unenlightened

It is surely the mark of intelligence to rush about the Galaxy exploring, invading, and exploiting everyone everywhere, and generally interfering and ...

That does not make sense as a goal. Indeed, even as you describe it, the actual goal is the benefit of half of mankind. A noble goal, pursued with vil...

What a sheltered life you lead! Have you never killed, or come across a corpse, or watched a dying? And to pre-empt the most obvious response, one get...

This is a bit silly. I cannot experience tomorrow, I cannot experience what is over the horizon, I cannot experience what is in the next room. Most of...

I think there is no peace, merely the pause of exhaustion, during which we have to make other arrangements. War is the operation of power, through fea...

Imagine lacking all imagination; think the unthinkable; not only can it not be done, it hasn't any meaning. There is nothing one has failed to do exce...

Some folks swear by a plumb-line, some by the way water finds its own level, and yet others by the illumination of coherent light produced by a lazar....

This happens to me all the time. The answer is usually "No.", but occasionally, "No, thank you, I want to laze."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Form

That is the question of someone who is living in the future. If you were living in the present, you would not be wanting, because wanting is projectin...

We are on the same side. I'll start by saying that every case of an object is also 'about an observer'. This is a post what I wrote and you read. Or i...

To love.

In Paul Galico's The Man who was Magic, the trick performed was to un-beat an egg.

I may be way off base, but I seem to remember undertaking various examinations at school. If he had said, "the untested life is not worth living" woul...

It's a 'no to competitions, a 'no' to fiction in general, and a big fat 'NOOO!' to thrillers, psychological or cheap. But for all you pig-fans, a stor...

Wherever it came from, it did not seem to come from 'what one feels like', but from 'what one does not feel like'. At the least, it is a divided feeli...

You may be right, but I don't seem to be communicating a theory either. Do you not notice that folks tell each other and themselves what they ought to...

Definitions are over-rated. But I would start by saying that good and evil are relations between persons and persons, or persons and things or persons...

So rock-climbing and football are evil, because people get hurt. Cars are evil because there are traffic accidents. Your definition is the antinatalis...

But what kind of unoriginal dimwit names the place they arrive the same as the place they set out from?

"The entire set of functions" - I want to be sure we are disagreeing here as to substance and not just the words: Are you saying functions of the mind...

I know you know about medicines prescribed to make money for drug companies that do people harm. I know you know that governments lie and cover up whe...

Hey Tiff, that is hard to live with. I managed to persuade Mrs un, with gentle persistence and patient respect. It is such a tragedy that good people ...

Exclamation.

Yes, you probably did. :cry: Well you are the psychologist; perhaps you should say what is the psyche. But from my side, I would say that what one can...

I have to use the language we have, but I'll try and concretise it a bit for you. Science begins and ends with observation, and in the middle is knowl...

Most people are embodied minds. This might be confusing some. There is a totally legitimate science of the body as object, which I like to call physio...

I'm not one for 'isms - call it what you like. But my philosophy always prioritises the relation as fundamental; the observer and the observed are bot...

Yes. it is the attempt, at least, to escape confusion, contradiction and folly. Thus I do not recommend philosophy to anyone who is not already mired ...

Philosophy is a snake pit we are all trying to escape; and here is someone asking how to fall into it!

I will certainly grant you that. And i will also grant that this ignorance gives much psychology the semblance of truth. But once you have granted the...

Yes indeed. you demonstrate it very well! As soon as you know what the theory is, you make a new presumption and of course presume that "we" will also...

Listen carefully, I will say this only once (on each psychology thread). Science operates on the assumption that atoms do not understand atomic theory...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a new poster in possession of a grudge against the moderators, must be in want of a ban."

Can we philosophers perhaps disentangle some concepts? There are facts about a person; either they have Jewish ancestry/ heritage, or they do not. But...

I prefer happiness to unhappiness, but for plastering a wall, I would go for a plasterer's trowel. That seems to me to be how the the word works. It's...

In case anyone is interested in an attempt at an answer ... An important evolutionary benefit of a large brain is that it can run simulations of futur...

I hate debates. It is the folly of the age to reduce every important or pleasant activity to a mere competition. Even fishing! I await with despair th...

It means nothing. It has no meaning. It does not compute. "... and the mome raths outgrabe."

I think it's more that they're treating normal as healthy and abnormal as sick. :sad: I, at any rate, am not at all saying 'it's all in the mind'; rat...

In the good old days of medicine, "diseases" were discomforts that gave his to "complaints". The pathogenic model deceives the unwary philosopher into...

You're all far too happy. Look at this and weep. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/30/canada-182-unmarked-graves-found-at-another-residential-scho...

What are the chances of the existence of duration - finite or infinite? I suggest that one needs to be rather cautious about existence. One says that ...

It is undisputed that there are (1) ducks and (2) rows. I might count three ducks and they might be three ducks in a row, but only a philosopher would...

There is crime, therefore there is no law.

A civil engineer of course.

I agree, and that's why I didn't say anything about inclinations.My inclination is to be civil to you even though you are making a straw man argument,...

It doesn't work at all. But look perhaps at the women's suffrage movement as another example. Polite society would have it that it was unladylike for ...

No, they need their compliance. Until black lives do actually matter as much as white lives, there is no civility because civility is a mutual relatio...

And I was disagreeing with you in no uncertain terms. Furthermore, expressing it as "back to the stone age" is hyperbolic scaremongering. No, we don't...