Everyone certainly needs challenges and stimulation, but as far as social engineering, I think its a big misconception that struggle somehow facilitat...
Nietzsche, the expert on nihilism, would say that we must give our fingers, toes and nipples a goal. But we seem to have excessively goaled ourselves ...
I didn't realize the arrangements were so collectivist. Was that crop management function along with various spiritual associations the predominant me...
I'll first say that I agree the evolution of culture was mostly mimetic rather than biological, but mimetic selection exacts changes in the structure ...
My amateur opinion is that the thought structures enabling tool use probably support the form of language to some degree as well, but many brain struc...
Modern language emerged at least two hundred thousand years ago, at the origin of our species. Hunter-gatherer cultures speak with roughly equivalent ...
You mean written language? That's the historical record, a corollary of civilization but not the cause. Source material for the scientific analysis of...
Has anyone proposed a biological mechanism for how a function such as vision integrates with the rest of the brain? Many neuroscientists claim that th...
According to Demasio, some of the ancients believed the mind was located in the chest, as the heart. The concept of mind can change. Future research w...
I agree that the spiritual aspect of existence is difficult to reconcile with idealized glorifications of supposedly rational thinking, and this daunt...
Maybe one aspect of the problem is that we don't have an adequate accounting of and consideration for human psychology. To profoundly revise the syste...
Sorry to crash the party, but I've read a couple books recently outlining some facts pertinent to this discussion that you guys will probably find ver...
We have models of how qualia are stimulated by sensory organs and associated with some neuronal complexes, and we can correlate electrode activation o...
Neuroscience shows that initial steps in the process of sensing occur beyond our awareness. But I think a disjunct probably exists between qualia and ...
When I said the mechanisms of quantum behavior are mysterious, I meant as they occur in natural environments, not research settings. What's the relati...
The mechanisms are mysterious, its going to require a lot of hypothesis testing to find ways of observing quantum coherence. Maybe particles in natura...
It probably depends on what human beings are willing to introspectively assert regarding their own minds. Qualitative experiences happen that contradi...
I'm not aware of any direct models of biologically occurring quantum phenomena as mechanisms with geometric architecture. Experimenting with enzymes, ...
I suspect Enlightenment thinking is what made the dignifying of human life in general with social programs a government institution, though opposing t...
I'm not exactly making a formal logical argument, I'm stating some weird facts about quantum mechanics and conjecturing that a theoretical accounting ...
A minor detail, but I'm not a fan of the suggestion that reality is not objective, I think this is a confusion of the issue. Objective reality should ...
Like I touched upon, subatomic particles, ions, and small atoms have weird properties under many conditions, as diffuse wavicles that can tunnel acros...
I can tell this is going to be an adventure lol By pre-Enlightenment worldviews, I mean such as geomancy, astrology and theosophy. I have no inclinati...
Many people have described visual experience to blind relatives and friends, the analogy is superficial, come up with a better example! lol Preferably...
Does the elected government technically even run the country? Politics is just a façade of tabloid material, there's not a single honest fact in the m...
You can come to a new mutual understanding without sacrificing the traditional terms though, especially in cases of intermediately non-trivial transla...
The properties of neuron synapsing are certainly key to an understanding of mental processes. Thousands of different types of neurons have been identi...
That's what we're not so good at, culturally engineering optimized discourse and transmission of ideas. Its an ethical and institutional issue, hard t...
All you've got to do to reconcile conceptual schemes is pool facts and mutually produce a view. No one wants to pool facts because most everything any...
As was somewhat clarified in my next post, I shouldn't say explain subjective experience in its common sense connotation, as if a description can be i...
I get what you're saying, it requires substantial research to identify a brain state and a qualitative experience, though we have rather easily correl...
Vaguely reminds me of those rate of reaction problems from chemistry class. We can parse up the total reaction into sub-reactions with a rate limiting...
This "only potential" sounds like a combination of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's concept of "will" and Aristotle's "final causality", but with a modern...
The book is Life on the Edge, The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology. Its a really simple read and very enlightening. It talks about how quantum ideas a...
Is one day of a billion good-natured, reasonable, problem-solving conversations all that we require to achieve utopian paradise? Occasionally I think ...
Your post on class privilege was really good, intellectuality that actually got a strong emotional reaction out of me, not always easy to do. Unfortun...
What if atmospheric circulation suddenly changed, what if a supervolcano erupted, what good would your draconian revolutionary eras be to you then? lo...
I could try to think critically about the executive branch of irrationality, but maybe I should save myself the trouble. lol If the majority likes inj...
Working class, middle class and upper class political leaders have all existed, so what distinguishes these professional policy-makers from the ruling...
Common sense tells us that you have to protect the vulnerable or everyone is vulnerable. But when protecting the vulnerable would significantly increa...
When citizens receive aid from an institution, whether it be a hospital, clinic, government agency, or whatever it might be, the first action taken is...
When corporations spend years and billions of dollars of someone else's money trying to force one guy into vomiting eight times every second meal, ang...
That's the way it is: if you hit the socioeconomic jackpot great, if you get the shaft, sucks to be you. Ethics aren't tied to any particular standard...
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