Yes, I think we are largely in agreement, about a lot of things. For myself, though I would say that it is a mistake to try and create a new science o...
I'm not sure that narrative memory is all that identity is. It's an unusual case, and so the evidence is not that strong. Most people do not remember ...
The cup, presumably is largely unaffected, so the more limited second statement is implied by the first, which provides the source. As distinct from "...
I'll stop here, as I have no idea what you are on about, but it is nothing to do with what I have been saying, and nothing that I can see to do with t...
Yes, you already said that's how you see yourself, but I am asking how it is manifested, shown to others in your relationships to them. You see to us ...
Have we? I don't remember establishing that. If reincarnation, then something survives death. But you don't mean that, because: Then It seems to have ...
There's a sense in which they are the same, and a sense in which they are not. It is a question of identification. So I read your post, and I am consc...
I think you are underestimating the effect of identification. According to 'common sense' notions of identity, I take precautions and plan for a futur...
It sure is written in the third person, but I suspect it is Einstein's view. Scientists have this really silly habit of talking in a third person voic...
Well I hope I am doing something more than just playing with words. Suppose, imagine, that I have convinced you, that quite literally, another's pain ...
Are you saying you feel differently about your cut finger? Probably not. It can happen that one cuts a finger and yet doesn't feel it, at least not im...
Possible, then, but it is a strange reason you'd need to follow a cake recipe not believing in cake. The phrase 'going through the motions' comes to m...
Then it's rubbish. We know there are animals, and there is plenty of evidence that they have a point of view - their eyes for example, but there is no...
Is that a problem? Starch -> sugar and so on. Give or take some gluten and animal products - contents - the same processes occur. You feed your digest...
The traditional method is to upload your consciousness to a computer. But I wouldn't recommend it personally. I don't see how we can separate you from...
There cannot possibly be a point of view from which there is no point of view. Not even solipsists are that radical. And while views differ, points ar...
It is a waste of time trying to comfort the uncomfortable, but those who are merely discomforted can readily be comforted. Uncomfortable chairs in par...
Of course. the contents are particular and unique to to each being. But in talking of consciousness, one is by definition talking about something othe...
I use the term 'our conscious' because my thesis is that conscious is unitary and shared. You claim to disagree, and therefore you should talk about y...
If you want to disagree, don't talk about "our conscious". I'm not attributing any quality whatsoever to it beyond that it has contents which are gene...
Imagine every living body imbued with consciousness. Each living body would be conscious of itself, of its memories if it had them, of its environment...
Like most mind altering substances, alcohol is a sacrament to be used on holydays. Thus it is subject to taboo, which is to say that it is forbidden e...
It was not only kings who believed in the divine right of kings. Institutionalised prejudice becomes reality, and you might as well be asking if poor ...
Like I said, I'm not going to lay out a load of evidence. It's a point of view, and I'm not the only one that has it. But we do more and more woo mate...
[ Education, social cohesion, politics, personal relations. We turn the analytical gaze onto the material, and we come up with all this amazing stuff,...
Yes indeed, inevitably one models others and one models oneself, and understands relations in terms of those models. That is not in question, but the ...
I need to take a couple of steps back. Excuse the laziness of quoting myself at length. There's a bit more elaboration further on in the thread, too, ...
The contention is that truth is unanalysable, not that theories of truth are unanalysable, which I am glad you reject, as I have indeed just presented...
I'll try that. Typically, some philosophers say that truth is un-analysable. The way I understand this is that of any theory of truth that one might c...
Yeah, we seem to be totally at cross purposes here, and it is crucial, on my side. Let's leave unreality out for now. I said nothing about non-rationa...
Prayer, meditation, self-flaggelation, peyote consumption, self-hypnosis, psychoanalysis, I don't want to draw an exact boundary, but people talk abou...
Yes, in that context, 'transformative' works fine. But if one were to talk of 'transformative practice' rather than 'spiritual practice', then it woul...
No. A spiritual experience is a life changing experience. If you are happy to talk about interior, and exterior, as experience of the world and experi...
It would make sense to talk about subjective experience, if there was objective experience. But there isn't. So it is not at all synonymous. Garden va...
As distinct from non pseudo religious? It does not seem like a good place to start; it looks as though you want to translate spiritual into material, ...
Sometimes, these are live questions that you ask, that prospective parents have to agonise over, because there is a known genetic risk. Sometimes doct...
I don't have to. The facts are that other people are concerned, and sex workers are not. The facts are that builders don't like the safety rules that ...
Huh? Yes, in the land of 'I don't care about anyone but me' it would have to be framed as, 'I don't want to pay for your corpse to be swept off the st...
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