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But I missed the punch line. Too much or too little alcohol? :chin:

If you are honest, then I wonder how the hell you determined going to a philosophy forum is "as rational as possible." That's like someone saying they...

I'm not getting what you are saying makes will free. That it evolves? Sounds interesting.

Dang. I want a refund. I don't remember reading being a slave to causality in the terms and conditions.:broken:

All that proves that external factors play a role, a big role, in your decisions. I am thinking of it like a dance. Our dance partner influences our d...

Remove the master and there is no slave. Remove the slave and there is no master. They can't exist, as slaves or masters, without each other. Good gri...

Kenosha okay,I misunderstood sorry. Well you were kinda right though. My bias was already in place so I kinda had my mind up to find an excuse for bel...

Something feels off though. I think there is a determinism, in the sense of a harmony and order to the way things happen. So it's free but also determ...

I did arrive wanting to believe in free will. I still do, but can't. Free will doesn't appear to have any explanatory power. Master and slave is a co-...

Edit: Isn't the one intrinsic value wellbeing? Isn't even the motive of curiosity rooted in well being?

I did arrive as a non-physicalist but that is unrelated. (PS. I don't believe in stupid free will after all)

I just can't see mechanistic domino effects producing symphonies or the works of Shakespeare. I'm convinced!

Fair point, but that would mean if I drink punch, not knowing it is spiked, that I didn't consume alcohol. Or the heart beat is producing a consistent...

The only thing I intrinsically value is not being bored and not being dead.

Want to start a thread on this topic? I think I was talking more about the spirit of intolerance. Hatred based on difference of race, sex, ideology. H...

Did you read the context in which MZ expressed his misogyny? There was no intention to treat him charitably even before he expressed his misogyny. He ...

I've shared my view previously, that people's bad ideas should be addressed and refuted rather than banning or hating on the person infected with such...

If they were being banned from cyberspace instead of a singe forum. More like being banished from a community.

Maybe I can help make the topic more philosophical. Is love really a form of going crazy? Or, is love an altered state of consciousness? If everyone w...

OK dude

You are using generalizations and heuristics to conclude that intuition doesn't work. In other words, you are not being rigorous but relying on "intui...

Perhaps. I get the sense that free-will, if it exists, is inherently creative. To make I think is the same as to create, and we talk of making decisio...

And maybe we shouldn't give advice if we are someone who posts more than twice a day on social media. Perhaps I shouldn't have shared my own thoughts ...

Thanks for renewing interest!

What would you say distinguishes true happiness from untrue happiness? One can enjoy things that are subject to gaining, illness, and death, but how m...

I think roughly speaking the aims are different. Philosophy seeks wisdom. Science (as it is popularly conceived or practiced today) seeks to understan...

I have already chosen the dark side. I believe there is a point of no return which I have crossed into. I made my choice and I will try and enjoy bein...

At the moment trying to take responsibility feels hopeless. Like trying to control a wild horse. Gives me more pressure, more feelings of inadequacy, ...

A lot really is outside of control though. Clinging to the idea of being in control can also be a way to avoid reality.

I wonder if nihilism is the ultimate truth though.

Sometimes I want to "go insane", in the sense of transcending the mind. I want to get raw instinct back which I feel I have been taught to repress to ...

Sure.

Good point. It is hard to accept an unflattering label. Easier to accept having a particular problem or challenge. Good one. I get good clarifications...

Perhaps applied epistemology?

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I'm not sure EQ is a specific kind of intelligence, so much as someone one can develop understanding and ability to deal with emotions. What am I feel...

Sounds interesting! I can't imagine how math, or anything, can lack both symmetry and asymmetry. If something lacks symmetry doesn't that mean is asym...

I'm not sure what you are saying. The most beautiful math is when there is neither symmetry no asymmetry?

To me you are asking "where is the symmetry". I assume you are relating the experience to something in your memory, perhaps subconscious memory, which...

And I bet its a complimentary opposite, if we examined both attitudes in the proper context.

Beauty is symmetrical relationship. A harmony of complimentary opposites. As an aside, I think the "big picture" "truth" of life is also a harmony of ...

? I am thinking of free will as the ability to be creative. Creativity = bringing something new into existence? Is it possible to bring something new ...

The more passionate, firm and emphatic someone is about their position, the more skeptical I tend to be that it is true. Great pathos is often making ...

Everyone enough. Not everyone.

If vaccine safety and efficacy meant that vaccines weren't dangerous, then I should think everyone would be on board with them. But I am not hearing a...

Of course the vaccines are safe and effective. The problem is that vaccines are dangerous

I can imagine doing that in the medical profession, but I'm not sure how that can be done outside of a setting where there are standard procedures. (A...

Assuming you trust the consensus of medical experts on the efficacy of blood letting, then you already have reason to think blood letting will not pro...

So if you try something and fail, does that mean it didn't make sense to try?