Tom Storm

Our world views are too different to continue this discussion. Take care.

While Baudrillard seems to come closest to suggesting that reality has "disappeared," he argues that what we experience now are simulations, represent...

I think that’s well observed.

I don't. I'm responding to the claims.

Yes, you can love evil. And sometimes you may not know it as evil. Love is a feeling for someone or something. An emotion. It doesn't come with a qual...

When I was briefly swept up in associated New Age ideas and Theosophy this fact bothered me greatly. Appeals to the supernatural lack direct empirical...

They'd be the ones charging money for intensives... (sorry, a cheap shot).

I'm sure I don't need to tell you that mental health is an extremely complex matter. I can't really provide any advice to you.

Do you know why this happens? Are you haunted by previous errors? What would be an example of this? I've never really given it much thought. I just ma...

Could be. I haven't been following closely. I'm no connoisseur of metaphysical models like some here. But I have to admit, I no longer really understa...

:up: Thanks Vera. Sorry you've gone from our lives.

Ah yes… and this is a good question for this forum where we can practice this in microcosm. Would this not mean that some people might practice compas...

I’m no expert in this area but I’ve wondered if the idealism comparison was apt in some contexts.

I guess it would mean that his assumptions are less fully developed and his conclusion missing important information. But let’s leave it there.

Say some more on this. It also seems to me that some are more preoccupied by certainty or absolutes than others.

I think it leads to a more robust questioning of science and reason than many of us would accept. I’m not convinced Lorenz aligns with enactivism and ...

I'm not pursuing the Lorenz connection, I'm focusing on enactivist accounts of co-creation. I read Lorenz a generation ago and have forgotten it. I'm ...

Well, yes, I think that's right. I guess I see personal as an interpretive and assimilative process of the shared.

No worries. I added a bit where I have tried to interpret the point as best I can. Pretty sure I have missed something.

@"Joshs" would you mind having a go at explaining this further? This idea appeals to me, as it goes to the heart of what we think we are and I’d like ...

Well, I guess it depends what that means. I do believe that people are the contingent products of circumstance. How far to push this? My intuition is ...

Yes, BC is widley disliked in some psychology circles. Tony Attwood, who I am more familiar with also subscribes to ToM models. I think these distinct...

Of course, there are many here who also take issue with liberalism so there's that. :wink:

Doesn't work for me. I love because I love. It's a feeling and nowhere does good or beautiful enter my conception. I would say love moves beyond such ...

Generally, when people hold foundational positions, they are like arrows pointing toward the place they want to arrive at. That’s as true of me as it ...

Do you think such an approach is one that assumes theism and some of the philosophical scaffolding which supports it?

Trying to, but I know as much about logic as I do about genetic engineering.

I was merely making a joke. I figured they are 'neither true nor false' would be the official line. P ? ¬P and not ¬? P ? ¬P. or something like that.

ok. Setting epistemology aside, I prefer ‘I don’t know’ to a lot of options people jump onto - idealism, psychophysical parallelism, god…

Interesting and simple. Could it be argued that this is avoidance of a kind?

I'm not sure if you are being serious or satirical, but I'll assume you are serious. I'm curious what this God means to you?

Which is not an actual diagnosis or or clinical term and is primarily a pop-psychology label. Maybe, but really, we're not in a position to know wheth...

I think that’s a very different use to what people generally mean. In autism the view is that they don’t have what’s called a theory of mind. Many aut...

They’re often just words, and people will attach different values to them based on a range of preferences. I’ve always found usage more interesting th...

Well, in many cases, self-love may be more akin to narcissism, so probably not, especially if we understand love as a rich, selfless experience involv...

Interesting as always. Not sure I am convinced, however Questioning the limitations of reason seems a legitimate function of philosophy. Kant seemed t...

If there isn’t one already, we probably need a whole thread just on the status of reason. The argument made by Nagel seems to treat reason as somethin...

I don't know what you mean by "do they love themselves?" It's certainly not a topic that comes up. In my world the term, "love yourself" has a tinny, ...

Some good points I agree with. But I would question whether a less secular society is more virtuous. It's only been a brief period in history during w...

Milan Kundera said something like, 'You build a utopia and pretty soon you're going to need to build a small concentration camp.' I'm not sure exactly...

Or perhaps religion and theism don't have as much to do with morality as some think, and are primarily a justification for particular codes of conduct...

I was involved with the 'New Age' movement for much of the 1980s, during which I engaged in a fair amount of guided meditation and similar practices. ...

Sure. I’ve read about it in books. I have met gurus. I have heard people talk about it. It’s still outside my experience.

And outside of my experince.

I'm going by what I have seen. The excerpt doesn't speak to me. Thsi form you - If I read this correctly then i woudl have thought it was precisely th...

Do you think reason is a useful means of evaluating conceptions of God? I'm aware of its historical use in Natural Theology to 'demonstrate' the divin...

Yes, and it's instructive to observe the disagreements here, how often people talk past each other, battling presuppositions rather than engaging with...

Nice quote. My mum held a similar position. Great way to promote silence. It strikes me that a thorough understanding of anything is rare.

What counts as wise in your assessment. What are the indicators?

Maybe. But I'm not sure anyone believes that all philosophy is equally wise. I'm not familiar enough with the literature to make any assessments on be...