I wondered if the potentiality for humans to become god-like was something which would follow from your philosophy, it was an actual question, not an ...
Again, though I am not of the opinion that "reality" depends on a human observer to exist, for all practical purposes, if something cannot be known it...
I was under the impression that the context in which Apo used the term "unintelligible" had more to do with how things would be if brains weren't perc...
That doesn't follow, I said I find it likely that mind emerges out of matter. The faith I have is the progress which will be made in understanding the...
That's not my interpretation of the current consensus, a consensus which (to my mind) states that the big bang is the point where the known laws of ph...
I can agree with that but the issue here is the knowing. People adhered to the law of gravity by sticking to the ground before we started to share the...
What if, instead of a die, you take Buffon's needle? You can throw a needle on a paper and after a while you can deduce Pi from doing so. As with a di...
Though I feel everyone has a dark side which should not be overlooked, that was helpful to me also. I'll quit smoking tomorrow, it has been coming to ...
This baffles me also, part of my mishap is because of that. I find it odd people can have kids, sleep in the same bed every night, exist together and ...
Not to bring this as a sob story or anything but I think I can relate quite a bit. I seem to be a lot like my dad, he has a social awkwardness which s...
Should, could, need, try..... How about I am going to do..... ? On another note, I don't know how terribly self-conscious you are but like "you can't ...
Not to someone with synaesthesia. And are you not making yourself guilty of the very thing you're talking about? For some, asking the question: "What ...
Though the supposed proof against free will is characterized by outside observers being able to get better knowledge about our behaviour then we ourse...
How about the knowledge we can (!) have about what is causing our own behaviour at a certain moment, this simplified internal representation of a comp...
Ironic how it seems to be free will keeping us from disproving it ;) (Don't think that has to do with us never becoming able to model human behaviour,...
I would say no, it isn't falsifiable. In my opinion we can treat the past deterministically and deduce a certain amount of constraints which will, par...
Glad you cleared that up. What you're talking about here seems a lot like the free will worth having. I see that as a form of moral competence, which ...
Though we might not have the willpower to consciously grow our own nails or beat our own hearts we've grown into very peculiar beings which are capabl...
Who determined the robot didn't want to harm anyone? does the robot has a sense of self preservation? Is it future goal oriented and if so, how does i...
I found this a good one: https://youtu.be/pCofmZlC72g?t=42m19s "Clearly there's a difference between voluntary and involuntary action, yet we don't ne...
The example of an existential crisis possibly being a cause for depression could be seen as a form of a negative placebo lying at the root of the prob...
But srsly, isn't knowing a bit like being able to value sensory inputs as functional information? (I'm aware I'm already presupposing on a lot of meta...
If there's no "physical malfunction" causing the depression I would go along with the above. Though the way you put it you make it seem as if "normal"...
How do you know that? Maybe what we call evolution and think of as biology now is a natural mechanism of the universe, the fact that we haven't picked...
Yeah It's hard for me to explain myself at times, I guess I'm some what of an existentialist who feels there's more objective reason to be so then man...
@ daldai Isn't the observation that an overly rational outlook makes you act in a way which tries to negate that very observation an indication of inh...
Isn't the schism / confusion in most such debates about the metaphysical difference between empiricism and idealism / pragmatism? Determinism could ve...
I guess I'm saying that I feel the Tao points more towards the interplay between the objective and subjective then it being interchangeable with objec...
Well, let's say objective reality is really real, it's still something we interpret as human beings and which informs our actions / decision making (s...
Sounds familiar, I had a bout of depression late last year and wasn't capable of tolerating any bullsh#t whatsoever. I can also stubbornly persist in ...
It could also be she's quite the narcissist (vulnerable type), hormones can and probably do play a big role in erratic behaviour but such types genera...
It sounds a bit like the hidden measurement interpretation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden-measurements_interpretation) A bit off topic but sinc...
I'm no doctor and I don't pretend to be one, I also don't know much about lithium but I feel your statement is bit too positive here. You make it seem...
I know very well the dichotomy we are able to make between a more objective "rational" view and our feelings on things, I would not be inclined to fat...
The potential for existential depressions (aside from a purely physiological clinical depression) is something that goes hand in hand with the human c...
Cause and effect could be hard to discern here, were you stuck with a certain inkling which made you turn to philosophy and was it the philosophy whic...
/uploads/files/q4/yakou9eg92x2js57.png https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=-3.88&soc=-4.92 Though I generally despise details whi...
Maybe it's the same doctrine I'm (we?) criticizing but: "No risk, no reward". If you were to sum up the ideology behind any revolution.... ...I do get...
I'm currently reading a book by a Dutch author (https://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Realists-Universal-Borders-Workweek/dp/9082520303/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8) a...
I think the beginning of it starts with a sense of being forced to comply and this depends a lot on our awareness of our environment. In the more well...
I probably misinterpreted things a bit, things appeared to move toward some form of self flagellation to me, apologies. I would not agree with this, p...
As a native Dutchman I am not very keenly aware of explicit efforts to try and negate what happened there, though this tendency could have been more r...
So you indoctrinate others with your firm grasp on absolute truth. And yourself, even though you claim you have no right to on how others are supposed...
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