T_Clark

What does that have to do with whether or not "our faculties of awareness are wholly the product of unguided evolutionary forces?"

The mind is an incredibly complex system of interacting processes. Emotions are deeply embedded in that system. They can't be separated out. On the ot...

I'm not sure I understand your argument. You say: I believe this is not true. I won't justify that, I'll just look at your justification for making yo...

A couple. I'm sure this is a common one. It's blown my mind when I try to get my arms around it since I was a teenager. Still does. Imagine nothing. R...

If Tiff were picky, would she talk to any of us?

Is there anything you can't get from Amazon? It's wonderful. It's terrifying. I was thinking that Amazon is a lot like what Sears was back in the earl...

As someone on anti-depressants who also has spent more than 50 years learning to be more self-aware and follow my heart, I think depression and spirit...

That's just about as stupid as Rep. Gohmert's idea. Someone should educate people about conservation of angular momentum.

As I wrote in my previous post, in my personal experience, my volition arises in a part of my mind that is not directly accessible to my self-awarenes...

I read Stephen Jay Gould's book about the Burgess Shales, which Morris studied. I enjoyed it, although it is not as easy to read as much of Gould's wr...

I just checked Wikipedia for Morris. A lot of good stuff about convergence, including a separate website.

This has always bothered me too. What's the big deal?

Poet, presidential candidate, goatherd, philosopher. Is there anything he can't do.

The closer I get to death, the funnier it seems. There's also that feeling of vertigo you get when you stand close to the edge of a great height. Chan...

Pretty bleak. As I've gotten older, I've felt less and less this way, for what that's worth. I think it started changing when my father died in 2001, ...

To start, it would make sense to make sure you and I are talking about the same thing when we say "consciousness." The word has lots of different mean...

I agree. To a certain extent, I think it's disrespectful to pretend that European colonization was cleaner than it really was. On the other hand, if I...

Agree.

Well written, also a bit over-simplistic. It will be much easier to read if you break it down into paragraphs. Many people won't even read a wall of t...

But, on the other hand, Black Lives Matter has as good a chance of changing the moon's orbit as the Bureau of Land Management. So do Cecil the Seasick...

I assume you know that BLM means Bureau of Land Management in this context.

More @"Hanover" slogans: If elected, I will direct the National Forest Service or BLM to change the course of the moon’s orbit or the Earth’s orbit ar...

I think I've found the perfect VP candidate for you. From Yahoo news: During a Tuesday hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Louie Go...

More @"Hanover" slogans: If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve. If inaugurated I'll do a really shitty job. Kinder, gentler wars ...

Hanover will build a wall around your house. In line with past policy, you'll have to pay for it yourself.

If it turns out you're competent, I'll rescind my contribution offer.

I agree that temperament is a strong determiner of philosophical approach. I'm an engineer - genetically, psychologically, spiritually. Pragmatism, ot...

More slogans: If elected, I will assassinate Mitch McConnell Oh, the horror, the horror I go forth to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated con...

Here are some more slogans for @"Hanover": Tha gaol againn air Hanover! Hanover – Not just a region in Germany and former part of the Holy Roman Empir...

This is more in line with my previous thoughts about how people create their worlds as babies. It's also in line with my own personal experience of wh...

I don't get this. How could a 900x900 pixel image show the entire universe or even a small part of the universe?

The most obvious method to determine borders is possession. Is that a moral standard? It certainly has moral elements.

VOTE FOR HANOVER - HE'S GOT YOUR GOAT!! I will work on some more slogans.

This is an interesting and well thought out post. My understanding of human nature is that, although we are born with capacities and tendencies, almos...

I'll pledge 5,000,000 Iranian Rials to your campaign once you've submitted your signatures to at least one state. .

Agreed.

I'm sorry it bothered you. It does not reflect my opinion of your contributions here. In the past I have expressed my appreciation for what you bring ...

Something worth considering, and I don't think it necessarily contradicts the other ideas presented here - One aspect of evolution and development is ...

I thought that is why you came here to the forum.

I've heard, although I don't know the details, that UBI would not cost any more than current welfare programs but would be more effective and much eas...

Said the man from Minneapolis.

Yes, there's no doubt. With my bachelors degree in civil engineering, I tend t be very sophistomicated in my erotica selection. Everything else you wr...

For what it's worth, according to the web, more than 60% of high school graduates go on to college. That surprises me. I can tell you from my family's...

Art, science, and philosophy are human-created ways of knowing the world. There are others, most significantly, religion. Seems to me they are ways of...

I think he's in jail. I'm not.

/uploads/resized/files/ot/ycxbwosc2cerchyi.jpg No, that's not me.

God is whatever God is. I don't think It is constrained by human interpretations of what it can or should be, can or should do.

You're right, I shouldn't have jumped in.

It's totally improper for me not to castigate you for your egregious abuse. Also, I hate emojis. But still: :up: :up: :up:

I'm back and I've read the texts you referenced. They were very interesting but not very helpful in answering my questions. I don't need to go any fur...