If the meaning of awake no longer has a reference in experience, then that meaning has been destroyed. If you say that being awake is dreaming, then y...
No you can't. Meanings are developed based on experience. If you categorize the experience of being awake as being equivalent to the experience of dre...
Sure, it's logically possible that life - by analogy - has the structure of a dream, but we really have no reason to suppose so (at least in our ordin...
Can I post a thread with just the title and no content for the OP? The guidelines state: The only one I'm worried about is b. What if I don't want to ...
It's an interesting thing. For me, I don't do things for mental pleasure. Rather mental pleasure sometimes is a result of it. I do things, at a proxim...
Why is a child raised by monkeys anymore normal or natural than a child raised by human beings? I would think that quite the contrary, that child woul...
When I was saying Trump is a good deal maker you were laughing at his incompetence. Now that he's actually making the deals, you're complaining that h...
Okay, sure. If I do that, I end up many times with the answer that it's an expression of my being to pursue that goal. There's no further reason. It's...
They would still have commonalities - they have spin for example. Hmmm okay, I don't know the physics that well anymore (it's been awhile). I would pr...
I don't think those are point particles. They do have extension to begin with. They can also according to some theories be conceived of as excitations...
Depends on the particular things that you're referring to. But very generally, they have at least one attribute in common at minimum. Two extended thi...
No, it's laughable that you compare yourself with Plato. Plato didn't have cases like myself who cannot be accounted by his theory. YOU, on the other ...
Maybe it is, but how else would we conceive of substance? Spinoza's point is that there's no other coherent way to understand substance. For example, ...
I think Spinoza addresses this problem in the first part of the Ethics. What this means is basically that a photon and an electron can be either conve...
I don't mean to claim he says it's just stories. Absolutely not. I think he says that there are "transcendent" psychological realities that underlie t...
States of what? Affairs? Yes, I don't think anyone will doubt that there are mental states of affairs and physical ones. However! This does not necess...
Just by listening to his lectures, and also interviews and conversations. For example I remember both of his debates with Sam Harris giving me that id...
When you said this, I got scared that you had banned him, so I had to check his profile... Sometimes, not all the time. But yes, you're quite frequent...
Care to explain why you think so? His interpretation of the Fall, the Resurrection, etc. is purely psychological. He doesn't view these events as havi...
Where did I talk about his own experience? This isn't even about reading what I said charitably, it's simply about reading it. If you can't even do th...
Yes, Peterson makes a lot of sense in his anti-POMO fight. However his personal philosophy with the Jungian archetypes and purely psychological interp...
Personally? To gain greater insight into myself and the world. Why do I want that? To change the world for the better. I would agree with you, that's ...
Hmm interesting. I never much understood how the doctrine can be appealing. Personally I'm much closer to neutral monism than substance dualism, and I...
Hmmm... Not under Schopenhauer's own system though. Since boredom still would count merely as a manifestation of will, so that would mean that will ha...
I don't think it's possible to de-escalate actually. Kim has no way to maintain his power. Making peace with the US and the world is his worst nightma...
Sure, but likely nothing would have happened. In this case, the court was alerted by the secret services. A regular person would have had no secret se...
And if he had put a $5,000 bounty on the lock of a random woman's hair from the street, people would have laughed and taken it as a joke right? But be...
Thanks. I've also read The Ego Tunnel. As everyone knows I'm not sympathetic to the eliminative materialist stance, nor for that matter to those who a...
Yes, but you forget that she's narcissistic and extremely selfish. She thinks she deserves the Presidency, and will probably reinterpret her current l...
Maybe, but she and her family is still extremely powerful and influential. Even if people don't like her, she will still probably manage to clinch the...
Don't worry, she won't. In 2020 she will be running again - and probably because of her power and influence in the DNC, she'll be the primary candidat...
>:O I'm currently reading these books, all at once :-O (a few I've finished already though): Behold The Spirit by Alan Watts Gravity and Grace by Simo...
Really the reason he got sent to jail - the Hillary thing - is insane. Tell me that that's not evidence that the state has become authoritarian and if...
Hmmm yes, I think this is correct. Someone who cares deeply about something or someone else cannot be bored, because caring moves him to do things. Th...
No, Plato didn't actually sit on a chair and dream up the tripartite soul. Rather he (and others) based this conception off experience and then verifi...
What you're saying is nothing but the popular conception of Plato. Okay, so we've settled that you don't know about it. Fine, why should I (or anyone ...
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