praxis

You do show good technique, reframing a horrifying tragedy to a dance party. However the effort doesn't indicate immunity.

The film also didn't have a happy ending. It was painful to watch Kevin's mother deal with the grief, shame, guilt, and ultimately failure to protect ...

This is awfully ambiguous, and that's fine if you chose not to elaborate. We're limited to some degree by our predispositions, sure. I strongly disagr...

The topic appears to be self defeating.

I'm thinking that two major factors are the pace of innovation, which is clearly vastly accelerated, and what I'll call the increased granularity of o...

It's not that simple, in my opinion. Consider the possibility that the value of art or how we experience it is a social construct. If that's the case ...

Maybe it would be worth wild to explore the idea of what pleasing others means in this context.

I think this is a good scenario to explore your ideas about emotion. It is unclear exactly what you would be teleporting to another mind. You say "fee...

If it's only a means to reveal the inner creative self then after it's done that it should have no value if indeed that's all there is to it.

I can see the impulse to do art in this circumstance as a means of self-exploration, now that I think about it. You use the word "express" however, an...

Just as a kind of thought experiment, if you were the last person on earth and had a long life ahead of you, do you think that you would still have an...

Is there evidence that Kevin has driven away a significant number of valued members?

Well, technically the "internet age" is only about 20 years, right? so some forum members could have experience prior to that. In any case, I was aski...

And you can't answer because you don't have pre-internet age experience? If you do feel that your experience is consistently lackluster it may be due ...

This rings true according to the theory of constructed emotion that I'm currently learning about. The basic logic of it is that emotions are essential...

I cannot agree or disagree with your experience. Especially if I don't know what it is.

Is this is your experience?

and he has the opportunity to learn and change, rather than trying change the forum.

Guidelines won't help, Agustino, you've already been successfully branded. You should put your efforts into rebranding yourself.

My perfect ethical civilization is spherical. I don't know why.

Where's Nil Loc when you need him.

I skimmed the Atlantic article and thought it a waist of time with little substance. They say you can't fake extroversion and it's a mistake to try be...

Barrett doesn't suggest that it's in any way new and in fact mentions studies dating back to at least the 50's. It is new for me. As a layman I seem t...

Hillary should replace Trump. X-)

There are two senses of me: 1. action, practice: such as a : exercise or practice of an art, science, or skill b : customary practice or conduct 2. pr...

When Trump was elected I sought to understand how it happened and read books like Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Hoshschild (sociologist). Appar...

Of course he didn't spawn them. The theory is that he used them, and in doing so empowered them (and their beliefs).

I'm only about halfway through the book but as I understand the theory so far even fear is a social construct. The general interoceptive baseline from...

I'm currently reading a fascinating book about the theory of constructed emotion by Lisa Feldman Barrett. Emotions and their function in our lives may...

Is it fair to blame Trumps right-wing populism for Charlottesville? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jhtF_pUbLc

If you're talking about a maladaptive fear such as Islamophobia the baseline to reshape our concepts or social constructs are objective facts, I suppo...

To be clear, I'm geography-illiterate just as you describe in the OP and that's why I decided to participate. To reiterate my uninformed understanding...

But eventually it comes down to a coin toss? So etc. could be referring to any geographical element? Okay. Yup, them there country folk are real moron...

The ugly truth is that we have the time and resources to do this now, but we still don't do it. Don't expect that some fairy tail AI will make this po...

Intuitively, the location of cities primarily developed around major ports or other hubs of transportation. Isn't the location of soils and water geol...

More nonsense, apparently.

We can obviously resist what a culture wants us to believe. Culture doesn't dictate our metaphysics or scientific investiagions. Granted a faulty or l...

Cenk was oddly rude to the audience, and generally more emotional than Shapiro, but I thought they both made good points from their respective positio...

Of course there's no hope because this is nonsense or can you explain why there's no hope?

You mean like hypnosis?

A lean budget or good financial health do not in themselves express good leadership or a healthy populace. For instance, it may cost less to privatize...

If someone strives to maintain a lean budget then clearly their ideal is a lean budget. If you're still not sure where you sit on the liberal/conserva...

I believe it's debatable what constitutes necessary and unnecessary, and that the determining factors center around personal and cultural values. Norw...

I don't understand how you can say that a conservative view of spending is ideological and whereas your view is practical. Can you explain?

Of course there's no such thing as a truly free-market, but conservatives generally want an absolute minimum of governmental intervention in business....

Your approach is essentially liberal. Conservatives would hate it because of the degree of political and economic manipulation it would require. Appar...

I suppose that I prefer practice over cure because it's something that must be continually practiced.

Improving metacognition (and the ability to see these 'frames') for one, but there are other related benefits.

I don't know if it's a cure but it's certainly is a good practice.

What are their reasons?