Language and the meaning it carries reflects the reality we live in. Therefore "The next statement is true. The previous statement is false." violates...
For me I start with the presupposition that both the object and the subject exist. And it is the interplay between these two phenomena that gives rise...
Does that mean the mind is also an abstraction? Something outside the physical world? If so how does one explain what happens to my mind when you crus...
Why do you think I'm drawn to that particular blockade with fascination/enthusiasm? Perhaps it is unlikely. That's perfectly fine with me. I'm prepare...
I see what you mean absolutely. Given the vast scope of human intellectual constructs and considerations/musings such as ethics, aesthetic or art/beau...
Perhaps free will and determinism both exist as a mutual duality/ neccessary dichotomy. Seems contradictory but: The past is fully determined and unch...
This mirrors the liar paradox: "The following sentence is true" (the oracle predicting the impending outcome). "The previous sentence is false" (the t...
I'm glad to see you're using reliable sources :P I tend to believe there is some paradoxic behaviour at play in regards to legalisation and rights. So...
I don't see how that is the implications of my conclusion. The implications would be that if you decide to bathe in the blood of babies, other subject...
Well if the conclusion is not opinion but rather...fact, then bravo. Its a great discovery in this case. However such a discovery needs to withstand c...
I can. I call the point in time when there is too much existence "being overwhelmed" or "over-stimulated". Ofc this is a subjective experience of too ...
Wait, I don't understand how an objective reality leads to objective morality. I believe an objective reality exists outside of our subjective percept...
I absolutely agree. I think the truly objective doesn't care for individual discrepancies and opinion. For example gravity gravitates despite whether ...
I did, I found it a bit convoluted tbh but probably because I'm not sufficiently intellectually adept to understand it all. So I went back to the very...
Is existence good? Now that's one of the oldest if not 'the' oldest question of philosophy, along with what is existence and what is the meaning of ex...
No. Because you cannot have any meaningful suffering without its opposites -joy, pleasure, peace, contentment etc. If suffering was all we knew, there...
I'm not sure I fully understand. Forgive me, but are these simulations not the ones where they put crash test dummies in a model of car and ram it int...
Who says? If a simulation is wholly deterministic, there is no added value to run it in the first place. For all variables throughout the simulations ...
How does this prove we aren't a simulation though? All it asserts is that should our existence indeed be simulated, it is imperfect when compared to t...
True. But 99.99999999% of things can be simulated with one singularity type entity running the show. If we take "everything" as the set for which one ...
Why so? Surely the programmers can create whatever physics, chemistry and phenomena they like. Perhaps the passage of time is exclusive to this simula...
Perhaps it's a game. Maybe the hints are all around us; in philosophy, perhaps in various scriptures spanning many cultures and times, Easter eggs hid...
Well I'm also 27 and from the proverbial "west". And my education in school was heavily based on fact and rote learning. With the exception of English...
Well you answered your own qualm. My OP on the virality of thoughts is not explicitly about being indoctrinated by them. As you said we have a "mental...
I think the point here was not having a global education oneself. One does not need to know the intricate details of every item on every syllabus acro...
I agree. For if we can assume nothing (ie have no trusted facts) and apply "critical thinking" to every shred of knowledge we are offered, we must go ...
I agree. I think context is almost everything in education. For a true knowledge of any subject the who, what, why, when, where and how's of said subj...
You would be incorrect. Surely critical thinking is best exemplified by those at the elite end of the system for one reason or another. Otherwise how ...
Well... "distraction" has maintained a stable status as an effective way to disarm people. Especially if you have an underlying dogma or agenda you wi...
You missed the point. The point being made does not regard what you do with the ideas or memes you're exposed to. Simply that the idea or meme is ofte...
Constructive or healthy modes of competition. We cannot eliminate our desire to win or outcompete one another. We like reward, acknowledgement and sta...
I agree. Competition is healthy. People love a game with a lucrative reward at the end for the winner. If we didn't, games would not be such a huge so...
I fear taking away the wealthies money is equivalent taking away their ambition. If they're super talented and hyperintelligent yet never benefit from...
That's because they're material. Materials can be hoarded. Ideas and personal natures cannot. It seems what you're saying is merit-based privilege is ...
It depends whether I am already at an advantage or not. As I would say is the thought of many facing the question. I have self esteem. I don't want to...
Moreover it is interesting that there are people that don't mind not knowing the meaning of life, some that constantly crave knowing and those that be...
Very true. A thought that is so horrifying or harmful it makes the holder commit suicide instantly wouldn't be able to spread very successfully. Think...
In this case how would you say they evolve to survive? I would propose that they evolve to either: A). Empower the holder of the thought (ie education...
Your whole argument for less ambiguity is based on an impractical desire for words to be absolutely concrete and defined. That's simply not how human ...
I'm not convinced this is the case for people that use seemingly ambiguous words. There is nuance and often careful selection in the language used to ...
of course. I know this is not a knew thought in academic philosophy. However I think when "all limits are gone", all arguments fall so so short of wha...
It's very meta to be able to even imagine that. Because in an existence where everything is possible - there would be universesor bubbles that never c...
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