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Ergo sum

['Member']Joined: January 12, 2017 at 16:31Last active: January 30, 2017 at 13:452 discussions15 comments

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Dreams

January 17, 2017 at 20:42 10 comments General Philosophy

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In: Dreams  — view comment
Indeed. The mind seems to be wandering to nowhere when we don't get what kind of experience we're going through and why. However imagining good things...
January 19, 2017 at 20:15
In: Dreams  — view comment
Like prisoners that only know shadows produced by forms: they'll suppose the shadows are the truth and not the other way around.
January 19, 2017 at 17:30
In: Dreams  — view comment
Material reality is susceptible to what we sense "materiality" is. At microscopic level we are not sure what materiality is. While dreaming, I think a...
January 19, 2017 at 17:18
Yes, I see there's this possibility, because Cartesianism separates body/mind. Science helps us to find the truth, but, to find it in fact, we need to...
January 18, 2017 at 18:36
In: Dreams  — view comment
Yes
January 18, 2017 at 18:06
Emotion is a state of feeling produced by a sensation. And sensation is the truth itself, because when we sense, we are able to feel the reality aroun...
January 18, 2017 at 15:21
Reality is both truth, when the mind is awaken, and a lie, when the mind is asleep. Reality is everything because it is just a sensation.
January 17, 2017 at 19:55
Moral values come from outside sources, such as the ten commandments or, at a more basic level, the teachings of our parents about what's good and bad...
January 17, 2017 at 19:36
The rawest form of an idea could be expressed by the number "0". With words, one could postulate the same choosing a term: so 0 might equal now. "Now"...
January 16, 2017 at 16:59
We're always "thinking", since the mind is a sense, the same way we're alway smelling something, because we have a nose all the time. The difference i...
January 16, 2017 at 13:41
Hi, Partinobodycular. There are a few points I'd like to reply: Yes, limited, but only if one builds up a concept for "limitation" first. The act of d...
January 16, 2017 at 13:02
Could you elaborate that?
January 13, 2017 at 16:51
Talking is an action per se. Some people make a living just by talking - lecturers. From the time we wake up till the time we go to sleep, we're actin...
January 12, 2017 at 20:02
I think we mold our thinking as we grow from a completely small intuitive baby to a big rational man. There is a loss along the path, as you pointed o...
January 12, 2017 at 19:06
I wouldn't say consciousness is a feeling, but rather a state produced by feelings. And feelings are all sensations. And all sensations are abstractio...
January 12, 2017 at 18:42