"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the...
Even better, you can get some entheogenic substances straight from your local garden center. The number of those go up if you're in for particularly h...
He's talking about the entheogenic use of mind altering substances. Not unless you take a near lethal dose of coffee every morning. Most of those enth...
While chimpanzees aren't more intelligent than humans overall, they do outperform us in certain areas. Here's what that looks like: https://www.youtub...
It and the "Shangshu" are fundamental texts in classical Chinese philosophy. Many treatises in classical Chinese thought assume a familiarity with the...
Laozi is talking about the duty of what's called a "ren": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_(Confucianism) It's not specifically a confucian term sinc...
Sextus Empiricus - "Outlines of Pyrrhonism" Maurice Merleau-Ponty "Phenomenology of Perception" Thomas Kuhn - "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" Ka...
It's a fairly common misconception though. Rather irksome, since I prefer a dubitative approach. As such, that whole project of "truth seeking" is los...
Yeah. Sextus Empiricus mentions those when he's talking about the five modes of suspension. Let's not forget in what context those ideas are most rele...
"Huizi said to Zhuangzi, 'I have a large tree, which men call the Ailantus. Its trunk swells out to a large size, but is not fit for a carpenter to ap...
"The monk Fuy? D?kai, whilst on Mount Daiy?, once asked T?su, “The thoughts and sayings of the Buddha’s Ancestors are like the tea and rice of everyda...
I'm not saying you have the right mind. I'm saying you're confused. Apparently with a sprinkle of inflation, too. Your mind isn't like "water", obviou...
"THE RIGHT MIND AND THE CONFUSED MIND The Right Mind is the mind that does not remain in one place. It is the mind that stretches throughout the entir...
While I don't have any books I can recommend when it comes to evolution, I do know of a few lecture series: -"Major Transitions in Evolution" https://...
Well - yes - that really isn't hypothetical. Pyrrho of Elis, the founder of scepticism, founded the school after meeting wise men in India and Persia ...
In it's base, it's a fundamentally different stance on the question "what is the mind"? Instead of starting at concepts, phenomenology proposes that w...
Ah, ok. I posted that after just waking up so it might have been a brainfart. Apparently not. :) I've got the Routledge translation here. I'm guessing...
I don't remember him talking about neurosis in that text (he did talk about aphasia and the like). A quick control+f of the text yielded no results ei...
Brentano talks about why in the last paragraph I provided. Talk about the cause of neurosis isn't generally part of phenomenology. So if we are going ...
Well, it actually does matter if something is caused by a psychoactive substance or not. As for "unfocused anxiety", well, that would be a topic for p...
Notice that the dude has been dead for a while now. I don't think he's in any position to shift his position on any matter anymore. OK. Write a book a...
Note to self: Don't assume silly things. Anyway, my bad. Sorry about that. :) No. What I'm talking about is called the primacy of experience. It's loo...
"If"?! Didn't I post the relevant paragraphs? "Something quite similar is true of the preceding argument. Maudsley is not incorrect in saying that men...
OK. Are you talking about intentionality? Since if you are, then you might want to brush up on your Brentano, there. Brentano distinguished between me...
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