Possibility

The operation is a choice the ‘patient’ makes freely, with an understanding of the risks. A failed operation is an opportunity to improve on the next ...

I was specifically addressing the OP - but yes - I agree, and have said said, that the issue ultimately has nothing to do with gender. Agreed. Did I m...

I’m saying that our understanding of cause is not as clear as we assume. When we talk about events that cause events, we’re referring to agents. When ...

Still potential. Did you see how your language shifted? Now you’re referring to cause as a principle, which is structurally different to an agent.

I was saying that many women argue in this way when men attempt to rationally justify their position - not that ALL women do, or that ALL men rational...

Actually, it was a specific reference to specifically described delusion that results in misogyny and violence, so I stand by my terminology. I hadn’t...

I get that four-dimensional existence can only manifest from existing causality, but there’s nothing to suggest that causality has a temporal location...

I was very careful not to make any generalisations about either men or women. I specifically referred to ‘a man’ or ‘a woman’, unless describing the d...

Any ‘self’ is constructed as a perceived distinction of logic, quality and energy in relation to one’s conceptual reality. A construction of self alwa...

I consider ‘awareness’ to be a more general term, with ‘consciousness’ referring to a more complex level of awareness. I make this terminological dist...

The main delusions here are that a man is the central, rational subject of a chaotic reality - and women have subjective intention ONLY in relation to...

I’m not saying that suffering is ‘manageable’. You’re grasping for criticisms, here. Reducing suffering is not the same as avoiding it. Nor am I sayin...

I’m simply saying that there is more to a conscious existence than you are describing here, and choosing not to follow a particular socio-cultural age...

I have not said that we should collaborate, although if reducing suffering is your priority, then yes, I think increasing collaboration is the most ef...

I’m trying to draw your attention to the qualitative structural difference between actual and potential. It’s not that I don’t agree with the definiti...

Again with the implicit... Let me reiterate once again that I am NOT arguing FOR procreation, and I am NOT saying that we should procreate because we ...

Bring: Cause (someone or something) to come to a place. Cause someone or something to BE in a particular state or condition. The implication in this v...

This seems an oversimplification, a collapse of the wavefunction upon observation. Humans achieve homeostasis through a balance of action AND inaction...

I appreciate your open-minded approach. I think this warning is often along the lines of ‘when the student is ready, the teacher appears’. I agree tha...

You can’t twist logic, but you can ignore it. Individuals are not ‘brought into existence’ from somewhere else they’d rather be. They are ‘conceived’ ...

No - gaslighting is denying aspects of someone else’s experience when it doesn’t fit with your perspective. It’s falsifying by exclusion. Again, you a...

I get where you’re coming from, and I agree that the ongoing conceptualisation process is atemporal. I don’t doubt that modern cognitive science suppo...

Ok, so we differentiate into basic units by characteristic(s) first, then integrate them back together under new, united differentiation. So how do we...

Not garbage, but let’s just say that I think there are at least two main ways we can approach concept formation. Rand appears to give primacy to quant...

Prediction error minimization for emergence of altruistic behavior Altruistic food sharing behavior by human infants after a hunger manipulation

Can I just address this ‘gaslighting’ accusation for a bit... Gaslighting: “psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of ...

That’s close, and I appreciate you taking another look. As ‘persons’ (and I use these quotes because I don’t assume we’re talking about an identical c...

Dimension is basically a qualitative structure of relations. When you make two marks on a page, the relationship between them is one-dimensional. But ...

No references - this is my own speculative philosophy. Let’s just say that the article you posted about Buddhist logic is indicative of how I have dev...

Did you get this part...? We conceptualise in potentiality.

Gross misrepresentation of everything that I’ve written. Read it again. Sure - I haven’t said that you can’t. But you’re not really going to increase ...

I just noticed this in passing and felt the urge to pipe in. Studies show that babies and young children are not as selfish as we assume - this is par...

I agree that the basic biological impetus to action is more broad than pain/pleasure - it’s more along the lines of valence and arousal. A subjective ...

I’m not talking about an overall judgement of someone as ‘ignorant’, but the little choices we make everyday to increase awareness/ignorance, connecti...

Reason exists without spatio-temporal location, as a system of value/potential. Another term for this is conceptual structure (which I prefer as it’s ...

Trying to follow you here, but you keep using ‘reason’ as a noun, and then define it as a verb. Reason (noun) - the power of the mind to think, unders...

You seem to be assuming that I’m talking about ethics in relation to a collection of individuals, but I don’t subscribe to individualism at all. I rec...

There is no ‘space’ in between - it’s all about qualitative structure. Theoretical physics is five-dimensional, applied physics is four-dimensional. T...

I don’t know where you got all of that from - it wasn’t from anything I wrote here. Your own assumptions, perhaps? No, it wasn’t your choice to be bor...

I’ve been trying to process all of this carefully, and I have to admit that my original criticism of her philosophy being ‘limited’ came from individu...

So, you agree with this approach only insofar as there is sufficient self-benefit. But mutual benefit is not the basis - that’s just to consolidate th...

Ok, perhaps not so much limitations in empiricism, then, but in quantifying observation and measurement. The fundamental formulae of quantum physics w...

They are not two different worlds - this is a misinterpretation, and a closer look at theoretical quantum physics (not just the calculations of QM) wo...

Well, I would suggest being kind to a clepto, drug addict or murderer - just not in any way that might endorse or enable the particular aspects of the...

Well, I’m not entirely convinced that you ARE ‘open to ideas’ as such - based on your insistence on an empirical approach. But I’ll take your word for...

Maybe because he ignores or isolates it - partly as a coping mechanism, partly in favour of rationality. That’s speculation, though. I wouldn’t say th...

Same argument, just a broader perspective. Again, same argument, broader perspective. Your understanding of ‘the value of reason’ is relative to a hum...

Well, no, we don’t have to meditate, as such - it’s simply a case of accepting a state of ‘boredom’ instead of feeling like we have to fight against i...

By selfishness, I understand Rand to mean rational self-interest - assuming of course that we’re talking about the possibility of a wholly rational co...

No, they don’t - that’s only because you assume all forms of expression are a craving, a dissatisfaction with the world. But have you considered that ...