Eha, tried to read his “Stranger in a Strange Land” later on in life and I couldn’t get past the first hundred pages. Isaac Asimov was my main staple ...
I’ve got’a agree with folks like Lone Wolf and T Clark on this one. To all the poly-amorous aspiring people out there, nature holds mono-amorous partn...
OK, but on its own this leads to the position of Cartesian Dualism. The position does hold some logical inconsistencies at a metaphysical level of con...
And I, in turn, think you are applying an all or nothing perspective to idealism that doesn’t need to be—and almost always isn’t when looking at actua...
Given the context in which my reply to you was made: The materialist affirms that only matter is real. The epiphenomenalist affirms likewise. Sort of ...
Given your knowledge of LeVay (I haven’t read his work yet), you may already be familiar with Aleister Crowley. His positions could potentially be sum...
While I still uphold what I upheld, why not be more concrete in your arguments against the notion of unconditional love? Here’s my reasoning against t...
Speaking as an ignoramus when it comes to the details, maybe it’s because over 6% of the global GDP is spent instead on subsidizing the fossil fuel in...
Their concept(s) of "perception" were not limited to the materialist concept of perception being that which occurs via the living physiological senses...
Ideas, as in thoughts? Man, this is a bit too Cartesian sounding in mindset for my own personal tastes. We are far more than thoughts. Unless one expa...
Yet materialism, at least traditionally, upholds epiphenomenalism to be true. A strange paradoxical perspective: I as an agency, in order to coherentl...
In a very somber way, I have to admit my amusement at this idea. There are an infinite what-ifs (I presume; I haven't enough fingers to count them all...
In a sense, there's a lot more to the story of imaginary and real. E.g. are you’re perceptions, emotions, etc. imaginary or real? They certainly perta...
For my part, a very nicely expressed thesis of what biological autopoiesis consists of. I find nothing here to contradict. Not that this resolves what...
As regard idealism and solipsism: I’d say the allegory to Inception is more for kids who wonder about what-ifs without understanding the (hopefully no...
@Rich @John Days OK, my previous wording was imperfect. On the one hand I agree with Rich. We get a taste of it—of perfectly unconditional love—at tim...
Agreed. As it happens, new tales are always being told. Helps out when the enslaved too have a voice. As regard this thread, I was referring more to t...
:) Yea, I guess you could think of it that way; but then these tails we tell/create latter on serve as the bed we made and need to sleep in/partake of...
To me it’s a complex issue (which I’m still taking a hiatus from for the moment). Wanted, though, to clarify the terminology you’ve expressed: a dead ...
When it comes to linguistic expressions of this issue, I tend to prefer you’re overall approach. more selfless than others by comparison; and this, to...
Yea, I grew up with the belief that “depression is nature’s way of telling you there’s something wrong”. Figure out what that is, resolve it (can be a...
Doubtless there are many facets to the issue addressed in the OP. I’ll here try to tackle the one addressed issue of evil. As for me, while I prefer n...
Understood. I butted in in part due to me viewing this generic view which you address in you post to be, again, a pervasive misunderstanding (at best)...
To found my statements in fact, both Plato and Hume held that there is an external world. Both were staunch philosophical skeptics, rather than parodi...
The underlined portion of the quote is exactly what the (philosophical) skeptic is saying: that there is no absolute certainty, knowledge, or truth th...
Very queer, you mean. Dude, whilst I appreciate you comment, no worries. In the words of someone or other, “there are no solutions, only problems”. Or...
Just as what to me is a humorous side note: Has anybody here seen the evolutionary model/predictions made in the movie “Idiocrasy”? Survival of the fi...
... bury our heads in the sand and consider it a done deal philosophically? :) OK, bitter. I get the desire to prohibit discussion on this. I'll for n...
Well, as I was saying, imposing instead bias upon scientist due to monetary reasons pretty much corrupts that whole scientific ideal of impartiality/o...
On the one hand, there’s a lot of science this and science that in our culture. Trouble is that it’s mostly duckspoken by folk who look upon science a...
Meet with apo? OK! His system already claims to resolve this transition .... I get your point, though. But why not try to philosophize on a philosophy...
Though I am by no means as in-depth in knowledge as you are when it comes to physics (QM, thermodynamics, etc. … to be slightly arrogant, I instead vi...
I can paraphrase this from a different point of view: the ultimate end is the actualization of absolute order wherein a) all conflict vanishes and b) ...
Yes, but here I’d also be presuming block time rather than some variant of presentism (to generalize: wherein past is collective memory of what was an...
Our two worldviews often converge in multiple ways when it comes to explanations of the physical world. I’m in truth uplifted by this. Yet our differe...
Yo, you still around? Wanted to see how this idea might pan out with you (and others). To be explicit, I’m using geometric points as representations o...
Thanks in turn for your direct answer. Yea, as to the first person point of view being a thing … “neither is it a (some)thing nor is it not a (some)th...
An example once given to me that I find helpful is that of a beach’s being. A beach is composed of sand particles (residing along a large collection o...
OK, I agree, it’s a loaded term whose referent is often ambiguous. And worse, it often addresses different referents (albeit loosely associated) to di...
Yes, I agree. If I didn’t specify my position well enough previously, his methodology contradicts the conclusions he draws from it. More concretely, h...
I glanced that thread over, portions of it at any rate. As its theme relates to this thread’s: Attention is not merely conscious; e.g., the generalize...
A bit late in the thread with this post in relation to this and other related comments you've made. You’ve affirmed that consciousness is there due to...
@Wayfarer One, to me glaring, metaphysical lack in Hoffman’s worldview is that he addresses evolution as a leading cause for how we are (something tha...
Well, thinking that I'm getting your vibes: Dude, like, Californians can be totally rad at times. :P Nerdy as some of us can sometimes get. Hang ten. ...
From the article linked to in the OP in the Atlantic: Hey. Just passing through. I’m not yet familiar with his detailed (I presume mathematical) argum...
Howdy. Wanted to express two positions related to the title of this thread. First, emotions come in different forms. We linguistically often express t...
I like this summation; it’s pithy. Far better than my ramblings. Sometimes, though, it takes time to edit concepts into more pithy statements (see bel...
To be clear, my statements addressed what empiricism once was upheld to be. Plainly stated, empiricism is/was the stance that knowledge develops from ...
I get the part about disagreements. Thanks for the humorous reminder. What I don’t get is the part about whether or not there occur states of affairs ...
The predicted fact of what will occur if we don’t counteract in the case of global warming can be construed to be a more complex version of what will ...
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