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I started a thread on the subject so you can get a broader look at a range of opinions. So far the consensus is that your question doesn't make sense....

It was a question asked of me on this forum but with the word "content" in the place of the word "phenomena." It's possible the question doesn't make ...

phe·nom·e·non /f??näm??nän,f??näm??n?n/ noun 1. a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is ...

Conventional definitions.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/6977/unconscious-mental-phenomena-evidence-for-and-against

Your position is that one is conscious, at every moment, of the entire contents of one's mind? Apart from derailing the thread, it's a silly and fruit...

It's not worthwhile to restate a claim that's obvious to all. Some mental contents, at any point in time, are unconscious. Fin.

It sounds like you're just not a very kind person. That squares with your other assertions above. Fin.

I know that at this moment not everything in your mind is conscious to you. It would be difficult (if not absurd) to argue with that.

If you "don't buy unconscious mental content" then, yes, I know your mind better than you do. Do you only show kindness to people who have earned your...

It's inaccurate to say there's no criteria. The criteria in operation may be unconscious to you but there is without a doubt some set of criteria. Is ...

What kind of kindness do you value?

The words "goodness" and "badness" are troublesome here. Your premise, more precisely put, reads: P4: The intrinsic pleasurefulness of pleasure and th...

Those who care care because it's kind to care. Do you value kindness?

It's your subjective emotional locus vis-a-vis logic that compels you to proclaim the preeminence of logic. You have a feeling that logic is of a high...

I'm not insisting a conviction is a conviction. Not at all. I'm insisting you know what a conviction is. In the same light I would insist you know wha...

When I say the word conviction, do you understand me? If you do, then you know what a conviction is.

Consciousness is the conviction that I am not a rock.

Very nice. Thank you. Without derailing the thread, is there a special method to find or search for pdfs of philosophical works?

I wonder if you have a link to the pdf of Dean's book. Thank you.

That's true: you're guessing. Freud was famously moody and writes in the prelude of Civilization and Its Discontents that he has never had an oceanic ...

It's the same to say: "The possible is impossible." It's a trick language doesn't do. It may be possible for an omnipotent being to do the impossible....

At its fanatic extremity the agency of the ingroup is directed toward evangelical transmutation of the outgroup. The fanatic crowd seeks to absorb or ...

A line from Freud to Fromm: Ours has been called the Age of Anxiety. Anxiety is unpleasant and in its extremity unbearable. A crowd offers transcenden...

Thanks. Looks like an interesting read.

The idea of environs and the psychological clutter of a thing-centered culture seem to hold sway here. If one's mind and world are rife with instances...

Thanks for responding. The quotes are intriguing and I'd be interested to know the source. Thanks.

In Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921), Freud concerns himself with explicating the collectivizing force binding the individual to the...

Thanks!

Thanks for your thoughts. If it's true that a mind at every moment locates itself along an ennui-to-meaningfulness continuum it would seem rational to...

No need sign your soul away. The bottom line, to my view: no one sheds the mortal coil without having a mystical experience or two. A scientist-ist (s...

I've described mysticism as "a catalog of intense and unusual experiences." You've described mysticism as a "thinking style."

In other words, the world can be (to some degree) reenchanted - without subscribing to any sub- or transrational beliefs. Indeed, without believing mu...

With daily practice, altered states can have a profound lasting influence on brain wave patterns. I suppose you've seen the studies. Mysticism and rea...

By 'mysticism' Wayfarer seems to refer to (supposing my reading has been at all accurate over the years) a catalog of vivid and unusual experiences be...

No implosion, of course. But had he felt he'd discovered a (potentially implosive) revamp, amelioration, of reason?

Did he consider his project a success?

Thanks.

Do you have a page number on this quote? Thanks.

"Hume challenges us to consider...a billiard ball striking another. He holds that no matter how clever we are, the only way we can infer if and how th...

We see that we behave as though things exist even though we haven't confirmed their existence. That's as good as a confirmation gets this side of cert...

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You described that well and without using the word god. 'God' is a word. You tacked the word 'god' onto your thought at the end when you began to seek...

The category "designers" contains too many unknowns. At the scale of a room we typically think of a "designer" as organismic: as matter manipulating m...

Order and order-makers may be randomly generated by a preponederantly choatic universe.

There is apparent order and apparent chaos in the universe. A designer may or may not be the source. The same with the rooms, on two levels. Both room...

That's the extent of it as far as I can tell.

There are a lot of good things to call it. The category you catalog is the peak experience made famous by Abraham Maslow. "Seeing god" is one way to s...

If I say god both exists and does not exist: God exists as a potential illumination (sacralization, quickening, intensifying) of the fabric of reality...

The atmosphere of paradox is handy here. Paradox is a transrational thing so not always welcome in philosophical dialog. I'm not sure if paradox is a ...