ZhouBoTong

Hmmmm, I see your concern, and certainly agree for MOST people, but I think there is another aspect that leads to harm (I am not saying I have any clu...

Yes. And so much more. California. It's just a word. It has a definition. We often use words to summarize more complex concepts (like self). I am not ...

Well I am getting a bit too old to go seeking these things out. Maybe an opportunity will present itself one day. I would still expect at MOST, a loss...

Doesn't "need" and "want" just have to do with the "why"? You are referring to physiological needs, but need is just a word...it is a "need" if there ...

This is full of problems. I see no significant distinction between these four activities when assessing their "meaningfulness". Each of the four can b...

I entirely agree. I am glad you got this thread going. I have always wondered what "loss of self" even means. At least here (the philosophy forum), I ...

Well I have experienced psychedelics. But no matter how far down the rabbit hole I go, there is always a nagging little "I' that never leaves. What th...

I would guess they mean in more metaphorical terms. If I am attached to the idea of my own greatness type of thing. Otherwise, it sounds equally plaus...

If "I" remember the experience, how do "I" know that "I" was ever NOT present? It feels like semantics more than a concrete occurrence?

And what is wrong with summarizing these interpretations with words like "I" or "self"...otherwise we need to preface every opinion with a whole book ...

I hope I can phrase this in a way that is not total gibberish... Wouldn't it be impossible for anyone to be aware of it if they have achieved it? Only...

So then, when you said, You just don't check most of them? Why would it be difficult to admit he lied in this case? You don't even need to do research...

Really?...what about this one:

I find that hard to believe (I know it is 100% false for me personally, but that says exactly nothing about the population as a whole). It is not like...

Wait, when did West Virginia learn to use the internet?

You mean what is more interesting than doing nothing? Not dying is not necessarily an action, is my point. In the jungle, not dying means running away...

First, I think you have pointed out an interesting and potentially important distinction between "living" and "not dying". I mostly agreed, but may ha...

Well we already know people start asking that question more when their basic physical needs no longer need much effort to take care of. I am suggestin...

Yes! that is actually part of my point (obviously not a very clear part, haha). I labelled food, shelter, etc as physical needs not to separate them f...

Thanks for the info. I have read enough similar articles to mostly understand what you are saying. I am now totally fine with shutdowns lasting until ...

Sounds like you have it right. I do my best to read MOST posts before jumping in, but people here are reasonable as long as you don't jump in the midd...

Hahaha. Seems fair.

See, I am not sure I even understand what that means. Just because most people in one area have already had the disease, doesn't mean one person can't...

Seems inevitable if the next 6 months is similar to the last 6 days.

Well that all makes sense. but to flip perspectives, as someone who is often uncomfortable in social situations and definitely has some personal space...

Well I was typing out a long response to your previous post in this thread, but this paragraph gets right to the stuff I have been thinking about a lo...

Because IF the closures are to "stop the spread" (that is what I seem to be hearing), it seems they can only be stopped when there is a vaccine, which...

I can buy "cabin fever" for a couple weeks (not so much for a year or two). However, if I recall, the term "cabin fever" arose because people do some ...

Indeed. Unfortunately, they can only be viewed by the four people that can fit in the room at any time given appropriate social distancing. I am being...

I have my doubts about this. People do many things that hinder their long-term survival (I don't mean species long term, I mean individually - people ...

I believe you are correct. This thread was inspired by the coronavirus, but it is not about the coronavirus (although the coronavirus is a great curre...

I was thinking about this after I said I thought education fit into every area. My objection may be accurate but insignificant at the same time. Towar...

ah, I thought of that after I wrote that, and meant to add that I had not read everything :up: Hmm, I am unconvinced by that placement of philosophy o...

That is a much simpler way of saying it :up: It would be, if I wasn't so deeply conditioned to human fallibility :grimace:

I would say false. Let's say 50 years was enough time for me to view EVERY iteration possible in a chess game. Unfortunately, by the second year any n...

@"Pfhorrest" Ok. So first off, it was understandable :smile:, and that is the most important thing as far as I am concerned. From the novice perspecti...

You have a point. But your point holds up much more with tic-tac-toe than chess. For chess, a computer could possibly "memorize" the nearly infinite i...

Ok, I was being too literal again (if ALL international travel is stopped then ALL trade is stopped). I can certainly accept that was not your positio...

@"Pfhorrest" I am reading it now, but I know I am not going to have time tonight to actually give a decent response. I will get to it in the next coup...

Interesting. That is kind of how I have felt, but wasn't sure it applied to un-medicated insanity. Hmmm, my experience is often the opposite. I FEEL l...

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Well surely if "international travel" includes "international trade" then I think those "crazy affects" are almost certain...eventually (you are right...

I apologize if it seems I am being flippant about real problems, but this is interesting to me... Is any aspect of "drifting into insanity" fun, novel...

That doesn't make it "fine". However, if 70% of the population was drinking and driving I would think it ridiculous to think I am going to solve (even...

Resentful...a bit severe, but probably, yes, a little. Are you resentful that it was not added to our currency until 1956? You may want to re-read my ...

Hmmm, well: Greetings! I'm not a Richard Dawkins fan by any stretch. If anything, though I'm not sure of this, he probably had some personally traumat...

Hmmm, I was just basing it on her running a VERY anti-billionaire campaign. There is only one other anti-billionaire candidate. Well that is fair. We ...

And THE FACT that MOST people are NOT financially responsible doesn't affect that opinion at all? You seem to support Social Security, which exists ex...

Good. I certainly meant to portray your position as admirable. Indeed. I am in Orange County. The NIMBYism is rampant.

If we say all humor is connected to the concept of irony, does that get us anywhere? That is the only "universal" I can think of related to humor. And...