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That's not how the Guardian's asked the question, perhaps by design.

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I asked first.

Consciousness can be explained by evolutionary processes?

No one understands Buddhism, just like no one understands any religion. If it were understandable then it would not require faith, particularly faith ...

Sure. No distinction between non-self and emptiness but a biggy big difference between understanding and realization. For instance, I understand a lot...

Right?! Best I've had was in this remote hole-in-the-wall place. https://d3ciwvs59ifrt8.cloudfront.net/d39ec2f3-a01b-47d5-b1a5-db1d4dd7647a/b6a23b94-8...

I can respect the baby (spirituality) but not the bathwater (religion). Analogically, I can respect government, like a functioning democracy, but not ...

Orson Welles? I don't follow.

You respect its use in war, oppression, and other nasty stuff?

I think you're right, now that I put more thought into it, and not just historically. I still don't think the nature of this 'attachment' is explored ...

It was a rare setup, you could not expect me to resist a Zeno paradox joke.

On the contrary, it can win you a foot race with a faster opponent. https://1millionmonkeystyping.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-18-a...

Maybe it helps to develop strategic thinking.

Nothing out of the ordinary. The same kind of problems that exist in all religions. Reason is essential for moral development. Faith, or intuition wit...

Worse, I think there's a strong tendency in Buddhism to devalue rationality in their promotion of intuition and it has led to all sorts of problems fo...

Language is certainly more fundamental than culture. Knowledge does not require language, however, so the fundamental attachment must go deeper than c...

In that case wouldn’t it simply be repatterning to what you’re calling “lived experience”?

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I don't care for the phrasing but I know what you mean and yes, in fact, I'm the worst. Just today I drove a half-hour to a client's office only to re...

I don't have a good grasp of it, I'm afraid. In An Introduction to Metaphysics, Henri Bergson makes the claim that metaphysical intuition is the “kind...

It seems important that it be cultural rather than fundamental because if it were fundamental then metaphysical intuition would be impossible.

One thing that doesn't make sense in this is how Constance refers to knowledge suppositions as both cultural artifacts and fundamental attachments. If...

I'm earnestly searching for the importance of the point. The search has led me halfway through a Bergson essay today, in fact, which seems to shed som...

I'll say that when you wrote earlier that "This is a very important point" I wanted to know why and have been trying to discover that since. There are...

Forgive my lack of nuance but all experience is lived experience and we're continually intuiting or perceiving and predicting subconsciously according...

I’m not in a tooth pulling mood at the moment so if you’d care to say more about the comment of yours that I responded to with my beloved generalizati...

I was hoping the comment might inspire you to be less general. It seems to have failed.

Buddhists are certainly attached to their system of beliefs.

North is up so it must be sunrise.

I don't think so, or rather I might think it is under particular circumstances. There are all sorts of conceptions, I imagine. You seem to believe ver...

You advise care in connotative phrasing and in the same breath demonstrate recklessness. "God is love" is rather emotive. Rules for thee but not for m...

You seem to believe that sensations, like the sensation of pain, have a moral quality. Do believe that an unpleasant smell, for instance, is evil?

So we are talking about fantasies? This is not true. Our world is quite limited. I know it may seem like we know, or can know, everything about the wo...

Of course it doesn't. People say such things. Burning sensations to not "say" things. Sensations are not independent minds that make recomendations or...

It's not the world speaking, it's you speaking. You are saying "don't do this," not the world.

It sounds like you've determined indeterminacy. Nicely done. :up:

You haven't talked about metanarratives yet, which is curious.

The essence of morality is cooperation. You seem to be essentially claiming that it's avoidance of harm. Harm/care is only one dimension of morality. ...

To be as succinct as I can, desperation is reckless in nature, leading to rash and extreme behavior. Such behavior is quite often less than exemplary ...

I'm being patient. :smile:

To your mind, have you made an argument for why you think God (or religion, including Buddhism) is all about our ethics or are you ignoring my questio...

I do not think that word means what you think it means. "What-to-do questions" are questions of normative ethics and not metaethical. In any case, you...

I do not think that word means what you think it means. I strongly disagree. Can you make an argument for why you think God (or religion, including Bu...

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The existence of God is controversial also, nevertheless belief in God is kind of a prerequisite in many religions. Maybe there are secular theist too...

Buddhists do not consider liberation a temporary mental state. That's pretty clear, isn't it? If a person is 'reborn' in any sense, then according to ...

Well, I've never heard of a Buddhist heaven, high up in the clouds or whatever, so nirvana must be right here, neck deep in the midst of all the shit....

A brain state, yes. A suppressed DMN, to be precise. I don't think that uncanny is a good descriptor though because it means something strange, partic...