Andrew4Handel

I know someone who got an autism diagnosis as an adult. So they asked their boss for some small changes at work then their boss sabotaged the persons ...

Well apparently society caters to your worldview so you got lucky. How would you fair in Theistic Iran or Saudi Arabia or in Communist North Korea? So...

You are putting the onus on someone else to compromise their beliefs for you it would seem. The goal of getting a car to move is not simply a shared g...

That is a strawman. I have given the example of my own family who held extreme beliefs in opposition to society yet worked in society and I found that...

I have always found it absurd that my parents and others believe Billions of people are going to hell but are very nonchalant about it. It is one of t...

I don't think it is a case of short term goals. People are helping things that go against their own stated aims and values. I think it takes a lot of ...

I am an antinatalist and there are increasingly large numbers of us now. We think it is unethical to have children and don't seek to perpetuate humans...

I can speak from personal experience here. I grew up in a fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren Christian household. They did street preaching on the weeke...

Applying mathematics to thought seems to lead to infinities such as that we could produce an infinite number of different sentences and responses but ...

I agree there is a relationship between language and thought but I am not sure it is and I think language is also mystery so it doesn't demystify what...

The alleged reliance of thought on language has lead people to believe animals cannot think and even to the belief animals aren't conscious including ...

I don't think language captures the phenomenology of thoughts. I am not saying we are not in contact with our thoughts but that we cannot properly cha...

I want to emphasise the dead body in a car point. We would not cooperate with other people or someone else if we really believed there and goal was de...

I think the incompatibles are created by the unknown. That is partly why I am an agnostic. A society I imagine can be created on saying I am not sure....

Before you decide whether or not thoughts are determined you have to get an agreed upon definition of thoughts. My own position on thoughts is that we...

In response to my own post I think you can have the belief in free will and blame people for all their actions but the parents actions have added weig...

I was thinking about the validity of an argument I wanted to make concerning antinatalism and it made me think how I could frame an argument in the mo...

I have heard of there being laws of physics but not in biology and neuroscience. I don't think people are describing thoughts accurately. For example ...

If we believe everything started in some basic simplistic state then we would need a theory of emergence. But emergence can seem like magic if you don...

How are you defining an emergent property and its relationship to a substructure? A large pile of sand has emergent properties but these are quite sim...

I am not sure what this means. Are you saying that sensory signals can preserve accurate and factual information about the world without interpretatio...

Has anyone defined what a thought is and or its relationship to the brain?

You can evaluate your thoughts. You have a set of thoughts like propositions and consider which one you are satisfied with. Choice is not instantaneou...

I think choosing to have children is a denial of causality. I don't think parents believe they are responsible for the things they are causing.

I don't know to what extent we can control thoughts and behaviour? When I was studying the "no free will" position was most popular. I defend free wil...

It can depend on your perspective and knowledge base. In a child abuse/neglect scenario The child from his or her position likely has less knowledge o...

Behaviourism had a model based on instincts learned by stimuli responses. It was undermined by studies of rat behaviour which suggested they had menta...

Agnes Callard and Myisha Cherry both defend anger as a motivator. I am just listening to this Agnes Callard discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That is the issue I am raising here I suppose. We don't know whether we have control or not and cannot predict outcomes so we are in a kind of Wild We...

This amounts to self blame. People are aware they cannot have much control and this develop justified apathy. This is apathy caused by other peoples u...

No it is not. I stated which definition of stoicism I was referring to. I assume the common used and philosophy are somewhat related however. I found ...

This was my main point. Making choices without out any recourse to truth. The Hitler example was an ad aburdum of the unforeseen consequence of an act...

I didn't notice this claim before. Isn't the environment the outside force motivating animals? I tend to view animals as more driven by outside forces...

Barry Schwartz seems to be considering different types of choice to me and advocating reducing exposure to choice to create less stress. And this seem...

I think Cognitive behavioural therapy is an off shoot of stoicism. Training people to cope rather than resist or examine. It can reframe reasonable re...

That was the top web search definition. I would apply the psychoanalytic critique to stoicism. I believe people have motivated beliefs and ideologies....

I am judging by the way stoicism is applied. I am not referring to the whole philosophical school but the common usage as a psychological tool. I am r...

On Quora a while back I asked "How does Physics describe volitional motion?" I have yet to have a response. This relates to this issue. If we are gove...

That was probably me.

Here are some of the many issues I think are relevant in decision making. 1. Upbringing influences the kind of choices we can or do make. 2. Religious...

I come at this and a lot of issues from an antinatalist (procreation skeptic) position which I see as having relevance on a lot of issues. I think we ...

My mind wanders too easily and I got distracted making the opening post. I think my main question was supposed to be how is it possible to do the act ...

But some people want more from life. I probably do. Life presents us with deep mysteries (I studied consciousness as part of a degree) I grew up in a ...

But it is an example of a paradox involved in doing the right thing and the absurdity of the consequences of our actions. How would you describe a rat...

I was mainly using that example as an example of an extreme consequence of decision making or a serious unforeseen consequence of decision making to h...

Thanks your advice is interesting. I do come from a fundamentalist religious back ground with regular hell and damnation sermons which I rejected in m...

Humans clearly exhibit moral judgement making. But that is one of numerous traits humans exhibit. That does not mean any of these traits should guide ...

It did happen Hitler existed and cause the deaths of Millions and massive destruction in Europe. Hitler was kept alive as a child by interventions. Li...

Those baby studies have a problematic paradigm. On what grounds are the babies evaluations being considered moral? You have to prove a behaviour is go...

Slavery and misogyny have have been constants in human history. Humans are quite capable of surviving whilst behaving in harmful and irrational ways. ...