mouth, yet intellectually we can step...
December 02, 2016 at 08:16
It sounds like you want to confine philosophy to the tertiary level discipline. You write as if someone needs to be an expert on a billion specific bo...
December 02, 2016 at 04:58
Today I was fishing and as usual was catching nothing, so I started poking sticks in rock pools (this illusion fascinates me haha), and I noticed how ...
December 01, 2016 at 10:08
Like two people on other sides of the world each with a chess board before them, versing each other. But even if this was so, you wouldn't know it. Be...
December 01, 2016 at 09:18
I can imagine a Buddhist might describe the body as a sort of vehicle of suffering, a Christian might say it's a lump of flesh that the soul inhabits,...
December 01, 2016 at 08:47
I believe this is how souls are supposed to function. The body is a hunk of meat the soul inhabits and controls, then discards it when it dies. Descar...
December 01, 2016 at 08:42
Harm is definitely something which we consider when trying to figure out whether something is morally wrong or not. But I think people want "wrong" to...
December 01, 2016 at 07:50
Not sure about this. At least personally, when I say "stealing is wrong", I don't mean "I do not think that people should steal". What I generally mea...
December 01, 2016 at 07:17
We hear the sounds in the world around us. The lawnmower is making a loud noise. When I perceive a noise, I perceive it to be located at the source of...
December 01, 2016 at 06:33
"Murder is not to be done." Is this statement truth-apt? If so, what makes it truth-apt?
November 30, 2016 at 10:19