Possibility

All instances of suffering are a result of ignorance, isolation and exclusion. Karma refers to the quality of our interconnection with the world - it ...

Why is suicide not a real option? This seems to be where any sense of being ‘stuck’ stems from. There’s a reason why you’ve excluded suicide, whether ...

This is a common misunderstanding. It is the threat of intentional violence, oppression or exclusion that is an effective means for gaining and keepin...

Kindness is a gift, not a transaction - not an IOU. You can’t have it both ways - you can’t consider yourself to be generous and also expect to be rep...

Yet everyone wants ‘world peace’ - we want an end to war, violence and oppression. We just don’t want to believe we are contributing to it in any way,...

Question it based on what? Have they given any indication that they would say no? Or are you assuming this because they haven’t offered? They asked yo...

Like hell you don’t care. There’s a lot of anger and resentment in your choice of words here.

Have you actually asked them for money? It seems to me that any expectation of reciprocity comes into effect only when you are in the same position as...

Wow. He doth protest too much, methinks. Sure, cognition as computation is the best we can get - and that’s fine if computation is all we’re after. I’...

I’m with you here. Cognitive theories, being narrowly focused on cognition, fail to recognise attention and effort as a pre-cognitive, creative/consol...

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Ok, so let’s not worry so much about making propositions, then. Let’s understand language as a logical structuring of qualitative ideas relative to af...

This corresponds to the increase in arbitration and mediation for legal situations regarding harm, disappointment or feelings of rejection. I am wary ...

I think the Israeli-Palestine conflict is a clear example of the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of blame and anger. What would a win-win situation l...

It seems that you’re reluctant to put aside anger as a useful ‘tool’ for interaction. I do get that, and I’m certainly not saying that anger is a ‘bad...

Anger and blame could be valuable only in self-awareness, not in directing towards others. If we believe ourselves righteous in anger towards someone,...

I wouldn’t say wholly responsible for any calamity that befalls me, but responsible at least for my part in it. To eliminate blame is to also refrain ...

Well, that depends on what you consider ‘the world’ to be, as distinct from ‘we’. At what point do we end and the world begins? My point is that affec...

This works in psychology, sure - and without destroying any illusion of ‘individuality’. So yes, it is affectively ‘better understood’. I was going fo...

Thanks Josh. An interesting spotlight on Husserl. This is what I mean by the complication of a subject-object dichotomy in language use, and the relat...

I can see how it would seem that way. But I would argue that ‘affect’ considered as something acting upon us is inaccurate. Affect is part of us, part...

It’s more than just feeling energy, though. You’re referring to affect as positive energy, but affect is also inclusive of what holds us back, what re...

Kant’s understanding of reason is logic relative to human experience. From our perspective, there’s no reason to consider logic beyond reason, and no ...

I stand by what I wrote - but I can see why the argument was made. Phenomenology acknowledges its affected position. Energy = affect when understood f...

Based on what? All you have is your awareness of those thoughts as evidence, and your understanding that thought = evidence of thinking. This does not...

I can see your point. ‘Energy’ is a placeholder for the possibility from which affect emerges. I use ‘energy’ precisely because we don’t know what it ...

I find myself somewhere in between, proposing a triadic model. Kant claims that pure reason has primacy as the structure of reality; you claim the sub...

In a way, yes. When I think what I am aware of is thought and its phenomenal effects. But thought is the result of thinking - when I am aware of thoug...

First of all, I am conscious of my lack of academic rigour in this discussion, so I appreciate your charitable responses, Mww, as well as the direct q...

A thinker is not identical to his thoughts, and any thinker who is unable to recognise this lacks a degree of self-awareness in my book. But either th...

A mistake is the difference between prediction/knowledge and observation/experience, as attributed to either the prediction or to the observation. Mis...

And yet the thinker, even as the immediate describer of reality, is to an extent other than their description. Inclusive reality consists of schema + ...

Practical reason does seem to be the ‘logical’ arbiter, but only to the extent that humans act logically - we can, but we rarely do, particularly when...

Nature, art, etc. The base structure of Kant’s schema is the subject-object relation, with the subject bracketing out sensation, or affect/desire, as ...

I agree that we’re unable to consolidate anything positive about noumenon, but not that we’re incapable of experiencing the limitation ‘in itself’. Se...

This makes sense to me. Kant’s pure reason demonstrates the limitation of human reason, beyond which is the capacity to differentiate between noumena ...

Interesting discussion. We tend to shift almost effortlessly between physical, actual and literal descriptions of reality, and we use language, mathem...

I think that philosophy is honing one’s awareness, way of thinking and reductionist methodology, which alone is not sufficient for a commercial transa...

I’m not assuming this occurred, I’m casting doubt on your assumption of a binary model of segregated male and female roles prior to the forming of soc...

Not separate in the original post, but ok. There is a lot about Dawkins’ gene-centred theory that I disagree with. Not least of these disagreements is...

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When an act consists of you both giving and receiving, it’s a transaction. When it’s just giving, then you don’t count the cost, and whether someone g...

I’m not arguing against a general difference in behaviour, intentions or psychology between men and women, but against the need to define a ‘masculine...

Not sure how you’ve managed to focus on words in what I’ve written that are tangential to the points I was trying to make... I assume you’re attemptin...

Not a ‘bad’ thing, but a limitation. A more objective understanding would readily take the opinion of canis familiaris into account as well as our own...

This metaphor of Homo sapiens as a ‘wild card’ is from the perspective of... Homo sapiens. We have been largely unpredictable to ourselves, but there’...

Well, a case can be argued for almost anything within the parameters of men vs women and morality, such is the nature of the landscape. While I agree ...

Sure, men and women are more or less distinguishable, but I would argue (rather pedantically) it is a general pattern that there are males and females...

I would argue that’s not speaking metaphorically, but ambiguously. Metaphor has a specific qualitative relation as well as a variable. Either it emerg...

Thank you - but I do think it’s important to cite your sources here, if you have the time. Studies can be made to show, for instance, that coffee is b...