Pantagruel

Another interesting dimension is the idea of 'cognitive effort'. For example, it can be more difficult for someone with muscular dystrophy to lift an ...

Yes, the mental certainly seems to occupy a unique and irreducible role in evolution. I don't know if we create reality so much as shape it. Maybe tho...

:up: Yes, the self and sociation definitely becomes integral to what consciousness is. Specifically, I like the notion of mental shape because shapes ...

The first precept against killing, since all life is sacred. And all living things partake of Buddha nature.

As I offered, I consider this type of awareness, situational awareness, to be the exemplary state of consciousness qua consciousness. This is why the ...

These are all non-sequiturs. If anything, partaking by degrees of the same consciousness as us should afford rights, not subject to ignomies. Buddhist...

I'd call it 'situational awareness.' And, to use your terms, a more experienced consciousness does become more aware. John Searle talks about intentio...

No, it doesn't confuse anything. It corresponds to 'degree of awareness' which conforms with what I'm talking about and focusing on. If you want to ca...

I'd counter that the universal experience of being a child versus being an adult is exemplary of a difference of degree of consciousness. Speaking fro...

Well, my (complete) presentation is really systems theoretical in its orientation, so semantics is "high level" versus the kind of natural operation I...

The person who designed the app certainly can. I've never heard of a photon making a mistake.

Ok. Mistaking is a uniquely mental operation.

I think "intelligence" describes a certain modality of consciousness. What I'm suggesting is that some modalities are more paradigmatic of consciousne...

I think where my train of thought is leading Jack is that certain modalities of consciousness are more paradigmatic, those which are related to realit...

Lots of good answers. Our thoughts do have distal effects by way of symbolic interactions. As said, mind and matter aren't really separate, rather the...

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ar·che·type /?ärk??t?p/ 1. a very typical example of a certain person or thing. "the book is a perfect archetype of the genre" You seem to have a some...

They are quite different words, each with a variety of meanings, but variations on "type." A stereotype was originally a kind of relief printing plate...

And yet they are not explicitly defined, so one person's version of a stereotype may differ considerably from another's. And as you say, they are a ki...

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens I love Dickens as historical documentation of the exploitive excess of early capitalism and the counter-balancing...

Well, there are definitely lots of people who make mistakes when they choose things they believe to be in their best interests. Plato says no one know...

Yes, that's right. It is the expectation that inner and outer mutually correspond. I'm not saying that there are not bad stereotypes, certainly that's...

Maybe that is a negative stereotype of stereotypes.....

Yes, one wonders where philosophers would be without farmers. And yet there is little philosophy of farming. This was something I always liked about m...

Well, somewhere between "all we can do" and all we do do lies knowledge.

This is kind of the whole point. How exactly do you quantify knowledge? Is it measured by the salary that it facilitates? Or is it in the types of thi...

Ok. So if you repeatedly mistreat people in the pursuit of success, will you ultimately reap some kind of negative reward? Is that a fact? It's at lea...

Because the project of life is to live well, and what that means exactly is a mystery that can only be discovered through living. And there are not en...

:up: Yes, science is a method and a body of incomplete and approximate facts. It isn't meant to be an ultimate truth, just one of many tools we should...

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Yes. Repetition compulsion is pretty powerful.

We probably have at least as much to learn on average as we have to teach. But I think that's a good thing.

Or maybe it is?

Selected Philosophical Essays by Max Scheler

I have so many it's hard to pick. Exile on Main Street for sure. Deja Vu. Lately I've given up on albums and just shuffle vintage jazz and funk on Ama...

Exactly. I believe that life is a kind of very large scale experiment. The longer we live, the more likely we are to encounter 'complex evidence', whe...

Just because mental events have neural correlates doesn't mean that they are neurally caused. Embedded cognition views mental events as existing withi...

Post hoc ergo propter hoc is truly an insidious fallacy. Even if consciousness as it is normally defined is typically a manifestation of an individual...

:100: I think this is a desirable state of mind to cultivate. At least, it's also my experience and method. I think if you really believe something, y...

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You ever wish you could read all your books and all the ones that everyone else on here posts also? :chin:

What criterion measures the coherency of a belief? If a belief realizes itself in an appropriate action then it is coherent. The fact that it can also...

It is a belief which has been evaluated against intersubjectively validated constraints or condition, which is one usual way of describing objectivity...

:up: Absolutely. Maybe the back and front of the same page. edit: essentially my thread talking about how wanting to believe becomes believing could b...

I'm not actually seeing any supporting evidence in the link you posted. However, I can say, in general terms, that this hinges on one thing: does know...

Ok, I didn't notice that was a link. I'm extremely conversant with cognitive biases (it was the central theme of some extensive work I did from 1991 t...

Hmmm. Exactly how does reflection differ from introspection?

So is introspection philosophical or psychological?