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Yes. It is precisely what we all experience. Our mind/body acting as a unity of itself and of the universe. Waves within an ocean. The macro manifests...

Happiness just happens. It is a guide in life.

Do you believe you are a meaningless soup of chemicals? As far as Dennett is concerned, he found a market where he can spread the word to others seeki...

To understand life is too become a better sailor. Too learn to become more skilled at navigation. To see more. Those who limit their learning to drunk...

This is the part that creates problems. This is not why I study philosophy. I study philosophy in order to better understand life, and when I say stud...

Don't I know it. In football they call it a punt.

Not struggling with anything. It is a meaningless word that says nothing about nothing. I call it lazy philosophy, or another way to put it, all illus...

There are no illusions and illusions are not misunderstandings. However, I understand the appeal for those who wish to create an aura if mystery. The ...

Well, I wasn't the one to use the word illusion. To me it denotes some sorry if magically trickery. By whom? By what? For what reason? I have no idea ...

There is no exact meaning for anything. Words like illusion are used to to imply the mysterious. For me there is nothing mysteries. Just something tha...

An illusion is a word that is inspired by magic. It has a connotation of the mysterious. It is a fun word to use but when I am investigating the natur...

An illusion is not a misunderstanding. When I tell someone that there is a misunderstanding I don't tell them they are having illusions. The two words...

We only see bits. Saying that individual observations are incomplete is different than saying that an observation is still illusion. I have a tendency...

There is no space, as we recognize it in the awake state, when we are asleep or unconscious, but it all forms total existence.

Are you attempting inquiry? Is all this an illusion? Everything is exactly as we observe it, but it is not all and it is constantly changing - changin...

No one is being fooled by anything. There is no 'fooler". The moment one starts anthromorphizing nature, everything gets lost in illusion stories. The...

They are all toxic is all forms. The gradual accumulation of these foreign and harmful substances in the body erodes the body's ability to protect and...

I was not being clear. There is no imagining when in a sleep or dream state. The mind simply has switched states of being. It is not observing or awar...

What do you mean assuming? Just read the inserts, or better yet the actual studies. https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-08-2010/toxic-d...

Mon dieu!

I think you can pretty much ignore all of the academic interpretations, because no one really gets it because no one studies Bergson anymore so they a...

It's because of the philosophical outlook they chose to embrace and couldn't escape from once it became a habit. A healthy philosophy embraces all phy...

I do. I observe that academics is a business onto itself and it's designed around what can be taught in a classroom. Philosophy can only be learned ou...

Yes.

I agree.

My life experience does not support this point if view. I have never felt I can count on a person more or less because if their sex. Value systems are...

I have the same approach. For various reasons we express it differently, but however it is expressed, skilled observation of life has substantial bene...

As much reason to take the fantasy of mind emerging from "physical" seriously. I have no idea what you mean by physical things doing mental things. Ar...

Yes, this is pretty much it in a nutshell. Those who think in terms of discontinuities are constantly dealing with infinities and paradoxes, which sho...

We develop our own value system over time (duration) via a learning process and we mediate our value system with other individuals (friends, family, p...

It doesn't matter that Peirce liked our disliked Bergson's perspective of life, the one commonality they shared was that mind has primacy and matter i...

What is interesting it's that both Bergson and Peirce viewed matter as some sort of decayed or constrained mind. In is unitary but manifesting differe...

This is a most crucial idea. The wholeness of nature and being. However, it I've comes to it by simply reading it, one can never wholely embrace or fu...

To the extent that anything we perceive is "physical", ultimately a machine is only transferring and transforming. It is fundamentally without "meanin...

I don't think there is a universal moral code, or any that comes even close. Some larger communities, e.g. religions, do attempt to adopt one, but sti...

My guess is that this poll is being taken to aid in some self-reflection by everyone. I think it is a very good idea.

Morality is a loosely defined concept that provided some guidance as to how one might act in a community. Every community is different as are its memb...

Everyone is doing things in order to learn the effects of different actions. One can care, and not help, which often leads to healthier outcomes. It i...

The "help cycle" is complicated. At a community level one can choose to participate depending upon circumstances. At the government level it is automa...

Care is a feeling that may manifest as action or inaction. It all depends.

Yes, they do profess. It is part of the character role. In actual practice .... I have observed no differences between men and women when it comes to ...

This I agree with. The Mods most certainly have biases and act based upon them. It's inevitable.

Only to the extent that we are trying to figure out how to live as a community. It is part of the process of discovery.

Thanks for the link. I'll be researching it some. As for editing posts, the button is invisible (don't ask me why, it is part of technology fads), and...

If there is a common denominator it appears to create, explore, and learn, and developing a consensus of values to direct this purpose as a group is t...

Thanks. I always enjoy learning about the origins of ancient myths. In many ways they saw more clearly as the territory was not as littered. I knew a ...

Which is worshipping science is all about. Those who live in the bubble of science have no idea how little science offers. Practically nothing other t...

The only problem is that people have been taught there are such things as truths and logic, in some magical way, gets you there. Philosophy can be pro...

What we have going on here, is narrative replacing actual experience, observation, and intuition (the detective work). It is so much easier to read ab...

I think I understand what you are getting at. Cosmic Goals and Thermodynamic Purpose are much more palatable words. Philosophers can be quite interest...