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The actually relevant questions should be something like, When people read, what are they actually reading? Should reading a play by Shakespeare count...

Like I said, I'm talking about the computer learning scenario described in the OP. Those electronic didactic texts are not permanently available. If t...

Said Tom Storm: How do you counter? Especially on his point on "survival deficit"?

In certain contexts, they can have a psychologically soothing effect, releasing brain capacity, thus lending to action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Rather, a plebeian answer to it is taken for granted. As in, "He wanted to figure out the numbers so that he could control his surroundings." It's lik...

I just want to quote this, because it fits right here as well:

I think the scenario actually resembles oral culture the most. In the computer learning scenario you describe above, people read things mostly just on...

I think this isn't actually a problem. It can become a problem if one's default is a, let's call that "traumatic attachment to a religious view". Emph...

Why? Whence this emotion? He said he was a robot.

Sure. Roman Catholicism has one of the most, if not the most strict dogma with eternal, irrepairable consequences. Per said dogma, a person is capable...

Certainly. However, there appears to be a crucial difference between professional philosophers and philosophical amateurs. Professional philosophers c...

The theory of evolution has token value; its relevance is in declaring it in order to gain social approval.

Can one do science without scientism?

The real problem for all Christianities is the whole eternal damnation business -- "If you don't get it right this time around and don't pick the righ...

A frequently underappreciated point, yet crucial to holding that God is more than merely a product of one's imagination. One is supposed to believe in...

https://youtu.be/QNz_zgttRDQ?feature=shared

Meh, enlightened people are a dime a dozen these days.

Only if one already has power. Who cares if I'm silent?

Virtues, in order to have a chance of making one happy, would also need to be attained the right way -- through blood, sweat, and tears. And this cann...

Present three sentences from scientific texts of your choosing that contain the word "we" and talk about mankind in general and I'll explain it on you...

It's earlier than positivism, you can see it with the ancient Greeks already. That characteristic brand of normativisim -- "It's like this and no othe...

How does it hurt you politically to think of people as individuals?

I'm not disagreeing, but we have to get by somehow. We can't just give in to silence and let the others rule as they please.

Possibly because you don't see any meaningful difference between I-statements and you-statements.

The language they use; namely, you-statements; and we-statements (which are veiled you-statements). Pick up any scientific piece of writing, and insof...

Because they want to have control over people. It's a standard mode of operation for people anyway; scientists have just elevated it to a whole new le...

Where do you get that from?? I'm talking about the use of you-language, you-messages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-message “You are such a slob. Yo...

You're just proving my point. Non-communication for the win!

Possibly because you think like they do already. So you don't feel imposed upon. When scientists say "we", you feel included in that "we". Not everyon...

For practical purposes, an initially democratic society will eventually develop into a more homogeneous one. It's simply not economically or socially ...

https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Image-from-iOS-26-1024x976-1-e1611927131807-660x559.jpg You think whatever I say that you thin...

So you're just going to let them win, without a fight, 3:0?

It's trivially true that when a person talks, they talk, and not society, or community etc. The question is how individual(istic) can a person be, giv...

To begin with, everyday things. Such as an acquaintance accusing you of having done something, and ignoring evidence to the contrary. For example, an ...

Science is based on someone's particular, ideologically driven idea of human experience (or how it should be). It's yet another form of normativism.

It seems a Stoic is unable to experience trauma in the first place, since a Stoic's outlook on life is such that it can accomodate whatever trauma-ind...

Slaves live. But what does it mean to live?

A broom, a broom!

Every time I see the title of this thread, I'm reminded of Oprah Winfrey and her "What I know for sure" column/book. https://www.oprah.com/spirit/the-...

Poor old Friedrich is turning in his grave.

thinking that you're x vs. being x thinking that you can climb a tree vs. successfully climbing a tree thinking that you're productive vs. being produ...

How Christian ...

This only speaks to people's addiction to comfort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5CHt23zIzY

As rude as I was when I destroyed the hard drive of a previous computer with a hammer. One cannot let things and ideas have such a sway over one!

What is "wrong" with such a life is that one cannot choose it; it's not the result of deliberate action, at least not always.

Wishful thinking, possibly born out of incompetence. It looks as if for many people, loss of innocence has to do with opposing one's elders or with th...

So not being a cute obedient robot is what diminishes a person's innocence?

It doesn't; it's a doctrinal claim in those schools of Buddhism that contain the concept of "Buddha nature" (or the modernized equivalent of it). (I'v...

I don't want to talk to a robot, if I can help it.

It seems it has a lot ot do with calculated risks. It's seems likely that editors calculate that publishing something potentially problematic will sti...