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Intelligent from who's point of view?
January 13, 2018 at 21:13
I thought there is evidence of a big bang?
January 13, 2018 at 21:11
Why a being? Why not just a chance occurrence that set the ball rolling.
January 13, 2018 at 21:07
Choo-Choo 2u?
January 13, 2018 at 20:33
a=b is meaningless if no one believes a=b.
January 13, 2018 at 14:03
Zappa's One Note Theory Spider: We are ... actually the same note, but ... John: But different octave. Spider: Right. We are 4,928 octaves below the b...
January 13, 2018 at 13:57
I didn't solve it and I live with it, but I also don't consider myself "a rich white male". There is a moral argument that suggest that most of us oug...
January 13, 2018 at 04:41
I think we can ignore beliefs that don't have evidence, any such beliefs are about faith and not about knowledge. Beliefs that are evidenced by facts ...
January 13, 2018 at 03:57
And what is that criteria? Could it be a power beyond the rules of the game, power that creates the context of the game, that allows the game.
January 13, 2018 at 02:59
Yes people can believe what ever they want to believe, but that does not make those beliefs knowledge. Knowledge as true belief implies the ability to...
January 13, 2018 at 02:13
Have you ever watched a skier run moguls? The decisions the skier makes are based on what his body understands, its training, its memory, the same hab...
January 12, 2018 at 22:59
Yes, like that. The status of evidence as such must be concluded, otherwise it is not evidence, and if conclusions are required then knowledge is requ...
January 12, 2018 at 19:43
That can be a rule about the thread, but it can't be a rule in the game :B
January 12, 2018 at 16:39
'Rule 4' and any other such rules that contradicts previous rules..Rule 2...are invalid, Rule 4 https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.good...
January 12, 2018 at 15:37
I think we want better for our children. We want them to have good productive lives, not lives of chronic pain, but we understand that we are limited ...
January 11, 2018 at 22:52
I think what we feel guilty about is a social construction but that we feel guilt is because it is an inherent human trait. Freud thought that guilt w...
January 11, 2018 at 00:18
The doctor/patient relationship favors the doctor over the patient, in a power dynamic. The patient's desire to feel better merges with the patient's ...
January 09, 2018 at 21:30
The notion of "Cognitive Distortions" is related to Cognitive Behavior Theory, which I think is a kind of brain washing, the substitution of an ideolo...
January 09, 2018 at 13:30
https://youtu.be/HZnaXDRwu84
January 09, 2018 at 02:19
In Shoutbox
January 08, 2018 at 18:31
K Everything we experience we experience consciously. Man thinking a world independent of his thought is a performative contradiction. If man has a ph...
January 08, 2018 at 16:35
https://i.imgur.com/KsPYyFE.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOagsQ2VoAA_Prk.jpg
January 07, 2018 at 19:52
It seems to me that without a dieus ex machina argument, consciousness must have evolved from matter, that consciousness must be a potential state of ...
January 07, 2018 at 18:48
This is similar to the argument I had in mind. God if you assume he is just, cannot not affect our freedom of action, but the Bible suggests otherwise...
January 07, 2018 at 13:47
How? If this is god then what he says is all there is, regardless of what they think.
January 07, 2018 at 12:59
You mean like he told Judas or Peter. He played his own story? Still like my argument.
January 07, 2018 at 12:51
I think 'soup' is an analogical concept, one that describes variations in liquid food, such as cold, hot, sweet and sour, thick/thin...soup. The game ...
January 07, 2018 at 01:19
If god is construed as omniscient, then god knows everything, from the beginning to the end of time, the whole shebang, but if this is so then his kno...
January 07, 2018 at 00:02
Thinking about how the Trolley Problem might apply in the world. It seems that many if not all cars in the near future may have automatic controls (so...
January 05, 2018 at 16:37
We can all hope for big inspirations in our life https://youtu.be/EVtNqPV691E
January 04, 2018 at 23:31
There are different types of conscious activity, such as perception, memory, reason...I think the imagination is like a dynamic work space where can t...
January 04, 2018 at 21:06
I don't think this is totally clear. Sure we may experience Freudian slips where bits of our unconscious bubble up to the surface, but in general I th...
January 04, 2018 at 14:58
I think knowledge without belief is not possible. I also think we are unaware of some of our beliefs. The communities where we live are constructed of...
January 04, 2018 at 04:17
Has something changed in your life that might be related to this recent activity? If you think it is a problem then it is a problem, and probably if y...
January 03, 2018 at 19:31
I agree that we are internally conflicted creatures, but some people relish or delight in that conflict. It is not that they are bad, or even criminal...
January 03, 2018 at 18:41
In: Desire  — view comment
The "prospect of attaining more than what you have, now is that artificial or organic as well?", the problem with this question I see is that societal...
January 03, 2018 at 17:08
Like that thought. Numbers are functional components in some meaningful systems, systems that convey valuations, describe space, time and the rest. Ma...
January 02, 2018 at 19:45
Nah, but I like the flow https://youtu.be/43gm3CJePn0
January 02, 2018 at 13:50
I am agnostic, and by this I mean that I don't believe in a deity, but I am not sure that there is not some else, and this drives me to think about wh...
January 02, 2018 at 13:07
In: Desire  — view comment
Yes, I agree with this, but I've been thinking that we can only choose what is possible to choose. I mean by this that it would been virtually impossi...
January 01, 2018 at 23:49
In: Desire  — view comment
Hi. I think desire is an organic process, a part of our nature as humans, but what we desire is forged by the society and its history where we are cas...
January 01, 2018 at 22:39
Your use of the word 'experience' is equivocal, not all our experiences are external to us. Our experience of the world forms the basis for internal e...
January 01, 2018 at 20:37
We build on our conclusions, when I see smoke, I don't have to see the fire to imagine it. I can imagine how it might feel to be weightless in space, ...
January 01, 2018 at 20:05
Of course it makes sense to talk of things outside our self. These manifestation of the phenomenal are due to something, I see the smoke and I assume ...
January 01, 2018 at 19:32
If by that you mean things in them self, things outside of us, then yes I agree no access. It is a different story when it comes to the body, which is...
January 01, 2018 at 18:22
The phenomenal is real, it is the basis for what we conclude, not the other way around.
January 01, 2018 at 17:26
But isn't a basic purpose of learning the construction of our world, which affects how we understanding it. We learn that objects don't just disappear...
January 01, 2018 at 16:40
No, those are your words not mine. I don't know what you are saying here.
January 01, 2018 at 15:42
We are clearly talking past each other here. We are born with certain physical structures which enable us to experience the world, and how we see it d...
January 01, 2018 at 15:29
In the same way that the body is prior to the experience of seeing.
January 01, 2018 at 15:13