Yohan

You differentiate between the real, and reality. Does this mean reality is unreal?

Non-answer: Non-being. Chaos. The void. The non/pre-conceptual answer: Being-ness Idealist answer: Awareness and its ideas. Materialist answer: That w...

Well, I like to exaggerate a bit for affect. I'm sure many people benefit from this site.

So we are going to vote Big Oil out of business? The higher ups are already working on "Smart Cities"...all this other 2030 initiative stuff. I don't ...

We just have to educate and organize? Sounds simple enough. So should each of us try to organize groups in our towns or cities? (or find and join) Dem...

What if there aren't any machines? What if that is just a concept we project onto experience? Imagine you have a dream. In the dream there is AI that ...

The plutocracy is very small compared to the majority, yet they rule. Their power isn't based on money, but deception of the masses. They convinced th...

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I feel out of my element. Your post is well written, but I will offer a chain of thought. My predilection is toward systems thinking. If Climate Chang...

Do the majority of scientists agree that climate change is the "the issue of our time"? I would be interested in seeing a study. I'm not necessarily d...

Society tends to confuse functional with meaning sane. and dysfunctional with insanity. But function here usually means functioning by the rules of ag...

Wisdom: a mean between common sense and imagination. (Other names could include skepticism and open mindedness) Imagination reveals possibilities, ins...

For context: T Clark: Am I hallucinating, or was there a thread called "Life Advice" that has disappeared? What happened? It was a pretty inoffensive ...

Contempt is a strong word. Don't confuse petty defensiveness for true contempt.

I'm glad you don't hold anybody in contempt. I'm glad to see that its just you think people are delusionally wrong. I think people could take things t...

Yes. I imagine its deletion was because I didn't state any particular position, provide arguments, nor ask some kind of question to spark discussion. ...

I like these definitions. Crisp. It sounds to me like you are using 'essence' to mean very basic definitions of things. Distilling something down to i...

I didn't want to get too academic I guess. Sometimes academia takes away the flavor, grace, and accessibility.

Thanks I don' disagree with this.

I'm not saying the materialist does it consciously. They are engaged in double-think. They see and touch what is beyond perception. It sounds absurd, ...

I don't think such could be expressed in words. And I do think we may be surprised to what an extent one human's experience of being may be different ...

I didn't mean to say that my experience of being myself is human, or a universal definition for humans. But there may be some commonality between all ...

If you want to get into this, we should probably start very basic, starting with definitions of mind, matter, and reality. If you define reality as be...

Kind of losing me Doe this mean your being-yourself-ness is constantly changing as the content of your experience changes? If so, who or what is regis...

Perhaps "form essences" as I called it, might be more pragmatic generalization than truly essential. It may not be possible to find a perfect fit defi...

So simple in the end. I be what I be. it be what it be. It all just be. Be. But part of me worries this simplicity is an illusion. I guess I will alwa...

There is form essence and essence essence. Form essence is what form qualities are necessary to call something a particular kind of form. Eg, a human ...

I thought you asked me what the definition of essence is? I would have to use concepts to define it. But what if concepts are lacking in essence? Then...

The phenomenal world is a mixture of experience and conceptual organization of that experience, creating the sense of objects having objective materia...

We are basically making order of our concepts. But what is the essence of a concept? And where do concepts come from?

Things aren't defined by labels. labels are defined by things

Essence is rigorous. Whatever is expressed in words could be further questioned. If I keep asking of every term used in an expression "And what is thi...

But can the essence be expressed in words?

I don't know.

You are implying intuition comes after and or is dependent upon socially acquired concepts? This may be true. Perhaps we start as observers, gradually...

I guess every view is rooted in an intuition. Notice that scientists often don't contemplate essentials. What is truth? What is meaning? Because they ...

I don't think we are in same library, yet alone on the same page. I don't think I can engage with you.

I won't debate the issue any more. Honestly I am confused about which of us are right. But I'd like to ask. How do axioms like the law of non-contradi...

Order is conformity with principle. Principles are not order or chaos. They are the source of both order and apparent chaos.

The fundamental principles of reality cannot be created, destroyed, or violated. All activity is contingent upon them. Only their expressions come in ...

Everything that happens in nature is in conformity with the laws nature. Everything that happens makes sense in light of the rules of nature. If somet...

Chaos is lack of order. It isn't a thing in itself. So I don't know what you mean. A tempest doesn't lack order. Can you give an example of an occurre...

But a group isn't literally united. Its a sort of poetic expression. Unless you believe in some metaphysical connection that actually somehow forms a ...

I believe at root, consciously or unconsciously, the naturalists believe order comes from chaos. Maybe that is wrong. I know that is what I think when...

I'm not sure what you are referring to. Which theory and what doesn't seem to lead anywhere? Synchronicity?

never mind

Nature doesn't follow the law. Nature is the law. I don't follow the laws of my nature. I am the root principle which the various sub-principles of my...

The container cannot be contained by its content. Nature is the super-container of everything except itself. So how can anything in nature limit it? I...

Nature is not subject to its laws. It is their container. It "stands aloof". Likewise, My True Nature stands above the laws which make it up.

Just as any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, (Arthur C Clark) Sufficiently advanced order/patten/law is indistinguish...