I am presuming it will be possible to make comments and, then, vote later. It will help to know whether the rule is to vote for every story (except on...
I guess that the nature of family resemblances in physical appearances and character points to the way the unique is replicated in some ways. The fami...
Being mistaken for someone else can make one question one's uniqueness and it can be interesting or funny. I have been mistaken for other people on a ...
Thanks for the links and I will look at them because it is likely that identity has been approached in varying ways because it is bound up with subjec...
The idea of personas may be open to question. It does depend on an idea of the artificiality of social construction. Perhaps, there is too much genera...
It is probably extremely complicated because on one hand, each person is developing a persona, based on the attempts to fit into the social order and ...
How do you see identity? I know that you have read widely, so I am interested to know how you see the relationship between the individual, social cont...
It does seem that consciousness and identity are so complex. Part of it is related to the social aspects of identity, but it is also connected to the ...
In answer to your post about identity security and even credit rating, identity may be changing in the digital age. One's self online may be becoming ...
Your question about human identity and artificial intelligence is the problematic area I see with the idea of creating a humanoid. A being without a c...
I am not sure to what extent Maths is the best help. There may be parts of us but I am not sure that 1+1= 2 in terms of human identity. Psychological ...
I am aware of strong links between childhood traumas and mental illness, not just from reading but talking to people, especially a couple of close fri...
I have so little experience of knowing young children to know to what extent they appear as so unique. But, I can remember that when I was a child tha...
The idea of not being entangled with others subjectively seems very useful because it would be possible to not be able to step outside as an agent of ...
Most people in the situation you are about to describe would remember their initial identity, although some people seem to remember so much more than ...
With the example of being the only person with blonde hair, it would affect a person but only as one aspect of many others. Such aspects as being even...
With your thought experiment it may be that I, as the subject example would have many of the aspects of identity in tact, but some may change accordin...
Having grown up in Christian culture(Roman Catholicism) I became aware of a split in the ideas about life after death. On one hand, there is the idea ...
One of the issues of art and skill is to do with social position and culture. Some people go to art schools to learn techniques and where one has stud...
One can be messed up with or without drugs. As I see it, drugs and intoxicants may enhance the basics of perception, experience and interpretation, fo...
I have mixed feelings about drug intoxication for creativity and enlightenment. I know that Buddhism and other systems advised against it. When I was ...
I agree that finding a starting point is the hardest point. Songs are great though and I have come across a series of short story collection books whi...
The short story about the deadline change may include a leaking ceiling as part of the plot, especially with the division of the earth and the heavens...
I found the metaphorical understanding of my ceiling scenario helpful. Although I was describing what is happening in my room life is full of deeper s...
The man above me has a bigger problem with the water leaking. I just hope that his floor doesn't collapse, and have him crashing through the ceiling o...
I am really having a silly evening but the people in the house helped change my light bulb. But we are all such hobbits that the 11 year old girl upst...
People usually have it in cakes but mine was in my microwaved vegetable curry. But, in some ways it is better than smoking because I don't smoke cigar...
The problem which I have is to keep it alight because it seems to blow out every other second, but I don't know what I am doing wrong. I don't know if...
Is the picture you? That is definitely not how I imagined that you would look. We probably visualise people on the site and get them all wrong. Actual...
I will try to take your advice as I am a bit of a hippy. The other morning it felt like it was raining in my room, even in my bed. It's actually comin...
Perhaps it will be a future story for me to write, but probably not on this site because it would be too obviously mine. The latest episode to the sto...
I am wondering if the deadline is still the 22nd or whether the extension was granted because I know someone asked for it. I can probably get it in by...
I will probably be able to type it into the personal message and send it that way. I guess most people probably type their stories at the initial stag...
I am hoping to, because I did write one in my notebook while I was out yesterday. I am not expecting it to win, but want to take part in the competiti...
You have asked an interesting question and it is fairly difficult because people vary so much. However, there may be some underlying aspects of human ...
I am not sure about your idea of seeing 'metaphysics as the understanding of language'. All thinking is done in language, as the basis of forming conc...
The idea of seeing 'natural science as the "search for the supernatural"' is an interesting construct. It may take some physicalists by surprise. The ...
I do agree that metaphysics doesn't have to be a search for the 'supernatural' and that may be part of the problem, with it being seen as the attempt ...
I can see your point about metaphysics appearing as 'an island outside the criticism of science' insofar as it involves aspects which cannot be known ...
I will be interested to know your thoughts on 'Existentialists and Mystics' when you have read it. You will probably approach it by a better method th...
It is interesting to think of the idea of metaphysics in relation to the good and evil. It would seem that at certain points in history these were see...
Yes, Murdoch does initially speak of the void in British politics. I do see her as describing what is happening rather than advocating for the elimina...
The role of emotions in contrast to metaphysics is an interesting aspect. It may be that people strive to come up with ideas and conceptual thought, b...
I only managed to see a bit of the video because it kept breaking up. I have a lot of problems with the signal where I am, so I often have to do certa...
Yes, I can identify with life being a complicated journey. Too many obstacles. Maybe that is why we end up here on this forum, as part of the quest of...
I had never imagined you as bald. I remember so many people who I worked with shaved their heads after they began to lose hair. It becomes like a skin...
The idea of beyond physics is an interesting alternative to metaphysics. It may be that many see physics almost as if it is a concrete picture of real...
Comments