Anthony

Friends don't serve you. If you are looking for something in return from them, reciprocally, say entertainment, you might be bringing your own stipula...

Essentially, tech-driven science has developed to the point it can't be decoupled from philosophy in general, where tech-science occludes unmixed reas...

Leaving out the mental plane, or nonphysical aspect of reality is a great mistake... What can happen but the mental plane runs to seed in proportion t...

Does the sophistry never end on this forum? Nope. I said prior to experience...there is non experience. Not waffle. Experience of ideas occurs before ...

If I have a thought of making a fist with my hand...a fist of my hand then occurs in a reality mutual to the thought and the fist being made. Babies l...

Simply, idealism does communicate with realism. Dreams are ideas...physical reality is obviously influenced, maybe even created by ideas. Why is there...

Evil is a paradox. Yes, it exists...and it doesn't. Anywhere you find good, you find evil. That's why after casting the antichrist into a lake of fire...

I see. Maybe I have "consensus reality" taking up a lot of real estate in my head toward the term "reality."

Real is decided by humans. Truth is not. The decision to live according to reality or truth is a big one indeed.

Appreciate the tenor we can learn from fiction as much or more than fact/data.

Don't gays have more testosterone than straights (including females)? There is a Jungian enantiodromia going on with homosexuals. It is as natural as ...

Then science doesn't study the actual...which is limited to one place and time ad infinitum. And how modern science (cognitive science) handles incomp...

Not quite. A healthy baby has delta brain waves. Same as a healthy adult has while asleep.

Feedback/forward between two events observed by a conscious awareness (i.e., not necessarily an observation by cognition or an agency). Then, because ...

Whatever you say, cap'n

No, but it may be I think of agency as more inclusive than anything remotely mindful of an algorithm, or AI/machine based models of mental plane of ex...

The purpose of life: The erasure of any and all forms of behaviorism which have been operative in my life.

That which is nescient of nature's example is evil. What isn't biomimetic would be evil. Not that we should copy nature's activity, but we should acce...

Quite. Informal and formal social controls are part of the reason why. Fear of being left out is an example of an informal socially engineered prison ...

Definition of 'socialization' by Durkheim: "the process by which an individual, born with behavioral potentialities of enormously wide range, is led t...

When pondering the meaning of life...using the criterion of falsifiability is misplaced. Neither you nor I can say why we exist. There is always incom...

No argument. Innate immunity is the real badass though, guided by smart decision making (avoiding urban sprawl/overcrowded milieu- such as any and all...

Thanks. So kind. I will practice social distancing ...from you...for instantaneous improvement in mental health.

There's been a little over 1000 deaths in the US, 25,000 globally. More people probably die from sneezures (sneeze seizures). It's as though people ca...

Oh, didn't have an argument. Just thoughts. I believe in sharing a mind, not drawing conclusions beforehand. If I post again in your thread, it will f...

Well, negativity/depression is an appropriate response to observation of a "sinking ship"; attachment to negativity or positivity can be equally deran...

:joke:

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We're all subject to different spaces, but an invention of man makes us all believe (falsely) we're subject to the same time. I've thought the inventi...

Your source: self-information.

Correlations between MRI, fMRI, or other brain scans and mental states (subjective reports) are accepted in the scientific community. Never could figu...

A lot of talk here covering the physical side of planetary conditions, very little covering that all begins in the nonphysical conditions, the mind (a...

Maybe. In the modern world of science-tech unquestioned faith, culture is possibly tending toward delusional sociocentrism...people are seemingly obli...

"Whatever you try to avoid becomes the very basis of your consciousness." - Sadghuru Avoidance of negativity, then, fills one with negativity (gunpowd...

Existential dread may also be how we know we exist. It being at the center of the human condition.

Because you know you'll die.

This is clear. The angle I'm taking is that prepping is more than prepping and hobbies are more than hobbies. On the individual level, we can test the...

For me, the human system is the source of misery, not life. It's not so much being world weary, I identify with what lasts (Earth, and its cycles), it...

Explain.

Technology toward reality or technology toward technological reality ? The differences which make a difference between the two are quite relevant.

He devoid of the Spirit of Conquest, who is honest with himself...who has gone beyond behaviorism, lost desire to achieve in a system that "giveth and...

Perhaps it's the human intelligence in me that doesn't grok the human artificial intelligence (H.A.I: there's no such thing as an intelligent, underst...

Relevant in the universe, eh? There is no small conflation of the human system with the universe in saying this. Intellectual dishonesty. Bad. With ab...

You got me. A genuine mystery...interesting to go into. Masochism gone rampant. I never blame the organization as much as the sleepwalking mob mentali...

The truth has power to the extent it is unknowable. Unknown, unforeseeable apparitions of truth always have and always will shuffle the deck of the pl...

I'm there. Have yet to build a waterwheel behind the pond dam...:wink: And doing my best to dispel illusions of human domestication of itself as being...

I have more to add, maybe later. For now, there's a stinking little minatory piece of hindrance to well being in thinking of a hobby as a mere hobby. ...

It is a self-sufficient adult's responsibility to acquire food and, at least temporary, shelter. Beyond that...grotesque, oblique, ontologies () have ...

Aseity is the attribute of God you seem to believe in. Ultimately, I take a negating approach to what God is(n't). Intellectual honesty says "who know...

Fair enough. Dragon=chaos before creation, and presumably involved in any eschaton unravelling. Interpreting symbols generically is a good idea..other...