It seems to me that this myopic emotive view comes about as a result of the myopic, emotive, jingoistic celebration of the wonders of science, christi...
Still? Which good old day are you nostalgic for? Mussolini made the trains run on time, and The British Empire made the trains, and published Marx. We...
Ad break. Hey philosophers, you may not realise it yet, but you're a bit crap. Your' wife's probably going to leave you when she finds out, and your f...
Trying to characterise the woman... imagine an angry toddler with a bag of spanners painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Warning. Do not attempt to make sense...
Yes. Self-awareness is awareness of self - a complex of habit, memory, thought, narrative, identification. I am talking of what awareness is, not of w...
That has happened to me a few times driving a familiar route, that I find myself arriving with no memory of the journey. And of course the were no cyc...
Yes, and that's the tricky bit to even talk about. How to notice, how to even notice what it is to notice or as you put it But who is upstairs if it i...
Thanks for that. It's a good description of becoming aware of a subtle sensation that one probably overlooks completely most of the time. I guess it's...
If there is a photograph, there must be a camera, but a camera cannot photograph itself, only another camera or a reflection of a camera Thus a camera...
1. The content of awareness is experience. 2. Experience is everything one can be aware of -self, sensation, ideas, memories the taste of mango, the f...
I don't see much sign of the US breaking up. My theory is that Brexit is a manipulation of the xenophobic tendencies and imperial nostalgia by the dis...
Ideas and memories that one identifies with. Answers you might give if I asked you what you're like or who you are. I am ... 70 years old, male, a gar...
My main concern in such discussions is to distinguish awareness from the objects or contents of awareness. So one can be aware of feelings, thoughts, ...
I'm in the crack business. It's a rough trade, and subject to much government interference, but it makes me a living. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
What are you comparing? The concentration camps in S.Africa and those of the Nazis? the holocaust of the slave trade with the holocaust of the Jews? T...
Is your first thought aware of itself? Or is your second thought a reflection on your first thought (as mine is). My feeling is that thought distracts...
Well that's obviously not always true. But clearly no one involved is much considering the possibility of peaceful resistance. Are you seriously sugge...
I am not sufficiently at peace myself to recommend anything. but the methods are well developed by Gandhi, King and others. It isn't an easy option, f...
This was the actual argument I started with, which you passed by, and continue to pass by. The evidence is already linked to on the hearing voices net...
Do you have some evidence for that? I have presented a particular criticism of psychiatry that it legitimises unitary identity and delegitimises divid...
The distancing is noted. and it seems, therefore, that the dogma of unitary identity remains in psychiatry. and the 'support' you speak of is that con...
In case you are unaware, there is an alternative view that is at least semi-respectable. https://www.hearing-voices.org It is, of course a mere dogma ...
It's called 'aristocracy'. It's the default system of government of which capitalism is a manifestation. The alternative is the communal ownership of ...
Nor do I. And I wasn't selling it either. Western democracies are not in a good state either, and human nature is not that different around the world....
Think Achilles, maybe. Think every tragic hero destroyed by hubris. Think Samson, and be afraid. The dark side is always about lies, and the devil is ...
I think one of the lessons of this war that power crazed politicos would do well to learn is that war is a cooperative venture, and relies on good com...
If you want to be proud of your history, you have to be prepared to be ashamed of it too, or be a hypocrite. Your hands are clean if you have no histo...
I'm with @"Oliver5". The EU has to have some control of its external borders; We could have agreed to stick with the single market, but we didn't, we ...
It is time folks stopped talking about religions as thought they are singular entities. They tend to start as counters to the establishment, because o...
Unfortunately, there is no getting past Brexit, hence the slogan 'Get Brexit done'. The Irish question cannot be resolved. As long as North and South ...
Talking of calculators: "Nearly 100,000 Russian citizens have crossed into Kazakhstan alone since last week, the country’s interior ministry said on 2...
The evidence that belief can affect healing on a personal level is so overwhelming that it has been incorporated into science by giving the effect a n...
I'm going the other way, bro, up the hill to moral realism - and don't insult me with your money, dude, we're all brothers and sisters of the revoluti...
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