JK was usually referring to inner states when he said the observer is the observed. If you are greedy and tell yourself you shouldn't be greedy, that ...
On the tip of the Ouroboros' nose are transhumanists/futurists...on the rump of it is the primevalist. The symbol of Ouroboros is more one to describe...
How would such a view be described? How a collective could have a view or be viewed is a mystery to me. The kind of conversation one can have tete a t...
Most of the work the average person does has nothing to do with their survival. With this being the case, it doesn't make sense to talk about survival...
Interesting how Active Self-Care is part of the same feedback loop of Finding A Social Fit. You would think a smidge of honesty to be a part of what i...
Yes, because in an honest human system, the finished product is the payment. You get to keep the result of your labor, after which you are responsible...
Inasmuch as humans don't walk on humans, bask in humans, harvest and eat humans....human progress can't be separated from the setpoints and servomecha...
Progress in a game of chess would be making a move toward checkmating your contestant. If the game had no checkmate as the end, it could be played int...
\ 1. To stop thinking humans are anything like machines...we're more like dirt than machines. 2. Forget everything you know. Learning a skill or rote ...
And it's impossible to prove consciousness/mind even requires energy as we know it. Seeing the mind as though it were an open system the same as the b...
It hasn't been subsumed by science, though. A syllogism isn't physical evidence, e.g. And I've had a hard time understanding how scientists revel in e...
Philosophy doesn't need evidence, it arrives at truth through raw thought power. Science, for some poor reason, has come to supplant philosophy. If yo...
What is the relationship between fight and flight and anger? Are we slaves of our physiology? That would be a world run amok, which it pretty much is....
As to your accusations of generalizations: I can't help but notice how many posters here conflate science for philosophy. Philosophy deals in generali...
As always, it's a matter of definition. An act can be a thought or emotion, or a spoken word. As I'd said, any movement of the mind conditions it. Ide...
No, he said anger has a function. This was the context of what I replied to. Anger is natural for toddlers, only. Maybe up through adolescence. Otherw...
What you describe is being stuck in an emotional state of development. It isn't natural to be stuck in a state of emotional unawareness. People who ha...
There's a kind of tug-o-war between the pleasure principle and the reality principle. More than anger (which is partially caused by an over inhibition...
Not what I said, this was the chosen term (have to be careful): repressed emotion. Suppression retains conscious control, repression becomes automatic...
It's how I interpret psychoanalysis. Ego/neurosis/secondary process is made of instinct/psychosis/primary process, it has no well of substance of its ...
I share these sentiments. More generally, quantification of life is an ethical problem which has yet to be an obsolete way of thinking. Whether it be ...
Anger is no emotion, it's the absence of it; the result of living with stored up repressed emotion. The sum total of repressed emotion=anger. People w...
People believe in all kinds of things which wouldn't exist apart from the belief. Justified, true, belief=knowledge. How much of what makes the anthro...
What causes an individual to become violent and act out? Hopefully not personality variables we entrust to AI and surveillance state- capitalism to so...
Who is America? How will "he" stop? Yes, the gun laws seem to facilitate public terrorism in U.S. Ultimately, not to see it as a mental health issue a...
Sacred entails non human. Fully valorizing what isn't human, and fear of autonomous history or time without subjecting it to abolition and recreation....
You have to make your own meaning. People who try to find meaning, never do. You have to create it in philosophy, myth, art, etc. A true nihilist woul...
If it is reality, it isn't the truth. Similar to how there are unconditioned stimuli/response in the fabric of our being as truth, which are then, thr...
Reality would include its critique. Negative utilitarianism is downplayed vis a vis positive utilitarianism. Merit is rewarded, while suffering is ign...
I think it's way more complicated than that. Petrichor took the words out of my mouth. As the originator of this thread, I nominate his post for a goo...
Thank you for your thoughtful post. Perhaps, we can incorporate a few of these concepts from physics into understanding mental experience. The putativ...
This "somethings" would require qualification. Some what? Some electrons, maybe? Electrons apparently are exactly the same. So when you count one you ...
Mystery is wonder renewing itself. Curiosity can be satisfied. Which is why the cat is killed. Wonder is a deep and peculiar well, that retains the ab...
There is the limits of the known anent what is possible (or what seem possible or not) on one hand, and the infinite on the other. Although, we could ...
Basically what I mean, for the context of the OP, is (space) too far away to send a signal or message that obeys physics of spacetime locality as we k...
Thanks for the constructive feedback. Generically, I mean space may be unlimited. There's probably such a conception as space that's far enough away, ...
Better, why did he have to be baptized and receive Christos? Death will be a relief from the overwhelming paradoxes of living. I'm not yet wise enough...
In what way is legality the demarcation of morality? The constitution as an example is deeply inconsistent and flawed (mainly in refusing to acknowled...
Confidence and delusion are probably hard to juggle sometimes. I wonder what becomes of self-esteem and self-image, etc., when self is seen as without...
Egocentrism is mainly about not being able to differentiate self from other. Psychologizing is necessary as I see it, nowhere does it connote having a...
I see. Not biting, mate. Though somehow, I don't know that my post is as empty of content as your response to it. If it's garbage, can you elaborate o...
No. Nor do I want to be unhappy. Desiring happiness leads to unhappiness all too often. A controlling nature is, by default, often dovetailed to miser...
In what way, do you propose, instinct isn't indomitable? Instinct does rule, save for perhaps Buddhas, or otherwise individuals who know how to balanc...
Indeed it would make more sense if it were a site to submit monographs to, and get feedback. People on here will complain if your post is too long. Th...
One of the more interesting things about the Gnostic hermeneutic is what it meant when Adam and Eve discovered they were naked. Having eaten from the ...
Hard work. Why, I wonder? Why not vegetate and introspect, slow things down a shade in a culture going into warp speed? Or WASP speed. What is up with...
Thought this quote from St. John of the Cross might be relevant here: "The spiritual man aims at complete abstraction and forgetfulness so that , as m...
I've heard this term before. What ever does it mean? Who coined it? Subjectivity is a synonym for esoteric or occult in my dictionary. It describes wh...
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