Sounds like an updated version of "War of the Worlds". If we had the tech to make it to another live-able planet, I think we would have the tech to co...
I think Genisis agrees: Of course something co-existing with God at creation does present some other questions but, (it sounds like the Big Bang doesn...
Experiences are complex. The pleasure we take in a glass of wine, comes from its color, its vibrancy, its taste and its aftertaste, its terroir; all t...
I find my self drawn to a type of plurality pantheism, I am highly skeptical of any humanoid deity. Part of my conviction is that life and man arose f...
Perhaps man had no choice in the matter, if he wanted to survive nature and not have to constantly fear harm from some less civilized neighbors he was...
Yes, perhaps the pointless point is the big bang. And, when science saw the misogynistic god implied by the postulation of the bang, and by the theolo...
Pleasure is only pleasurable in regards to something else...you take pleasure in a glass of wine...so it can't be intrinsically valuable. Also pleasur...
Hi Vajk, good thought, but I think his daemon only guides him in conversations with others, in his relationship with others, in this sense it belongs ...
Isn't this where the gurus like Warren Buffet come in handy? I think there are intrinsic values behind the extrinsic-relational values we see in the m...
Thinking about this. The empty suffering experience that pushes us to continually seek more, novel experiences. Perhaps this is where the animal in us...
I enjoy solving problems, and the problem of finding goods is a crucial issue, It adds zest to my life, when I succeed it is fantastic, when I fail it...
There is a problem with a starting point, since we are full of conceptions and convictions prior to the start, the reality we experience is already st...
How do you justify the conclusion that: How do you make that value call? I doubt pleasure/pain are additive (utilitarian) experiences for either a per...
I mostly agree, but I don't think that live's pleasures and pains can be additive, sure there are greater and lesser pleasures and pains but I don't t...
Not sure I understand how you'd do that. If something is useless, then it is not useful, it lacks utility. While I don't think utility is the entire a...
I like Steve Wilson's music, and him in Porcupine Tree. The layering of sounds in Steve Reich's music is fantastic. I am also getting a similar layeri...
Perhaps 'know' is the wrong word, or maybe it's just not the only useful word ...face the truth, feel the truth, sense the truth, reveal the truth, ex...
Thinking a bit about this distinction. We live phenomenally and we conclude a realty behind our experience, as we try to understand what our experienc...
Time mashup: In its flow, in its motion The past can never live up to the present, especially when the color is yellow. Nature's rhythm enables those ...
I don't think there is an ideology that will do what you want it to, it sounds more like faith to me. A call, a vocation, a love or other passion that...
I was reading about Sirin Labs a Swiss-Israeli tech company that wants to develop a open source Blockchain mobile phone. It issued virtual tokens, ICO...
Thinking means existing, but existence does not mean thinking. Perhaps existence also means the possibility of being thought, conceivability, or the p...
I am not sure how you got that out of what I said. I think that we can hear the joy in the song of birds, they are not reflectively aware, they simply...
The difference between associative reasoning and conceptualization (I think) is similar to the "distinction between the substitution of the name of an...
Pets can be quite crafty, I think they learn (mimic) this from us, but I think it is more associative reasoning then conceptualized reasoning. So a is...
I don't think dogs, birds or other creatures can conceptualize. They can think, feel, sense, associate experiences and react on that basis. I think th...
No. I think all life shares the same world, but each species confronts that world in their own way, utilizing what nature has provided to it according...
Don't we already have built in answers, contained in our history, which we learn and we can't unlearn or suspend in our interactions with others or wi...
I saw that Bitcoin had $2500 negative bounce yesterday. Perhaps that bounce was due to ]article ] news of the introduction of a futures market in Chic...
Suppose that beauty is pleasurable and that both man and bird feel beauty. We the beauty that we see around us, such as in nature and in the beauty in...
But what does this really show? I think it shows that man's conception of reality is not reality as such. There are no perfect triangles, circles, or ...
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