Maybe you didn't know Dawkins wrote "The Selfish Gene" where he explains how cooperation can evolve as a means of social organisms achieving their own...
I'm saying that it is redundant to use these terms. If reality is everything that exists and nothing else exists except awareness, then you are simply...
Right. So we start putting down the mirror of narcissism and start acting productive and responsibleby eradicating all other species except human. *<E...
Then you need to define the word "meaning". You also need to define "reality", "awareness" and "I" in such a way that they refer to the same thing but...
Animals have been taking care of themselves for billions of years before humans came around and not one ever charged sexism, racism, or specieism agai...
Of course it's the same thing. If humans were the only intelligent species, then by using the term, "intelligent species" I'm automatically referring ...
Now I'm laughing even harder now. Your solution to all the other species committing "specieism" is to commit genocide against them. Do you even think ...
But that the thing: Context. In order to talk objectively about Trump's behavior, you'd have to take into account other people's behavior that are als...
But that's not what awareness seems to me. Awareness seems to be the entire reality. Why say that "what exists in subjective reality I'm aware of"? If...
So then to be consistent, you must also say the same thing about Hillary. To rail against Trump for being dishonest and not say the same thing about H...
If there isn't an objective reality then there isn't any conscious awareness of it. That has been my point the whole time. When you declare that there...
I couldn't help but laugh when I read this. It's no surprise that the white privilege mentality drives ideas like this. What is labeled as a fight aga...
It's not that we need objective things to exist for the word "objective" to mean what it does. Objective is simply what exists. If all that exists is ...
Yet you use the same selective outrage that most liberals are known for. You attack Trump and his supporters over something Trump said as opposed to w...
Yes, Hillary lied about her emails and destroyed evidence and then was never prosecuted when others are prosecuted for doing less. She also used chara...
How can you define "subjective" without implying the existence of the objective? If there is no view, or perspective, then there is no subjectivity. I...
As it is in every case of sexual harassment. Who do you believe? Hillary is running as promoting herself as being the only candidate that cares about ...
Why isn't being defined as a "minority" offensive? I would be offended at being defined as a minority which then implies that I need this redistributi...
It is the person that resorts to name-calling that is the one feeling inferior. I see this all the time in discussions where the person doesn't have a...
Consciousness and awareness are the same thing. Awareness/Consciousness are about things, not the things themselves. When I am aware of my mother, I a...
You can't use the term "subjectivity" without implying the existence of the objective. Subjectivity is a limited and/or skewed view of the objective. ...
I think Richard Dawkin's book, The Selfish Gene, addresses many of these issues. The most fundamental form of altruism is the process of procreation. ...
Your use of the term "Dogma" seems to neglect that Crick himself admits that he misused the term when labeling his theory. From Wiki: In his autobiogr...
Choices are tied to the amount of resources one has access to and there isn't an infinite amount of it. In order to increase the resources/choices of ...
I've always understood the use of "chance" when talking about evolution as meaning the same thing as "random", as in mutations occur randomly. But "ch...
Pluto didn't change. Our understanding of the universe changed as we gathered more information about it, and our language reflects our understanding o...
They're all hypocrites, so it's easy to point out the inconsistencies both parties take. The problem is getting voters to realize that both parties ar...
Democrats are as much for the wealthy as Republicans. Being for the wealthy isn't a Republican/Democrat stance anyway. It's a political tactic to help...
Well, the only other option is if you tick off Republicans when talking about economic issues and tick off Democrats when talking about social issues,...
That depends. If you tick off Republicans when you talk about social issues and tick off Democrats when you talk about economic issues, like me, then ...
Generalized label:Libertarian Form of government:Civic Lottery. Every citizen is well educated and takes an active part in running their govt. for a p...
The American leftists are so silly. They like to talk about gender neutrality, or even omitting gender terms from our language, yet they can't help fr...
I would describe consciousness as an information architecture - or a model of sensory information for the purpose of modeling one's attention. It is u...
Gender isn't a social construct. It's an evolutionary construct and is part of the reason organisms engage in particular social behaviors (like courts...
Politeness and gun-ownership has nothing to do with each other. I have come to the conclusion that most, if not all, of society's problems is a result...
I don't see how we couldn't eventually create a machine that is conscious. It simply needs to represent the world with some model and use that model t...
Pen and paper are not information processing devices like brains, calculators and computers. They don't use energy to process information, so we aren'...
Thanks for the invite, aequilibrium! And thanks to Jamalrob and anyone else who had a hand in creating this site! I like the layout. Looking forward t...
Consciousness is an information architecture. It is a representation of our attention and what we are attending at any given moment. Consciousness doe...
I created a thread at the former site on this same subject; http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/the-extended-mind-71029.html If the mind is ext...
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