My beliefs are always subject to reform and change. I'm addicted with finding out how I'm "wrong", so I may improve. — Bret Bernhoft
the Will to build and/or grow is stronger than the Will to destroy. — Bret Bernhoft
To convert this to some sort of philosophical rather than biological premise, what do you think such a will implies for conscious agents in a dead/inanimate world? — Benj96
What is your explanation for existence? Why it occurred, what purpose or meaning it may or may not have? What are your ethical, epistemological or personal views related to existence?
How long have you had these beliefs/understandings, are they subject to reform, change, or have they been relatively static and unchallenged for quite a time? — Benj96
What is your explanation for existence? Why it occurred, what purpose or meaning it may or may not have? — Benj96
I think as long as we're here, we ought to minimize pain and maximize well-being for ourselves and the other organisms with which we interact. And clean up after ourselves: take nothing but memories; leave nothing but memories.What are your ethical, epistemological or personal views related to existence? — Benj96
What is your explanation for existence? Why it occurred, what purpose or meaning it may or may not have? — Benj96
What are your ethical, epistemological or personal views related to existence? — Benj96
What are your ethical, epistemological or personal views related to existence? — Benj96
- Mishima.We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
What is your explanation for existence? — Benj96
What is your explanation for existence? Why it occurred, what purpose or meaning it may or may not have? What are your ethical, epistemological or personal views related to existence?
How long have you had these beliefs/understandings, are they subject to reform, change, or have they been relatively static and unchallenged for quite a time? — Benj96
Part of that was a consequence of early experiences with hallucinogens, also very much part of the culture of the time, but I also had a couple of naturally occuring epiphanies. — Wayfarer
What is your explanation for existence? — Benj96
:fire:I think as long as we're here, we ought to minimize pain and maximize well-being for ourselves and the other organisms with which we interact. And clean up after ourselves: take nothing but memories; leave nothing but memories. — Vera Mont
"Existence" is fundamentally contingent: there cannot be anything external to existence that stops existence from coming-to-be, continuing-to-be or ceasing-to-be.What is your explanation for existence? — Benj96
The only answer to this "why" that does not beg the question is that there is not any answer. I think this is why 'there cannot be an ultimate why'.Why it occurred, what purpose or meaning it may or may not have?
Usually, more than anything, I am an ethical naturalist (re: aretaic-negative consequentialism), scientific naturalist (re: model-dependent realism) and absurdist bluesman (i.e. creating (ephemeral) forms from (perpetual) formlessness).What are your ethical, epistemological or personal views related to existence?
My "understandings" began as very confused and unclear intuitions and I have strived to critically revise and refine my ideas (& conceptual vocabulary) through study, discussion, argument and lived experience over the last four decades. I believe I'm still learning and growing, though sometimes I do worry that my positions are hardening from confirmation bias and/or age-related stubborness.How long have you had thesebeliefs/understandings, are they subject to reform, change, or have they been relatively static and unchallenged for quite a time?
Is your existence the result of a long chain of random accidents, or specified by Darwinian Natural Selection? Does evolutionary selection operate without specific criteria? If so, how do mutating genes know how to maintain a consistent lineage of inheritance over eons of time? Just asking. :joke:There is no criterion for existence and that's that! — Agent Smith
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