Wayfarer

The phenomenal domain can be accorded reality without according it inherent or intrinsic reality.

No, that’s craving.

first thing that need be said is the '8 kinds of love' that are sometimes read at wedding ceremonies. Philia — Affectionate Love. Philia is love witho...

Oxytocin. I think all emotions have a material basis in terms of hormones, enzymes and the like. What's not explicable through such means is selfless ...

Is there any suggestion that Carroll engaged in lewd or sexual behaviour with underage girls? There's no suggestion that he did. The Hollywood Reporte...

I feel the same. I wrote an essay back in my undergrad years that 'God is not God', which was about the idea that 'God' often amounts an amalgam of id...

I don't know if anyone else had mentioned it, but this is reversed - Sartre's famous aphorism was that 'existence precedes essence'. That is a succinc...

You could try and explain wny you think such a thing, which here, you've patentlly failed to do, other than pointing to some offlink.

Militant ideologies of whatever stripe cannot exist without an enemy. It's their raison d'etre.

It is abundantly evident again what an aberration, a mistake, a disaster, the Trump presidency was. Never should have run, never should have won, neve...

Oh, you're at least as New Age as Sheldrake. In fact, you make him seem quite prosaic. :-)

Neitszche's 'myth of the eternal return' is somewhat different to the Indic notion of the 'endless cycle of rebirth', because, in the latter, an escap...

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It's all about 'reading age'. My young nephews have curious minds and are open to ideas, but there's no way they would fathom Kant or Hegel, neither o...

When I went to University, Jung's name was strictly verboten in the psychology department. The only place he ever came up in the curriculum was in Com...

I'll speak up in his defense - his books and videos seem really to have helped a couple of young male relatives of mine - actually they were the first...

Maybe he's in it for the money! https://www.philosophyforlife.org/blog/culture-war-profiteering

How does that account for cancer, or any other disease? Is that ‘self disorganization’?

I fished all the time when I was younger, and spent considerable hours considering that. (Great photo, by the way.) But the fact of synergy is not sel...

I do wonder if your notion of 'synergy' actually accounts for anything. It simply says - 'look, all these things work together' - which is what 'syneg...

I question that. Whatever is fundamental can't be explained in terms of anything else. That's what makes it fundamental.

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Well, that was a short conversation.

Commitment to honesty, to facts, is all that is required. It goes for all sides, all factions, all movements, all parties. Given the facts, arguments ...

Seriously thinking about setting an alarm....nah, but will watch the wraps ASAP, and all strength to them.

Nothing can convince stupid people not to be stupid, but they can be righteously deprived of the opportunity to inflict their stupidity on everyone el...

Yeah I shell out my monthly five bucks for the Daily Beast. Rick Wilson is surely over the top, but he meets the MAGA thugs on their own level. Does n...

But the question of how enzymes combine and how DNA operates is orthogonal to the question of the nature of consciousness or conscious experience. And...

Have a look at https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/texts. They’re annotated and the text modernised a bit. As Hume is standard fare in University philoso...

I am hoping there's a massive purge inside the Republican party, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley expelled from the party and those who voted to overturn the ...

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/mob-was-fed-lies-mitch-mcconnell-accuses-trump-of-provoking-riot-20210120-p56vew.html Indication of which w...

great analysis :clap: Check this article out

That passage quoted underneath is not Buddhist teaching. It's an example of the 'nihilist view' associated with the materialists of the Buddha's day. ...

'A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself' ~ Neils Bohr.

Just noticed this now. I'll bear that in mind and thanks for it.

It still will be appropriate to lock this thread at the precise time that Trump steps down. It won't stop anyone commenting on Trump, but there won't ...

I have a good answer but this is not the thread for it. :sad:

Indeed it does, and I respect it. But methodological naturalism starts with a process of exclusion, then it forgets what it has excluded, then it uses...

There's a pretty good online version of Prolegomena here.

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Nobody can explain anything without it, nor would there be anything in need of explanation. It would help you to see where your ingrained methodologic...

Every reason to hope that the advent of a normal presidency will continue to flush the toxin of Trump out of public discourse and that the whole sorry...

~ Washington Post

'Working out' is actually an anthropomorphism. How it happens is the subject of molecular biology. I agree that it involves something other than what ...

:facepalm: But I think it needs a sustaining narrative to become meaningful. That is why there are such themes in literature, drama, and art, througho...

From what, and to what, is the question. What is salvation beyond a nice house in the suburbs? Got any particular story in mind, there, or is it just ...

What’s a ‘savior’ without ‘salvation’?

Fair point. However, I still feel that the prevailing narrative as ‘life as the outcome of a biochemical accident’ will never make for a coherent soci...

Incidentally for light relief, and because it's in keeping with the OP, for the benefit of those who've never seen it: You have 2 cows (Wired Magazine...

Hey, I believe that, and I think Steve Bannon’s a douche. (Terrible when you find you have something in common with douches.) I’ve read quite a few of...