Benj96

It's not left ambiguous you just gave up as outlined below: Even though I offered to discuss it further specifically regarding energy as a fundamental...

And what of it? I didn't explain what anything ought to be. What I have described thus far is what I believe it "is". And what I believe it "is" is wh...

That's fine we can discuss this now if you'd like. I also have thought about that a lot. Why energy exists. Of course they can. Meaning is how we unde...

Just-so stories are also honest. For the converse reason that we also do know things. We understand logic/reasoning. It is how we bind phenomena toget...

Energy isn't pseudo physics. It's the base of physics.

How do we ever make that comparison? What quantity of life or "consciousness maybe" offsets 16 jumbled up galaxies? If I dream for 1 hour last night d...

Converging in what sense? From what I understand is converging on the correct answer by process of elimination (series of errors). I feel this is not ...

yes I see what you mean. Trial and error hones ones skills and ableness. We see the same in evolution. Except its live or die in that case.

This is true. People feel guilt for a lot of things they ought not to. Torturing themselves over minor failings. And similar others feel no guilt/remo...

True, they are part and parcel of the process of identifying the mistake. Realisation of a mistake is a negative experience. It naturally leads to fee...

Yes I agree theor borders are real too. What I was saying is 2 separate distinct colours can appear as the same "grey" on a monochromatic scale if the...

What would be compelling evidence for you? I see objectivity and subjectivity as an axis with 2 poles. Subjects perceive objects from their subjective...

Also a neat little side note: the circumpunct - a circle with a dot in the center, is an old glyph that has been used around the world in various cont...

I don't understand how "just-so" stories are any worse than "just No" stories without a beginning, with no reasoning nor conclusion found at all, endl...

So making a best attempt rational story/explanation isn't doing something in the world? You contradict yourself a bit here. Ultimately if the "Why" ev...

The more accesible guns are to the general public, the more their ownership will be abused/misused. The more shootings of innocent parties will arise....

interesting it seems like a dimension where anything goes including contradictions that couldn't exist in the physical realm. Paradox heaven. Insensib...

I absolutely accept this. No qualms here. Its not for everyone for sure. And I dare not impose such ideas as definitive, un-arguable nor fact. I simpl...

for me the morality/ethics of a phenomenon is dependent on the entity/being or even system to which we concentricise/centralise the moral question. Fo...

The world exists because there is a fundamental universal entity, principle or phenomenon with rules/or that is a rule, that involves change/transform...

This is an oxymoron. Spectrums and quantized, discrete, compartmentalised things are contradictory to eachother. You can divide a spectrum into discre...

Agreed. There are cut off points that determine our definition of something. That doesn't detract from the fact that we do not know where the cut-off ...

We only have one side of that event to make inferences from. It's inherently biased. The perceptions and conclusions of the living witnessing the deat...

Haha. I laughed a lot at that. Yeah tbh the convo really span off topic to considerable degree. But I didn't have the will to try move over to a new p...

First person conclusions are what science is built on. As in every theory and hypothesis was someone's original individual first person conclusion or ...

Of course they are. I agree with you fully. Seeing and talking are two separate verbs. So they can't be referring to the same thing. When we talk abou...

Depends, are these people without the colour words in their language because they're colour blind? In which case they truly may only see one circle, o...

Oh this is interesting I like this question. This is a bit similar to "Can a faulty coding machine accurately locate its faulty coding using the progr...

no problemo Eugen :) thanks for taking the time to read my response.

So in essence what you're asking is can you get from non-consciousness (the substrate) to the product (consciousness) without the process/change in qu...

I'm a little Confused. If the "self" does not exist then "who" is controlling "who"? How is agency affected? Only selves have an agency so no selves, ...

I hadn't come across this term before I had to look it up. So as far as I gather the jungle is the holder or place where "non-existant objects" are co...

yeah, "becoming" is always tied a simultaneous "unbecoming" I guess. Like when you "destroy" a house you "create" a pile of rubble from the same stuff...

I think as that existant I would also get immeasurably bored and go out of my mind after a time. Even narcissism/god complex would get super old/unexc...

I'm not super well versed on hindu creation stories but as far as I know yes it seems to parallel them in many aspects. I'm interested to hear what so...

I agree that most of them are personal eccentricities - have no significance, worth, value of worship nor redemptive qualities. Perhaps 95, even 98, o...

Very interesting notion. I agree. I would also likely create a "game" where I "forget" myself. Not only forget myself but fraction myself into multipl...

Well if paradise is guarenteed then I don't see why death would be feared. However, as suffering and the lessons learned from such can only be experie...

That's fair. Im sorry I didn't adequately explain/provide enlightenment on the topic at hand. What is the key issue you face so I might come up with s...

I don't believe so also because I'm the exact same. Religions often require/subscribe to a belief in God, but a belief in a God doesn't mean you follo...

This is very true indeed. Popular "God" concepts are often assumed to be understood by the dogma from which they are derived: the abrahamic God varian...

What I would ask is "if the nature/quality of awareness progressively changes stepwise and slowly" is there need for a distinct "cut-off". In the same...

I think you'll find, they must all have a common basis fundamentally. They are independent existants now. For sure. I agree in this respect. Categoric...

Interesting. What number of neurons satisfies a conscious state for you? For me awareness is a gradual amplifying process. Our awareness of things is ...

I feel there is some clearing up to do. I am very much in agreement with you. I'm Inclined to believe that animal consciousness and human consciousnes...

I agree. However, if consciousness is what the brain does, what "does" the brain? And what does the thing that does the brain, and what does the thing...

Yes very true. Biology, Sociology, geography or political science would all be good academic disciplines to cite here. We only know of human society, ...

However, the views of your "disgruntled" interlocutors are part of the truth of what is happening in reality. Yes, we must consider as many possibilit...

Let's take it from a second approach now. Being human means being biased. Biased by the mere fact that we are evolved to sense, experience and perceiv...

There is a few things I want to highlight on this. Which I will do from 2 separate approaches in 2 separate responses. Firstly, are humans one set/gro...