What about a life-form that isn't conscious, like a starfish, that has eyes, but no central nervous system with a brain? What it means to see is that ...
I don't see how talk is transcendent. Talk, or text in our case, are simply sounds, or scribbles, that we have attached meaning and value to. How and ...
To answer this question, you simply need to compare the suicide rates and accidental drug overdoses of those in the musical/acting industry and those ...
Ok. I see your point. I believe I was created by my parents. After all, my appearance, shape and function all seem to resemble certain aspects of thei...
There are actually a couple of other possibilities, both of which eliminate the possibility of a necessary creator. 1) That there actually isn't a fir...
It seems contradictory in that it says "Valuation as a real psychological occurrence is part of the natural world", but then goes on to say that it's ...
That's not difficult at all. You're simply delusional. You want that to be the explanation. You've made an emotional investment in your explanation. Y...
Can we really say that it has worked so far? What about illusions and misinterpretations of sensory data? Is a bee's sensory system "working so far" w...
I have no idea how this answers my question. Crystal balls are only useful for seeing things outside the range of your own eyes. But then you'd need t...
If we can't rely on logic and our knowledge because something might be different five minutes from now, then doesn't that place a major emphasis on ou...
What is the consensus on the wavelength associated with grey, white, or burgundy? True, but there are millions of different combinations of colors tri...
MU, After all, it is possible, being that we are genetically similar, that we do experience the same colors with the same wavelength or assortment of ...
Like...? Well, it is kind of hard to pick up on humor without being in person. There are those that resort to character assassination when they don't ...
So then why don't they release a hoard of info on Russia and Putin, or China, or other countries? Why focus on the US? Maybe because Assange knows tha...
No. It's driven by China driving down the costs of labor and allowing it's people get paid next to nothing for the work they do all in an effort to st...
We only have a limited number of "color"-receptive cones in our eyes, and all of them are triggered by an assortment of wavelengths of varying degrees...
Volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, etc. aren't biological in nature either, but they are still natural. You are making a distinction that i...
Re-read that post again, Bitter - the part where I mention value statements. Does that give you the right to eradicate all termites on Earth? Who has ...
Actually, it makes what every other country needs to do worthless. What good is it for every other country to do something when the world's largest po...
This is like saying that a star burning hydrogen and helium to make other heavier elements in it's core is purely solar and we shouldn't be confusing ...
The question isn't whether or not man is causing changes to his environment. There is no doubt that he is. But the sun is also causing changes to our ...
How exactly does an atom have an inner experience, or intention? My experience shows that my intentions often come into conflict with reality. My inte...
What is ironic is all the people who reject science and it's explanations, and how these same people propose that what isn't experienced doesn't reall...
Actually, I think that the concept of "nothing" is probably the most accurate concept we have. Nothing is easy to imagine. It's simply a complete abse...
When I look at your brain, I experience a model of your brain, not your actual brain. My model isn't precise (it's a model after all). My model appear...
Easy. Ask them if they noticed that they ran out of the house in their underwear. If they didn't then they weren't aware of what they were wearing, bu...
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same result. How can something be "physically" identical to me and ...
I'm not really clear on what you are saying here. Prescribing oneself exercise or medicine is a conscious, willful act and cicatrisation isn't volunta...
Don't you have to first establish that the sensations and experiences you have are about, or of things that exist independently of your perception of ...
Isn't that what "understandable" means? Duh. Okay then reference points exist apart from each other. What is the medium in which reference points exis...
Easy. The delusion is the belief that you are a man when you were born a woman, not that you have a penis when you have a vagina. Having a vagina is w...
Me not understanding isn't the same as someone writing gibberish. Non one can understand gibberish, except for maybe a lunatic. What does this even me...
And for the umpteenth time, there needs to be a consistent shared world for you to mean anything when you use the term, "other", or else there isn't o...
Then you don't need to see other trees for there to be other trees. This is why the idealist is inconsistent until he follows his own arguments where ...
None of this makes any sense. This creates an infinite regress of reference points. Do reference points need other reference points for any reference ...
Of course it is a choice that makes them happy. This is what a delusion is - a false belief that is desperately held onto in an effort to ignore a rea...
If objects don't exist outside of a perspective then that is solipsism. If objects only exist in minds as a result of some external cause that isn't a...
So then what is the medium in which these other minds exist? To say that other minds exist implies a separation of minds. What is it that divides mind...
OK, so your explanation of idealism is that idealism is actually realism in that things continue to exist even when no mind is accessing it via the se...
No, it's you who aren't understanding me. I've asked this question numerous times and you've ignored it. From no reference point. What is the shape of...
"A big incompatibility with sense of identity and physical body" is a type of somatic delusion - just as feeling as if your arm isn't your own so you ...
Really? :-| Why don't you quote the rest of the post instead of cherry-picking in another pathetic attempt to insult me. Maybe you should think about ...
We're not talking about different properties. We're talking about one property - the shape of the stick. What is the shape of the stick independent of...
If there is anything out there that exists independently of the mind's experience of it, then that is realism, not idealism/solipsism. It doesn't matt...
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