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JackBRotten

['Member']Joined: November 11, 2020 at 18:30Last active: September 06, 2021 at 01:31None discussions15 comments

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First off, arguing the definition of words is a pointless endeavor as perception oft skews them. My use of perception aligns with the Webster’s defini...
November 19, 2020 at 20:18
Newsflash, you can’t toss in a concept into your argument that runs counter to that very argument and then be surprised when someone focuses on the in...
November 19, 2020 at 20:03
Perception is also a way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something; a mental impression. Conception wouldn’t make sense in reference to b...
November 18, 2020 at 01:42
The cat is either dead or alive. Not both. Never both. Our inability to know the answer does not eliminate the possibility of an answer. If I look in ...
November 18, 2020 at 01:25
Complexity is a perceptual designation. Not a natural defining separation in function or morphology. The notion that a bigger brain provides us an edg...
November 16, 2020 at 20:27
lol, I’d be surprised if it were even only 99.999999999% that we didn’t know.
November 16, 2020 at 04:02
Not facts. Not even remotely close to facts. There is nothing at all within any kind of knowledge or technology to determine any aspect of such things...
November 16, 2020 at 03:02
Everything is literally evidence of something. However, what it is evidence of is entirely open to perception, thus the weak connections in claims and...
November 16, 2020 at 02:53
? “Ouch”?
November 16, 2020 at 02:34
What’s with this fascination I read so often of reference to brain size being so BIG?! Our huge/giant/large/reallyreallybig brains! Ego? Brain size do...
November 16, 2020 at 02:33
Moral convictions are personal preferences. I have no qualms in denying incongruences to that. In truth, everything is personal preference. Though, pr...
November 14, 2020 at 18:45
It’s amazing how common past perceptions become skewed in time to the point of sometimes entirely misrepresenting the very basis of the original conce...
November 14, 2020 at 18:38
“...I am also asking about whether there is a fixed nature or whether it can be altered.” Asking such a question is indicative of perceptual considera...
November 14, 2020 at 18:35
You’ve misrepresented quite a lot of what I wrote via your own act of “cherry-picking”. First though, you incorrectly attributed the quote about philo...
November 14, 2020 at 03:33
Your view of “human nature” as something that exists as a “fixed” and “unalterable” structure of perceptual cognition easily falters under the mountin...
November 14, 2020 at 03:20
“The legitimacy of philosophy (where it isn't just science in disguise) is one of mankind's greatest delusions.” I wasn’t aware philosophy possessed l...
November 13, 2020 at 05:56
This will be by no means a popular perception, however the fundamental difference between Quantum Physics and Philosophy is that philosophy doesn’t in...
November 11, 2020 at 18:58