I think one important point there, once again, is the dangers of extremism. With some exceptions, I'm against most forms of extremism. Narcissism is a...
Overall, your point is well taken, especially viz. charity/taxes. But just to get the nature of 'selfishness' out of the way, it seems to be hierarchi...
23. November 8, 2019 - A federal jury has convicted Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, of making false statements to Congress,...
I find it hard to imagine that a mother of an infant, for example, cares only about herself. How would you explain her care for the infant? Hey Mcdood...
Hey Gus, just a couple thoughts: 1. Relationships v. friendships- We are all interconnected. We need each other to achieve our goals. The guy making t...
Great question! Maybe start a thread on why people feel the need to swear all the time. Currently, cognitive science suggests swearing could be a sign...
Yep, I see him and Nixon acting very similar...let's deflect attention away from one's wrongdoings and instead attack the process and throw in some ad...
Nice! Personally, I kind of liken it to writing music. When an artist say's my influences are...that generally means that one takes a lot of relevant ...
Yeah, I thought it was interesting too! One takeaway is the question of what does existence mean (verb v. noun)? The act or condition of existing. Ver...
He has a tendency to drop the F-bomb when he gets angry, this from another thread: "So that even the dumb fuckers can understand it. " I'm not a prude...
I don't know many people that believe their existence is absurd, illogical and irrational. Do you? Yes, both yours and mine are, as I've suggested thr...
Really. Consider Jack navigating the highway and is dreaming about the beach or a meeting he's about to attend. He subsequently crashes by running thr...
Appreciate the reply. I think it's real simple, he should allow them to testify. In fact, now that you mentioned Clinton, Trump himself should testify...
Okay gotcha. Let's start with this. Driving while daydreaming, and sleepwalking thus: Jack is driving and not driving= true or false statement? Jack i...
Yo NOS4, Just a real simple obvious question. I know you're a Trumper till death, so maybe you can tell us this: If Trump is innocent, why won't he al...
Ha! No, I go around telling everyone that they should be humble because they cannot prove that their own existence is purely logical (consciousness br...
Yes. If one believes they themselves exist, they would then believe in the illogical. Because, consciousness is, in itself, illogical (how consciousne...
That begs another question (viz being and becoming/the paradox of time); here's another limitation of language a priori: Jack is a newlywed. Oh really...
Great questions! My first thought it reminds me of 'Vagueness' in LEM logic or bivalent qualities: This apple is red. Upon observation, the apple is a...
Just to break it down slowly, that would not be correct. Because, a person is in-fact awake, while being asleep. The sleepwalker's eyes are open but m...
HH, forgive me for interrupting, but I find the subject fascinating. It's possible, when Creativesoul has said "Contradictions are not meaningless" th...
It's important to consider the simple difference's between objective and subjective truth(s). Some truth's are more subjective than objective, and vis...
Someone correct me, but mathematician's played around with numbers as an abstract exercise long before they applied it to the real world (?) In any ca...
Yep, with all due respect his book is a waste of money. Another irony of sorts as you point out, includes denial of Being. If he could explain conscio...
A lot of good points everyone's making; I hope I can add a couple more. In the spirit of arguing against old worn-out paradigm's I submit the followin...
...well, of course the old debate over whether mathematics' has an independent existence or a human invention, rears it head again here: We know mathe...
I suppose having a collective consciousness would take on all sorts of manifestations/implications. For example if 100 people go to a concert and 95 o...
Yep, a few simple tools can go a long way. One take away from this, is that there is a sense of creativity in all walks of life. That, arguably, is wh...
Another case in point. Ever hear the slang phrase: 'that person has a lot of book smarts, but no common sense'. In a way there's another example of di...
Very perceptive on your part. In my opinion, each domain as it were, possesses elements of truth. Ever since I learned (from cognitive science) that d...
Well said Gnomon. We are barred from such knowledge about the true nature of our existence; things-in-themselves. Of course, that doesn't mean we can'...
Qualia, (as Dennett described it) is basically non-physical/Metaphysical abstract phenomenon. There is really nothing else it could be... . The common...
...thanks. No, but I remember it was popular even a few decades after its release, both in movie and book form. Back to the topic, generally speaking,...
Godel' would say: It is not 'syntactically complete', since there are sentences expressible in the language of first order logic that can be neither p...
The syntax is correct, but the true meaning is indeterminant. You could say it's 50% true. It wouldn't make it a contradiction or paradox though. (But...
Neither of them are contradictions. I said they were paradox's; not contradictions. Godel's theorem speaks to the un-computable, undecidable, middle g...
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