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Right - they’re not the same but they do overlap in areas. However, it seems to me like you’re saying the best thing language can do is aspire to be m...
October 04, 2019 at 15:27
Granted, but it’s still relative. When I say ‘withdraw kindness’, I’m referring to a level of kindness or civility that was previously assumed as a de...
October 04, 2019 at 05:42
Mean is one of those words whose meaning has changed significantly over time - the original word meant ‘common to one or more people’, which soon beca...
October 04, 2019 at 01:25
We may think of everything as ‘connected’, but some of it is only potentially connected, so we cannot assume a causal network at all. We also need to ...
October 03, 2019 at 12:16
That’s quite a missive. I read it because I can relate to these thoughts - I’ve certainly thrown similar ones around over the last few years, so in ma...
October 03, 2019 at 02:22
Thank you - I found your OP presents an intriguing perspective of which I am naively unfamiliar. I am mid-40s, married cisfemale, raised Catholic and ...
October 02, 2019 at 15:12
I think that you and I are pretty much on the same page here, particularly in relation to evolutionary process - I make no such assumption here with r...
October 02, 2019 at 04:16
A computer is made up of one-dimensional information systems, similar to the rock particles. The difference is that we have organised these systems so...
October 02, 2019 at 03:41
We need to remember that a ‘rock’ is a conceptual object to you and me, but not to itself. If you break a rock in half it becomes two rocks, and there...
October 02, 2019 at 02:21
I enjoyed reading your long post, and found myself nodding throughout. I find the recent collaboration of Information Theory with QM (Rovelli) and wit...
October 02, 2019 at 02:02
Technically, I agree. But I don’t find this helpful as an either-or dichotomy, as if the metaphysical is not physical and vice versa. Mind refers to a...
October 02, 2019 at 00:25
God in modern theological discourse is more of a concept, the attributes of which include ‘personal’ - in that God ‘knows, loves and relates to us all...
October 01, 2019 at 09:47
That’s the thing about value structures: there is no clear objective line you can draw between music and language as concepts. The fact that you’re sa...
October 01, 2019 at 05:59
This is a standard way of describing how ‘man’ interacts with ‘the world’, sure. But consider this: To listen is to mentally interpret the vibrations ...
October 01, 2019 at 03:15
I guess that depends on what you mean by ‘know’. It seems (to me, anyway) that the confidence with which we ‘know’ in any complete or ‘objective’ sens...
October 01, 2019 at 02:36
A concept could be personally encountered in a way, but you’re right - in articulating what I think a concept is, I do recognise that it isn’t the sam...
October 01, 2019 at 01:31
An event is not the same as an experience, in my view - although one can have an experience of an event. So, no - a concept is not an event. In my vie...
September 30, 2019 at 14:58
I’m not sure I follow how concepts, ideas, desires, etc are not experiences (albeit internal ones), even according to these conventional definitions. ...
September 30, 2019 at 10:41
The way I see it, love is neither just a feeling nor just a mindset. It is a choice or volition in that it’s the initial act of a subjective experienc...
September 30, 2019 at 04:19
First of all, money from family is never a loan in the financial sense, despite what the giver may think or have been led to believe. A loan is a rela...
September 30, 2019 at 02:18
And so we come back full circle... You can argue that suffering shouldn’t happen all you want, but it doesn’t change the fact that it does happen on a...
September 30, 2019 at 00:46
I think you misunderstand me, here. You don’t need to do anything. You don’t need to learn from suffering (yours or someone else’s), and you don’t nee...
September 30, 2019 at 00:07
A few thoughts: Language is a means to express and share subjective experience. Words, music, visual art and movement can all do this among humans. Bi...
September 29, 2019 at 10:25
The way I see it, film is an expression of experience, and should be relatable as such for its audience. Realism refers to this relatability - when yo...
September 29, 2019 at 08:58
Hate is a strong, negative emotional reaction to a fear one cannot avoid. When we love, we often fear losing what we love, and then resolve to hate wh...
September 29, 2019 at 06:03
I didn’t say that avoidance of pain was patriarchal at all. I said that the illusion that the process of perpetuation (sexual reproduction, childbirth...
September 29, 2019 at 04:49
All these reasons are only masking or denying the reality: that pain, loss/lack and humility are essential to the process of life. The Happiness Princ...
September 29, 2019 at 02:07
Meaning hunger, cold, thirst, loss, humility, inevitable death and the like once one is alive, yes. Life does not need to perpetuate itself. We like t...
September 28, 2019 at 06:40
The way I see it, life is an imperative; fullness of life is a subjective experience. And there is more than one alternative. A number of alternatives...
September 28, 2019 at 04:22
Where did I say compassion was either necessary or desirable? Just because I prefer compassion does not mean that you should.
September 28, 2019 at 03:26
When you listen to other people’s stories, one would assume that it provides you with a glimpse of how reality looks to them. You probably notice that...
September 27, 2019 at 10:23
The nature of the human mind is such that this capacity, while potentially realisable, cannot be realised in isolation. A single human mind, working c...
September 25, 2019 at 23:32
Well then, I appreciate the attempt to connect. So I don’t assume where you’re coming from, do you regard subjective experience to be informative, or ...
September 24, 2019 at 23:22
Sorry, that wasn’t very clear. Information is not the same as speculation, no. Information is what we have that is real (not necessarily physically re...
September 24, 2019 at 22:50
okay, you lost me. Can we go back a bit... Is your problem with this statement I made? Or is it with something else?
September 24, 2019 at 15:09
In my view, information is proof of meaning. Two dimensional information - noticing that the same space can have a different shape to it - is proof of...
September 24, 2019 at 14:36
The ‘valuing part’ you refer to is a set of measurable/observable events in the brain that can be related to the experience of valuing. That doesn’t a...
September 24, 2019 at 13:41
You’re referring to ‘value’ as a property of the subject. This is inaccurate, and the main reason why the argument fails. Value is a relation between ...
September 24, 2019 at 11:01
You missed the point. It isn’t what they can teach you, but what you can learn from your participation in the discussion: humility, patience, toleranc...
September 23, 2019 at 08:28
Illegitimate? Not at the time, in most cases. Rude, disrespectful, oppressive, dismissive - yes. To be honest, giving the land back - even if you coul...
September 23, 2019 at 06:59
Life is not only suffering, though. The point is that we shouldn’t be focused on trying to avoid it or eliminate it, but on what we can do with our li...
September 23, 2019 at 05:31
My view of ‘gender’ is that it relates to a three-dimensional structure: 1. physical genitalia (at birth) 2. social role identification (3-11 years) 3...
September 23, 2019 at 04:26
When you say ‘given enough time’ do you mean within the constraints of a human lifetime, or given unlimited time - which would render this human mind ...
September 23, 2019 at 02:40
Compassion is ‘suffering with’. It’s recognising that we all experience pain, loss and humility as a part of life, and we should connect and collabora...
September 23, 2019 at 02:31
A couple of comments about my approach to the terminology, before I begin. First of all, technically, I’m an atheist. In my view ‘God’ is a concept, n...
September 23, 2019 at 00:52
:up: I’m intrigued by the title - It speaks directly to my current perspective. I’ll have to add it to my reading list. Thanks!
September 16, 2019 at 06:49
The dualism of Descartes has hamstrung this discussion of ‘soul’ for centuries. If we follow the chronological path of modern philosophy through Desca...
September 16, 2019 at 00:32
You’re talking about the experience of an entity: its fifth dimensional aspect. With the same size, colour, weight, shape and in the same location in ...
September 15, 2019 at 01:18
Can’t say that was very effective, with such lmited options. Reminds me of the ‘Dolly’ magazine surveys I used to do when I twelve. I didn’t appreciat...
September 12, 2019 at 12:20
Allow me to approach this from a slightly different angle. Sexual relations occur in living things as a method of preserving the information integrate...
September 12, 2019 at 06:46