What I held in mind is that conscious reasoning—the process of consciously finding and structuring causes, motives, and explanations for givens—is mor...
Interesting topic for me. I find a partial truth to this quoted text. But I’m digging toward something deeper than life as we know it; I’m thinking of...
You’re conceding to something by saying “little control” rather than “no control”. I can agree that we have partial but not full control over everythi...
I take this to be a good example, though maybe not all that popular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DjMNL_duZo Adding to a lot of what has already b...
Here is a metaphysical resolution to Hume’s guillotine. I emphasize it is only outlined. Hypothesize, first, that there is an ontically certain end-st...
Once on gets past the often materialist mindset that self, that ego, is a bag of organized flesh, it then becomes both feasible and quite obvious that...
Call me cynical, or worse, but I don’t comprehend how mankind could have any value to anyone outside of self-interests in the wellbeing of others. Sel...
I’ll be forthright. My mindset is that we’re all selfish, we all want something; and we all get irritated or worse when we clash with those whose want...
Especially when it comes to humans, there’s more procreated than just flesh. Humans being a sexually reproducing species, we amalgamate two separate b...
Speaking as a philosophical skeptic myself, there’s some important qualifiers to certainty that are too often left implicit. Are we addressing that wh...
I’ve never, never, liked Freudianisms. Anything that is remotely worthwhile in Freud can be found in William James’s “Principles of Psychology”—a leng...
Hm. It’s not that the philosophy of mind is directly formative of the psyche it seeks to explain. Rather, the ontology I subscribe to facilitates the ...
For what it’s worth, the broadest sense of communication I can currently speculate of is “to impart form to”—this where “form” is interpreted in the b...
I’m in general agreement with unenlightened. For my part: “Communicate” is one of those words whose ambiguity can facilitate a number of different mea...
The morning is not the only transient timespan when utterly new and always different events unfold despite it being the same exact re-occurrence for a...
Man, I like your post. Kind of curious to know if the book has anything to say about being a badass, a smartass, or else a dumbass and the sociologica...
As though the thread wasn’t complicated enough, you have to go and bring up an infinite regress problem of all things. Let it be, I say. Practical phi...
Myself, I take it that all affective states—emotions and moods—will hold what in psychology is termed a positive valence or a negative valence … which...
I’ll argue this way: Happiness is meaningful. One emotive sensation is both discerned from others and is either wanted or shun only because it is mean...
Don’t laugh, and I don’t mean to compare difficulties of addiction by this, but I can relate to some of what you say on account of my own nicotine add...
Just read you’re last post. I really wish there were some way I could help out, but I get that talk if often cheap. There's a Romanian saying that sum...
Though I should leave your last post to be as is, but, to be clear, I fully agree that a healthy, reality-grounded optimism is always a good thing to ...
Yes, I'm aware of this from a documentary or two. I agree it would be beneficial. But then, how would the pharmaceutical companies maintain stock prof...
Not sure what you have in mind, nor of how well this rough idea might fit. Carl Jung talked of synchronicities wherein one’s mental states of belief a...
Man, I could make use with some of that willpower myself every now and then. Congrats. A lot easier said than done, but definitely rewarding when acco...
The term “suffering” can imply a lot of different things. I like it's etymology: roughly paraphrased, the need to support some unwanted weight or burd...
I’m aware that anything I might say will be trite. So I’ll say this trite thing: It’s part and parcel of the empathetic life not to be dead inside, wi...
I’ve heard of this sort of thing before, as in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anlm0GtGSOQ I’ve also been told it means one hasn’t become fully dead ...
You just made me revisit the dictionary for definitions of “desire”. The first one that comes up on Wiktionary is, “to want; to wish for earnestly”. W...
I honestly don’t yet understand why desire as you’ve defined it in quotes is not commensurate with intentions. Much less why they should be opposites....
Oh; no, I was aiming for the former: that truism to me depicts the way thing are, hence is descriptive and not prescriptive. As one relatively inconse...
I agree that desire is not innately bad—no more, for example, than the very presence of living selves; rather, its ethical value would be contingent o...
:grin: :up: I often presume that from an Eastern philosophy perspective, the ultimate reality is taken to be that of non-dualistic being/awareness. He...
Fair enough. I'll leave the issue at that, for my part. when logged in, go to the bottom of the post next to the time posted, an arrow will appear lab...
Question. If physicalists are so on board with consciousness being illusory, why do physicalists so often gag at the notion that our phenomenal realit...
I'm only nitpicking: The way I read this it might, or might not, convey an implicit assumption of the permanency of the self … even in so far as consc...
Your comments seem about right to me. That stated, to my mind, the concept of objectivity which I’ve tried to articulate does not of itself make an on...
We do not need to hold concrete particulars of sight in order to contemplate sight in abstract terms. Same applies for the concrete particulars of hea...
From a few days past: ( ) An old thought just came to me, one can apply issues of phenomena on an impartiality spectrum—such that most partial is full...
You’re quoted statement seems to me to only be an incomplete statement. Imo, more completely stated, “Phenomena are mind-caused re-presentations of th...
If it’s of any benefit to the effable/ineffable divide, this to me is in parallel to the rational/arational divide … where “arational” is that which o...
A distinction could be made between phenomenal experiences obtained via the physiological senses and those phenomenal experiences obtained via the ima...
Partook of this discussion, so I won’t bail out of it as time allows. Good questions. Along with the typical answers that so often lead to as of yet i...
Mind consists of both conscious and non-conscious processes. The interplay between the two is greatly debated in many different fields. Since it’s of ...
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