I'll try to substantiate that claim. Not a master of history, so will have to go see where I read that. If I'm wrong, I'll admit it. Which culture do ...
Yeah, maybe. But the practice of meditation is as individual as it gets. Nobody can know the truth for you, or the configuration of your own mind; thi...
I know of Thich Nhat Hanh, and have listened to a few of his audio books. As an individualist, who feels only individuals, one by one, can self-regula...
Here you have nailed it. In Western culture, you find many, many pseudo Buddhists, who follow worldly Dhammas like assiduously seeking gain, failing t...
In what sense, I wonder, does the lifestyle of the average person gear toward survival in an honest, ontologically direct way in human society today? ...
What causes us to be dishonest within and without ourselves? What causes us to ignore what is, such as the violence we have in ourselves? Why is the s...
I don't agree the Dark Triad describes a small group of people. It describes a lot of successful people in a sick society. Honestly, it has to be cons...
Our species specializes in framing everything as a problem, which it confusedly likes to call problem solving as though it were smart or virtuous (i.e...
Only people have done this. You could only ever have seen people doing sums...what the logic and math describe is not the logic and math, but somethin...
Very anthropic, macranthropic, even. Then we daren't ask the question that is always fair to ask: why is there something instead of nothing? Logic, eh...
Think I see what you mean. Rumination is associated with the default mode network of the brain, so is self-referential thinking, other-referential thi...
Sounds like you're describing a runaway positive feedback, not a healthy and necessary, negative one. What I've taken from CBT, which doesn't seem it ...
As long as GDP, the stock market, and infinite economic growth (not even possible without renewable energy..) appears necessary for survival...we are ...
Evolution is propelled by natural selection. Nature was here before us, and it will be here after us thinking animals. Certain anthropocentric selecti...
I'm skeptical of faith based ideation (viz, future oriented descriptions of progress, etc., rather than looking evenhandedly and honestly at the prese...
Much is socially constructed...to wit, if you must believe in the existence of something before it exists (money, say)...it is a dubious claim on the ...
Certain chemicals lead to agency deconstruction-reconstruction, which isn't a bad thing at all. Entheogens are like teachers with a common message of ...
Humans aren't pinned down by logic and calculations, or especially, predictions. We aren't a state determined system. We relax and stop using logic an...
Does a computer have a relationship to ding an sich as a human does? Can it "see" anything outside of what its preexisting programming (implicit progr...
More needless splitting and false dichotomies; the glass is both half empty and half full at once with being neither; a half empty and full glass is b...
A Walden Pond experience may yet be in the cards for me. It isn't an all or nothing thing...so when mentioning peace of mind...it is kept up by spirit...
As I see it, the twisted part is taught to children by bad examples from their parents, presidents, politicians, businessmen, lawyers, judges, CEOs, ....
The short version answer to your question: the combination of psychoanalysis and eastern philosophy (Buddhism, especially) has made a lot of sense to ...
No. The shortcoming of cognitive science as a vade mecum to human mental health is that it includes AI as part of its paradigm, as well as a extraneou...
Not complaining. If my tone is one of ill-humor, in my mind it is simply one of trying to raise awareness. There's nothing wrong with gravitas, which ...
Watched your link. Interesting how physiognomy made it our of the realm of pseudoscience after facial recognition computer applications came on the sc...
Fair characterization. The AI obsession does make humans into the Borg or bees, what have you, a major cause of concern for awareness human-style. I c...
Your meaning is clear; it isn't possible to escape the natural tempero-spatial order. There's always some displacement or other when technics are so d...
Hardly pointless, friend. The average Joe, utterly unlike a computer, does not do calculations when he understands, thinks, make judements, and uses h...
If it involves computational theory of mind, I'll have to choke it down. AI being anything like a mind, or genetic determinism, and such anthorpogenic...
Action potentials, yes. Plants have senses. Actually, they share genes with humans; mutated genes in deaf people mess up the hair cells in cochlea ; t...
Then there is a kind of knowing (distinct from knowledge, which must be recalled as memory) which spans across lifetimes. Intelligence = instinct in a...
If learning requires memory, and there's no other kind of learning which doesn't require memory, then how would an infant begin to learn in the first ...
When consciousness itself isn't entirely understood, in what way wouldn't it be prevaricating trying to assert a machine can be conscious? There appea...
Do humans have dominion over animals? Macro animals, maybe, but not necessarily animalcules. My hackles go up anytime it's assumed humans have dominio...
There's a difference between understanding oneself (not "we") and understanding the external world, of which other people are a part. If machines trul...
How, might I ask, would you go about the business of "dealing with" practical problems, or theoretical ones, without understanding them? What's more, ...
Why shouldn't there be a limit to people's desire for more technics? Not saying the Amish have it right ...inasmuch as they have there own internal po...
Agreed. However, maybe the real topic is human exceptionalism. It's very common to find a person who is concerned about anthropomorphic projection and...
Defend? I'm not interested in defending any of my ideas. This isn't to say I don't have inclinations, or strong feelings about some issues, but I'd ra...
Mind is the generative order of mental objects. Mental objects/thought forms don't cause mind, mind causes mental objects/thought forms. The event cau...
The agency is automatically confounded. Only the process itself or the event itself, inasmuch as it's incomprehensible, can ever be a perfect, non rep...
Nonetheless, there can be no cloning of a mental impression, let alone the mind itself. A mental impression would be the concept of functionalism, lik...
But not the same place and time...so there IS always a difference, fundamentally. A function can't occur nowhere or noplace. There's a big leap from t...
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