It's a great concept. One thing though. SInce we are currently not progressing towards a better future (misuse of technology is destroying the biosphe...
:up: Part of the problem is that the OP didn't really indicate what particular obstacles to self-awareness he/she was facing, only a vague and abstrac...
It's like anything, caveat emptor. Learning that one has an epistemic responsibility is certainly key to self-awareness! Perhaps, for some, the way to...
It sounds to me like you are referring to people who are trying to exploit other people who have a genuine belief, which isn't really an indictment of...
Fortunately a great many people don't share this unfortunate view. "Anyone who says it is impossible to obtain this says no more than it is impossible...
If you are interested in cultivating an awareness of awareness then Idealism is a logical avenue. Currently I'm reading Fichte, whose central concept ...
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us t...
The tone of this seems to fall in the category of demonizing communism typical of many advocates of capitalism. Has the spirit of Marx's communism bee...
So this is just a special case of the failure of democracy in general. Ideally, a democratic society would naturally evolve to minimize the plutocrati...
Philosophically, this seems the soundest approach. If reality in general is "of the nature of a simulation" then that doesn't add or subtract anything...
The most productive hypothesis seems to me to assume that belief in truth has positive merits. What the exact nature of those merits is is what we lea...
But whatever is the truth, you only get as close to it as "believing this true." So how can you ever be confident in the motivation behind your own be...
Presumably, our values are what "drive" us - that is, what supply the motive power to what we actually do do in the world. I'd assume that there is a ...
If your actions serve as an example, then someone else could learn a principle which you yourself do not grasp. For example, if you poke your hand in ...
Maybe independent of any specific knower, but not of being known or knowledge in general. I think that is how Peirce would describe the relation. To m...
Yes, all of this. If you think of knowledge from a holistic perspective, it seems self-evident that our economically-driven societies have over-emphas...
Nothing is absolutely created or destroyed, it only changes form. When a star explodes, its atoms continue, and their trajectory reflects and continue...
As I mentioned in another thread, I see the multiverse concept as indicative of the emergence of a new scientific paradigm, coinciding with the increa...
More on point the philosophical study of the general metaphysical notions that are applied in all our scientific disciplines....This modal suggestion,...
The relationship between metaphysical research programs and scientific theories is pretty complex, I'll give you that. This looks interesting, but it'...
Math is intriguing. Did you know that quite recently, scientists were able to create an entirely new phase state of matter that resists quantum decohe...
Inasmuch as the machine was created and deployed by human intention, I don't think this successfully detaches the observer from the event, do you? It'...
You must be a very empathetic and generous person to put yourself in this position. It amazes me that the people with very limited resources are often...
I think that the problem should be approached at the more general level of corporate accountability. Dramatically increase the scope of government to ...
Yes. As I like to think of it, it is never not now. I'm sure your descriptions match the inspiration of pantheists throughout time. Somehow, being bor...
If you undertake a dream journal, and thoroughly and regularly document your dreams, your dreams will grow in extent and clarity (at least your recoll...
Extending one's concerns beyond the limitations of the self. We are fundamentally social beings. Being stranded on an island of self-indulgent thought...
It was never attributed to you, it was made by me, Agent Smith misread the post, which was clear enough. And, FYI, mindfulness is not a new idea but i...
As you mention social life, there is also the whole competing sociological traditions of Rousseau and Hobbes to consider in this context. Society as s...
Why can it not simply be natural cause and effect? Very few (if any) actions absolutely terminate in their intended consequences. Anything you do cont...
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