Doubt (as we are addressing it) is a conscious activity. Do we agree? So, when doubting the location of the cup, can one simultaneously doubt that one...
Having by now read your post, I agree with most everything you’ve stated. Goths can serve as a good example of strong but not big egos, yes. To be in ...
I’m in agreement with this. The leading implicit (psychological) certainty in this hypothetical is that “I’ve lost my cup”. Devoid of this certainty, ...
I very much agree with this. For the sake of simplicity, I’m going to try to distill two identity types and hope the end result won’t sound too fictit...
You bring a good counter example. I’m tempted to theorize that we are humiliated in the examples you’ve given on account of valuing the opinions of th...
If I’m not misunderstanding: For what I’ve so far read it seems to me that doubt has mostly been equated to uncertainty; a very common practice which,...
I was interested in the discussions regarding humiliation and identity. Trying to entice more discussion of this, some opinions: Humiliation can be de...
I feel like we’re starting to go around in circles. The property of being conscious is one held by living systems. The point of the “pulling the plug”...
This seems to be the very crux of the disagreement. I could phrase in terms of there being a pivotal difference between a) pulling the plug on a very ...
I can relate to inanimate things being capable of displaying what we interpret to be intelligence. A smartphone is after all considered to be “smart”....
What parts were unclear? I thought I’d simplified the concepts into very clear terms. Entropy: energy moving toward thermal equilibrium. Negentropy: e...
But they're still entropic. Right? You guys have read my full post. Is there disagreement, for example, in that you uphold life itself to be entropic ...
Entropy is the process in which energy progresses toward thermal equilibrium. Some express it as ordered systems progressing toward uniform disorder. ...
Computers are all entropic, algorithms, memory, and all. Life, regardless of how simple, is negentropic—and, quite arguably, always awareness-endowed,...
To add to the previous posters: I’m here addressing what most take to be freewill, agency; roughly: a finite LFW limited by factors beyond any individ...
OK, yea. You’re right. For what it’s worth though, I have a vague memory from some documentary of a Cesar who was ridiculed for being sexually attract...
I somehow imagine (don’t know how much substance my imagination has here) that you’d be more knowledgeable about this than I am. And I currently am no...
Interesting concept, one that I might be inadvertently paralleling in my own philosophical musings. Husserl is one more person I haven't yet read. Do ...
Yea, I share that feeling. Being anything but saintly myself, I'll gravitate toward closure in some situations. But its one thing I always admired abo...
:up: I very much like that. :smile: There is no living being that exists devoid of other living beings with which it interacts. Even the most solitary...
I'm not claiming these are easy questions to answer, but to me the key to obtaining answers is found in interpreting all meaning as complex relations ...
I follow that. I'd only add that many of a more literal mindset have problems with the term "nothingness"; rather than interpreting it as "no-thing-ne...
What do you make of words that are at the tip of one’s tongue? Here I find a clear example of our awareness of an utterly non-phenomenal meaning—a mea...
From what I’ve so far read, I align myself with @"Rank Amateur". In attempts to approach the issue from a somewhat different angle: In one’s lack of b...
I differ here in believing that it asks for meaning ... which is however only conveyable—be it to other or to self—through signs. But to me there is a...
Some musing: Meaning is equivalent to significance. Placing the etymology of sign-ificance aside, the term/sign of “meaning” (correction: significance...
In case you’d like to explore the issue: As to agents, such as ourselves, our motives are not of themselves efficient causes for what we choose. In a ...
OK. However: Were Aristotle’s unmoved mover to be a motive rather than an agency, would you still find 2 & 4 to necessarily contradict? As for me, Ari...
Do you believe that any agency can occur in absence of motive(s) for that which the agents perform (think, act, etc.)? I personally don’t. But then th...
How about this approach (I find it consistent with what Mentalusion is saying): Memory is the (re-)experiencing of a previously obtained experience. T...
This subject reminds me of something that likewise hits very close to home, given the times we live in: to be tolerant toward intolerance is to elimin...
Got it. I don’t know the angle your approaching this topic from, but if this helps out: There’s a weird paradox that can emerge from Humean causation ...
Yes, and in so doing he is limiting himself to efficient causation pertaining to the physically objective world. This being in keeping with the defini...
Not sure how to vote since I agree with Hume in his own context of time and culture but also find his views in many ways outdated. At any rate, I thin...
I’m finding myself liking your metaphors. For what it’s worth, I myself sometimes liken things to a very complex and sometimes Sisyphus-like evolution...
While I don't believe that your comment validly applies to anyone here, I’m guessing it would be for the fuck of it—i.e., so as to facilitate the poss...
Here focusing on the term “bias”: (perfect) impartiality can in certain contexts be synonymous to (perfect) fairness. And fairness is what most take t...
:blush: Thanks kindly. I was feeling a bit anxious about the post. Yes, “dia-subjectivity” is a term and concept that I’ve devised. I very much agree ...
Currently thinking of Schopenhauer’s Will and Representation, and in attempts to add to the general discussion of awareness and ideas as its creations...
It a very interesting topic to me as well. Didn't intend to in any way derail it. Looking forward to reading the conversations. Wanted to clarify this...
In case the point of the analogy was missed, animals and children hold confidence in “what is” just as we adults hold confidence in “what is”. They ce...
My best reply is a semi-rhetorical question: do adult humans "know reality"? We certainly build constructs to explain what reality is and entails, and...
True, no more than grown adults reflect on Kantian categories of experience--until they so contemplate. I'm arguing that both, however, know of realit...
Pointing out that this opinion is very contestable, if not directly contradictory to the nature of experience. On the one hand, philosophies such as t...
This conclusion is in direct contradiction to risk taking: from buying lottery tickets to deciding what to do when one falls in love with someone they...
Regarding traveling on a long path or next to a cliff, both getting lost on the path and falling off of the cliff would be detrimental to arriving at ...
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