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So you're saying that the issue of reality is not a metaphysical issue? I can point to a plethora of references that say it is. Wikipedia being my sta...

A little known fact about Kant that I find pertinent:

To further compliment this: Truth is an epistemic criterion that is meaningless when devoid of the concept of reality. Reality is studied by ontology....

Yes, unclassified semantics can get in the way. Just checked and wikipedia has this to say: (emphasis mine) So indeterminism proper seems to serve as ...

I’m currently seeing this as mismatch of ideas. For instance, from the pov of some aboriginal society, our modern western societies might be considere...

I’ll give it a try – here borrowing ideas from some of the previous posters. Experientially speaking, the past is composed of memories, both long-term...

Yes, still, every drop in the bucket counts, is my concise view. I get most worried when no body talks about anything – outside of pounding their fist...

I can see that argument. I don't know of recorded homosexuals among bonobos, though. They are, however, well documented to be bisexual. :up: I very mu...

Yes, here: OK, I'm not opposed to the general idea. But how do you figure that our human touchiness in relation to sexual intimacy relates to our clos...

Of course. We could also get into why human lips turn redder when we get sexually aroused, especially amplified in females with rouge lipstick. But th...

No, bonobos are quite fertile animals. Re strategies: From my studies, it boils down to choice between one of two strategies for males: shoot seeds li...

The thrust, to summarize, was that our emotions on sexual intimacy are grounded in evolutionary functionality. Right? Bonobos, one of our two closest ...

Yes, well, bonobos are horny and kinky little monkeys (great apes, to be exact). They'll have sex in exchange for a banana with no hard feelings on an...

Um, I’ll be one of the prudes, if labels are requisite. I don’t give a damn about how safe the sex is, if a sexual partner of mine (I’m into that mono...

Cool. No worries.

Sure. But of course. 100% thumbs up. But the tone and overall content of your reply puzzles me. Its as if it was written by a person other than that w...

First, I agree with the sense of political powerlessness. Secondly, darn it but stifling talk about how things could improve is the biggest means of c...

I'm not too far removed from the sentiment of your reply. In fairness, I was addressing that aspect of the OP where it's offered that all politics dea...

But there are different modes of identity association. The humanitarian often associates him/herself with a humanitarian identity, where all other hum...

Um, no. I was asking you to reference the bit about the law of identity being what you've purported it to be. I'll agree to disagree at this point.

This, then, is an important point of divergence. Now, I acknowledged the possibility of my being wrong, so I’ll ask you to reference where you obtain ...

I'll reply to your latest post better if you explain something to me. What do you understand the law of identity to be?

Beautiful quote. :up: Mixing in what I take from some Native American thought - as in "It's a good day to die": If every moment of one's life could be...

Being can be expressed as the generalized notion of "anything which was, is, or will be", although as @"Wayfarer" noted, in many philosophies it is mo...

Reminds me of a joke: "How do serpents move when they're piss-ass drunk? Straight, of course." So .... um. Does that make all non-drunk snakes natural...

Laws being "human-constructed" is, to me, a very clear means of saying that they "come about". So I'm not very certain of your stance in terms of oppo...

will try to better address this later on tonight. Need to go to work for now.

Trick question. I don't. I believe they're a deterministic aspect of sentience endowed existence, i.e. any conceivable existence wherein sentience dwe...

RE: (neuro)science, thoughts, and philosophy. Not intending to stay long in this discussion, but, as an observation: The actualization of thoughts is ...

What comes to mind: All our choices between alternatives we sense, regardless of how trivial, are us standing at crossroads. The path we choose oblite...

Thank you for your further clarification. I do, however, feel that I am in agreement with your point of view in all general regards save that of there...

Cheers. FYI, as religions go, I'm a fan of Gnosticism. And am a bit peeved about the at the very least cultural genocide of the Gnostics after the Cou...

From one of Tom Waits' songs, as best I recall: “Everything you can think of is true ” This can only make sense, thought, from the roundabout perspect...

Yea, but this term, "image" has always bothered me in Abrahamic scripture, at least as it is conveyed in English. The term ought to be "likeness". "Im...

This is an odd phrasing. What would “subjective experience” stand in contrast to? “Non-subjective experience” comes to mind, but this would be a seman...

I agree with the gist of your perspective, but don't believe the "mind's eye"—as its sometimes called (i.e., the presence of a first-person point-of-v...

So, just got done typing away another long reply. But then I realized that it's all skirting around underlying issues regarding universals—rather than...

(to those who decry long posts, feel free to not read this) There’s a lot that I haven’t yet replied to. Even if I don’t get around to all of it, I th...

I’ll start with a joke: An artist presents his much anticipated work at a gallery. It’s a large blank canvas. A commoner askes the artist what it’s su...

Since this is beginning to overly deviate from topics of aesthetics, while I disagree, I don't have much left to say here.

great. Can you answer this:

RE: "for everyone": I’ll in turn point out that your reliance on exceptions to the general given that “books require more use of imagination than do m...

We appear to hold experiences that greatly differ ... especially when assuming you read my first post given today regarding the differences between fi...

Sure, but the comparison in degrees of imagination was between a good movie and a good book presenting the same story. Do you disagree with this:

In the spirit of giving a better impression of where I’m coming from: In movies the imagery is given to you. In literature, the imagery is constructed...

I agree with this. :up: Still, it doesn't change the fact that many people find the concept of "Absolute Non-Existence" meaningful. But I see how this...

But then why does the symbol of "nothingness" as a word point to something that we find meaningful, i.e. something that humans deem to hold an ontolog...

How then would you make sense of the law of identity specifying that "nothingness" = "nothingness"? This where "nothingness" is defined as absence of ...

Ok, you made me curious. Unless you’d be one to presume that reality should follow your inventions in all cases without exception, if 1+1=2 as inventi...

Isn't this confounding some mathematical models of physics with mathematics per se? For one example, we could address one potentiality as contrasted w...