Andrew4Handel

My experience with my brother exposed me to peoples misconceptions about other peoples feelings and the completely differing degrees of coping mechani...

I think we gradually come to have mental state concepts through experience but also through literature or stories and other peoples testimony. For exa...

If someone tells me they have a headache I cannot experience it with them. I was involved in the care of my severely ill brother for many years who en...

I think that not defining something accurately means you are not likely to be explaining or exploring the right thing. This is particularly relevant i...

How are you defining studied? I reflect on my mental states but so far I don't know what they are. Maybe we can explore the language we use to define ...

I think that any theory is going to rely on introspection and personal analysis of ones own mental states. In comparison I don't think a theory of som...

Pressed enter by accident.

We have beliefs about other peoples minds but we can't directly compare mental states. I think reliance on introspection or phenomenology makes it har...

A book and a game of hockey have a coherent ending not an arbitrary one.

I think there would have to be some reason to end life prematurely rather than await its inevitable cessation. What would be the reason for ending lif...

I think personal extinction is inevitable unless there is an afterlife. I have asked in the past why people care about a future they won't be in or ha...

I think fear of death is rational. You might fear death ending your goals and pleasures prematurely. You might see it as negating your efforts. You mi...

If you enjoy any aspect of life then that is reason to live. Another is whether you should create new life if you think life is fundamentally pointles...

I think general agnosticism is a strong position where you try and avoid making false judgements by over confidence. But I think it is possible that l...

I think a problem with a lack of meaning is that it makes neither living or dying meaningful. I am agnostic about whether life has meaning so I can't ...

Apparently Hindus believe in the soul/self but Buddhists don't but the issue is constantly debated in their histories. I don't see it as a resolved is...

I am not attaching anything to these things I am saying they don't make sense without an experiencer to be subject to them. It is quite easy to imagin...

I was recently thinking about the issue of whether two things can exist in exactly the same place at the same time (and even found a thread on here ab...

Yes but the point is that if we really had no self or a fractured self we would be less functional. And If I am right then that makes the self indispe...

I do not know what causes me to have a self but I know it exists for various reasons. You can know something exists without being able to give an acco...

I have given my reasons for the necessity of the self for perception, language and experience and memory. My example of amnesia and dementia is is res...

I do not refer to the self as "a sense of self" for reasons I have outlined such as its necessity in understanding sentences and perceiving etc. I hav...

I think that there is a fundamental problem in claiming something doesn't exist that people have direct access to. For example pain. If you are in pai...

What about the sun? The sun has existed for Billions of years. It may not be changeless but it is enduring as an identifiable entity. However I don't ...

A basic point is how we could understand a sentence without a self. A sentence can be quite long and so we have to process a sentence from the beginni...

History is an interesting case. Historians are supposed to look at primary sources such as diaries, photos and archaeology etc to draw conclusions. We...

In what sense? I only experience my own thoughts I have never experienced anyone else's inner life world. Ironically the main proponents of no self ar...

I think it is hard to define what recovery from mental problems is. In a sense it will be subjective where someone accepts their current mental state ...

We can imagine events together that didn't happen simultaneously such as we can imagine three historical figure who were not alive at the same time bu...

It seems that for an event to cause another event the events have to become connected but with one event/object causing another event/object to alter....

I think the problem is that failing to treat past abuse properly can lead to more abuse. So to prevent abuse we need tackle current abuse and it's aft...

I don't think that claiming something is art can make it art because that would be the equivalent of granting magical powers to the statement. For exa...

I think you could analyse the history of art and examine what kind if things have been considered art and how widely an example diverges from the prom...

In relation to all this my older brother died recently. He had a terrible long illness. I feel now he is dead he is no longer suffering but also that ...

I am interested in power relations and how one person becomes more significant or influential than another. Can you escape your now and enter a wider ...

I am thinking about causal explanations, the arrow of time and temporally organised histories. How does relativity effect the accounts of WW2 for inst...

I would imagine that at one instance the whole of reality is in a certain state. But now tends to be experienced from a first person perspective. It s...

I like Alice Millers work. Her website had testimony from people about the effects of being hit as a child from people who were hit regularly to peopl...

I like this idea. Does this mean that mental health involves the individual and society/environment? I studied some person centered/individual psychol...

I don't know if there is a true self which might have been suppressed by abuse and trauma. Being yourself can lead to being rejected. It is a kind of ...

I suppose that the basic point is why would you not expect abuse to cause damage? Unfortunately we have adages like "Sticks and stones may break my bo...

Thanks. I didn't know about that thread. There are some good links on it. I don't know if this one should be merged. My question I suppose is can you ...

That is not how it works. A person with brain problems can provide feedback whilst in that state.

I am going to look into the work of Havi Carel more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havi_Carel I found out she has an incurable but slow acting illness...

The role of illness in creativity is hard to assess. Most people experience some illness and adversity in their life. How can we prove or disprove tha...

I am not sure whether I am just a body or a body and a mind. But physical illness does make the body dominate the mind. Ironically though strong bodil...

I agree

It is futile to keep on creating more children. They will all die and our species will probably go extinct in the long term.

It might tell us that most peoples auditory systems respond in genralizable way to certain sounds. It might indicate similar subjective experiences.

Scientific theories change so there might not be any absolute facts in science. But what I am referring to in particular I suppose is facts about even...