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  • Are Minds Confined to Brains?
    ↪bongo fury


    the only thing that exists is god and his eternal dream
  • Are Minds Confined to Brains?
    That's why your dog sees the bird differently than you — Raymond

    dog doesnt see a bird

    bird is something in your mind

    youll never know what a dog sees
  • Are Minds Confined to Brains?
    Do you think minds can exist on other stuff than a working brain in a living body? — Raymond

    bodies cant exist without minds
  • Are Minds Confined to Brains?
    ↪bongo fury


    machines dont exist

    machines are just a hallucination ghosts are having
  • Gestalt principles of grouping / Epistemology principles of reductionism
    What do we know ? — Don Wade

    you can map out the territory, but the map is not the territory

    and a map also tells you nothing about what and why the territory is, it just maps it out
  • Are Minds Confined to Brains?
    Are Minds Confined to Brains? — Qwertyportne

    no

    brains are confined to minds
  • Are Minds Confined to Brains?
    Light reflected from the object enters my eyes, then travels through the optic nerve to my brain where the image is — Qwertyportne

    this is called NAIVE realism
  • Enlightenment Through Pain
    accept the bad and the even worse, and that pain and application can make you better. — ToothyMaw

    the mind intrinsically cannot accept pain.

    Do you believe that the mind is housed in the brain? — ToothyMaw

    its irrelevant. the mind has no free will either way

    Is the mind deterministic because it moves towards its predictions of pleasure or does it move towards its predictions of pleasure because it is deterministic? — ToothyMaw

    neither and both. the mind is bound by cause and effect. and the minds nature is to move away from pain and towards pleasure.

    there is no reason to think that our decisions are solely governed by the pursuit of predicted pleasures — ToothyMaw

    a rock rolls down a hill. a human walks and eats and farts. no difference.

    nature moves people according to laws of physics
  • Enlightenment Through Pain
    you gain a heightened insight into existence — ToothyMaw

    useless and impossible. you are simply expanding your mind

    trading pain for greater pleasures necessitates a certain self-discipline — ToothyMaw

    no it doesnt. it requires you predict a greater pleasure on the other side. you go to work all week then you get a paycheck. if you dont predict the paycheck you wont do the work

    ----------

    free will is an illusion. the mind is deterministic and moves towards its predictions of pleasure
  • A Comparison of Fox News with McDonald's Advertising
    ego triggers media click bait

    so they cater to ego with schisms. to trigger you into clicking
  • Cognitive closure and mysterianism
    If I don't know what I'm enquiring about, how can I enquire? — Agent Smith

    because you know you dont know
  • Enlightenment Through Pain
    either you submit to rigor and pain, or you go do something else. — ToothyMaw

    you can go through pain if you are predicting a greater pleasure on the other side

    therefore its still hedonism
  • Mathematical universe or mathematical minds?
    feels great! How you explain that? — AgentTangarine

    masterbation feels great

    im one with god
  • Mathematical universe or mathematical minds?
    There is no math formula corresponding to a piece of music. — AgentTangarine

    a piece of music is nothing but a pattern. you just call it music since it alleviates your boredom and raises your dopamine
  • Mathematical universe or mathematical minds?
    They are not programmed by my DNA — AgentTangarine

    before you were born you were nothing but a strand of dna

    there was no brain

    the dna created the brain as it wanted it to be. then later the brain is born and then it is completely bound by its genetic reaction to the environment. neither of which it chose.

    its reactions shape it which then reacts again and shapes it more. over and over until you die

    causation
  • Mathematical universe or mathematical minds?
    ↪AgentTangarine


    the brain is not a crystal ball. it has a genetic structure

    there is no free will, only biological determinism

    what you dont have the genetics to process you will never understand
  • Mathematical universe or mathematical minds?
    ↪AgentTangarine


    point is logic is abstraction related to empiricism
  • Free Will and Other Popular Delusions, or not?
    I used to think religion was bullshit — Agent Smith

    its half true
  • Mathematical universe or mathematical minds?
    Was mathematics invented or discovered? — Doru B

    logic is a processing structure encoded genetically into our mind which comes from the way reality moves

    math is a reduced abstraction of reality, based on logic(the way reality moves)
  • Free Will and Other Popular Delusions, or not?
    ↪Agent Smith


    every 5 years you are a different person who would not aggree with the previous one
  • Is ‘something’ logically necessary?
    ‘nothing’ is impossible — Paul Michael

    nothingness, death, darkness, emptiness, unconsciousness, are all intrinsically and absolutely impossible. they have never existed, they do not exist now, and they never will exist. in any amount

    they are just empty words in the ignorant and unenlightened mind
  • Free Will and Other Popular Delusions, or not?
    The world has enough problems with just one of me! — Agent Smith

    go back in time and talk to yourself and you will argue with yourself and disagree with each others beliefs
  • Immortality
    ↪John Pingo


    immortality is impossible because even if you cured ageing you will still eventually get hit by a bus or something
  • Techno-optimism is most appropriate
    Therefore to resist the march of science — Bret Bernhoft

    Technology is slowly evolving through us

    we cant make it go faster or slower
  • Free Will and Other Popular Delusions, or not?
    ↪Agent Smith


    there is an infinite number of me's out there in the infinite reality

    and an infinite number of variations of me's and you's
  • Thoughts on the Epicurean paradox
    ↪god must be atheist


    i am like jesus

    one with god

    so i have access to his omniscience
  • Thoughts on the Epicurean paradox
    The problem is that GOD can imagine and create such a world. He is ALL POWERFUL, — god must be atheist

    magical thinking

    wordplay

    creation is always relative and logical. god cant create a creation that defies that
  • Free Will and Other Popular Delusions, or not?
    ↪Agent Smith


    perpetual motion machine

    eternal recycler
  • Free Will and Other Popular Delusions, or not?
    ↪Agent Smith


    reality must be eternal omnipresent and infinite and whole

    it is everything and everything is it

    nothing exists but it

    god
  • My Insights into the MBTI and Why I am the Biggest Contradiction of All
    you would find I am quite familiar with MBTI. — Philosophim

    maybe your familiar with your false understanding of it
  • Thoughts on the Epicurean paradox
    How do you know what your God feels? — god must be atheist

    dont assume he doenst
  • Thoughts on the Epicurean paradox
    There could be conceivably a physical creation that is all good. — god must be atheist

    impossble. and even if it was possible you wouldnt want it
  • My Insights into the MBTI and Why I am the Biggest Contradiction of All
    ersonalities change drastically through life — Paul

    MBTI type is genetic and never changes
  • Free Will and Other Popular Delusions, or not?
    So the sum total of something remains constant, eternally — Agent Smith

    ya its infinite
  • Blindsight's implications in consciousness?
    i can poke your brain and you will see something out in front of you

    the world is fabricated by the brain. and this includes the brain that you see

    blind sight still has data coming in from the eyes into the brain its just not rendering up into consciousness
  • My Insights into the MBTI and Why I am the Biggest Contradiction of All
    this topic is psychology not philosophy
  • My Insights into the MBTI and Why I am the Biggest Contradiction of All
    thinking function. I could not get over how cold and stingy this function is, and, as strong feeling type — jasonm

    T vs F

    T's are better with things

    F's are better with people

    more men are T's compared to women but there is some mix

    and for the dummies: just because you are a genetic T or F does not mean you cant adapt to the opposite to a certain extent
  • My Insights into the MBTI and Why I am the Biggest Contradiction of All
    and notice that it is rigid, binary, four-dimensional and blinkered. — unenlightened

    so is all science and all knowledge itself, including everything you currently believe
  • My Insights into the MBTI and Why I am the Biggest Contradiction of All
    Research studies have never establish MBTI is anything more than an ice breaking exercise — Tom Storm

    maybe thats because the research is too limited.
  • My Insights into the MBTI and Why I am the Biggest Contradiction of All
    Of course, in reality there are 7.75 billion personalities instead of 16. — Paul

    no there is only 16 genetic psyche types, and there is 8 billion different people
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