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Nomena = Unknown Phenomena = Known Having both is essential, as you cannot have complete knowledge of any one thing, but some knowledge of what it is....
February 02, 2019 at 13:52
Reasons are determinate. Feelings are determinate. Its seems to be an equivocation. "x approves of y" = "x likes y"
February 02, 2019 at 13:47
That's what general statistical psychology does it provides those who know it with a normative set of values, values concerning groups of people. The ...
February 02, 2019 at 13:40
Hello, yes well I ran into an issue when contemplating the ontological argument. Sure, we can each reach a conception of "the greatest of all beings."...
February 02, 2019 at 13:31
That anyone would not feel in life is unlikely. Certain events arouse emotions or feelings. You can be Stoic to a point, but there is also Hedonism an...
February 01, 2019 at 13:46
The Big Bang is just one model for how the universe came into existence, there are others. I think since probability exists hard determinism is incorr...
January 30, 2019 at 18:03
The human lexicon has surely grown since we were herders in Mesopotamia. As a result of word invention we are more informed, more intelligent than eve...
January 29, 2019 at 05:13
I think once you attribute eternalism to the universe, there is no longer a justified belief for an external eternal creator. You can also look at the...
January 29, 2019 at 05:08
Anything relating to the origin of life and its processes should by virtue of modern science be linked back to evolutionary theory. As I have yet to p...
January 29, 2019 at 04:57
Both. It is true that intrinsic thinking comes from experience and also true that in thinking something you can have an extrinsic experience. The orde...
January 29, 2019 at 04:48
"The empty I" ____ yes, it does seem like an open set : {_}. The subject kind of falls into the emptiness of the cup. What is self-consistency? Does s...
January 26, 2019 at 22:14
A long time ago I read a book called "The Fourth Way." It was recommend to me. In this book the Author illustrates that there are various different "I...
January 26, 2019 at 22:09
That sounds intuitively sound. I notice that my inner voice is nuanced yet the awareness behind it has not changed. Its like painting a canvas. The ca...
January 26, 2019 at 22:06
""{IT} return(s)to itself identically in reflection." That is the unity of consciousness rather than the multiplicity of it, I would gather. There sho...
January 26, 2019 at 21:55
I think it has to be continuous and discontinuous, both have to be aspects of consciousness. I am not really sure how to clarify the two or how to und...
January 26, 2019 at 12:55
I thought I'd add some thoughts to this discussion. The generation of new ideas and the discovery of technology is a kind of harmonious union between ...
January 26, 2019 at 12:49
I'd advise you to search on Hume and Reference and on Hume and contingency. Material conservation permits for the conservation of memory and what it r...
January 26, 2019 at 12:42
What else is one to base morality on? Even religion originates within the fine tunings of evolution. To take evolution out of any equation entirely is...
January 26, 2019 at 12:39
If your belief causes human harm, than that belief can have real life consequences, for than it is a breach of human rights and a breach of state law....
January 26, 2019 at 12:37
The concept of God is maximally abstract and minimally concrete. Why? Look at paganism (Hinduism) as the main reason. A god can be invented to describ...
January 26, 2019 at 12:31
Well, the primordial objective is seemingly survival. You come into the world with impulses to survive, as does almost every other animal. as they hav...
January 26, 2019 at 11:25
The thing that really is set in opposition to this idea is that we will eventually live off planet. But for the sake of discussion we could say we are...
January 24, 2019 at 13:10
The "world" can exist without duality in that some things do not have opposites. Some other things are naturally polar or symmetrical. You can focus o...
January 21, 2019 at 21:26
So your question is, "Can perception of time be non-simultaneous?" Or, "Does the insect experience time slower or at a different rate than the human?"...
January 15, 2019 at 14:29
I'd like to add this thought, That when there is a probability of something happening its as if the laws of determinism have been bypassed. Considerin...
January 15, 2019 at 14:19
Its really a hard problem. There is one thought experiment out there, that I know of. Teleportation! If person A exists with an particular and certain...
January 13, 2019 at 16:40
What do you propose? Just leave it as an "unknown"? When particles become entangled they than communicate non-locally. What happens to particle a, hap...
January 13, 2019 at 16:33
You're into physics right? So you would know that we have already done major research into the existence of all possible particles. If the standard mo...
January 13, 2019 at 14:14
"Reading the Laws of Nature." I just finished that book.last month. I think I would have to buy it to get the best results from it. I didn't take many...
January 11, 2019 at 08:53
I think philosophy is more perspectivism than it is empiricism. Now we live in a bind with scientific experimentation to prove hypotheses. For some ti...
January 09, 2019 at 01:22
There's little doubt that Hitler thought he was the Nietzschian Superman. Hilter's ideas of "master race" may have been prompted by Nietzschian philos...
January 09, 2019 at 01:10
"_The Atlantic: When Hearing Voices is a Good Thing by Olga Khazan" Its true. The negativity may be the result of such things as our guilt ridden reli...
January 07, 2019 at 10:12
"Is hearing voices the same as hearing your own thoughts?" Sometimes, as Wallows says, "Voices are perceived as occurring outside one's own head". Som...
January 07, 2019 at 10:08
That is what is called Non-Doing in Taoism. In chinese it is called Wu-Wei. I did a brief part on it in the following lecture: https://www.youtube.com...
January 06, 2019 at 23:35
I keep notes when discovering by thinking. I than take those notes and try to get other people to comment on them, so I can think more clearly and dev...
January 06, 2019 at 23:25
In my opinion they should be coexistent. The universe is an integral system made of parts. Its monist and pluralistic.
January 06, 2019 at 20:10
I think the Matrix is an idea of how far we can really go with fantasy, it resulting in deep immersion -- conjoining mind to with computer You may be ...
January 06, 2019 at 19:12
I look at the universe and I think of it as outcomes and their causes. Elon Musk said recently, in so many words, that he imagines the future branchin...
January 06, 2019 at 19:06
I think there is a positive feedback between reading and writing. I think it comes with a third variable, that feeds into it, which is one's own inter...
January 06, 2019 at 18:58
So an anti-belief (i.e. "there is no god") cannot exist without there being something to reference back to it, to contradict it (in positive conjectur...
January 06, 2019 at 18:46
What they're are tendencies. One could even claim statistical averages (they) are a bias, and how harmful that bias is, would have to be a sum of othe...
January 06, 2019 at 18:36
As far as I know the laws of logic, the rules of syllogisms, an introduction in deduction and induction are not taught in primary school, and because ...
January 06, 2019 at 18:31
I have for some time thought that Athiesm is not just the denial of god, like the denial of the property red, but rather the absence of thinking of th...
January 06, 2019 at 14:16
I really liked your water and ice metaphor for self-existence and separation of the self. Very well constructed. Our brains are electromagnetic field ...
January 06, 2019 at 14:13
Not only is Atheism older than theism, it is far more ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. Once you can achieve a sentient state where you can question, ...
January 06, 2019 at 13:58
Oh boy have I had some experiences with different medications! I was one halodol for nearly a year and was continuously restless. Zypraxia, has less o...
January 04, 2019 at 14:13
I actually take the same meds as you, olanzapine and sertaline. I also take a PRN which is called Lorazpam. I take this last one if my symptoms become...
January 04, 2019 at 13:47
I am not sure what isn't phenomological in nature. I do think that it is a psychological issue. I was thinking about this last night, and what you are...
January 04, 2019 at 00:03
As do I. The images I hallucinate aren't as vivid as dreams.Though I suppose that many people who suffer with hallucinations feel like they are "in a ...
January 03, 2019 at 23:41
Great insight here.
January 02, 2019 at 18:49