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I suppose you are right in the sense that there will always be aspects of human nature that work separate from logical faculties. You're involved in A...

Perhaps that's true on a grand scale, but it doesn't change that fact that the survival of the species is dependent on the survival of its individual....

Being fit is a good purpose in life, but the desire to be fit can be reduced to survival instinct. Hence the phrase survival of the fittest. Being fit...

Oh damn. I didn't know that. I liked what you said above btw. Interesting way of looking at things

I only read beyond good and evil but I'm familiar with some of the concepts from his other books. Why doesn't the will to power count?

Lol but Nietzsche was the first philosopher I ever read. It was Nietzschean themes in pop culture that got me asking the deeper questions in life to b...

What philosophy do you suggest?

And lol great movie

I wouldn't say I'm particularly enthusiastic about the elimination of the individual, I just think that many of the problems in the world are caused b...

If survival isn't your primary goal, then what is? I agree that the rational part is only a tool, but is it true that the irrational is in charge or i...

I don't think that the hive mind is a dead end. I think it is a very possible direction to go in through AI. I was planning on breaking my post up but...

Lol sorry. Presenting my thoughts in an easily digestible way has never been a talent of mine.

If you believe that it wouldn't benefit you in any way, and is equivalent to death, I'm curious what your purpose in life is now. In what way would th...

That would be a correct assumption. What I am thinking of is a way of connecting ideas. Most of our problems in society today come about as a result o...

Yes, Happiness is a biological phenomenon, and yes the concept is referring to that phenomenon. You could say the same about suffering though. Is ther...

But would the concept of happiness exist without the concept of suffering/sadness? Would happiness have any value to us as humans if we had never expe...

Suppose at some point in the future we manage to create a 3d printer capable of printing on a subatomic level. Anyone would be able to use that device...

To me it seems the internet is just the beginning. What happens when we start implanting technology into our brains? We already have governmental surv...

But is there anything better? Would there be any negative consequences to that though? What is greed if there is no separate individual left for it to...

Would it be a bad thing if it were just one big me? I believe that most people are motivated mainly by self-interest. That's why capitalism works so w...

What benefits do individuality or mental privacy really have? And with a lost sense of individuality, would knowing what others think of you really ma...

The state governments could elect a leader and whenever there is any international threat there would be a meeting to decide what to do about it. We s...

Well I believe that the use of the military for unnecessary violence or monetary gain is immoral. Obviously the act of misleading citizens to satisfy ...

Shouldn't our healthy democracies be prepared for such situations though? Wouldn't state run militaries be a potential solution?

It might be difficult, but I don't think it would be impossible. If we were to have federally funded state governments that could prevent against a to...

I think that all those things are self serving. People do good things for others because it produces a good feeling. I'm not sure what you mean by the...

http://thesolutionsproject.org/ I'm curious what everyone thinks about this

I see identity as being more fluid than anything else. I am the result of the consciousness that is produced by my brain. My identity is the result of...

Does it matter though? Just because men are biologically bigger does that mean they should be separated in sports? I'm sure there are some women that ...

Do you think it is a waste of time to argue politics?

The song that got me into philosophy. I don't think there will ever come a point in my life where these lyrics specifically won't resonate with me. "S...

I love the whole concept of this song. A catchy experimental beat with such mediocre cringe-worthy lyrics that perfectly convey the meaning of apathy ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nivprMp9fxQ

I don't really understand that point of view. How could tradition be the center of a moral view?

So what lies at the center of your moral view?

How is suffering ambiguous but moral agency isn't? I haven't really seen any sort of evidence showing that humans have this mystical thing called mora...

I think we're just arguing semantics here. I'm not saying that we created English straight from scratch. A chair maker doesn't will the chair into exi...

If it weren't for us creating language, we wouldn't be able to conceptualize meaning. Meaning is just a word in a language that we created. Therefore ...

I disagree. We may have created the concept of meaning, and we may be able to apply that to our individual lives. That doesn't mean that life as a con...

The attachments are there. Less attachments would mean less impact if the life were taken away. There would be less consequences to killing a grown wo...

I see no justifiable reason for human life to be held at a higher importance than all life. Because the woman would have other people with emotional a...

I'm not ruling out speciesism entirely. I'm just suggesting that the notions of all human life being equal is a sentimental idea. If you are going to ...

Depends on what you mean by value. In most cases I would say yes everyone has value. In terms of value towards society I think that everyone would hav...

How do you think Trump managed to keep the trust of american citizens after repeatedly lying to them?

Isn't everything a self serving act? can you actually do something not out of self interest?

In a previous conversation you said that emotions are differential and logic is integral. Where does intuition fit into that model?

So the neurons of a highly intuitive person would be more out of sync than a less intuitive person?

So are logic and emotion simply separate tools for the self to use?

Would you mind sharing some of that knowledge with me?

the "that's not how it works" part