This sounds like Gregory Bateson. The difference which makes a difference doesn't exist in time and space. All over the shop (shop=place). Haha. That'...
A panpsychic claim that there is a mind? A claim that there is a mind isn't perspectivally related to panpsychism. There is no "our" mind...there's on...
Yet we are most definitely participants. We aren't separate from the process/event...we only think we are; thought forms are lain over it and then ass...
Yeah, figured as much. This thread's a silly idea, as no one would admit their elevated station in the public eye or divulge a source of original mate...
The collective, as I see it, has no existence; the most I could cede is that it is an average of viewpoints...the problem here being I don't much grok...
Why are numbers so important, here? Shouldn't we be able to discuss objectivity at the individual level? We can't ignore the inherent delimitation of ...
Then, by your definition, the only way it is possible for there to be objectivity is if there are no beings in existence capable of making an observat...
Mathematicians are human computers...or mentats if you like. Once there was only the abacus for a computer. You said, see below, that humans have a co...
What is a universal computer? I've heard of the Cosmology Machine and was taken aback at the level of hubris. It's amazing the "science" (pseudoscienc...
Robots have a brain? I realize you're thinking in terms of functionalism. Still, robots just don't have brains. If they have circuits, wires and senso...
Being x. It's always rather odd to me people want to focus on computer models (computer as model) as representing intelligence or awareness instead of...
Oh...well, it's your thread so apologies. That said...you neglected to address my comments. What do you mean by "accept" here? You'll die without thes...
Adolescent immaturity can be defined in the main by raging hormones. At the same time, reproduction is a part of the cyclic time I have in mind. I cho...
Antinatalism is the same thing as saying you wish you'd never been born . It's also true that libido may be the result of needless, adolescent restles...
If you feel like the center of the universe....no wonder death bothers you so. Does anyone know where the center of the universe is? You say the unive...
Well, from my perspective, there's plenty about life itself that is irrational, is irrationality not a means of knowing what's rational? The warp and ...
Actually, the prejudice is relatively new...humans have had a very long standing relationship with plants on the Earth. That any plants are illegal is...
It's not for me to tell someone about what only they can possibly know, or discover in themselves. Being honest with oneself tends to be a non transfe...
I prefer the term entheogen or psychedelic (manifesting the mind/soul), or sacrament. Drugs, like antidepressants harm people, likely physically and m...
I don't know what the purpose of boredom is; there is no purpose, it isn't associated with lucid cognition. Life has much meaning though sometimes it ...
Oh, okay. No problem. My posts have had maybe too much meandering and logorrhea. It's not really about drugs to me, meditation, holotropic breathing, ...
It is noted you go to the example of war, and I agree that the war model is usually there at many subsystems of society. I've heard and somewhat belie...
And I think it is the result of violence within the shooter, which is likely caused as much by socially sanctioned psychoneurosis as psychosis. What c...
I understand. It's just that, especially with all the public shootings and such, it's clear to me that ego dissolution is usually associated with a la...
I never claimed to have a common view on mental health. Perhaps I couldn't prescribe what works for me. Everyone is different. And while I have no gra...
There is also something like a split-brain condition that results from smoking a lot of skunk. The THC receptors are densely concentrated on the corpu...
People who are out of touch with themselves are probably less likely to want to face themselves through depersonalization to begin with, less likely t...
Then we agree. Sorry if I took a part of your post for the whole. I do think it is a class and maybe a caste issue though. What is it that rewards peo...
Why should kids get used to accomplishment being rewarded though it is the incipience of class warfare? What is accomplishment? Money? Fame? More acco...
Perhaps you're right. Care to elaborate, though. In the example given by the op, it is ostensibly a case of competition: for perfect attendance. E.g. ...
Rewards are usually in the context of competition (e.g., if you get the reward, there were others who might have gotten it but didn't) which is contin...
Some people become monsters while trying to help others, tending to make all the wrong sacrifices. This isn't the right way. Maybe if such a person as...
The person who thinks he's being selfless by giving more of his mind to the external world rather than to the internal world (introspectively) is ofte...
Anything that has mass has energy, is matter. A thought has not mass, possibly no energy, can't be measured, therefore isn't matter...therefore all is...
Forgetting about mental imagery and visualization being a prime mover (though perhaps less energetically than in an as yet unexplained way) of matter ...
Yeah, when you say "interconnected" this is what I'm talking about when mentioning the mind as having non local causes, in some way touching on comple...
In other words, on a clear day, blue sky, you look up and lo!...there's the inside of your cranium in the upper atmosphere. Exactly. The physicalism o...
An example of mind over matter is provided by the fact the brain changes function (and even form as in protein synthesis) by mental imagery such as im...
Quite right. This is one of the observations what compels me to focus on the definition of "rule" (anthropocentric ruling class) vs "law" (non anthrop...
It does seem like a lot of people identify with the aggressor anymore. Does society reward aggression? The military psychology is getting too close to...
Behaviorism? Behavioral regulation? That the system of rules of the game (for the ruling elite) still relies on animal conditioning/operant conditioni...
Sorry for oversimplifying this, but it is something I've thought about quite a bit and have distilled it to this law anent laws: Rules can be broken, ...
There's surely no one answer to a question like this. If there were, it would mean there were no such thing as perception. Perception varies by indivi...
"Straightforward" is only a word, which can probably be supplanted with a better descriptive label: conscientiousness and honesty are labels we can pr...
Culture can be a kind of unconsciousness. If two people from a certain area are exactly alike (socially) compared to two people from another area, I s...
Your problem lies in the first sentence: for example, what is "mankind as a whole"? I realize you likely mean the human species. But out of all specie...
In a world where humans have become so effete and fragile able to protect themselves from every possible inconvenience, it's worth remembering it isn'...
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