Reason is not an absolute thing, it is relative to the culture of a society and even relative to each individual as you go down to the level interest ...
That cannot be sufficient. Making people healthier and happier and safe can be done in a bubble for certain elite while the rest of the world suffers....
You need to understand what conscioussnes is and what it is not. I'm not going to explain it here. Read it from the experts. What I can tell you regar...
Nothingness is not only possible, it can be scientifically and mathematically proof ... the zero! Zero is the mathematical artifact that contains our ...
Making those questions means you didn't understand the theory of the origin of our univers. Time and space and thermodynamic laws where being created ...
I'm not saying they re not conscious but a primitive immature consciousness and so his experience is... very simplistic and immature. Nevertheless it ...
Of course they have experiences but they don't have a mature consciousness and as a consequence they don't have a Self but a kind of proto/primitive s...
You're wrong, "things" can be experienced in different levels, it is not an ON/OFF. Don't confuse consciousness with experience (as Koch does). Do you...
No Bert1, there is not confusion on my side. You weren't born conscious as you re today. The capabilities of your brain have changed. Your brain is bo...
This is a good question Bert1, the answer is in physics and how complex systems auto-organise. I suggest you read Alberto Felice de Toni for example o...
CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT A STATE. "state" is not the right word to define consciousness, it doesn't help, it is too simplistic. Consciousness has certain ...
It is simple Bert1, I experience my consciousness waking up every morning and fading out every night. Anything else is not consciousness, it is someth...
Right, this comment is perfect for you. Read the people I mentioned in my posts, from what you write it is clear that you will learn a lot. Take it ea...
No my friend, the scientific ideas and scientific method did not come for free in a magical way thanks to philosophers or artists. Many people in hist...
Ok, next time you get sick don't rely on the science of medicine, don't go to hospitals, you can do a lot of metaphysics, something like 1 hour of met...
Many people, like you, puts their hopes on quantum physics to explain anything that is misterios today, it has a kind of exotic attraction because it ...
Yes, consciousness and even the self could be one day created artificially by us... But we re far from that. So far consciousness requires a brain, fu...
You won't need quantum physics to explain consciousness the same way you don't need it to explain many other physical or biological phenomena. Conscio...
God is a naif intuition of mortal humans... but my asnwer is that, as everything in life, IT DEPENDS. We have situations where we, ourselves ask for c...
Not really, all those things are material, those things (symbols, meanings, etc.) are in our brains within neural-traces that combine always following...
you're misusing the concept of identity. I think you're talking the self. Nevertheless, when you sleep you lose both consciousness and self/identity (...
There is "no-one self", ok (Metzinger's being no-one), the Self is an illusion ok..... but "it is", there is something we call a self that is being st...
Some points to help you spotting the problem of consciousness: CONSCIOUSNESS "IS A FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN". This doesn't mean that it can work in an is...
How you get your jollies is a matter for you. I do imagine that You do receive emotional rewards in the same ways I do. You again demonstrate your ste...
I think, because I can and I do, that your comment is intellectually sterile, but I'm convinced it has been emotionally rewarding for you as this one ...
I mean futuristic scenarios that is to say pure sterile speculation. I didn't say anything about thinking about the future. Actually you can see, as p...
It is not about willing to have kids or not but what value do we give to the DNA as a society. When we grow and start wondering about ourselves, the b...
I think science and technology play a role here. Now that we know better how genetics work, don't you think heterosexuality should have a kind of soci...
thanks Gregory. My point is not about what "will" for Schopenhauer was but more about its paralelism with contemporary "intentionality". I find myself...
Hi Alkis, your definitions are coming from ordinary-language ones, not the philosophical ones. The sense and meaning of will for Schopenhauer has noth...
With new technologies like AI challenging justice, ethics, emotions, etc. it is necessary for humans to get a theory of consciousness and the Self asa...
As announced at the top of this thread, the first Tertulia is happening next Monday. We already have a very good quorum of contertulios but if anyone ...
It all starts on a more precise understanding of the Self, how the Self comes to mind and how we create categories and concepts. Happy to talk this in...
I'm not saying cause-effect does not exist. We humans have created the words cause and effect to describe something. What I'm saying is that they don'...
This is incorrect, you missed the important part on Hume. Hume challenges us to consider what we can know of the constituent impressions of causation....
I'm not physicists and I don't have the math tools to do it but it is easy to so the other way around, trying to break the cause-effect. The cause-eff...
You like to think that, up to you. Do you understand quantum mechanics? Check the "quantum causal loops", try to explain the entanglement with causal-...
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