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This seems a bit extreme to me. I see education as something that changes society, but I'm not against education.

And then calls doing so malignantly useless?

I'm inclined to leave arguing about who is truly a Christian, to those who want to call themselves Christians. It's not as if there exists some essenc...

So you have gone from it being sheerly impossible to experimentally test human behavior to not easy. FWIW, I just experimentally tested your behavior,...

Why do you think that?

, are you familiar with the sort of psychological conditions associated with black and white thinking?

I'd have to say, that a more useful language for the companions is dancing. :grin:

You are thinking in black and white terms. First off, we should be talking about a theory of minds, rather than mind. Secondly, I certainly have a rou...

Perhaps this is a problem with considering a monastic life to be conducive to developing psychological insight? Considered from a neuroscientific pers...

Are the rates still the same as your dad paid, or is there inflation to consider?

It's not necessarily daft. However, in light of modern scientific understanding of the nature of brains, and the sort of information processing that c...

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Something Journey related I posted in another thread recently, that I think will give you a sense of how deeply affecting the game can be: https://the...

I was thinking about a mental model of an electronic circuit, with "picture" or "video" being words used to try to roughly convey a sense of what it i...

Well knowing something about an electronics design I'm considering is often for me a matter of pictures or maybe something somewhat analogous to video...

I find it interesting, in light of your career as an engineer, that you question having beliefs that are not expressed in words. I often believe, and ...

l think in a very practical sense of, 'this is the way things go among humans', I would have to agree with something like that. More idealistically I'...

Maybe there is a difference between justifying to society and justifying to oneself that is relevant here?

The point is that having a religious background doesn't correlate all that well with people having psychological insight.

My father, shortly before he entered seminary, spanked me until I was black and blue when I was six months old because I wouldn't stop crying, and my ...

No, I didn't say anything about actions by religious institutions.

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It is clear you have a negative attachment to behaviorism. That's why I found it ironic that you sounded like a behaviorist.

You sound like a behaviorist. Have you ever spent much time around animals?

Granted, but not clearly relevant to what I was interested in discussing with .

Considering that psychology is a science, your statement there seems a bit incoherent. I think we could reasonably say, that history shows religious t...

It seems worth adding, that in the case of a vaccination, there only some probability of the vaccinated individual receiving any benefit. After all, t...

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No, each brain is unique. Vastly 'more unique' than the differences between our fingerprints.* Rough generalizations are a more realistic expectation....

I can't say I am particularly interested in fitting into either box, let alone fighting for one of them.

Perhaps Scott Atran's book, "In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion, Oxford University Press, 2002".

Maybe replace "of" with "about"? In the sense in which intentionality emerges from our brains with 'mental objects' being about distal objects?

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Though I am loath to wade into this discussion, and two pages behind, I can't resist pointing out that the optical absorption spectrum of a tomato, an...

At the moment, the things which come readily to mind are either mind-numbingly technical, or more personal than I feel comfortable talking about on th...

To a significant extent I agree: And yet our intutions (or what Kahneman refers to as fast thinking) provide a necessary basis for us to be able to th...

Wonderful find! :up: That really resonated with a lot of my thinking. I especially appreciated the contrast of understanding with truth.

Having, once upon a time, taken a piece of brass rod (well suited to wrapping my fist around) to what I was afraid might become a gun fight, the OP do...

No apologies necessary. I much too often fail to respond to others who merit a response, to judge anyone for that. Off the top of my head, I can think...

Very well said. :up:

I suppose there is the author of Ecclesiastes and The Byrds as well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVOJla2vYx8

Nice! :up:

I don't see stipulations1, 2, or 3 as cohering with my thinking very well. In any case, I would say there are times, when going with your fast thinkin...

"Primary" seems at best a vague word to use here. The nature of mind and ideas seems an awfully important thing to think about to me. Do you think it ...

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I think there are a lot of people willing to join you on that limb.

Maybe look at it in more relative terms? We can improve our understanding of what is useful by degrees, on a wide variety of subjects. Undoubtedly we ...

@"Joshs" African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls

Clearly more fruitful.

The video is for the freeloaders?