It seems that according to Gert morality has all but nothing to do with irrationality because half the fun of morality is rationalizing our actions. O...
Again your trollish phrasing with “harbor”, suggesting that I welcome biases. From your last couple of posts it now looks like you think that adopting...
Where have I stated that the taxonomy of homo sapiens, canines, or apples is valid? I’ve explicitly stated that each are varieties of their respective...
If only that were true. :broken: Anyway, NOS is still trying to explain why adopting a “false taxonomy” requires absolution when applied to humans but...
Dog breeds are also cultivated by humans. They're influenced by social and cultural factors, in other words, though not necessarily political as far a...
You just pointed out that varieties of apples are cultivated by humans. :lol: One way subconscious biases are revealed is in snap judgments where ther...
You wrote: "Adopting it for good intentions or for whatever other reason doesn’t absolve one of it." This suggests that there is something inherently ...
I remember watching an interview with Scott Adams around when he first publicly came out as a Trump fanboy. He was one of the ones who praised Trump a...
Merely acknowledging race or "false taxonomies" is not the problem so if it were possible to be "color-blind" it would not solve the problem. Intentio...
I'm not currently in any particular position to treat white trash unfairly. I don't live near or interact with any, plus I'm not an employer, landlord...
Yeah, that's not how the human mind works though. We automatically make assessments about people and things. That doesn't mean that we can't put aside...
I was attempting to make a distinction between conscious beliefs and implicit biases, in an effort to make sense of NOS's claims. Years ago I lived in...
We're all guilty of that to some degree, whether it be by race, sex, age, or whatever, though we can try to change our implicit biases. A belief isn't...
Not true. A full-blown nazi white supremacist, or Scott Adams for that matter, has the ability to distinguish individuals. It's a bad question but I'm...
There are a lot of Mexican places in my neck of the woods but few that make a good chili verde or tacos al pastor. To be fair though, al pastor is not...
How so? Both are discriminatory. Going back to this... I imagine you believe that the "ideology of race" is the dogmatic belief in the "false taxonomi...
Again you’re missing the point. Mere classification is not what motivates discrimination. Greed or selfishness motivates discrimination. Can you speak...
I'm pretty sure that people fear pain and suffering. I know that I do. So for your plan to work we need to first figure out a way to not fear pain and...
Green Smoothy for breakfast, consisting of several kinds of lettuce, spinach, yogurt, one apple, one avocado, some pineapple, some banana, kombucha, a...
I'm tempted to say that all thought is abstract, especially in light of this 'non-dual' awareness that you mention. Are there really separate things o...
:lol: The beauty of it is that if you can project sufficient authority you can say pretty much anything and the faithful will hang on your every word ...
I think we're merely capable of more abstract thought than animals, because of our relatively large cerebral cortex. You'll need to be clearer about w...
I suppose it may be possible to take the neural activity of dreams and somehow convert the signals into a visual display. Then you could see recording...
I asked if you see things in your dreams, not if you see dreams. You asked where a visual representation of a tree appears and I suggested that it app...
I can't help thinking that nothing could be more "caught up in views" than seeing things in their numinous light. Given enough exposure, even the most...
They see in essentially the same way as we do. To see non-dually would mean to entirely lack the ability to distinguish anything. A tree, for instance...
Being wedded to the view that duality is sin and non-duality is virtue is extremely dualistic, and unrealistic, isn’t it? The best we can do is merely...
:grin: I meant to say juggling. Could be any skill, like swimming or even walking. Anyway, what model do we learn from? We learn with our own models (...
If there’s no model or prediction then how can we learn a skill like juggling, for instance, and eventually learn it so well that it requires little i...
From the wiki page on New Atheism: If this were a sincere criticism it would have to define exactly what the social effects and impacts of religion ar...
Hanover avoids the fork, threatens with a pawn on h5. You know things are not going well when a pawn takes the lead. But perhaps it’s merely a diversi...
Imagine stretching, erecting, and measuring dicks across the globe for thirty years. That’s either an incredible dedication to science or a true love ...
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