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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
'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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
K Everything we experience we experience consciously. Man thinking a world independent of his thought is a performative contradiction. If man has a ph...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Like that thought. Numbers are functional components in some meaningful systems, systems that convey valuations, describe space, time and the rest. Ma...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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