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  • Difference between Gender and Sex
    I updated my OP, anything you would like to add?
  • Create your World
    That's pretty incredible.
    The size and shape were fairly accurate in 2D and he could even draw it from several angles without having to touch it againSir2u

    But did he know what fruit is was? Could he have known the difference between a circle and a square without somebody telling him?
  • What is Philosophy?
    Philosophy is the study of nothing, and everything inside of that "nothing".
  • The World Doesn't Exist
    If you have enjoyed what you have experienced, then why should it have been a futile attempt at nothing?Sir2u
    Imagine you go to work, a long day, angry boss, and lots of unappreciated work that was done by you. Then, you wake up and realize that the day just started and you now have to go to an even worse job, with a worse boss, with much worse pay. I believe you would be pretty "bummed", to say the least
  • The World Doesn't Exist
    Nope, but I have now! Thank you!
  • The World Doesn't Exist
    I believe they are very close together, yes
  • The World Doesn't Exist
    I'm, not saying that the physical world does not exist, I am stating that it is the imagined world that is nonexistent.The world that you have experienced since birth. If you watch Rick and Morty, they enter a game with this premise: You press play and live a life, the life of Roy, you get points based on how well you live Roy's life. When Morty gets out of the game, he is horribly confused because his perceived live, that he has lived for the past "x" years is nothing that he had imagined, and had, in reality, only taken a few minutes. This is the kind of world I am talking about, one that is true, but is also not what you have percieved all of your life.
  • The World Doesn't Exist
    Did you read the description of the OP?
    For all you know, you can be hooked up to a few machines that are translating electrical signals to what you believe is the real world. How would you be able to tell the difference?Anonymys
  • Why should we respect the dead?
    I don't believe that there is anything special in the dead, but that death itself doesn't signify anything terrible
  • Can you experience anything truly objectively? The Qualia controversy
    My favorite answer so far
    — Anonymys
    Interesting.
    Rich

    its because it made me laugh
  • Who are you? What do you mean to somebody else?
    I posted this question as a leading up point to my next post, hopefully, if you answer this one first, then go to my next post, your answer will change.
  • Who are you? What do you mean to somebody else?
    so I'll ask you, how is the weather nowadays?
  • Who are you? What do you mean to somebody else?
    depends on the your geographical location
  • Who are you? What do you mean to somebody else?
    A very deep question indeed. My name, a play on my last name and the word anonymous, should tell you that I am someone who doesn't want to be found out but is cocky enough to shove it in peoples faces.
  • Why should we respect the dead?

    The dead will never experience joy or love. This evokes, in us, respect for the dead.TheMadFool

    In relation to emotion, you're right, the only person feeling anything when the individual dies is us, the living. However, I disagree that there is no good in death, as I stated before
    Can you say that for someone who has cancer and is suffering for years, their passing away is an end to their agony? After death, they know nothing, so they are finally freed from their pain.Anonymys
    I'll rephrase this quote to say "After many years of suffering, my aunt was finally at peace when she passed, knowing that she would no longer have to suffer the pain of the cancer eating away at her insides" Her family, friends, and loved ones were also at peace with her death, not to say that they weren't devastated, but they were at peace knowing that their loved one was no longer going to have to suffer the turmoil of this world. Unless you have context, death is just something at the end of the road waiting to swallow you up and use you to make an example for everyone else willing to participate in life journey. If you're not willing to participate, death still awaits you. Death itself is a resolve to an absolute: life. You either live or you don't, there is no in-between, however, how you live determines your death, because everyone dies, and only a few can say that death is something to look forward to.
  • What are you listening to right now?
    One of my favorites, the beats are amazing http://rainymood.com
  • A question about truth - Help
    sorry, I was using your quote for another page, ignore that^
  • A question about truth - Help
    If you could travel back in time and ask for the definition of "truth" you would probably get different answers in different historical periods.

    In other words, it is not something concrete and external like rain. It is a concept that depends on cultural context for meaning and application.

    At least that is the way that I see it.
    WISDOMfromPO-MO
  • The Human Conclusion: The Physical Brain
    Ok , I see what you're getting at, I read the article and am currently digesting what I read... pretty impressive, I might go a little deeper into this substance at a later time
  • If A.I. did all the work for us, how would humans spend their time?
    We would do the same thing that we used to do when slaves did all the work for the rich folks, unless of course the A.I. thought for us as well, in that case, global takeover... obviously
  • The Human Conclusion: The Physical Brain
    In what way does my statement above remind you of interiority concept? From what I've read, his concept revolves around transcending the rational world and entering a divine one. Maybe I'm reading the wrong book, but that's what I'm getting so far.
  • The Human Conclusion: The Physical Brain
    Ill look that up and come back to you
  • Geographic awareness and thinking, where are you?
    You only learn what you are taught, whether it be self-taught or not, unless exposure is included in your highly educated society, then what they do not know will not come to haunt them and or be known to them.
  • The Problem of Induction - Need help understanding.
    “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

    Am I off? Or can this be connected with:
    "If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s nobody around to hear, does it make a sound?"

    Or better explained:
    "If a tree falls in the forest unobserved, does the behavior change when it is being observed"
  • Do you believe in the existence of the soul?
    Are you a physical being? Are you an emotional being? How do you exist? What is your true potential? I will only be touching on the simple physical and emotional portion of this, however.
    The phrase “you are what you eat” comes to mind when I hear about your physical being, however, in this case, I will delve into a more general description as to stimulate discussion. Your physical being can be welled down to one organ: your brain, which on its own can store over eight libraries of congress worth of information. It also allows you to enjoy the tastes, smells, sights, sounds, and feelings of food and sex (intimacy). (The only important things in life). Then comes your emotional being, which informs and helps shape your emotions, empathy, and sympathy, allowing for the development of social life, building relationships/destroying them and all that entails. Whether it be God, hope, or faith, your spiritual being is where your intangible thoughts lie, those underlining understandings that don't fit in this world. Then on top of your ability to live a physical life, socioemotional life, and a spiritual life, you also have the ability of logic. I can label another operation of the brain: understanding or the wisdom of experience and knowing what to do with it. Learning: the ability to capture knowledge and experiences. And Reason: the ability to critically think, as well as communicate your knowledge and wisdom. These three tools are leading to a single meaningful ability: perspective, and or the ability to create an opinion. This is an intrinsic theory, but it is what makes us, humans, who we are: The ability to experience life physically, to live life socially, to seek God, and to have an opinion about it. It is the basis of who we are as a species. Directed and organized by some pounds of gray matter and electricity. (No wonder Frankenstein and his monster were “tangible”)
  • The Human Conclusion: The Physical Brain
    Would you agree with me that human condition is not one of the physical brain, but the mental one?
  • Post truth
    Thank you John, for discussing with me this extensive topic. I've enjoyed learning with you and will use your knowledge to my advantage in the future.
  • Post truth
    And that is where philosophy was born
  • Post truth
    Ok, let's say a marriage, in the context of a marriage, one individual understood that the other was cheating, and then told the partner the truth about what was going on. Then the other partner retorts back with their truth. This is the misunderstanding and their truths. The fact is, the partner was not cheating, and that one of them called the marriage off.
  • Post truth
    I was just playing along with your original example, I wasn't really playing that far into the question. But dont avoid my question,
    And if there was a misunderstanding, and no one cheated? Then who is the one ended the relationship? Whose truth do you believe?Anonymys
  • Post truth
    And if there was a misunderstanding, and no one cheated? Then who is the one ended the relationship? Whose truth do you believe?
  • Post truth
    What about the other side of the argument "You ended the relationship", is that not the opinion of one of the parties in the relationship?
  • Post truth
    Yes, I see what you're saying. So help me out, how would you differentiate between what is true, and what is fact?
  • Post truth
    In my opinion, I would call truth a form of opinion, and opinion, an open ended statement based on your biases and experiences.
  • Post truth
    You can solve a case on facts, you can't solve a case based on truths
  • Post truth
    I also see truth as a relativity, close to an opinion, but not quite. And fact as unchanging.
  • Post truth
    I see truth as discernable and fact as measurable
  • Post truth
    Why are you here? is it to disagree with peoples truths? Or to show the facts?

    How you define something is in the eye of the definer, even words, some words have many definitions. Some truths are can be seen different facts