The basic kernal on which religions are built will never change. There is a good way to do things and a bad way to do things. There are vastly more ba...
Even if there comes a scientific measure of consciousness, it won't eliminate the concern about an artificial subjective experience (what is it like t...
Does this belief stem directly from Pierce's metaphysics (Syncheism)? Why would biological mechanisms of behavioral inheritance, namely epigentics, pr...
You all just need to go read C.S. Pierce's “Immortality in the Light of Synechism” (1893) and understand it. Then come back and explain it to me like ...
Perusing articles on Heidegger I can definitely say that his work is inaccessible to me. I'll just concede at this point and say my concern is the ine...
Yes, I don't like the use of "being" for things that we'd claim have no capacity for experience. But it doesn't really matter much either way. Chairs ...
I'm not generalizing human experience only, I'm extending any experience in any capacity (what it is like to be something/anything). Well, I guess I m...
It's not at all misleading, as it's more natural to use "being" as a condition of a subject experincing and reflecting upon the world. I find it odd y...
Sounds like all too much work for a life not worth living. I believe you can't really escape being, since being like something is all there is between...
Granted it is a bad sentence which is best to discard. "It" refers to being. Non-being is not a state of being. My point is surprisingly simple. Being...
Well, I suppose any kind of consciousness is a state of being, not just human consciousness. I think consciousness and therefore being is inevitable b...
Yes, I'd classify unconsciousness as well as death as non-being, granting the major difference between those two states. I have no clue as to why bein...
While what exists may not depend on any single being it does depend on the possibility of being at all (any being and generational memory). If there a...
There is only whatever this is, whether you call it heaven, hell or reality. The worry is that there will always be a sort of drum warp of being and n...
There is plenty of youtube vids about Heidegger. Gets a bit much... I'm worried about being again after death. It's irrational and absurd though becau...
I guess this makes more sense, respecting a general definition. Information must inform, but the whole world is there waiting to inform us about itsel...
Science doesn't ultimately explain what all this is. It just leverages knowledge about things to do other things people need or want at some cost. We ...
So what if unchecked information processing actually causes our extinction? This would be a case of fulfilling purpose in the short term while forgoin...
Not God was a grilled cheese sandwhich eaten in a New York diner on August 24, 1982. But what was the name of the diner? Who served it? Will it appear...
This is a grotesque procategorization comparable in value to a prosent life. Since there is no meaning except where it is forced by the inviolence of ...
None existent, unless simulacra counts. Everybody is wallowing in something. The trick is to be in some kind of flow where you're relieved of being aw...
You maybe lonely, Wallows. Do you have enough strength to climb a wall? Imagine yourself in one of those silly climbing gyms, with faux rock wall, lit...
Father Bearing on his crown a spinning wheel of glowing gold, Boring into his mind's eye Bleeding from his temples The gift of the waters in four dire...
Ask your therapist who ought to wear the clown nose (you will inevitably bring with you) in your next session. Meanwhile, work on your balloon animal,...
Eggs. They are fundamental feature of keeping this absurd show going. Symbolizing the enigma of the cycle of life since the the dawning of sense. Eggs...
There are some amazingly robust and underutilized food producing organisms out there that could add energy efficient nutritional value to processed pr...
Horses by Pablo Neruda From the window I saw the horses. I was in Berlin, in winter. The light had no light, the sky had no heaven. The air was white ...
Emily Dickinson's I Died for Beauty I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room....
Hypothetical Scenario: A newborn baby miraculously appears in Wallows room, with a notarized birth certificate legally confirming that Wallows is the ...
Try a less controversial thread in a science forum. What is the evidence of inter-ordinal hybridization in nature. Pose question to relevant forum. Do...
Not sure how to understand what is being asked. Discord, dissension, strife, conflict might just as well be causes of temporary unity. To identify and...
Pigs have gestational periods of 114 days. Chimps have gestational periods of 243 days. So how long was the gestational period of the pig that was imp...
The Ape Shit Linguist Languishes on. Behold the wearying locutions of your letters, sand grains texturing wordy landscapes. Read the desert stretch of...
There is a trade-off continuum in any ecology whereby there are interacting agents (memes, genes, agents) that are classifiable as (a) symbionts (b) c...
Whose "memes" are priming our notion of the "meme meme"? Universal Darwinism is scary (but this is just a meme). A passage from Dennett's 1995 book, D...
Zhuangzi was day dreaming again. On reflection of a reading someone's dream, he wondered if he could be other than just Zhuangzi, whether he could've ...
This is interesting insofar there is only the state of being (self-aware experience). After I am dead the only prospect there is is being again in tim...
The Unease of Unreality with Loneliness and Depression Relativistic nihilism is a giant iron planet that causes a relativity well, sucking down the st...
The Poet's Wish Always sew irony into the ends of a procreative wish. The poet spoke (trembling with desire for an epidemic resurrection of a classic ...
Assume it has happened before and it will happen again. If there is nothing it is like to be dead or asleep, there is bound to be a another self-aware...
Doesn't society require us to "act" all the time. I have to maintain a certain limited persona in front of my boss or else risk the likelihood of bein...
For those too lazy to wiki: Would you reconsider the belief that you "don't follow any rituals" given that what is or is not a ritual is possibly a cu...
"There is a rock, but no one is there to perceive it, because we all died an hour previously. Is there a rock? Yes or no?" What disease causes someone...
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