There’s no need to be facetious - credentials aren’t necessary to recognise the flaws in your understanding here. And if I need someone to treat my fa...
:up: Credentials aren’t necessary - this is a commonly held understanding of how stress, injury, shock and the eventual process of dying affects the b...
You’re getting defensive again. I’m not saying that isolation and exclusion are ‘bad’ or ‘negative’. I would say that they can be seen as ‘positive’ a...
You won’t convince me with that argument, I’m afraid. So far, the illusion seems to be yours. If you remove the brain from the body and expect the bod...
I’m not convinced that it’s the first to be switched off, though. I think we notice more readily when consciousness switches off. But there are a numb...
Drawing arbitrary boundaries and lines, declaring what is in and out - please tell me how this is not isolating and excluding. There are no boundaries...
I think you may be incorrectly assuming that the entire organ shuts down, but we commonly lose consciousness without losing all brain function. It is ...
The brain distributes attention and effort (energy) based on interaction between an ongoing interoception and conceptual prediction of affect (valence...
But you ARE treating them with your philosophical methodology by isolating and excluding them from any critical discussion of truth. This: Bracketing ...
Sure, but this doesn’t change the fact that reason cannot determine our actions free from affect. So reason alone can never give us justification for ...
Determining the truth of an ethical system is about the relation between how we should act and how we do act. It seems perfectly fine to imagine any p...
Yes, this is where we differ. Because if you’re going to judge the validity of a particular model of truth (ie. a religion, mysticism or philosophy), ...
Again, I’m not denying this - my point is that this foundation does not then define what Philosophy is or should be. Philosophy that ventures beyond t...
Experience: the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time. Practical contact with and observation...
Well, that was badly worded on my part - sorry. I was trying to say that methodology is limited when a privileged place (over experience) is given to ...
This is a good question. Any action requires energy, distributed as both attention and effort throughout the organism over a duration. How reason infl...
I am not denying that logic and reason play a part, but they have no privileged place over experience that limits the methodology, and thereby access ...
I’ve already answered this question here. Twice. Let’s start with a standard philosophical definition: Reality: existence that is absolute, self-suffi...
I understand your scepticism, and I didn’t say this equation was balanced. I’m talking about inefficiency. If you read my more recent reply to Gary, I...
As Rovelli states, “Entropy is a measurable and calculable quantity that increases or remains the same but never decreases, in an isolated process.” T...
I enjoyed reading this, and I’m glad I spotted this thread. I dabbled in biblical hermeneutics for a period (don’t judge), and found an interesting us...
First of all, I tend to prefer the term ‘arrange’, rather than ‘assemble’. I don’t think there’s necessarily a pre-determined purpose or reason for th...
Then it has no relation to reality, and serves no practical purpose in itself. It’s all just words. The self-appointed ‘voice of Reason’, except no on...
I think experience, awareness and circumstance are pretty much all that distinguishes us from people in Nazi Germany who did terrible things. I think ...
Is that what you think I’m doing? Or is this another strawman argument? Try reading my definition again. Neuroscience demonstrates that affect doesn’t...
Meaningful to whom? Productive for whom? For you? So long as you ignore, isolate or exclude any challenging material, nothing can mess with your syste...
I had already offered a broad, practical definition of philosophy that doesn’t bet everything on reason confined by tradition. Wisdom is an accurate m...
I don’t think we’re ignoring the positives, just because we’re focusing on entropy. I don’t know how we would see entropy as a positive, but that does...
So, you don’t think Philosophy has anything to do with wisdom anymore? Or do you think its focus is more or less than wisdom? Not ALL wisdom, or only ...
This ‘Philosophy’ has a persona now? Or is it a particular species of thought? I’m intrigued by your reference to ‘evolution’, implying that there is ...
I’m not the one confused. I said nothing about ‘racism’ - I spoke about opinion or argument. I asked if you agreed that yours was a narrow perspective...
I think it’s more that you will feel odd in relation to other people. As you know, our view differs here. I think the commentary that it doesn’t belon...
I don’t think it’s that simple. I think our ‘blurring’ is sometimes deliberate to convince ourselves that order is created out of disorder, as in ’s n...
I disagree with this. I don’t think they’re either meaningless or totally different, just approaching things from a different angle. What I think is d...
Fair point. Perhaps ‘arguably’ is the wrong word. Didn’t say it was, and I don’t think it is - I was admitting that MY summary which followed was a dr...
Well, to be more precise, it’s not the same type of logic as Western traditional philosophy, but it does nevertheless correspond to a model of truth -...
I just think there is plenty of neuroscientific research that debunks Freudian theories. I do prefer a triadic model of reality myself - it’s more sta...
If you’re using Freud, then I’d say you’re a century behind on your updates. As far as I’m aware, the triune brain is an outdated concept, so I can’t ...
No - these are examples of masculine cultural value attributed to what I have argued is an underlying tendency of the universe. Just trying to bring i...
What good is the losing game of survival? It’s a delusion - you’ll never get out alive, you know. No matter how hard you try, you always die a failure...
This sounds similar to what Lisa Feldman Barrett referred to as Darwin’s idea of population thinking, which she applies to a constructed theory of emo...
Sorry, just throwing together ideas... To say that time is a concept would imply a definable structure that universally applies. But the relativity of...
Not a beer drinker, myself. To say that ‘beer is barley’ would then lead to an assumption that my distaste for beer is equivalent to a distaste for ba...
If we intuitively understand what time is and yet are not be able to define it, does that make it more of an idea than a concept? A logical and qualit...
I recognise that my perception of our general capacity as humans seems to be wishful thinking. I’m certainly not expecting to convince everyone to com...
This is an apologist-style justification for self-serving, ignorant and divisive behaviour. If evolution was based on ensuring survival as a priority,...
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