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....
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 ...
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."...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
""{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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
"_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...
"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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
I really liked your water and ice metaphor for self-existence and separation of the self. Very well constructed. Our brains are electromagnetic field ...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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