Jack Cummins

Perhaps what I am saying about antinatalism sounds like a sweeping statement and a bad argument. But the whole argument that life results in suffering...

I agree that knowledge is accrued. Perhaps the way in which certain viewpoints come and go as the predominantly popular frames of reference is in cycl...

You make the whole antinatalist approach sound as if it is about weighing risks, and choosing adoption in preference to procreation. However, when I h...

I do agree that there is no absolute one truth waiting to be found. As a teenager I think I would have liked to find a magic answer waiting to be foun...

I am glad that you have joined in the debate and I like your point about determining creation stories as being problematic, because in spite of scienc...

I certainly agree that while, Science may have the strongest claim to truth' the questions of philosophy cannot be grasped by science alone. But I thi...

I take your point that, 'If you're interested in uncovering knowledge epistemology might answer your question.' I would not wish to ignore epistemolog...

'it's all mythos really. We construct narratives to make sense of the world. Science is just a lot more constrained in so far as it has to fit data an...

You say, 'we must turn to something other than science to determine the criteria for truth,' and I do believe that on a daily basis most people search...

I have been out today and found more responses to my post than I expected. So, I will read them thoroughly and hopefully respond to the various commen...

I just noticed that at the bottom of your post that you asked what I meant by the idea of mythic truths. What I was implying is that certain ideas can...

Yes, I think that there has been historical conflict between the ideas of religion and science and that evolution has been a stumbling block for many....

I am afraid I cannot possibly grasp your maths theories although they sound fascinating, so I will reread what you say in the morning as I am reading ...

[reply="MondoR;477902" I do agree that it is not as if all the religious people (many religions in the first place) have a unity of belief and indeed ...

Your system of thought, known as enformationism is interesting as a way of trying to overcome the conflict between spiritualism and materialism. I am ...

I I do wonder if I am if I am the only person on the forum who has explored the territory between materialist science and other alternatives, as it is...

I am aware of the antinatalist stance of Schopenhauer 1. I just think that he wrote a good thread discussion and it could have been better if the disc...

Yes, I think you are correct to see that the whole problem of suffering is not merely about whether to have children or not. I think that this post an...

I agree with you about the whole issue of pain being part of the equation because we are sentient beings. The whole argument that consciousness is an ...

Yes, I see what you mean about the word original, so perhaps what is needed is not just original ideas but ones which give synthesis.

I can see your point that watching television, using the internet and reading books can prevent us from developing new thoughts. I think these media d...

] Yes, that is exactly what I thought about when reading the post but thought maybe the transgender part was a different debate but I see that you are...

Yes, I will try to create my 'new eyes' in order to reinvision a new way of perception, even though some may disdain me for my quest.

I hope that you are right because I am wishing to touch upon and create new ideas. My belief about philosophy is that it should embrace, rather than c...

I am not trying to be harsh with you, but I am not convinced that you even understand the basics of suffering at all.

I am afraid I don't see the point in discussions the matter with you further, because you are completely fixed in your belief. But I am left wondering...

You make your case as if it is benefiting others, while in an actual fact it benefits no one, including yourself. What you have said is empty rhetoric...

It does seem to come down to conformity and thinking about matters within a set agenda and those who think outside certain terminology are seen as the...

But you are trying to enforce the position by coming up with endless reasons for your antinatalist stance. It is a personal decision whether or not pe...

You are correct to identify the conflict between pessimism and optimism. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (2019), has captured this inherent tension, in sayin...

But surely reflective awareness must come into the picture. You speak of 'images of the world and the self', but I am not sure that we can divide self...

Generally speaking, I would query your view as to whether we can determine getting what we want. I would be drawing upon the idea of the law of attrac...

I have read your comment and the aspect of your thinking which relates to my initial idea of my thread is whole the process of consciousness after dea...

That's interesting because most of the people in this debate are arguing against consciousness existing. Perhaps you could explain your view in a bit ...

When you say that identities change, but nothing happens to consciousness,' are you saying that it continues to exist?

I am glad that while you do not actually believe in life after death you do not claim such a definitive certainty as many others do. Some of those who...

Okay, I will look at an old thread to see if there are any gems of wisdom. I know that The Opposite speaks highly of 'Sam', if it is the same person. ...

I am not convinced with any certainty that there is life after death but I know many people who have firm conviction that it is as real as this one. B...

I am not sure that all birthday celebrations are just about having avoided death. This is one dimensions of birthday celebrations but not the only cri...

I appreciate what you are saying and I you are trying to be helpful and stop me wasting my time overthinking But, of course this site is meant to be a...

I don't think I have answered my question. On one hand I have seen the logic of the physical equation of death with the physical body. But I don't kno...

I can relate to what you are saying because one of my earliest memories is of being in a cot and a sensation of 'coming around again,' and this felt m...

I agree with your view of the artist as being one of enabling the audience to be able to access certain experiences. I think most great novelists and ...

I do agree with your description of Huxley's understanding the brain as expressed in The Doors of Perception, but I think that his his understanding o...

I am not disagreeing with your points of viewing the end of individual consciousness at death, and I can take on board the idea that the person lives ...

When I read your post I focused upon my need to define my understanding of consciousness. However, looking at it again, you say that 'when you die, yo...

Yes, I see what you mean about a definition of consciousness. For the purposes of my present discussion the understanding of consciousness which I wil...

I think that what you are saying is true on some level but even the fabric of thinking underlying science is tenuous. However,I am sure that the scien...

Are you saying that life and death are given to us within cycles of learning? I keep an open mind to this possibility, but with an awareness that ther...

I think that the Coronavirus restrictions are raising major areas of philosophical debate although in the media they are not touched upon in that exac...