Tom Storm

If you have concerns, best to seek out a qualified medical doctor for clarification and support, not an internet forum. Insanity is an old-fashioned w...

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Not really. A key indicator of mental ill health (or a developing issue) are chronic feelings of sadness, emptiness or anger. Some people are able to ...

Indeed. It has that awful taint of 'purity' as wellness taint to it.

Support for people with mental health is much broader that psychology versus psychiatry. And many services for people with mental health issues are no...

That's a funny question - never heard of a mood disorder, hey? Emotions are key indicators of people's mental health. I work in the area of mental hea...

Cognitive hygiene is a dreadful and abrasive term. Emotional health is a soft way of talking about mental health, without the ostensible stigma of the...

No. But you didn't ask, "Would she crave roast beef?"

Sounds very disciplined and productive. Mostly I only do things I enjoy. I'm not wishing to pry but would you feel comfortable sharing a title or two ...

Thanks B, I can see what you mean and I'm happily attached to my illusion of objectivism. I shudder at the thought of this. Appreciate your perspectiv...

Well, it does seem to offer a different way of seeing the world and that in itself may be beneficial, possibly exhilarating, given how often we seem t...

Yes, I think that may be the same point I am making. The problem with reason is everyone thinks they are using it correctly and often as a kind of cud...

I think we are all well aware that believers are a heterogeneous group. I wasn't thinking of you and whatever arguments you have for your belief - and...

So here's the thing. Believers will keep believing even if science and logic could disprove god/s.

I have read a lot of books but I only remember some impressions and the odd idea. To be honest I've enjoyed English literature more than the few philo...

I appreciate your contributions and how you articulate the ideas. I think my key issue is I utterly lack the sensus divinitatis and I generally hold t...

Well I haven't rubbed up against this bronze either, but I don't find it attractive.

Most I have known don't have any of those skills and are widely despised for their lack of diplomacy and social skills. But some have been lucky to ha...

Yes, I think that is a key question. I've tended to consider myself a methodological naturalist not a philosophical naturalist. I think I pretty much ...

Voltaire?

Sure. I've known a few CEO's, most of them were not much good at their job and got there because they were more ruthless than the others.

I don't.

Well, you need to be able to accept idealism is true, which comes with its own problems.

That's what they say. But it's swapped with the hard problem of idealism...

Yep - which kind of leaves me with 'supernatural' when I am fumbling around for an alternative to physicalism. Can you think of a better term?

Yes, but isn't physicalism (the supposed antithesis of the supernatural) considered a metaphysical position?

This is my understanding too, with emotional intelligence, such as it is probably correlating with agreeableness - if you are going to take the OCEAN ...

Is it possible to hold a position that isn't metaphysical?

Don't know. I think only dull, literal minded folk take these things as concrete and immutable.

True. From my perspective, I am not sure what other word to use to get across the idea - of something that transcends the natural world.

Fair enough. I think The Mad Fool started a similar thread. Nevertheless, aren't sayings like miniatures? Behind their austere surface they usually pa...

Yes, and the notion of a tree is an intersubjective agreement, unlikely to be a concept we would acquire unassisted.

No question. But I wonder if some expressions of dogma are preferable to others. I would rather wrestle with a Catholic dogmatist than one from Islami...

It's so infuriating.. nothing left to do then but take control, let's storm the Capitol Building... oh... oops...

The issue here might be that one man's woo is another's dogma.

Would you contend that it is absolutely impossible for phenomenal consciousness to be an emergent property of the brain?

Ha! There is a bit of a Groundhog Day effect to our threads and a concomitant inability to acquire clarity despite problems being repeatedly identifie...

I thought EQ (although initially based on an old psychology paper) was essentially the creation of a journalist and part of the self-help world. I won...

Cool. To me it doesn't seem to make sense to hold that it would be impossible for consciousness to be an emergent property of the brain. An urge to ex...

Frank I'm no expert but I'm not sure there is a great functional difference between the two positions.

All the mysterians do - Chomsky, Penrose, McGinn, etc

Yes, and 'how does if feel' implies there is an awareness of feeling which can be described/understood. Does a seagull have a sense of feeling in this...

So do you see phenomenal consciousness as essentially being an emergent property of the brain's processing capabilities? Details to be understood in t...

Could be. You raise some interesting points. I would have thought the atheist properly makes just one claim about God and as for the rest of their vie...

I have never taken any interest in sport of any kind and have only ever seen a few minutes of football and tennis and maybe some other sport on the ne...

I don't care either way. We certainly have the illusion of free will. Sit back and enjoy.

This is called the Hard Problem of Umpiring which leads us to the Blindspot of Sport.

This. And not reading from the cannon. Buy hey, I may well be wrong. After all, I'm not a philosopher.

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Of course. I've seen some Rodins. But I am not a great enthusiast of art. I like Turner and the odd Matisse. But mostly I like Japanese, Pre-Columbian...