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My patience is as eternal as the winds and waves of this realm. My understanding as far and unyielding as the deepest valleys and fjords. No, your top...
August 14, 2025 at 18:09
Dude. I like jokes as much as the next guy. But you're pushing the limits. Lilterally my questions in bold: Either you don't know what English sentenc...
August 14, 2025 at 17:49
Oh my, have myself and OP have been having a good (and pleasant, might I add) conversation in the Private Message function. Which he initiated, of cou...
August 14, 2025 at 15:40
Props. Or yikes. :grimace: Hard to tell. Bit envious of the schedule, access to resources, and quality of life, if nothing else. :razz:
August 14, 2025 at 14:13
You will not find a single example of any post in this discussion, even remotely possible, I might add, as "rude", as my reply is to the IDEA expresse...
August 14, 2025 at 14:11
No one said everything must. That which is meaningless, simply disppaears as it should. This is fine. In fact, demanded by those who know a life witho...
August 14, 2025 at 13:40
So, you have no real point, essentially. Or at the very least cannot understand an idea enough to simplify it for those who wish to grasp it. Cool. Al...
August 14, 2025 at 12:57
Why, whatever I can fashion into helping me along on this difficult road of life, of course. What a silly inquiry. :smile: Neither, 'tis but a simple ...
August 14, 2025 at 12:52
I'll take it from here. What is your "point", OP. These concepts and mental "discoveries" (gymnastics, others will call) are surely fascinating, enter...
August 14, 2025 at 12:33
See this is interesting because, let us, say, take Pascel's "demon" (or whatever) where one knows what men cannot know. The Universe is, according to ...
August 14, 2025 at 12:10
Huh. Never noticed that before. Interesting. So, like, to use the previous example of mine, the frequency (or perhaps dispersion) of how one speaks (o...
August 14, 2025 at 10:07
To what degree? Help me understand. Some examples. Let's say: "I climbed Mt. Everest last year." Where the person has extensive video documentation of...
August 14, 2025 at 09:04
I can't quite say I understand or agree with this. There's some buzzword Latin term for it, I'm sure. I don't know it. But, in simple words, everythin...
August 13, 2025 at 23:07
After a quick Google search, this is actually a repost, yes. However, the person he is engaging with does seem to find it interesting, though perhaps ...
August 13, 2025 at 20:18
If it walks like a duck, it's probably a duck. If you're never allowed to change, that is not to say broadcasted constantly "there's something wrong w...
August 13, 2025 at 10:34
This is actually interesting because when you order Taco Bell online, it gives you a customization option (presumably the same you find at the order w...
August 10, 2025 at 04:59
Or do you? Heh. sorry. :lol: I'm going to attempt to, likely trivially, but hopefully effectively, simplify a few things I would assume the average pe...
August 09, 2025 at 16:07
If it's alright, and it might not be, and if so I apologize in advance, as someone who's been following this topic in a very light and casual way (it'...
August 09, 2025 at 05:06
I'm sure it often does, very often, actually, yes! Of course, what is "conceitedness" but the tangential cousin of arrogance? And what is arrogance bu...
August 08, 2025 at 04:13
How so? Certainly not towards you! Merely implying that the conspiracy of (granted I'm assuming what agenda you imply it to be advancing or protecting...
August 08, 2025 at 02:34
Stupidity is not necessarily indicative of agency. Here, something more suited to the folk of this day and age: "Never attribute to malice what can be...
August 08, 2025 at 01:50
Shawn is clearly a secret wealthy elite who we should be honored to even be in the same room with, let alone to communicate with us directly. Even if ...
August 08, 2025 at 00:31
It's not the same. The average person is not a deep or reverent thinker. The English language is complex. It's like supervising a rogue IT guy. If you...
August 07, 2025 at 02:25
Until our dear friend wishes to express a response, perhaps one interested in the overarching debate (such as myself) might find value in observing th...
August 06, 2025 at 14:35
Some objects are in fact, manifest of concepts. Trash in a bin, for example. Sure, there may be a lost gold ring or other heirloom that would supersed...
August 06, 2025 at 02:32
And I believe you're right. But the question is, how did you come across to believe that the above sentiments, beliefs, and philosophies, are in fact ...
August 05, 2025 at 04:35
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It's just not very philosophical in any way, shape, or form. Evolution (or any other form of physical being) is set in stone. Sure, maybe I'm taller t...
August 05, 2025 at 00:07
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Who? Lol. :lol: What he say? You know, replace "Group X" with, I dunno, peacocks or something. Like, give us some context at least. Was it just an ill...
August 04, 2025 at 20:46
So, it may be, from the widely encompassing possibility you've allowed, a mandrill! https://www.onekindplanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/the-mandr...
August 04, 2025 at 11:47
Not anymore so than the claim of which spawned it, I'd say. It just seems a bit unsound from how I process it in my own head. Not bad. Just, in need o...
August 03, 2025 at 16:58
Weird. Just this morning, not two hours ago, I, irregularly and in a break from my regular ritual, felt unusual and so grabbed a long ignored "Sparkli...
August 03, 2025 at 13:28
I wonder how whoever figured that out did so. Like, I'm imagining there being some funny, feelgood story that went along with it. There probably isn't...
August 03, 2025 at 11:38
Interesting.. very interesting! One naturally has a million questions but would never wish to intrude upon nor assume your disposition to share such s...
August 03, 2025 at 02:22
And after five months! I thought you were dead. Almost had me worried, really. No matter. You're back "sorta", and that's all that counts. :smile:
August 03, 2025 at 02:13
Smells like nihilism to me, OP. It's certainly a bit to unpack and then ponder using the given methodologies and justifications OP has provided. Like ...
August 02, 2025 at 22:05
What is a "fake, fake painting" and how would that differ from a "fake, fake, fake painting?" Can such a concept continue ad infinitum? :chin: This is...
August 02, 2025 at 06:27
I haven't noticed. Yes we all begin with something unrecognizable from what we are meant to become. Did you yourself not start with much less, barely ...
July 30, 2025 at 07:36
I'm a bit of a perfectionist, I must admit. No doubt a result of my own nagging follies and various idiosyncrasies, to put them lightly. I like polish...
July 30, 2025 at 07:30
This statement is correct yet missing information some may consider lacking to constitute what is "True," Any person, even a non-person robot could pe...
July 30, 2025 at 06:56
Oh. Well, you would know, after all. That's why you're the site owner and I'm not, assuredly. Such a grand and intriguing intellect, that one has. Yes...
July 30, 2025 at 06:41
@"Banno" in the Shoutbox? Of all persons? How strange. I'll let the NPC dialog from a video game I recently started playing capture my sentiment. http...
July 30, 2025 at 06:07
What, in the best of your ability, are whoever you're referencing "confused" about. And why so. And what does this allegedly professed "knowledge" or ...
July 28, 2025 at 23:14
How can one know confusion (rather that they are confused) without knowing clarity (that they are not confused). If one does not know clarity it is si...
July 28, 2025 at 22:21
Is there really no term or concept (even if it's not a simple one or two length word) synonymous with "Qualia". It's an invented term, presumably beca...
July 28, 2025 at 20:09
That's right, I remember having read that now before. Interesting. Makes sense, of course. But isn't a (simple) math problem basically just adding or ...
July 28, 2025 at 16:03
I wouldn't compare the "experience of red" with the "experience of loud". One is measurable in decibels that will literally blow or otherwise permanen...
July 28, 2025 at 03:13
I apologize, I appear to have made a momentary lapse in judgement. The secondary question, now that you've suggested such is: "is the inability (or ra...
July 28, 2025 at 01:47
That's also fine. I don't know who that is. Not that I can recall, at least. How would you set out the issue. No Chalmers, no this and that referencin...
July 28, 2025 at 01:34
That's fine. And I doubt that. Is "qualia" not fundamental to what is considered to be defining, if not relevant, to the "Hard Problem of Consciousnes...
July 28, 2025 at 01:24
I wish, if you might entertain me, just for a moment, to frame this argument in a different light. Let's say, mankind never developed the ability to s...
July 28, 2025 at 00:56