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Partly due to being peeved at some former poster (who's been known to ask false questions :grin: ) some roundabout input that I hope might be of help....

I grant what you're saying. What I was alluding to, through both examples, is that what you are grateful for experiencing and seem intent to further e...

I was struck by this and related comments in your posts. What, if anything, then makes lobotomizing oneself bad, granted that it will lead to greater ...

For the physicalist, I don’t know. Although I could envision a quest for global harmony a la good old fashioned humanism, one that is accordant to nat...

Yup. Personally, I never understood the quest for immortality. Suppose transhumanism is obtained by a group who eventually become the only living grou...

Can’t say it’s a favorite, and it’s certainly not upbeat, but it’s pith still stands out to me. A thought experiment in ethics: Without your consent, ...

Man, just saw this. If existence is absurd because its being is beyond the principle of sufficient reason, and one seeks to make existence meaningful ...

I’ve been under the impression that Nirvana is a literal, non-hyperbolic, non-dualistic awareness - hence an awareness not limited or bounded by anyth...

I so far don’t find a necessary contradiction between your statement and mine. As adults we all dwell in our own paradigms. A Young-Earth Creationist ...

Hmm, by “truth filtering” I was referring to forsaking certain truths that don’t cohere into one’s system of explanation in favor of those truths that...

I'm in agreement with this. Aside from truths and tastes, there’s also explanatory power involved. Here personal tastes lend themselves to what is dee...

Nothing for me to argue against here. :grin:

Thanks. I'll confess to me having some fun for the time being. :blush: But, yea, you're right.

So given our history of exchanges on this thread where you've asked bogus questions of me, how do I now know that your latest statements are in fact r...

Thinking of Buddhists whose ultimate aim is the emancipation from samsara, which is a predetermined and non-created state of being that awaits as Nirv...

Oh! My bad for replying, then.

Kudos for the historical facts of you last post. Agreed. But disagree that religion can only change people from good to bad (e.g., it’s not like Chris...

You might be in need of defining "reason" for me to better answer your questions. Assuming that I could. BTW: To be clear, my own stance is that the G...

I’ll try to reframe what I was previously saying in terms that you have used, humbly hoping to be more fully understood: You are saying that Reason ha...

Lacking much subtlety of mind myself, I’m gonna post this. This implies God to be a psyche, for prescriptions and values pertain to psyches alone. The...

In attempts to place linguistic shuffling aside: Sans the metaphysics of physicalism being a presupposed truth, what is the logical contradiction of g...

Ah. Got it now. As regards those who initially thought up the concept, point taken. It is expresses as applying to persons, rather than to subjective ...

I'm not clear on what you mean and I'd like to better understand you. Care to elaborate?

The same can be said of “interpersonal”. All forms of human intercourse are interpersonal – yes, sex, but also commerce and communication, and so fort...

Well, yes, an infant would not hold abstracted ideas regarding their innate awareness of self via which other is discerned. And if that is how one cho...

Being a vacuum would suck more. :razz:

Of course. As I wrote in my original reply to the OP, re: one can be aware of being content without perceiving oneself to be content. Are we not aware...

OK. Cool. :grin: Self-awareness becomes redundant it is specifies an innate distinction between self and other, an innate awareness of selfhood in thi...

Just checked definitions to see how “aware” can have a specialized meaning as you imply. Wiktionary provides two, one of which is “conscious or having...

To me, "awareness" belongs in the list. I note that you’ve used “aware”/“awareness” in defining most of the other terms in the OP’s list. At least for...

My guess is that a certain portion of men get disliked due to holding baseless opinions such as this one that gets expressed in the OP. Would some of ...

No worries. I feel bad about this misunderstanding as well. But I'm glad to see it was much ado about nothing. :up:

And I was supposed to somehow mind-read your cryptic intended point? The "its not all about you" snide followed by laughter was not ... um, constructi...

Well, dude, I asked you about what on Earth your statement of backwards determinacy was supposed to mean in terms of causation. Making my two posts to...

You might have been better served pointing me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_eraser - something I've been acquainted with al...

Its a very unique way of defining both effects and causes as "states of the world". A billiard ball's motion as cause for another billiard ball's moti...

Are you suggesting A) that the outcome/effect can *ontologically* determine its cause(s)? Or only B) that we can at times *epistemologically* determin...

Funny, I initially thought this thread was about the anxiety of a geocentric universe as regards sentience. Yup, its from Cohen's "Waiting for the Mir...

Nice first post. :up: My best attempt at a soundbite definition of what I take love to be: Love is a cohesion of sentient being which dissipates ego. ...

Seems like the Cartesian dualism approach, which isn't to my tastes. To each their own, though. What is an exclusively physical experience? I read it ...

At least as regards ordinary language use, a dream (which is intra-personal), a language (which is interpersonal), and a physical apple (which is obje...

I wasn't intending to offer an ontological position, but simply wanted to supplement your statements that that which is invisible is often very import...

I’ll add that cultures, goals, and values (to list just a few examples, the unconscious as just one more) are all invisible - imperceptible by the phy...

We are oceans apart. A culture's form (imperfectly) determines the nature of the individual, constituent, human psyches it, as a culture, is composed ...

You're in good company. Done so myself plenty of times. But, as you say, here the authors are not living ones. And their works were not pirated. I don...

Thanks. :grin: Pragmatically speaking, this seems to be the case in today's world. All the same, there's a musician I like who makes the claim that we...

"Refers" is an inadequate term here. "Socrates" refers to Socrates, and not just any man. Likewise "animal" refers to animals, and not just any living...

While maybe a bit of a tangent to the OP’s intent, I’ve been itching to say this, so I will. Art is, and has always been, a major social force. Cave p...

Seems like we’re approaching a common ground in respect to the hylo-morphology of concepts. Cool. BTW, to me there’s a parallel between Aristotle’s pr...

A very informative post. Thanks for it. To let you know a little more of where I’m coming from: There is the philosophical notion of holons: givens th...