Inferences cost energy. Construct is a construct. Direct observation is a construct. Chemical bondage is kinky. "How about that?" is an indecent propo...
Thought rather tends to confuse itself with awareness; but one can be aware without any movement of thought, and one can think without much awareness ...
You guys are deliberately burning your houses down to impede the transfer of power. Don't pretend it's some kind of real problem. Some people are sayi...
Yeah, not normal I know. I was brought up with 4 older sisters and was reading fluently by 3. No telly in the house, but plenty of books, and I devour...
A hard question. When I was 12 ish, I was reading Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Hesse, and considering what I should do with my life. I put it in a juvenile...
I generally like to think that it is philosophy that makes me interested in it, but there is no necessity that all philosophers have the same motivati...
This doesn't belong here; It's political analysis. So start a new thread with it. Try and ignore the bizarre subtitling. https://www.youtube.com/watch...
I'll say some rather obvious things, that haven't been plainly said thus far. War requires a broad consensus on both sides to the identity of the part...
You're my source too, but unlike you, I check my sources bit and confront them with contradictory sources. And when their response is to behave like b...
And your impeccable, fair-minded, and honest sources are? One cannot blame Trump because some of his followers are violently inclined and irrational; ...
Did you think democracy was functional? Nay lad, You want something doing, you organise an army with short clear commands and a strong hierarchy. You ...
Boxing Day. Went for a drive with wife and daughter, the latter driving. I had a fit, spent 30 hrs in A&E corridor, and eventually got home New Year's...
Latest progress and prognosis on AI and robotics. above my pay grade of course, but I like to keep my ignorance up to date. https://www.youtube.com/wa...
Begin the exploration of identity with a process - of identification. A process of creating boundaries between self and not-self, and identifications ...
Are you sure? My own memory is that gender stereotypes were much more rigid back in the fifties. My mother was forced to give up work (in a bank) on m...
To understand the development, one has to understand the intuitive rationality of animism, and the counterintuitive nature of the modern, dead world. ...
Aliens As Soon As Theoretically Possible. There is no evidence because the conspiracy covers everything up. Therefore not believing the conspiracy is ...
I remembered this song, reading this thread. The early days of LSD as recorded by the good old BBC. I am a baker too - the dough is in tins as i write...
OK, you win, I'm an idiot. I'll just point out though that as long as you're judging it on whether or not it 'works', you're still only thinking about...
Let me see if I can use other words that you can accept more. If one considers only oneself, and only from one's own point of view, then it is clear t...
(°°°°°°°°°°°°) These are my em dashes stash that have curled up in the sun. The brackets are just to prevent them from blowing away. Does anyone have ...
If it were just one, or just a few, perhaps you would be right, but it seems like the whole of humanity is bent on ending it all. I wonder if your att...
Here is a numbers guy for them as likes numbers. If you don't much like numbers, zip forward to right near the end where our man speaks personally abo...
I am full of sadjoy reading this thread. The postmodern seems entirely appropriate to interiority, projected as superposition/subjectivity. "I am nihi...
The best logic can do for us is to keep our talking and thinking in order. To imagine that this talking and thinking can thereby oblige or constrain t...
I wish, I wish I wasn’t here Forever stuck upon the stair Unloved by neighbours in the hall I wish i wasn’t here at all They wake me up at two or thre...
I was once an observer in a room in which my friend having an intense and sustained conversation with an other who to my eyes and ears was not there. ...
Creativity is the action of the unknown. It is that for which the recipe does not yet exist; it is the unprecedented; that about which nothing can be ...
Defining and measuring are not appropriate or even possible at this early stage in your enquiry. But you have an understanding of what 'good' means in...
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