T_Clark

I agree with this, but it doesn't mean that self can't be studied like any other mental process. It's just a bit more difficult.

There are lots of names for it - ego, self, soul, identity, spirit, essence, personality, persona, consciousness.... It seems to mean something differ...

The point of philosophy is playing with the puzzles, not solving them. There aren't really any solutions.

Thanks.

Maybe I'll try another. What's your favorite?

This is pretty similar to how I feel.

You can't really talk about the nature of reality without talking about the nature of the self. This goes back to that whole consciousness thing. Peop...

The only genuinely dark part of this post is the word "sammich."

Thanks for that. I really liked the movie. Elliot Gould was great and the rest of the cast was very good. It had a great script. But what really got m...

You're one of our most knowledgeable members about food. Can you recommend a good cannibal restaurant in NYC?

There is a similar discussion going on in another thread on the forum right now - "Corporeality and Interpersonal Being." They're talking more about t...

It doesn't seem to me that we disagree much. I see our sense of self as something personal. Different people will experience it differently. Different...

In my personal experience, my self is the foundation of my perception, conception, understanding, and interaction with the world, including other peop...

Isn't that part of the reason for cannibalism - to take on the characteristics of the victim?

As I've said before, "The Long Goodbye" is one of my favorite movies. Robert Altman. Elliot Gould. I decided I should read the book by Raymond Chandle...

This is one of the reasons I love reading on Kindle. When I forget exactly who a character is, I can just search for the first instance in the book wh...

Those are metric. Here in the USofA, we still use the inch/pound/bazillion system.

Perhaps it's a giveaway that the article uses the word "zillion." Everyone knows the correct word is "bazillion."

This makes a lot of sense to me and it's interesting. It made me think more about the place philosophy fills in my life. I don't have a spiritual prac...

Yes.

I find the relationship between metaphysics and religion frustrating. On the one hand, as you note, religion is intended to "account for the foundatio...

As a lilly-livered liberal, unitarianish, cis-heteronormative, patriarchal dude I agree. I find it more moving when the singers are in a formal chorus...

Yes.

For me, the bridge is the position I've described. You don't have to commit to just one metaphysical or epistemological viewpoint. Different metaphysi...

First, let me be clear, the understanding I've described is not held by many, perhaps most, perhaps almost all philosophers. The source I usually refe...

My party line is that a particular metaphysics describes the underlying assumptions, what RG Collingwood calls "absolute presuppositions," of a partic...

What do you mean "lowly?" All I want @"Zettel" to do is respond to my comments before he gets banned.

What does that have to do with the fact that you have not addressed my argument, only restated the same incorrect complaint over and over.

So we move on from vague innuendo to actual insults. And yet you've still not addressed my comments.

You keep making snarky remarks about my comments, but you don't respond to their substance.

You still have not addressed the substance of my argument.

Again, to vastly oversimplify, philosophy isn't truth, knowledge, or wisdom; it shows us how to find truth, knowledge, and wisdom. You haven't address...

Wonderful. Yes, yes, yes. Thanks for making it so I don't have to post. I also agree with this.

The title of your thread is "How can metaphysics be considered philosophy?" but what you went on to describe is not metaphysics by almost anyone's def...

Welcome to the forum. When you've been here a while, you see the subject of metaphysics comes up often. The one thing I've learned is that the discuss...

This makes sense to me, although I still think "bias" is the wrong word. This brings up a subject I've thought about quite a bit. It's at least periph...

You call it "bias" while I would call it "values." Perhaps this is an example of the phenomenon you are trying to describe. I don't think I understand...

Have you read "Flatland." It deals with some of these intricacies. https://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Romance-Dimensions-Edwin-Abbott/dp/B0875SRH84/ref=s...

I can only speak for myself. The root of my interest in philosophy is a need for self-awareness.

I think it would make more sense to say: We will choose our words based on our feelings and intent, in an unavoidable process that necessarily biases ...

I really stopped watching movies much just about 20 years ago, so, although I'm familiar with the names, I haven't seen any of the movies you listed. ...

Never saw it.

Forgot about this. This and Truman Show are the only Jim Carrey movies I really like.

I agree with most of your list, although I've never loved Laurel and Hardy. I've seen Billy Connolly on TV and doing standup, but the only movie I rem...

Extra!!!! Stop the presses! (Can they actually do that anymore?) I was in Galesburg IL once and they had worm vending machines for fishermen.

Little known fact - Forrest Gump was actually the thinly disguised story of my life...except for the war hero, all American athlete, character, courag...

I looked on the web and the consensus from feline specialists is that the cucumber thing is not funny. But , no matter what they say in public, they m...

Yes - Congratulations, condolences. Now you can ban all those materialists.

When I like a movie, I try to think back and figure out why. Often, it has to do with character - George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Phill...

I was reading that several states are implementing legal requirements for robust proof of age measures for pornography sites. That makes a lot of sens...