WaterLungs

Maybe it depends on mood swings, sometimes one is more prone to pessimism and nihilism but if it's a sunny day I don't pay much attention to it - inst...

When I deal with an "impossible problem" like the Problem of Free Will, my natural reaction is, maybe due to my neuroticism (natural tendency to avoid...

Sam Harris is an atheist too. The title seems very biased towards defending buddhism, but it just tries to show what claims in buddhist religion have ...

It is one who tries to make reason the master and eliminate passion, that ends up in trouble. Not reason itself, but the supression of emotions/passio...

That said, you probably thought of survivorship bias because of the direction our conversation took with my comment on "exceptions" and "generalizatio...

That's a good differentiation, didn't think in those clear terms, even though it seems self-evident. Started reading Peirce and started to laugh: "But...

It's a quite interesting podcast, he talks from politics to religion. "In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett ...

"Very true. Is this what happens when religion fades?" Those who agree with Max Weber's View of the Disenchanted World, agree that the loss of religio...

Curious, because it reminds me of a dilemma I heard in a Sam Harris podcast: If, from a neurological point of view, there's no way to differentiate fr...

I don't think poetic insights are incompatible with reason, but I agree that pure aesthetic play in philosophy becomes frustrating because many times ...

Thank your for your answer, I think your position is quite reasonable.

- this is a very good point and I agree with you. But what I failed to state more clearly doesn't go against this point. What you said reminds of me o...

So the difference between everyday experience and metaphysical "transcendence" is a matter of intensity, not of quality? For example, during hallucina...

I researched "special pleading": argument in which the speaker deliberately ignores aspects that are unfavourable to their point of view. / A form of ...

I agree with you but is reason alone capable of making us lose our minds? I'm not sure about that, it's a small minority of artists like Van Gogh or m...

I don't know to be honest.

I believe we should question everything, even common sense claims, no stone should be left unturned but, when it comes to living our lives, to live a ...

First of all, thank you taking the time to answer. I'll read the article very carefully. Examples of which common sense we (supposedly) all are agree?...