Following your heart is not conformity. For many people, me included, it is hard to hear what their heart is saying. For me, the search for awareness ...
I'm with @"Tom Storm" - We do the best we can. I've read that all humans are related to one woman who lived about 200,000 years ago. Think about that....
If Hitler had been killed as a child, I never would have been born. The same is true for everyone on the forum. Most, maybe all, the people in the wor...
Some thoughts. Foreseeability- If I buy a loaf of whole wheat bread and that somehow starts a chain of events that leads to World War III, it would be...
Formal logic applies to propositions. Other forms of rationality don't necessarily. Still, as @"javra" and I discussed previously in this thread, what...
Are you basing this on the video I linked or another source? The video made it clear. The types of judgements the babies were making were not not nece...
My understanding of intuition comes from introspection, reading some eastern philosophy, and 30 years handling and using data as an engineer, not from...
I don't think it's outlandish, but I provided specific sources for my opinions. The extent to which human behavior is innate has been argued on the fo...
I stole this from one of my posts in an earlier discussion: I see this as a very moderate expression of an argument for a genetic component to moral b...
This is from "Against Interpretation" by Susan Sontag. I don't know if what she says is right, but it's interesting. I added some paragraph breaks bec...
Homo Sapiens have been around for 200,000 years. They were genetically equivalent to people today. Do you think evolution didn't provide them with the...
Animals know what to do to live without some outside force motivating them. People are animals. What we need to live, to make decisions and to act, is...
You use a different definition of "metaphysics" than I, or many others, do. A confusion of definitions just about always happens when discussing this ...
My particular favorite logical fallacy/rhetorical strategy was first formalized by renowned philosopher P.W. Herman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l...
Is that a self-portrait or Darwin? Plato? Darwin died 140 years ago. Plato about 2,400. How far from 1882 is the distant future. https://www.youtube.c...
Again, it's not my sense of what it means, it's what it actually does mean. You propose a more holistic approach to knowledge and understanding, which...
I think we're coming up against the problem that we never did define what "rational" means back at the beginning. For me, it means a systematic search...
Well, I think justified true belief as an explanation of knowledge is wrong-headed, so that doesn't resolve anything for me. No, I don't want to talk ...
Jaynes defines consciousness as "the human ability to introspect." I interpret that to mean that consciousness is self-awareness - the capacity to thi...
If all it takes to be rational is using knowledge to achieve goals, then animals are rational. Any mental process that may lead to action is rational....
I don't mind trying to answer, but I don't have much insight to offer. To start, I'll say again - irrational and non-rational are not the same thing. ...
Seems like you are changing the meaning of the word "logic" in mid-discussion. We can leave it at that. If we go on we'll get into more and more nitpi...
Well, now we've raised the question of whether rational thought processes have to be conscious. I vote yes, but I don't have a definitive argument to ...
I like this. Perhaps I'll steal it and use it in the OP of my "Why religion am good" thread. Strike that - I am going to use it in my OP. Objections? ...
You say: From that I infer that in cases where a law is rational, you think criminal acts are not rational. I was disagreeing that is necessarily true...
Why does it matter whether or not the crime is rational? Seems to me that robbing a bank so I can be rich could be just as rational as buying illegal ...
Your example is a good example of the problem with making a definitive distinction between the two concepts. I think calling "I used metal to build th...
I've tried to get one started in my mind a couple of times, but it always peters out. I'm hoping making a public declaration will embarrass me into fi...
Yes. As I noted, that difficulty in separating the concepts is the reason I didn't start a discussion like this one previously. As it is though, this ...
This comment took me by surprise, even startled me a bit. You are proposing that intuition includes some sort of secret logic we are not aware of. My ...
Perhaps, but I'd be willing to take a chance if I thought it would help me get my head together on the subject. That's generally why I start discussio...
I don't know if you saw the excerpts from the SEP about abduction I posted in a response to ByLaw previously. The issue discussed in those texts is th...
I don't see that as true in my case. Based on my experience of my own thinking, much of it is wandering and playful. Curiosity leads me off in directi...
As I've said many times before, I am not a theist - I don't have any specific religious beliefs. But I think there is value in a religious way of seei...
People are aware of their own experiences at different levels and in different ways. I don't think that means the processes themselves are different. ...
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