praxis

I thought the point of your sour grapes example, in the context of its use, had to do with trying to establish the universal criterion of weather or n...

Interesting. I would have never guessed. I reread the OP just now with this in mind and I suppose that I can see it. You have a admirable skepticism.

It’s easy to imagine how some could be offended. I’m not sure what you mean by stating that and ending the post with a declaration of liberalism. If t...

I imagine that Noah Harrari’s logic circuits would tell us that everybody wants whatever their shared narrative tells them they want, such as wealth, ...

I think that intuition can be both instinctual and conditioned by culture, and we can also intentionally condition ourselves.

It’s an example of cognitive dissonance. The moral is to not lie to ourselves? What does it matter if we lie to ourselves if there are no other selves...

It’s a natural desire, and a good one, in my opinion. It’s not pointless or delusional to think about what you want. Obsession isn’t good of course. B...

Well, I readily acknowledged that it was a sloppy OP. I won’t do that again. Anyway, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, yourself, and I can distinguish between an Amer...

My understanding from the book is that the percentage of neanderthal dna is far too low to rule out genocide.

If you want to get probed I’m sure you could find an accommodating sapien. Anyway, I’m about two thirds of the way through the book so I can’t say wha...

Probably not the demographic they’re attempting to appeal to, I assume. The Muslim faith is not a race. Showcasing a member of a group that has been d...

Okay, it’s settled, a Muslim can see another Muslim as an enemy.

For a while there was a Muslim woman who went to my gym. The spin room is one of the more isolated parts of the gym, between spin classes, and I once ...

In America we are all Americans so we are incapable of seeing any other American as an enemy. Is that the sort of logic you’re using? FYI: this topic ...

I ‘approve’ because, to my mind, it attempts to transcend cultural/political divides via aesthetics, if only unintentionally.

It appeals to me and I’m far from hip. Are you saying that you find it unappealing? (Sexuality aside)

Granted. Anything else?

Frankly, I would love a good robo Zen master who could effectively lead me to realize emptiness.

1 for me. My mom went on the occasional vodka bender. Unreliable attachment?

You don’t understand your frustration? I think you do. You want it to be a minor problem? One solution would be to acquire bigger problems, such as ha...

Good post (of which this quote is only a small part). The general downside of this liminal position is that it lacks the quality loyalty, and loyalty ...

It would seem to require a rather drastic shift in values, and that takes time, probably much more time than we have left before the shit hits the fan...

In moral foundations theory (Jonathan Haidt, Craig Joseph, Jesse Graham), it's proposed that moral judgment is primarily given rise to by intuition, w...

Unlikely. If or when AI is developed it will outpace us a thousandfold. With the speed of silicon transistors, vastly more simulations can be performe...

I'm no economist but I understand that redistribution in the form of retirement funds, unemployment insurance, healthcare, and perhaps even a minimum ...

Same old, same old. I should probably see someone about my disturbing lack of motivation that's been looming in my wife's mind.

Our senses recieve patterns of data which is mentally processed. The sense data is in accord with the received patterns. If I'm off-base, what do you ...

According to the physical world, and my imagination.

My imagination?

A photograph is a representation. A mind (or camera in your analogy) produces mental representations (analogous to photographs). The entire world of t...

Right? It means that only photographs exist...

The superior man is modest in his speech, but wallows in his actions.

He who wallows night and day has too much time to throwaway.

“Anything” requires a mind to conceive it. Without a mind there would be nothing to distinguish anything. There wouldn’t be anything or nothing.

She who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

The woman who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the woman who does not ask is a fool for life.

Couldn’t we also say that nothing exists that isn’t just mental?

I was there last weekend and in the Cirque du Soleil show Zumanity there was indeed many fine bare boobies on display.

If anyone is taking this topic seriously it might be a good first step to check with these members to see if they ever feel interrupted by the riffraf...

How about gold stars, like this :sparkle: The member with the most stars can be declared the philosopher king.

I've actually seen this done on a forum. The elite area of the forum ended up being a ghost town. The only benefit, as I suggested earlier, was that t...

The essential difference is that we can influence 'the social stuff' and we can't influence the Big Bang. We tend to identify causes that we can influ...

Jake doesn’t want exclusion, he wants protection, from critical thinking.

I read a headline yesterday that Trump has reached ten thousand lies since being elected. And let’s not forget “alternative facts” and “the truth is n...

*Nothing* is just another concept in the “symbolic world.” What are you trying to say?

You can’t expect him to list all of your shortcomings.

No one can master all aspects modern technology that sustains our material lives. As you say, it requires millions of specialists, such as messily pro...

You must admit that it’s kinda funny that you applied experimental results from critter studies to human morality.

That’s rich coming from you. If just your ad hominems in the topic were deleted, not to mention the thickets of obfuscation, it would probably shave-o...

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