Andrew4Handel

If things can be alive but not conscious that means life doesn't entail consciousness. I think we need to find an entailment relationship for a correl...

A car and a heart have a function that can be proven when they stop functioning. I don't think biological functions are mind dependent at all. The bod...

I think it does. If someone has a car there is a right way to drive a car. There could be a right way for a human to behave just like their is a prope...

Homosexuality is a good example here because even at the height of the persecution and criminilization of homosexuality people still had gay relations...

The problem then with the power of the group or the power of the majority is that it appears to trump reason. What ever rational arguments lie behind ...

I think society can have moral standards that are enforced by the police and justice system. What concerns me is when people ignore morality and resol...

It is possible to enforce some moral claims although I think breaking the law is not an issue of morality. I don't think that when the courts convict ...

But you have not attained moral truth. There is a difference between knowing what a moral action is and having an intuition. I am not convinced intuit...

There are lots of different ways to take away peoples power. I think that if the government takes away power from you it does not excuse you taking aw...

I think this is a false fatalism and apathy. I am not referring to power as a spectrum from small to great and I am not advocating people do anything ...

You do put Foucault as one of your favorite philosophers though. I don't think power relation analysis needs to be ill-defined or entail banal analysi...

I think happiness is hard to describe. It seems to be just a personal feeling of positivity and lightness or maybe elation. But it does not seem to be...

My main point is that people should acknowledge power dynamics because I value the truth and I don't agree with letting dynamics go unexamined. i don'...

Reading about Patty Hearst gave me a thought. How many people are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome where they end up misidentifying with an oppressiv...

I try and be as reasonable as possible. I would be happy for you to highlight something I do you think is beyond reason. Empirical evidence may show t...

Feigning insanity is another power move. Maybe I am paranoid but i can see power play in so many interactions. I do think we can aim towards reason. B...

I think the power of society is a collective power of individuals combining their wills. Should this ever be the case or should societies be run on re...

I suppose my suggestion would be then, that people are adapting to things by asserting power in some way. By power I don't mean dominance though. But ...

One classic dichotomy is whether society or the individual is the more powerful force. Jordan Peterson has argued that the individuals immorality is w...

Incompatible beliefs maybe acceptable in trivial or personal matters but this is not the case when people are targeting hate at other people. If someo...

It is embarrassing that the rest of the animal kingdom does not fall for this irrationality.

That is the hypocrisy of these people. Fiercely rational in some areas. Fingers in the ears in others.

I like this philosophy! I need to try and apply it.

Here as an example of a problem. The following video documents lots of contradictory statements in the bible. But when you are having a random convers...

I am talking about a circumstance where someone won't even engage in proper debate. If they do talk with you they won't respond at all or properly to ...

I think some of the differences can't be verbalized they are just apparent on observing humans and animals. Partly to do with intelligence and communi...

I can think of lots of things that exclusive to humans although some of these involve artifacts. I would say words, writing and drawing are exclusive ...

People treat pets like family which is understandable. But they don't have the same expectations of them. They pander to them and don't make them earn...

I suppose it depends on how you view subjectivity. Subjectivity is quite solipsistic and centered on the individual but it doesn't mean that the indiv...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism The Wikipedia entry is good. Apparently anthropomorphism is considered an innate tendency starting from...

This is amusing satire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fC9uNyhWo

There is lots of evidence of human exceptionalism especially in language, technology and culture. Anthropomorphism is the attempt to attribute these e...

I think anthropomorphism is a two way process. For example making a close comparison between humans and chimps can end up devaluing human attributes b...

I think they must be causally efficacious to the mind. But maybe these philosophers only have a model of physical causality in an old fashioned sense?...

If the mind and body are the same that could mean everything is the mind. I think the causality issue is unresolved. But dualism is also available wer...

It seems to me that normal is a powerful force because people are motivated to be normal or they see the normal as acceptable because it is prolific. ...

But there appear to be infinities involved. I remember thinking about infinity as a child. I imagined going far into space and then coming to a large ...

I don't have any philosophical insight into the depression accept that it makes me fatigued. It feels like a dead end I suppose. Although depression i...

One of the main things that puzzles me is peoples reactions to life. I don't know what the appropriate reaction to being alive ought to be, but a lot ...

It could be the Gods and Goddesses like in Greek mythology. I am trying to think of synonyms for the word I want. Maybe trickery? Illusion? Contrivanc...

Depression, Anxiety, Aspergers ,family, family religion, uncertainty and so on.

The conspiracy I am referring to is not necessarily solipsism but more like maybe a God giving you your life as a trial to master or some alternative ...

People sometimes respond to solipsism as if it is self indulgent but it can reflect an alienation of the individual as opposed to rampant ego or fanta...

How powerful you feel or how attached you feel could be linked to ego. Someone with a healthy ego might feel really connected to life and part of it. ...

We all need it.

This and Pascal's wager are quite useful tools for weighing up the cost of belief. I can't just believe anything but in a case of uncertainty or ignor...

Philosophy might be a response to angst. I can imagine a happy society were no one was interested in philosophy. Indeed philosophy seems to have a bad...

I think rationality is problematic without teleology or an inherent function or purpose for humans to violate. I think rationality crosses the is/ough...

I don't think you can measure happiness and add it together. What exactly is being measured and how is it being added together? Another issue non util...

It seems almost as if humans are the only creatures to lack teleology because other animals and organisms have some quite fixed behaviours and a lack ...