neonspectraltoast

If you want to be convinced, just watch an old movie and fully ascertain that the people you're watching, in the present - though dead - are fully con...

Don't be so sure of yourself.

The night my cat died, she came to me. There were no indications that she was going to die. But she just sat at the foot of my bed and stared at me. I...

Do I honestly need to point out that even if you're watching a film about neurons, it's still composed entirely of internal images?

Everyone recognizes that characters in books are fictional. Trying to convince us that other people are fictional is a different matter. Yes, people c...

If the objective of a game is to have fun, then you're a success if you have fun and a failure if you don't. And Truth or Dare can go either way, whic...

I would say truth or dare can be a game. And termed as such is still a matter of success or failure, yes. There is an objective. It's kind of a foggy ...

I can't accept it as a counter example. I can accept it at times as a game (sometimes just practice,) but then there is still the objective of catchin...

Questionable if that's really a game. I say it is, though. In a loose sense the child has the objective of retrieving the ball, and if he/she doesn't ...

You can't act differently, but only because you are you. You're not some standard human who will always make the same choices given your body. I see a...

An essential feature of games is that you win or lose.

Self-awarenesd is just what happens when information about the self changes. Even atoms have a modicum of self-awareness. They are forced to distingui...

It's all information. Even empty space. It informs you about what your environment is like.

I'm just here out of whimsy, and I like to try and get a glimpse of reality.

Yes, I guess what I'm saying is we can't possibly say beyond a shadow of a doubt how they ultimately relate...only how they seem to relate from a huma...

I seriously doubt that our brains relay information accurately. To me, this is not only a hard problem, but an impossible problem. How do you prove th...

Yes, but I'm asking what the implications are if someone is watching you, and, without observing it, you somehow know it.

I think you're taking your inevitable demise too harshly and projecting it on other people. You think it justifies you somehow, but really you're just...

Y You are the jerk, foghorn.

If there was trust money wouldn't be involved. It's a contract, and people that trust each other don't need them.

I don't demand perfection. But I believe in good hearts. The more light, the deeper the shadows. But I'd rather confront them in the light than in the...

It's funny that we, as humans, believe we can imagine the absence of all being, yet even when we do we're technically imagining something. Which begs ...

It's literally going to take a miracle to get people to stop being dicks

Because I'm a man and a man has nothing else to do. I just go through the motions. If people want to be jerks, it's not really my problem. I can easil...

Emotions are tied up in identity, and identity can't really be explained. It just is what it is and is self-explanatory. You can talk about inputs and...

Corporations are only as good as the society that invests in them. I don't trust Google any more than I trust the lot of you, which isn't very much. Y...

Without a deeper examination of psychic phenomena reported by conscious observers, we will never get any closer to understanding the nature of conscio...

I'm just wondering, if, hypothetically speaking, it were a real phenomenon, what would the implication be? I have experienced it plenty, but I have no...

Never.mind.

There is no burden here. Just food for thought. If you have no idea, just say so or don't bother responding. I have nothing to prove.

You are dumb.

Quack.

You guys keep talking about the physical, but none of you know what that means. Particle or wave? You can't even determine that. The Uncertainty Princ...

So you're saying time is created by dreams?

One problem: I never asserted that dreams were non temporal.

So?

An even harder question is whether or not the brain is a formidable tool for ascertaining reality as it is. I would argue that it probably isn't. It's...

You can't feel unaffected. To feel is to be affected. Yet, you can feel unaffected.

So instead of saying we're feeling emotional, we should be saying we're feeling affected? And the words themselves are emotional, and we must be feeli...

But even if, hypothetically speaking, the mind is purely the product of the brain, this tells us nothing about the quality of the mind. The brain is c...

How can the thing that keeps this all cohesive for us be an illusion. If the mind is an illusion, then everything is an illusion. Clearly, the mind is...

God is the creation of language. And we trust in language. At the very least, it's the highest pinnacle of intelligent thought. It's something good an...

Women enable men to be dullards in every possible way. What women want is a man who misses the point completely. Women are the backbone of the patriar...

Analyze your emotions until you feel nothing but despair and see how happy you are.

How absurd is it that we entertain such thoughts. "Your identity isn't real." Do you realize how messed up that statement is? Is it all a part of some...

Maybe sometimes people get too close to truth and are ignored in favor of being lost.

I think I reflect on my choices, and it makes me behave differently, but the main thing is there is an unalterable I this is all filtered through. I c...

It was probably created by a woman as some ancient vocalizations for "Do you want sex?" She and her mate both knew instinctively what "unga bunga?" me...

You're really this obtuse, aren't you.

Philosophy is the endeavor of dumb, uptight people to try and boost their egos. At least 75% of the time.