Andrew4Handel

It seems to me that people are always working towards improving the world and creating fantasies of how they would like things to be and indulging in ...

I have the motive of gaining knowledge and finding the truth.

The irony about physical pain is it prevents serious Injury. People with congenital pain conditions or who lose pain sensation later die younger of se...

I think it is more labeling as opposed to abstracting. Think of how many times groups of people have been vilified by negative language, women, Jews, ...

I am talking about the process of identifying good and evil. I don't think pleasure and pain identify what evil and good are. I would not consider a p...

It seems inappropriate to have to define good and evil. Shouldn't good and evil be identified or discovered rather than labelled? Otherwise you can ar...

I don't think that covers all moral sentiments. Are you saying that covers all moral claims? People also value character and principle. People would s...

I think the most important aspect of morality is enforcement. It is useless to have moral sentiments that do not lead to action and do not prevent har...

I think an agreement is objective. You can't compare mental states. I do not see how that helps your case. If people cannot decide for instance whethe...

What about when morality is put to the vote? If a moral system is widely accepted and democratically endorsed then I don't think it can be purely subj...

I think lack of justification is a good restraint. I think the intuition or simple belief that you action or belief is justified can be very harmful. ...

Possibly. I would say that if thinking precedes action then thinking needs rationality and logic. the problem is that people can act on weak or false ...

You seem like a moral nihilist not convinced of the strength of your moral intuitions. Function and value are not the same thing. However I find it im...

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I don't find writing helpful at the moment although I am considering writing something fictional as therapy. But it does help some people. In my case ...

I have tried various things but I am still trying something new at the moment . I feel like the right therapist might be able to delve deeply into you...

I think the wonder of adulthood is different than the naive wonder of childhood. Life is usually never perfect and as an adult you can see lots of thi...

I can't comment on psychotic disorders because I haven't experienced them so I am not sure what advice could be given there. I can kind of rationalize...

Have you tried writing about your feelings and analyzing them that way?.

I like the notion of the brain as a time machine! I don't know if I want to recapture the wonder of life or rather create a new more realistic wonder....

The problem is that often you do not get enough professional help. I have met someone who has used masses of experimental medication, supplements and ...

Do you have any idea what is causing the depression so you can tackle the cause?

It seems like it is probably substantial brain differences. Also there is a lot you don't know as a child and you have a lot of novel experiences and ...

The problem with medicating and self medicating s that they are probably altering your brain as well as other experiences and past experiences. I don'...

It is certainly scary to think about dying but sometimes living is more frightening and I don't know if dying can be worse than a terrible quality of ...

Citalopram has a significant effect on my anxiety. It had a bigger effect when I started it years ago but it is the only consistent medication that ke...

I suffer from chronic low mood and anxiety. I drink a lot of coffee smoke a couple of packs of cigarettes, go for walks, get drunk, listen to music, d...

What kind of advice do you want? Do you want advice on medication? Self medication with alcohol, caffeine and cigarettes et al? Therapy recommendation...

I think solving moral disputes is hard for various reason. Firstly there do not appear to be any moral facts. Secondly people can act against moral cl...

The word "good" originates from the word God. So it does not directly refer to pleasure or pain. The word moral comes from the Latin for character. My...

I am not concerned with whether functions definitely exist My argument is that if there were functions then you could base morality on that. Computers...

The problem is we can judge some pain as good and some pleasure as bad. We can judge painful life saving surgery as good and we can see the pleasure f...

So the problem then is what is the point of calling behavior immoral if it has already happened?I think moral judgement are used to judge the past and...

Morality can mean and probably usually means not acting. Not stealing, not lying not causing harm. The problem is convincing other people not to do th...

But where are we getting the initial concept of morality from? A moral sense seems to entail someone believes something is objectively wrong even if t...

I would ideally like to be able to show someone that their behaviors or beliefs were wrong. I would want to persuade them based on reason. I am curren...

The way you have changed someones moral preferences is by giving a moral argument. Whether there preference changes is based on the success of the arg...

The problem is that the only way a society is validated is by simply existing and not by passing some kind of moral test. If someone tries to change a...

I think a possible difference between preference and morality is that you could change someones moral ideas by argument but you are unlikely to change...

Is it not based then on preexisting moral ideas.

I don't see how you can resolve a moral dispute by preferences because then that ends up as morality by brute force or survival of the fittest. I agre...

I don't think the fact we have a preference and or intuition about certain behavior means that is all that is going on. On the conscience view these p...

What about the fact that there are objectively different states something can be in. A malfunctioning computer is no in the same states as a functioni...

I have the experience of inhabiting a body and experiencing that body and also of being a subject of experiences of thoughts and other mental states. ...

I think for a monist/materialist/idealist position you have to be functionalist about mind and cannot pin it down to one type of matter such as neuron...

You can think about human inventions here specifically. Can you not tell the difference between when your computer of phone is functioning or malfunct...

I don't see why the way someone feels about a certain behavior equals a morality. I don't consider all my responses to behavior of myself or others as...

It is not a case of whether a state is preferable but whether it is performing a function. You might want to commit suicide but that does not mean you...

It seems futile to call a behavior immoral or moral if no consequences come from that.

I still don't see anything life and mind have in common. For an explanation I think you have to give an explanation of the relationship between parts ...