Not really... "quantum" is derived from "quantity", and is just a quantification, or a mathematical representation of the minimum values involved in a...
"Quantum state" is a higher level abstraction than just an experiential cup is. "Quantum state" may be more spooky, and interesting, because it lends ...
Sounds like you have everything, and are nice and compassionate... I hate you now, lol. I just needed to talk about myself, you know how it is. Feelin...
I don't tend to talk to neighbors, and sometimes go to yoga, but I hardly ever talk to people there either. At stores and stuff the weather is my favo...
Thanks a lot. I should attempt to actually do some stuff, and not just deteriorate here, but I don't even attempt most things, gut a harsh judge, of m...
Well, no one is an island, and it takes a conspiracy of everyone for such a thing to work at all, for sure. It isn't even as if people are against it,...
We didn't, a tiny minute fraction of us did, and then we all dance to their tunes. Where even they were dancing to someone else's tunes, you aren't en...
I actually think that more than that, art has taught us all how to see, hear, feel smell and taste. Our minds works by bundling things together as ana...
One time someone was addressing me by name while saying the things I do to someone else, and I told them that it's rude to talk about people in the th...
I have always spent most of my time alone, and when I was a kid, I used to repeat the same words or phrases over and over again in my head, and speaki...
Descartes thought that the overwhelming vast majority of fallacies were informal, or confusions of meaning, and not logical. What's interesting to me ...
A distinction between reality and fiction isn't really a good one, unless parsed out in a very subtle way. Telling a story about what happened to you ...
I saw Campbell say that myths are mirrors for the ego, that tell us where we are in life. I like that a lot, probably because of whom I've identified ...
Existence isn't a predicate, because to exist is to stand out, be distinct, but saying that something exists doesn't introduce a new distinction to th...
Oh, I was just giving my favorite one, but I'm always up for a good chant -- or drum circle. Any of that, as long as I get to be involved. "We're obsc...
I prefer "we're not the worst! We're not the worst!". Back in the day on street sense they had a hockey tournament (not for reals, it was a comedy sho...
Okay moral responsibility as distinct from causal responsibility is a lot more difficult to establish, and reach consensus on, rather than argue about...
I don't understand your objection. Do you disagree that the actions of influential people have wide-reaching consequences for those that look up to th...
I think that it's far more useful to own the responsibility. Denying it in them to appease feelings, or self-perception, blame, or for a sense of indi...
Even though the formalization of language is fairly new, and if you read anyone from more than like a hundred and fifty, to two hundred years ago, you...
Yeah, he's pretty great. There are often little segments posted on the channels essential truth, and bite-sized philosophy by someone, maybe not him, ...
Manhood used to be a character you matured into, noted by certain masculine characteristics, and often had to go through rites in order to acquire. It...
The concept of freedom coincides the concept of slavery, freedom is to not have a lord, to be sovereign. This is what we negotiate in the real world, ...
Kind of individualism vs collectivism. Which wins? I'm sympathetic to the individualist view which I live, but in the past couple of years I've felt a...
Not to mention that hanging is an awful way to go... they used to drop you from a few feet, and even tie sand bags to you if you were a skinny guy lik...
I don't know that we always have a survival drive, both Buddha and Freud talked about a death drive. We're social animals, and I think that social rej...
Yeah, weed was definitely to self-medicate my crushing loneliness... oh why God did you make me too beautiful for this world? I should take up the gui...
I do love me some myths, and fables. They're my favorite thing. I'm like totes on the verge of yogi mastery anywho, and just need the hot wife to get ...
A bit before I moved, a big dog was on my property inside my garage that I forgot to close, and came out and started barking at me, so I pointed at it...
I do find it extraordinary how similar many of my experiences, and views are to his, also that we're born on the same day, and might be related, which...
Well, I don't drink, and have quit the drugs, although I confess to relapsing twice in the last couple of months, still smoking cigarettes, although o...
Well, I wasn't referencing an ancient thought genetically, I was just talking about suffering, negatively felt things, as opposed to positively felt t...
The very act of being conscious of something alters it. We only become conscious of something because it needs to be altered, and the less creative, o...
I heard that OJ was up to play the terminator, but everyone was all like "nah, he's way too nice, no one would believe that he would be a cold blooded...
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