I;d say it [consciousness] has been explained. — FrancisRay

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
— Albert Camus

Sounds like a man who experienced a lot of self-contradiction. He probably died quite young in a car accident. — universeness

Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope – but not for us. — Franz Kafka

I use the term spiritual, as referring to human breathing and movement and nothing of the transcendent or esoteric. — universeness

R. Scott Bakker has a good short story he published in some philosophy journal about accomplishing this in the near future through neural implants. The idea is that you can just tweak your pleasure, mirth, contentment, aggression, etc. upwards, on demand using a neurally controlled app.

The rub is in how one's ability to control how they feel, almost regardless of circumstances ... — Count Timothy von Icarus

The function of freedom is to free someone else. — Toni Morrison

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. — Slavoj Žižek

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. — Albert Camus

So when someone says "materialism can't explain consciousness", that's true, right now - right now materialism can't explain consciousness - but that's not some unique failing of materialism. Right now, NO ONE can explain consciousness - not with matter, and not with anything else either. Materialism can't explain it right now, non-materialism can't explain it right now, it's entirely (or just mostly?) unexplained right now. The explanation is yet to be found. — flannel jesus

May I assume that we all distinguish positive and negative freedom - freedom to do something and freedom from restraint by another ? — Vera Mont

Is it possible for anyone to have total freedom?

What kinds of freedom can a person have?

What kinds of freedom can subgroups have within a greater society?

Are there natural, insurmountable limits to individual freedom?

Are socially imposed limits necessary?

Can and should all people have the same amount of personal freedom?

How do we distinguish a freedom from a right?

Is belief in the Trinity magical thinking? — ucarr

How do you write? — hypericin

This question works for both literary and philosophical 'pieces'. The way we think. [ ... ] Is it down to personality? Or what? — Amity

Iris Murdoch's differentiation of philosophical texts and literary texts, and the different implications for reading them ... — 180 Proof

The hell you speak of is a product of your own primal fear. It only exists in your mind, put there by liars. — universeness

You're too damn cryptic — Vera Mont

Are you willing to commit yourself, in the emphatic mode of your above words, to a written statement declaring that you permanently reject the personal presence of the Holy Spirit as a worthless and meaningless fiction?

My job, as a believer ... — ucarr

Click on the link below and watch the short YouTube video.

Trinity Logic — ucarr

Your mecha based technophilia, seems to trump your biophilia. :sad: — universeness

I think this is partly the idea behind apophatic theology at least. — Count Timothy von Icarus

This is very good. — Count Timothy von Icarus

But there is the epistemic challenge of "how do we come to know the good?"

Otherwise, I don't know why ... — Bob Ross

I wouldn’t go that far ... — simplyG

To boldy go .......... — universeness

The stars "beckon" mankind the same way a diamond beckons a jewel thief or a bottle calls to a drunk. They don't want you; you want them. — Vera Mont

The real question should be not “is there a god” but do I have faith that there is no god. — simplyG