I have a hunch that the lack of free will is not due to fate or determinism, but to profound chaos, perhaps not properly chaos, if humanity had the in...
The most obvious way to check whether our choices make sense is to check them against the physical world as to whether the consequences of our choices...
Social media I think might in many cases increase the level of fragmentation, scattering the mind to a greater level than a population has ever experi...
What I meant to say was we call our community home, its comfortable, and we often forget the natural world that supports it. Unawareness is similar in...
Hi, I am a white guy who lived in a black community for five years, One thing I noticed, accommodations were less than ideal. I knew a number of black...
In the span of one individual's life, there can be much understood that went into the behaviours of a given individual. We can be more intelligent and...
The mere complexity of so many variables acting through time is a job for the new science of chaos, butterfly effects all over the place. Humanity mig...
Does not your statement, "How to determine an appropriate reading of these influences.", just underline the absurdity of the concept of free will.? Be...
Morality must be based on the well-being of a class of organisms, morality must be based on our common biology. Society, civilization, is founded on a...
Your examples given, just underline the fact that differing biologies perceive different apparent realities. Perception is biological reaction, so too...
Tom, What was it about the book that you did not find impressive. I am in wonderment that anyone could read the book and still buy the warren commissi...
Tom, As I said, when there is a mountain of circumstantial evidence that points to conspiracy, sometimes a duck is just a duck, and not a reasonable f...
I would think that conspiracy is indicated when abundant circumstantial evidence indicates the impossibility of it being the willful act of one person...
HI Fool---lol!! What do you think of the idea that there is an ultimate reality from which apparent reality is discerned, and that the method of disce...
Yes, you have a point, we need to define our terms. Philosophy created Science, there is a similar relation between myth and ritual. Myth is the story...
Probably the 1% are not the evil power elite, they are too visible. I think in this dialogue however we do not have the same concerns. I am concerned ...
A most interesting post-Michael, but as with Victor Frankl, the search goes on. This is why Nietzsche's fear for humanity was so great in the face of ...
Sushi, I am not concerned with the morality of keeping up with the Jones. I was just wondering if this 1% is the power elite that runs America like an...
As God is not a legitimate topic for science because it is unfalsifiable, so to I think philosophy should stop treading water with an object of the hu...
According to Schopenhauer, the will is a blind force. Personally, I think one can see this in all things of necessity and instinct, mindless sex and p...
The one percent, I believe are the power elite, which makes war for corporations and is the terror of the earth. The Vietnam holocaust made a lot of m...
"To God, all things are right and good, only to man somethings are and somethings are not." Heraclitus "There is no such thing as right or wrong, but ...
Presently, the frame is toxic to the world at large. Today we cannot afford the divisiveness of that frame they call religion. In a world of nuclear w...
In the absence of fear, there would be no religion. Does religion today fulfil this function of relieving the stress of fear, for a thinking people.I ...
Mythology is the other chaps religion. Quoting Joseph Campbell, the late renowned mythologist. I have heard religion described as a failed philosophy,...
Peoples opinions generally depend upon the information they have been exposed to. Your belief that the attempted genocide of the native American india...
Yes, I have seen that in my time as well. Personally I use to be quite fond of interacting with children but give that up many many years ago. I grown...
I think that is quite another matter, but yes, one only needs to be accused of child molestation, and your screwed. Even if one is found innocent your...
When one is speaking about the dilemma of the power elite, who tend to be untouchable, anonymous. It is only a few brave souls that speak out, like Ol...
Belief is what biology tells us it is, when it is once removed, as in talking anothers word for it, it is somewhat more tentative. If someone tells yo...
The only way to know reality is cognitively, if we are talking about apparent reality. Apparent reality is a biological readout, thus requiring biolog...
American agression! https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/vietnam-american-holocaust/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXYsGuBdzM4 https://www.inspiringquote...
You must be one of those apple pie Americans, the rest of the world doesn't buy that apple pie. The whole mentality of the American public, with few e...
What's the difference between apparent reality and ultimate reality? The answer, biological readout presences us with apparent reality. We know enough...
Biological simulation is not perfect, one needs only look at people considered colour blind because they interpret certain frequencies differently tha...
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