creativesoul

Your beliefs on this matter are the same as mine because they both include energy? C'mon man. Think about what you're writing.

This is wrong. Energy is energy. Flour is flour. Flour is one - of many - necessary elemental constituent of apple pie. All by itself, flour just does...

Again... electrical signals may be one necessary elemental constituent of all thought, but flour plays the very same role in apple pie.

Good for you. Thought requires more than just energy. Seeing thoughts as energy is akin to seeing flour as apple pie.

Do that which would make the world a better place if done by everyone who finds themselves in whatever particular situation one finds themselves in.

Addressing one's needs and wants assumes some remarkable demonstrable difference between the two. The difference is clear enough sometimes, but not so...

Time and existence are in no readily apparent conflict. At least they are not in one that I can ascertain. Time and existence are inseparable. There i...

Shawn, I have one thing to stress and then a suggestion. Changing one's programming requires coming to acceptable terms with what was happened, is hap...

That is false. It is also a prima facie textbook example of infinite regress. Neither is acceptable and when combined they certainly count as good rea...

You're good. :smile: I mean, there's plenty of room to build a bridge of mutual understanding.

I do not understand this logic... So, given that there are unsolved problems, no need for putting forth new ideas, because that will just add to the p...

Understood. They are unacceptable, because they are untenable. This is proven by the fact that they inevitably lead to a reductio ad absurdum. Turtles...

Ok. You're still wrong though.

Exactly not what I said.

What matters 'the most' all depends upon some specific situation/circumstance/context, for 'the most' is only meaningful when being used in comparativ...

Our world includes thinking and believing creatures. Thinking and believing creatures attribute meaning. Our world is not inherently meaningless, unle...

Someone, somewhere along the line coins a term, or a begins some new meaning/use of a pre-existing term for the first time...

Infinite regress...

On my view... All thought and belief, ranging from the simplest to the most complex, consists entirely of mental correlations drawn between different ...

I don't know what to tell you then Shawn. The number of cases and deaths increase daily.

Looks like a conflation of belief and truth, but I see that Banno is participating here, so I'm out. He's probably already voiced the right concerns.

Of course. The case numbers and deaths continue to be on the rise, even with all the social distancing measures and shut downs. Imagine what would hap...

Children are not the victims. Their safety was being taken into consideration. Many many more children and families would have contracted and died fro...

Short answer. To protect the public with the only means available at the time. To stop the spread of covid19. Longer answer... The only way to stop an...

The travesty is not the shutting down. That was - and is still - required for public safety. The mistake in public programming(the language being used...

What does that have to do with your own expressed desire to reprogram yourself?

Ah... I think you're referring to the current collective attempts at restarting the American economy which are attempting to have Americans accept the...

Cruelty is accompanied by unnecessary harm and lack of concern for another's suffering. Accepting death is not(or does not necessarily/always include ...

Yup, I can believe that. What's wrong with accepting death?

As I said... it ain't easy. It has to be done though. Not all adopted belief need to be tossed.

Not completely... nor is it needed. Not completely by yourself, it takes others.

What's the relevance of such a name/label when regarding how to go about identifying the beliefs that you adopted while learning language? That's the ...

With this, I can relate Shawn. There is no easy way to go about doing that though. It is a very very taxing ongoing everyday situation, and requires a...

That's not a given. There is all sorts of stuff that we can be certain is true. The term "absolutely" doesn't add anything here either. Drop it altoge...

In order to know whether or not there are any new thoughts, we must first ascertain what counts as a thought to begin with, and then perform some sort...

The notions of quale, qualitative experience, and phenomenology in general are, as I see it anyway, self-perpetuating problems in and of themselves. A...

You're more than welcome, although I'm not sure how I helped or in what way. :smile:

I would begin by dropping the excessive language.

I do not. The notion of "perceptual manifold" is not something that I find appealing. I prefer the simplest possible adequate explanation, and find no...

Nice article.

It commands one person to do to another what that one person would have done unto themselves. Not everyone would do the same thing to themselves. So, ...

Yes.

The Golden Rule mistakenly assumes that everyone likes being treated the same way.

That's better, but I hesitate to frame the discussion in terms of "without language", for it allows segue into a conflation between being unspoken and...

This very conversation is perhaps a perfect example of this.

I think I've just answered this bit.

I would be very hesitant to talk in terms of structure here... Some belief requires language. It's rather simple really. All belief consist of correla...

That's not how I 'partitioned the concepts'(whatever that's supposed to mean). Nor would I even agree with such a parsing for reasons that need not be...

Metacognition is thinking about thought and belief. The second question does not make much sense to me. Cognition and language both consist of correla...

Deliberately insulting another is quite a different matter than merely being insulted by another's words.