Whickwithy

Hmmm, yes. I guess I would say that "intelligent animal" is as far as we have gotten by mimicking being human (i.e. knowing what it means to be human ...

Wow! Not what I had in mind. I look at the industrialists and their descendants as utterly pessimistic. "This is the best we can do and it's important...

We certainly create our own reality to some degree and everyone's reality is different - to some degree.

I wouldn't go so far as to say all life has emotions (I'm thinking of amoeba, bacteria, etc here). But, certainly animals and such.

I've often thought about that movie and book. In the movie, the alien states that humanity has such magnificent dreams ... and nightmares. That has al...

Ha! Sure. The difference between me and Nietzsche is that I really don't think the human condition, as it is, is necessary at all.

Exactly. We have equated intelligence with sentience. That is a dangerous misconception that leads to all of the awful ramifications of our current hu...

Paradox of paradigms?

If you change the word "existence" to "condition", I would agree. I think that using the word "existence" underestimates the nature of sentience. I th...

It seems most likely to me that any "advanced civilizations" that don't come to grips with their heightened status; in other words, a sentient race th...

Your premise makes sense to me. It helps explain the deepening divide between the right and the left that started, at least as far back as the industr...

Yeah, I'd just like humanity to get past all of the boulders of nonsense paradigms that are absorbed in our youth. What a train wreck it causes regard...

I should have said, "conversed". It's like everyone comes on, says something, is ignored, and someone else comes on and says something. There are rare...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC7sHxzRQAA

Exactly.

Hahahahaha! Yeah. I know the feeling. Are you equating sentience and emotion? I equate sentience with heightened awareness. I think our normally jumbl...

Paradigm-breakers. The worst thing in the world for me is paradigms. They blur our sentient perceptions. We get fed so many nonsensical paradigms as c...

Hey, I'm big into reincarnation but that's not what I'm talking about here. Briefly, on reincarnation, I think it is the only philosophy of life that ...

Wanting to exchange ideas

After bashing my head against The Tao for years, the only way I found to make sense of it was to read two different interpretations. That helped so mu...

Thanks, Pop. When I first read this thread, I was interpreting it as "I think, therefore, I am reduced". The sad thing is a lot of people out there wo...

I was just cruising around the web attempting to find something of interest. Something besides the godforsaken news. I ran across this website and thi...