I think giving way to cynicism actually feeds the Trump myth. I think there's an electoral wipeout coming for the Republicans. There was already one i...
Just shows how utterly f***ed the GOP and their voters have become by following Trump into the abyss. My sincere hope is that in November 2024 this is...
Fair enough. I kind of get the appeal but as said, I have other projects to pursue, although I'm very pleased that this thread has been created for th...
Here's an 7 year old article from the New York Times, Do You Believe in God, or Is That a Software Glitch?, commenting on a scientific paper demonstra...
Have a glance at the two pdf's that Unenlightened provided in the OP. LoF is not *just* presenting a new form of predicate calculus, it is intended to...
I sometimes wonder what physical difference there would be in ‘understanding something’. I mean, say, for example, I am trying to learn maths - I was ...
:lol: Great saying, very apt. As we say in English, people can ‘turn a blind eye’ when faced with something they don’t want to know. Astonishing numbe...
Actually, the SEP entry addresses this very question in Section 6. It goes on: Quite so! That's where the idea of will as a kind of universal force co...
The fact that so many people are prepared to believe it is one of his weapons, so I refuse to. Besides leading in the polls is as much because he gets...
I intend to post actual news updates here from time to time. Deniers will always deny, but so what? Just another voice in the hubbub. https://imgs.xkc...
Heartbreaking story today in the Sydney Morning Herald - that nearly the entire brood of last year's Emperor Penguin chicks, around 10,000 in number, ...
Just as Trump abuses 'first amendment freedoms' to spread vitriol and encourage violence against his opponents, so he will also abuse 'the presumption...
Right! My point. And this is where the 'mind-created world' of idealism enters the picture, but I won't drag Tim's thread any further in that directio...
To address that, I'll refer to this: The division of 'primary and secondary', Descartes' divison of mind and matter, and science comprising the quanti...
What do you think the Bohr-Einstein debates revolved around? It was just this kind of question. This is why Einstein famously exclaimed one day 'Does ...
Again, there is no literal 'wave function collapse'. It's a metaphorical expression for the reduction of possibilities to a certainty. The mystery is ...
I think that's popular myth. The quote 'for those who are not shocked...' is quite famous in its own right. Did you know that Bohr adopted the ying-ya...
Other lowlights - Vivek Ramaswamy being applauded for calling climate change a hoax - 6 out of 8 candidates saying they would support Trump (you can s...
I reckon DeSantis has no chance, that his shctick will never extend to the US at large. It goes down OK in Florida due to favourable demographics, but...
I would really have to read a whole bunch more of Schopenhauer to take a stab at that. So far, I'm pretty well on board with 'World as Idea', but I st...
The question I have, then, is what is the problem with the Copenhagen interpretation? As I understand it, two of the main points are most controversia...
The OP said nothing about 'the hard problem', that was introduced by you. Furthermore you said: And finally, the posts were not deleted, they were mov...
They're pretty clever observations, but I think we're talking at cross-purposes. To me, none of these questions are only hypothetical - there is somet...
Moderator note: the comments specifically about the hard problem of consciousness have been moved to the most recent thread on that topic, so as to ma...
Because unlike objective phenomena, consciousness is both the subject doing the investigating and the object of investigation. The million dollar ques...
1. My take is that Zapfe and Benatar (not sure I've spelled them correctly) are materialist philosophers - and if you're nothing other than a physical...
Only based on your statements which frequently suggest those associations. Seems more likely to me that you are not aware of those own tendencies in y...
I think the notion of ‘cause’ in ‘what causes wave collapse’ is problematical. The wave function is not physical, either, it’s simply a distribution o...
:pray: I respect your honesty in grappling with these questions. What it seems to me that you're saying that you have intuitive insights that the ego/...
It is, perhaps, an infelicitous term. I don’t think the goal of either Buddhism or Schopenhauer is being ‘blissed out’ or attaining a ‘meditative high...
Why won’t Trump join the initial presidential debate? Answer is very, very simple: Trump shares the stage with no-one. The mere suggestion that anyone...
More ad hominems, then. I’ll put that aside, to venture an answer: learning by doing. But I don’t think the question ‘was the Buddha enlightened?’ is ...
The dispute about intersubjective validation started when I made the claim that what Buddhists call 'higher states' can be validated inter-subjectivel...
Well, ask a stupid question.... Anyway, what was it that prompted that question? You said: What does that refer to? If you explain that, I might under...
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