Brett

Sure. But perceived as flawless by the self, or science. I don’t think cell replacement is the equivalent of death, it’s that the replacement is not f...

You need drugs to stop the rejection. So it’s not that simple, don’t you think? The body (self) rejects the foreigner.

A nice theory, but in reality the replacement slows down over time until something no longer functions and stops.

And if I’m happy with organ removal, or replacement, is that a sign of the new man who’s slowly separating from the self.

But I would only do it if the result of not doing it was my death. I need a healthy body for my self to act. Fingers, toes, eyes, arms, etc. I can’t d...

Yes, but this leads to death.

So you feel no risk to the self in the process?

I need all the parts that enable me to act the most effectively.

Interesting. I need to think about it.

Not the brain. Yes, separate but dependent.

First of all I feel like it’s my mind holding my body together. My mind needs this otherwise everything disintegrates. The body held together in one p...

How do you know this?

Once again, if you believe this; then you don’t know what you’re talking about. But you do, don’t you? It’s just your ideology getting in the way.

I’m pretty sure I haven’t said that. I didn’t say all entrepreneurs were moral. Why ask me to defend Bezo? What does that have to do with your denial ...

The above is what I disagreed with, not your refutation of this; "Entrepreneurs create wealth, they put ideas into practice, They make the world a bet...

So the customer is an impediment. Where do you imagine the profits come from? The customer doesn’t go in the cost margin, they go in the income margin...

The person that opened a cafe, the person that opened a factory to make shoes, the person who bought trucks to begin a transport business, the person ...

So why aren’t the examples in my post entrepreneurs?

Maybe there’s confusion here about what an entrepreneur is.

I don’t know if I’ve ever said that. The earth orbiting the sun is a fact, what we think is happening is a fiction.

Who built the house you live in, who made the coffee you drink in the morning after you put on your pants that someone made, who opened the cafe where...

The earth orbiting the sun is not an idea.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

It’s interesting that we want to understand. Why aren’t we content with the experience? Why believe dreams refer to something? I’m not saying it’s poi...

I know it leads into a hall of mirrors. But what else would you expect? Some thoughts on knowledge/reality/the unknown. The unknown is another fiction...

What do you mean?

It seems to me that all of us can think our way right up to the limits of knowledge and are then forced to turn back and reconsider or reexamine thing...

In western society we have real tolerance towards our children challenging authority. We virtually regard it as healthy and normal, a rite of passage....

Philosophy takes us to the limits of our knowledge, once there we’re alone. But then how do we comprehend the unknowable, how do we communicate with i...

My apologies. I thought your quotes were what a was to read. The actual source itself is more in depth.

Yes, there’s no end to this.

It seems to me that at this point we generally reach the limits of our reason, that we have knowledge because the human mind imposes conditions that m...

So even in its biased, economic based practices it still functions to the degree enough that governments are put on notice, where there is always the ...

Interesting. Imagine if newspapers went that way; someone outside the “news” outlet, the man in the street with us phone, supplies the stories/news an...

There have been stories about advertisers pressuring media owners about content they’re not happy with by threatening to withdraw advertising. Usually...

That’s an interesting point. Real information about an event or series of events is found in a booK on the subject, which takes months of research and...

Yes evolution is another idea. That animals have mutated overtime is not an idea. But putting these things together such that they add up to evolution...

Is justified psychology being mentally healthy or just getting what you want?

I’m guessing you’re being facetious. I just wanted to be clear what we’re talking about in addressing Shawn’s post. You brought up mental health, so I...

Is Shawn talking about being mentally healthy? What are the goals he’s talking about? What exactly is a justified psychology?

Yes but what do you need to be one? To attain goals I would suggest very sharp teeth to begin with.

I’m pushing thoughts around here. Ideas must have evolved over time. What an idea is itself must have evolved. The origins of ideas may lie in early, ...

Thanks for your post. I made a mistake asking if the mind is a fiction of the mind, and should have asked “Is the mind a fiction?”. And a fiction of w...

Would an idea disappear if two things happened: humans disappeared, or we no longer collectively believed in the idea. So the US Constituition exists ...

Because it’s a respected and state funded international news service owned by Qatari as opposed to private ownership.

I just added that to my previous post. How can technology be part of the outside world? The perception and truth of the outside world has changed with...

That’s not quite what I said. The collection of fictions refers to my thoughts on technology. I never used the term “illusion” which is not the same a...

Nothing?

Possibly true, but it begs the question about the role of the news media in a democracy; just how much freedom is needed to protect a democracy?

How does Al Jazeera and Julian Assange fit into all this?