It is interesting to hear that you feel that you could not express your opinions except as anonymously. I am not anonymous and even have my photo on d...
I do believe that you have raised some important questions on to the site. However, all your questions about ownership are making me wonder if you are...
Yes, I like Carseat Headrest. We seem to like some of the same music, especially some fairly obscure bands. I played 'Infected' by The The last night,...
I hear you mentioned Zoom and I am sure if a speaker was introduced in that way a lot of people would be very pleased. However, the introduction of Zo...
I have always worried about the state of the world, but often feel a bit powerless. I have been on various marches and try to keep as politically awar...
I think that you have a great idea for a thread because climate change, the pandemic, social inequalities are such big issues. I think that many in th...
I have always felt that time was more like a dimension, one of the ones beyond the three, but they are all interconnected and the three dimensional re...
I do agree that CBT is best used in conjunction with medication rather than instead of it. But, one newer development is online CBT. When a therapist ...
I am not sure how much cognitive behavioral therapy does work on unlearning depression, but it does enable critical thinking about the way we view our...
I do agree that it is important to unlearn misery because misery can be such a rut. Perhaps, that could even be a goal in the psychological treatment ...
I am probably not speaking of some kind of danger, as if we are going to come to harm through such thinking in such a way. I am speaking more of a 'ph...
I believe that the biggest danger is that when we are thinking about the self, whether in terms of Cotard's view or in other ones , to start thinking ...
I found what you have written about as interesting because I have often wondered about whether we can really say that the self exists. I have come acr...
I wonder if rather than looking back with almost a sense of nostalgia to previous times on the forum, it is worth thinking how we can all work to make...
I have looked at the shoutbox several times while it was in the lounge and couldn't make much sense of it all. I read how some people seem to view it ...
I can see your purpose of naturalistic explanations. What I see as being a particular problem is when people make particular arguments which depend on...
Thanks for your reply, and hopefully, the discussion we had on this thread will be useful for the topic here. So, I will get out of the discussion on ...
I do struggle a bit with methodological and philosophical materialism, but I am hoping that I will get there at some point. If anything, I do smile wh...
George was a girl in The Famous Five but used to dress as a boy and get really cross if treated as a girl. The books were written by Enid Blyton and I...
It's rather funny that I have even got into discussions on this thread because I don't like sports, playing or watching them, but I think that every t...
I just think the reality is so much more complex than it is being portrayed in this thread. For example, if someone identifies as a transman they may ...
I think that a lot of women would have a big problem if a transman wished to take part in a female tournament, but of course, it depends on whether th...
I do really agree with you that thoughts can be seen as 'guests' and that is why I don't see them as matter, even though they are transmitted, or aris...
I do agree with you that it is difficult to escape dualism entirely, because while I was engaging on the thread I got to the point of embracing non du...
I am in favour of balance but, sometimes we need to get to the low and high points in our journey of becoming who we are. The contrasts can be part of...
Chosen word: Gothic (Flash philosophy refection) We all have a dark side, and sometimes we project it onto others. But, some people realise that it ca...
The word opposites does indeed imply mirror images, but it is connected to binary thinking. Dividing the world into binaries is useful in some ways, a...
As human rights we do project so much, especially onto other people's. I believe that if we realise that we are projecting and see what we are project...
I do realise that you probably see the arts as autonomous and perhaps, the best fiction writers and rock artists are engaging with thought in a shaman...
I don't think that we can separate the mental and physical entirely. In the previous post I have been engaging in discussions about qualia, in terms o...
It is interesting to think about James' idea of the stream of consciousness in relation to the quantum world, and I must admit that I probably focus o...
I think that you are right to say that scientists incorporate art and, equally, the arts need to incorporate scientific evidence. It is probably a who...
I am not sure that it makes sense to say that, 'Thoughts are matter'. This applies to individual thoughts especially. Let us say we take any individua...
I am not in disagreement with science and do believe in the importance of evidence based research. However, what about the arts? I don't believe that ...
I admit that I have not read much on cognitive science, and, strangely, even though I have done a fair amount of modules on psychology on various cour...
Your discussion of mirrors has lead me to think of my own trip on acid, which I took twice. It was my second one, at a dance music event, with crowds ...
I think that a lot of terms which we use are ambiguous. It was interesting a couple of weeks ago that there was a thread on defining the term consciou...
I think that we are in the position of making decisions about how we place the emphasis on the material or the spiritual because we are coming with th...
I am not sure that we can distinguish particular thoughts from the process of thought in any absolute way because while there are breaks in consciousn...
I do wonder if the reason why most scientists are not wishing to challenge the attempt to go beyond reductionist materialism is related to fear of ost...
I suppose that it is useful in thinking about particular thoughts to consider them as having a beginning and an end, but as for the process of thought...
I was not ignoring your comment, but simply had not got the chance to reply to the comments. I don't necessarily believe in a soul. I think that it is...
Holding a mirror up of the universe and all our own previous thoughts does in some ways sound a bit like the cross between the day of judgement and an...
It is questionable at what point experience becomes thought. We are facing sense impressions and coping with the stream of thought at the same time. I...
I can see the relevance of the idea of a mirror as a way of seeing the whole process of thinking. It is also easy to see the danger of thinking in a n...
I think that knowledge is important, but it depends what we do with the knowledge. It is a bit difficult to narrow goals down to the main one and, so,...
I am sorry if I appear to be referring to specific ideas of particular writers and this is just because they seem to have thought so much about the su...
It is interesting to know at what point thoughts arise whether we adopt a naturalistic approach or otherwise. Part of it probably comes down to the ro...
I think that goals in life probably fluctuate at various points in our lives. When I was working in mental health care, I remember part of my work inv...
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