Wayfarer

that's pretty well what I meant.

sorry what does it imply?

There's a teaching in Zen called 'great doubt' - 'to follow the Way requires great doubt, great faith and great determination'. I think it's doubt in ...

What would you say to Muslims who demand that the West bans internet pornography and gay marriage? Do you think that acquisence to those terms would b...

I too don't believe they will succeed, but unlike you, I do believe it's their stated aim and intention. If the jihadists could destroy America and/or...

Here is the definitive article. I do find the US attitude towards this issue hypocritical and also irrational. Going on averages of around 298 persons...

Is a scientific discovery a projection? Is a religious revelation a projection? I can see how projections are ubiquitous in culture, but I don't think...

And to you also ;-)

The view that I expressed earlier in this thread, is that 'liberalism' (in the broad sense, not in the sense of US domestic politics) fails to appreci...

Sophia also appears in the ancient world as a goddess or femine spirit. So in this (rather poetic) interpretation, 'love~wisdom' is erotic, in the Pla...

Nobody who defends the current state of gun ownership in the USA has credibility on questions of violence, in my book. During 2015, the total number o...

Interesting how the conservative meme always seems to travel as a complete kit. You have to buy the whole thing.

I don't think that saying that deaths on account of illnesses and road accidents, and deaths on account of terrorism, is a fair reflection of the kind...

You only know that because you can count! So you say - ah, five rabbits, they must have multiplied. And you know that, even if you didn't actually see...

Yes, you could be shot dead en route, or have your brain consumed by a parasitic worm, or some of the beers could be turned into beetroot juice by som...

If you think that amounts to an argument then please, go and have another beer.

One of my young nephews asked me what I thought was really wild when I was his age, and I remembered the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I haven't been able to ...

Oh yes they are. How do you get from ions being passed across synapses, to meaning? Is meaning in a general sense, something that can be understood th...

but memory doesn't explain mathematics. You're not struggling to understand something, you're struggling to make any kind of argument.

you know there's 3 beers left prior to opening the fridge door. That's all 'a priori' refers to and it's what is called an apodictic truth, i.e. canno...

So you put six beers in the fridge and see someone take three of them out. You don't know there's three left until you open the fridge door and verify...

yeah but do notice how far away it is from 'bodies in motion'.

There's a brilliant essay on many of the questions considered in this thread, The Strange Persistance of Guilt. It's a very long piece with a lot to c...

what I said.

Objectivity and subjectivity are co-arising and mutually dependent.

Yet you then say: Which I think contradicts the first point. If you say 'there's nothing that can't be understood', then in effect you're saying that ...

But, it's a huge and unresolved argument. It's not as if physicists have agreed on what it means - they don't agree at all. The existence of 'the obse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzPciXZqJfk Beware internet memes ;-)

Do you know Eric Fromm's book 'Fear of Freedom'? (Also published as Escape from Freedom.) He says that the kind of individual freedom that modern life...

My question is, why do you believe that? Do you think that is a process of cultural conditioning, whereby the materialist assumptions of the modern wo...

Inability to accept that dogma is one of the reasons I declined confirmation. That is the point I was making about the 'undetermined questions' of the...

I honestly believe that the definitional status of 'sapience' is undermined by materialism. Materialism says we're not 'sapient' - because there is no...

I'm a believer in Capital T Truth. I think it's a state of being, or a 'station', in the terminology of some esoteric orders. What's happened with Ari...

This is a very deep question, but I really don't see it in terms of 'survival'. I think the popular notion of living forever in some after-death state...

Sorry, dashed off in a fit of pique. What I really ought to have said was 'I really need to ensure my motivation is correct when I post'.

it's true, I do wonder why I waste so much time here.

the opportunity to say nothing has already passed.

it's more than altering behaviour, it's a matter of impacting medical conditions.

Well, one thing a p-zombie can do, is totally suck the meaning out of any philosophical dialogue.

The point about zombies is, they don't think. In other words, if they have thoughts, they're not zombies.

I think the underlying truth of the higher religions is the quest to realise an identity that is not subject to death. I think what Noble Dust is gett...

Trying to envisage the opposite of an orange......

It's an inconvenient truth for materialists. If you go to any 'sceptical' website you will find elaborate articles claiming to show that the placebo e...

The confusion has mainly been due to me, and I think that yours is good distinction to make. But the reason I have pursued this line of argument, is b...

I suggest that this is because our thinking has become so 'concretised' as a consequence of cultural conditioning. Formal causation is not efficient i...

Abstracts are not causally inefficient if regarded as constraints or delimiting factors in the interactions of objects. The fact that so much of physi...

It's not in the business of trying to 'describe consciousness'. What it describes is the motion of objects. It's amazing the number of people who don'...

However, the wise know that the supreme principle is always beyond description.

No, it's a good essay, and makes important points. In the case of the Orlando massacre, that is indeed a task for pathologists. The causes and consequ...

Incidentally I don't believe the Orlando attack was motivated by anything like the above. That perpetrator was a crazed psychopath who simply latched ...