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That's funny: a person who calls themself 'Sapientia' (Wisdom), calls other people 'crazy', and says "I'm not crazy." Is there any evidence of psychoa...

I am my self (a subject having unique life experiences). Since self awareness (the combination of sentience and self identification) produces personal...

I have not read this "agnosticism is self defeating" thread you keep referring to. But it seems to me that you are the only one in this thread who is ...

Belief is an attitude which accepts a proposition as true without evidence. As such, there is no premise which supports, hence; no argument which prov...

Sleep/Dreaming is not classified as an altered state of consciousness, because altered states are waking states which diverge from normal waking state...

So we have law, psychal law, metaphysical law, law of consciousness, species-specific law, and we know that "human jurisprudence isn't law, but rules....

This raises a few interesting points: The experience of dreaming is real (actually occurs) for its duration. Dream content (being the content of short...

Though not a direct result of sensory stimulation, dreams are real because they are a result of short term memory (including sensory) consolidation wh...

I agree. Law is a set of rules and guidelines which are created, interpreted, and enforced by a legal system having legal institutions. As such, law i...

The psychological function which produces meaning (an idea which can be described by attribution or reference) is categorisation: the assertion of a r...

I agree. It seems Wittgenstein's phrase, "meaning is use" applies only to human communication using human language modified by context. It doesn't app...

Language: a set of signs (i.e., vocabulary) having paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations (i.e., syntax), hence; semantic information. Human Language:...

I agree that his technique and use of colour are superb, but I couldn't look at this particular work for very long because of its dissonant compositio...

I like Lucien Freud's technique, but this particular composition has little regard for the harmonic divisions (intersections) in the armature of the r...

Alberti explained the transcendent quality of beauty as it relates to painting composition and musical composition in terms of harmonic proportion. "I...

Not all mental states can be inferred all the time. Writing and speaking are actions. Thinking is also an action. As far as history is concerned, the ...

Consider the testimony of John Perkins (among others), look up the definition of fascism in any dictionary, then explain to me how the use of that ter...

Universal human morality consists of the similarities between the value systems and moral codes of the world's major book religions and systems of mor...

While clinical methods of diagnosis cannot be applied to dead people, the mental state of any individual (dead or living) may be inferred from their a...

Or, given that: 1) Morality is a human universal. Brown, Donald E. (1991). Human Universals. New York City: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-87722-841-8. http://ww...

I agree. Also, unless you're running a Fortune Global 500 corporation, entrepreneurship (the experience of some forum members) and macroeconomics (the...

A natural human right is a moral claim to social equaity which applies across all human cultures, hence; is universal and inalienable.

I agree. Also, greed is good, but globalism is great.

People are born into the world with: 1) Natural rights/privileges and natural duties/obligations which are universal and inalienable, arising from nat...

Exactly. And that would be Fascism.

My favourite history quote: "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past". George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Fo...

So psychopaths control the markets; tell me something I don't know. Is your friend Gordon Gekko? http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0012282/quotes Why wa...

Happiness is an emotion (an instance of a person's core affect continuum); a subjective condition which doesn't persist over time. As such, it is an u...

It also places the claim, "How I found God", in its proper context.

In other words, you suspect his experiences are chemically induced, hence; artificial as opposed to natural spiritual experiences.

Thanks for providing more information. Does it seem like a case of being visited by an external presence or of internal communion or possession? How l...

So the objects of spiritual experience include the transcendentals (i.e., truth, beauty, goodness)? Anything else?

That sounds like a typical spiritual experience, with emotional and knowledge-imparting aspects. Apparently, entheogens do induce spiritual experience...

Different psychological functions cause and/or sustain different types of experience. Because imagination is the psychological cause of, and belief th...

Sure. It's not a point, it's a question; a request for an answer (not an argument). Given that: 1) Peak Experience is an effect of self-actualisation....

Peak Experience is an effect of self-actualisation. Flow is automatic attention. Belief is an attitude which accepts a proposition as true without evi...

That would depend on your definition of eternal life (for example, would it involve becoming a cyborg?), and your plan for obtaining it (e.g., the pha...

I think your self-report suffices in this respect.

True enough. And yet you have a belief system (or worldview) of some sort; even if it consists of unbelief, such as Scientism. Then you would probably...

Thanks for the links, but you still haven't answered my questions.

It's not that these types of experiences result in belief or imagination (two closely related psychological functions). It's rather that belief in, or...

Your charges were not directed toward Pharmacology in particular, but toward Science in general. The burden of proof is yours.

This discussion just got interesting all of a sudden. In spite of the fact that I have a science degree, have spent my entire career applying science,...

Thanks for the clarification. So individuals are the objects of natural law, having natural rights. Is there a natural law theory which doesn't contai...

I'm familiar with intersubjective moral codes and subjective moral truths, but not with what you're talking about. Are you referring to some sort of u...

From your chosen moniker, it could be inferred that your thoughts are inspired by a chemically-induced state of consciousness. Or are they neoplatonic...

Demonstrates? I have a few questions pertaining to the first paragraph. What moral considerations in particular are being referred to here? How, and b...

Did this idea arise from criticism by Widiger, Ben-Porath, and Waller regarding the lack of controls in NEO PI-R for dishonesty and social desirabilit...

The following paper deals with choice blindness (i.e., the lack of meta-awareness with regard to decision-making): Johansson, P; Hall, L; Sikström, S;...

Incorrect. Coercion is the use of physical force, threat or intimidation without regard for a person's desires or volition in order to obtain complian...