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  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    Let's do one even better

    P1) Words and Ghost exist and they are subject to change

    P2) Ghost are due to existence of words and the change in the state of the words is due to existence of Ghost

    C1) Therefore, words and ghost cannot be the cause of their own change because of overdetermination (from P1 and P2)
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    To show you can substitute different words for physical and end up with with the same conclusion... thus not an argument...

    You can replace mental with Sun... and the same conclusion works out...
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    my god were talking about the FORM of your premises

    Not the words used ...

    The shit form allows for any words to be used.

    Cause they don't actually make an argument.

    Whennyou have proper form you cannot substitute words.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    P1) Physical and experience exist and they are subject to change
    P2) Experience is due to the existence of physical and the change in the state of physical is due to the existence of an experience
    MoK

    P1) Mental and experience exist and they are subject to change

    P2)Experience is due to existence of mental and the change in the state of the mental is due to existence of experience

    C1) Therefore, mental and experience cannot be the cause of their own change because of overdetermination (from P1 and P2)[/quote]

    Just saying stuff doesn't make it an argument... see? Your argued concludes multiple ways depending what word you place in it. All youve done is create sentences that connect and lead words to other words you want to emphasize...
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    P1, P2, P3, P4

    You make observations and theories in every premise. Every theory taken per premise is seen as fundamentally solid logic... when you could just as easily replace the word physical with mental and it would read exactly the same... and make the same assumptions in each line...
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause


    Your premises are theory not yet established.

    They have to be just observations not observations and theories in 1 statement...

    Conclusions settle theories... you can't be like theory theory proof...
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    That's not an argument for the mind... an argument states something necessarily follows logically... you're just saying something...

    The majority of your premises are Observation and Theory sentences... massive nono. Read Quine.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    Fair enough but faith isn't meant to be argued... but rather believed because of a complete lack of evidence... and as you have 0 evidence for minds existing outside the body... we will have to unmask this for what it is and leave it at that: faith, not an actual argument.
  • The case against suicide
    You couldn't even detail what slave morality is.

    He literally defines you with its definition:

    The revolt of the slaves in morals begins in the very principle of resentment becoming creative and giving birth to values—a resentment experienced by creatures who, deprived as they are of the proper outlet of action, are forced to find their compensation in an imaginary revenge. — Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals § 10

    On the other hand...

    Every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands, — Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals § 10

    Where as we can see the slave compulsively attempts to deny the fundamental condition of life: perspective...

    the slave morality says "no" from the very outset to what is "outside itself," "different from itself," and "not itself": and this "no" is its creative deed. — Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals § 10
  • The case against suicide
    You can't even detail a single thing and obviously didn't know Nietzsche wasn't against compassion, hence:

    Not to mention his care depended on people not following itDarkneos

    So his care depends on resentful people? :roll:

    Nietzsche's Amor Fati is based off of the Glad Tidings of Jesus Christ...


    —I shall go back a bit, and tell you the authentic history of Christianity.—The very word “Christianity” is a misunderstanding—at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. The “Gospels” died on the cross. What, from that moment onward, was called the “Gospels” was the very reverse of what he had lived: “bad tidings,” a Dysangelium. It is an error amounting to nonsensicality to see in “faith,” and particularly in faith in salvation through Christ, the distinguishing mark of the Christian: only the Christian way of life, the life lived by him who died on the cross, is Christian.... To this day such a life is still possible, and for certain men even necessary: genuine, primitive Christianity will remain possible in all ages.... Not faith, but acts; above all, an avoidance of acts, a different state of being.... States of consciousness, faith of a sort, the acceptance, for example, of anything as true — Nietzsche, AC 39
  • The case against suicide
    Tell me about his philosophy. Watching youtube videos about the Ubermensch certainly wont fill you in...

    What is a single basic point of Nietzsche's philosophy?

    You are aware that Nietzsche details the only time the Superman becomes a reality is when he points to Zarathustra suffering with others from themselves...?

    No cause you're obviously too heavy handed to know the difference between pity and compassion.

    You're a low disciplined nihilist with a youtube reference of Nietzsche's philosophy. Lame, and thus... not even worth "arguing" with.

    See how Zarathustra goes down from the mountain and speaks the kindest words to every one! See with what delicate fingers he touches his very adversaries, the priests, and how he suffers with them from themselves! Here, at every moment, man is overcome, and the concept "Superman" becomes the greatest reality,—out of sight, almost far away beneath him, lies all that which heretofore has been called great in man.Nietzsche
  • The case against suicide
    You've not made a single argument other than you know very little about Nietzsche. And that you try to be edgy "the case against suicide" here's the case against it for you: you're still here cause you're what Nietzsche refers to as a last man...
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    I am defending a new version of substance dualismMoK

    Basically, more or less you think the mind exists free of the body.
  • The case against suicide
    I mean, with all due respect, *hammer emoji* *nail emoji* *coffin emjoi* one could not imagine a grander thesis... how am I to argue such infinite wisdom? You win. :party: :clap:
  • The case against suicide
    Oh, tells us of that philosophy if you're so great at knowing Nietzsche's philosophy better than he himself...
    What precisely didn't he live out?

    I'm absolutely certain you've a lack luster knowledge of Nietzsche's philosophy to suggest that he himself would know it less than you.

    Fine if you chose not too, but really all you've declared here is that you're too lazy to attempt to tackle Nietzsche. That your transfiguring mirror is sour.

    "Everything is shit beneath me."

    Certainly is with that reifying entry wedge into everything.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    the mind is an emergent property within our flesh. That doesn't mean it's seperate. It grows out of... there's unconscious and consciousness. We can see there are gradations from the body of purely structural for Form...then it becomes more superfluous...through the CNS and unconscious, and then, thoughts arise from the unconscious body into the consciousness... consciousness is perhaps the internalization of our senses...
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    The mind exists within the flesh.
  • The case against suicide
    The man spent his life knowing he would die early due to his life long medical conditions that were similar to his fathers...and he even overcame serious physical injuries, while being crippled by some life long hereditary conditions most likely falling under the umbrella of CADASIL.

    He overcame and became a world influencing philosopher who is still highly relevant to this day...

    You just sound like the Narrator of the Aleph... a nihilist.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    How can seeing something truamatize a person?
  • The case against suicide
    The wisdom of Silenus is real but find yourself a transfiguring mirror...

    The same impulse which calls art into being, as the complement and consummation of existence, seducing to a continuation of life, caused also the Olympian world to arise, in which the Hellenic "will" held up before itself a transfiguring mirror. Thus do the gods justify the life of man, in that they themselves live it—the only satisfactory Theodicy! Existence under the bright sunshine of such gods is regarded as that which is desirable in itself, and the real grief of the Homeric men has reference to parting from it, especially to early parting: so that we might now say of them, with a reversion of the Silenian wisdom, that "to die early is worst of all for them, the second worst is—some day to die at all."Nietzsche

    So with that we come to what Nietzsche details in Beyond Good and Evil

    The essential thing "in heaven and in earth" is, apparently (to repeat it once more), that there should be long OBEDIENCE in the same direction, there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living; for instance, virtue, art, music, dancing, reason, spirituality—anything whatever that is transfiguring, refined, foolish, or divine. — Nietzsche

    So find something that transfigures your outlook...
    It's subjective to you. But Nietzsche says most people don't even know their way into or out of that labyrinth in his day, I'd assume that holds true today also.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    experience doesn't need to be a substance to alter us... lol wild assumption but okay...

    "Experience alters us, as all nutrition, which does not aim merely to conserve, as all physiologist know..."

    Experience alters neuroplasticity and neuroplasticity reinforces itself.

    Emergence is when something emerges between dimensions...Emergence comes from thebidea of our extremely fractal biology... and we can show that the patterns of emergence of a fractal are between dimensions.

    If you take a line and double it you have 2 copies ... 2¹ ... take a square and double the sides of it you end up with 4 copies ... 2² ... take a cube and double the sides of it and you end up with 8 copies or ... 2³ ...

    The line is 1 dimension 2¹
    The square is 2 dimensions 2²
    The cube is 3 dimensions 2³

    We see that when we double the sides of something we end up with number raised to some power depending on the dimensions of the object...

    So we end up with 2^d = number of sides after the doubling process

    where d is the dimension of the object

    Take the Sierpenski's Gasket, a fractal. Every time you double the sides you get 3 copies... so we end up with an equation of:

    2^d = 3

    To solve for d utilize the property of logarithms ... ln of 3 divided by the ln of 2 = d
    d = 1.5 something something...

    Thus fractal emergence is something that occurs between dimensions... a 3d body with fractal biology with have emergent properties that exist nested between 2d and 3d... so it's a phenomenon that occurs nested within our fractal biology.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    Emergence doesn't end up in Epiphenominalism
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    The problem here is you're unaware of reification. Since you don't know what Emergence is, you equate it to monism...

    Fortunately for me there's not a big empty internal cavernous extra dimension space within the human body where the mind is. Thoughts don't exist in a vacuum. There's a physical object utilizing the laws of physics to create everything that occurs in your mind. Every thought you have is physically tradeable by an EKG... thought requires physics and biology to work because it's substantial. Doesn't mean thought is a lego block in my mind.

    Thought isn't a thing that occurs freely.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    I certainly did, you're asserting that the mind has no affect on the physical that's simply not true, from my position, as the mind incites physical production within the body.

    Mind and Body are parallel heterogeneous productions born of the same cause: the CNS. That doesn't equate to monism.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    Patterns of neural activity occur when the brain processes input/information, whatever we wanna call it, from the mind and or the external world. Patterns of neural activity are specific arrangements and sequences of electrochemical signals that occur within the brain's network.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    Experience is encoded and processed by the brain through a complex biological network.

    A person can physically sense a phantom limb... like say you pretend to shock the phantom arm of where a person believes their phantom limb is currently at (a limb that exists due to the dynamic model created by processing experience) it will register on an EKG as if they were shocked. In otherwords it is completely immaterial and causes a physiological stimulus.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    But you cannot deny its existence and the fact that it affects the physical such as the brain. My question is how experience can affect the brain?MoK

    Not trying to deny it's existence. Experience affects the brain through things like neuroplasticity. Which is pretty much a self referential and self affirming as experience even reinforces it's own self through the genesis of neuroplasticity, which makes it more and more likely something will be utilized.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    That is very ambiguous to me. To me, that is a definition of knowledge. Do you mind elaborating?MoK

    Something isn't known until it's in the muscle memory...

    For example, you don't know 5x5=25 if you have to solve 5x5 every time...

    Knowing 5x5 = 25 automatically, without conscious thought, is the result of muscle memory.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    I don't understand what you mean by that and how that could be relevant to the discussion.MoK

    What it is saying is that what we experience in the external world affects even our internal world. But also that what we experience in our internal world affects our external world also. As in, it's a two-way street. Experience isn't just a "physical" phenomenon...
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    Sorry, made a late edit:

    That's why I quoted:
    "Quidquid luce fuit, tenebris agit [What occurred in the light, goes on in the dark]: but the other way around, too."

    Experience is something we can gain from both our internal and external world. It doesn't "work on it's own" it is a dynamic model created from inputs (and outputs, which are injections, and thus inputs too...in this case) from our internal and external world.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    Software is nothing but an arrangement of bytes of memory in a hardware. So it is not a thing by itself.MoK

    Exactly the point... the mind doesn't exist as a thing by itself.

    What is an experience to youMoK

    That's why I quoted:
    "Quidquid luce fuit, tenebris agit [What occurred in the light, goes on in the dark]: but the other way around, too."

    Experience is something we can gain from both our internal and external world.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    We can think of it like this: the software and hardware of the body both grow out of the FIRMWARE of the body.

    Hardware being muscles, bones, organs innervated by the CNS.

    Firmware is the Central Nervous System and Autonomic/Peripheral Nervous System

    Mind is emergent cognition (software) that arises out of the CNS (firmware), shaped by body (hardware) and experience.

    The brain creates it's own dynamic model of the body which can persist irrespective of reality. Cut off your arm, and you'll experience a phantom limb, because the mind and body are so deeply intereconnected.

    To suggest they are seperate from each other, is due to one holding steadfastly adamant to Cartesian Dualism. Which is fine, but that manner of thought is not compatible with this manner is all.
  • Magnetism refutes Empiricism


    Deleuze has some interesting things to say about differentiating eggs...
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    Accepting that the brain and the mind are the same one commits monism.MoK
    Not quite

    If they are the same thing then why use different words?MoK
    Because the two have generally been perceived as existing through the antithesis of values rather than growing out of the body through fractal emergence.

    Healthy body, aids in a healthy mind, and a healthy mind aids in a healthy body. The two opposites are intertwined together, they exist in a "hybrid" state. A coming together of two opposites along a gradational spectrum with bimodal extremes represented in language by "body and mind."

    Just like everyone's genetic material is made up of male and female DNA, although our terms are defined "male" and "female" for example. However, in reality it's much more complex than that biologically, we know, for example a man can be living with inert female reproductive organs inside, regardless of there being the scientific definition at the SRY gene. There are still multiple gradations on either side which show statistical dominance towards a certain pole. Not that everyone is either 100% Man or 100% Woman...
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    In fractal emergence, one shouldn't consider the mind as something that isnt fundamentally "the body." They are in essence one and the same.

    They are bijected, and inject and surject into and out of each other.
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    I'm of the mind that one wouldn't classify experience as emergent just because the mind is?
  • Magnetism refutes Empiricism
    Glad humans chose to repurpose all those compasses they made to throw at people for Navigation instead... pretty cool we made compasses without being aware of or perceiving magnetism...

    Damn, how do cells divide again? We cannot perceive such notions cause you know we can't perceive magnetism... yet some how we did... must me magic.

    "We can't perceive something we can literally sense in action."
  • The Mind is the uncaused cause
    Are you familiar with Emergent Properties? For example, it's possible to show things exist between dimensions like 2d and 3d...

    Our most current models suggest Consciousness is an emergent property of our fractally nested biology.
  • Currently Reading
    Currently ruminating through:

    Quine's Pursuit of Truth

    Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Philosophical Discussions

    Bernays' Propaganda

    Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals and Birth of Tragedy

    Foucault's Madness and Civilization

    And an MITx Philosophy course on "Paradoxes and Infinities."

    Might pick up some Godel.

    I know that's weird, but I go through sections, stop move to another person and allow my thoughts to ruminate upon what I've read. After I get enough handling and understanding of the sections I'm on, I then revisit where I left off.

    It's kinda like grade school, but with philosophy subjects as each topic.

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