Tom Storm

Why would owning things not satisfy?

Thank you. :up:

Out of interest, what do you think are reasonable speculations in relation to QM? Do you think it can point to idealism?

Maybe we are talking about different things. I don't always understand people, but I have empathy when people are struggling/suffering. It's automatic...

I find empathy easier than understanding. :wink:

Mahler 10 Simon Rattle (Cooke version) Shostakovich Symphony 5 Poulenc Organ Concerto

I guess 'matter'. Yeah. It makes no difference to our use of a chair or our world in general.

Donald Hoffman has a lot to answer for.

Is the most you can perhaps say, 'the nature of materialism isn't what we though it was' ? Indeed. One wouldn't dream of claiming to know how to pilot...

I think it makes sense to avoid eating animals for the usual reasons offered. I am personally not a vegetarian but I was for a few years. My reason wa...

I read it more as a plaintive cry for calm and a veneration of the quotidian. Although, with the passing of time, the Murder She Wrote reference becom...

Would it not also follow that different types of poems work differently? An aspect of poetry is the concentrated, careful word selection to intensify ...

Maybe. I'm struggling to see it however and I'm not an idealist. I guess you're saying there is no functional difference. So I understand solipsism to...

Yep. Just noticed the SEP has this: "Within modern philosophy there are sometimes taken to be two fundamental conceptions of idealism: - something men...

Thanks. For idealism to avoid solipsism it needs to postulate an entity like mind-at-large, Will, (or in Berkeley's case, God) - who is the guarantor ...

Well you would say that.

Not sure how you are getting that. Can you describe how idealism leads to solipsism? For me idealism may lead to deism or theism.

Yes, I think the simulation hypothesis is a techno-idealism for the current era. Certainly how Donald Hoffman reads to me. I've not immersed myself in...

Not really. Kastrup is very clear it is not solipsism and it certainly doesn't read this way to me. But you need to read the full account. I know some...

I think many people see in the speculative work of QM an opening for idealism (which some people interpret as solipsism). Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup...

Can anyone demonstrate that an objective morality exists 'out there' separate from human values and is waiting to be discovered? My own view is that m...

I used to enjoy a good saké and I discovered quality tequila late - smooth and pleasant stuff. Here's a tip - never drink from a bottle with a hat for...

Maybe I'm missing your point and apologies if I am. The point, as I see it, is that corporations cannot do whatever they want already, right? They can...

I wasn't aware that objective morality or god existed. :wink: I've generally held that theists have no objective basis for morality - all they can do ...

Fine by me. :wink: Bear in mind that corporations (in most countries) cannot do or produce that which defies community standards. If they wish to deve...

Could be. Just as mistakes are often the necessary path to success.

The problem is, how do you tell difference? And from what I have seen our friends are totally sincere, they just lack... wait for it...self awareness....

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I haven't had a drink for some years but it's smoking I found hardest to quit. It took some work but I haven't even had a puff for close to 20 years. ...

Don't know. But I do know that memories are not recordings of experiences and seem to be reconstructed each time. I sometimes remember things which in...

That makes sense. Thanks.

Do you mind if I ask you what you mean? I am not clear how your father saw people from your account other than he tired to provide a positive work spa...

That's a very well put and useful paragraph TC.

I find a lot to agree with there. I spent much of the 1980's attending New Age workshops, seminars, lectures, yoga, meditation, theosophy, Scientology...

I thought so and I've often wanted to ask you that.

I'm glad people like poetry and I wish I did. But I don't. You're probably right about the jazz comparison. Do you consider Tao Te Ching a work of poe...

It might be partly my fault but you're missing my point that trying to be self-aware is probably not how it is done. Witness all the obtuse and self-s...

Nice post. I hear you and agree. I also feel that way about the music.

Only about philosophy.

Do you have a favorite whisky? I used to drink about 70 liters of the stuff every year but I never really minded what kind (as long as it wasn't cheap...

Err, no. That's just your opinion., man. :joke: Consciousness remains elusive and thinkers far smarter than you (and me) still wrestle with the notion...

Sure - my definition of consciousness is - a controversial phenomenon no one can properly define or agree upon and some even suggest is an illusion. :...

I am presenting some questions and my sincere view of the OP. These terms are so broad and used so differently and ubiquitously that I am curious what...

An abusive response, Dues? You can do better. I agree with this.

I don't understand what you mean by the question. Sure, people bark on about consciousness and awareness all the time (especially in California), but ...

Yes, I've seen this too.

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Agree. I also think that because so many people feel like they are foot soldiers in a culture war these days odd alliances are forged - it's the enemy...

Yes, we could have an infinite regress of fact checking. Yep, certainly one option. Often with these things if the public were just more discerning......

No idea, Isaac. On this, and many other matters, I only have aspirational views. Can it be done? I'd like to see us try, but perhaps not. I wrote it d...