Sat 12 Sep, 2009 08:45 am - Spirituality seems to be nothing more than an attempt to reconcile the differences between our internal impressions and our external impressions. So long as we are willing to assume that external... (view)
Thu 10 Sep, 2009 05:25 pm - I feel a little strange posting this. Creative writing isn't something I do, generally. I had to write this for my senior class in high school. With my 10 year reunion coming up I started... (view)
Tue 8 Sep, 2009 12:06 am - Our passions tend to change insensibly into other related passions, especially where they are facilitated by a similar transition of ideas. While ideas admit of many relations between each other,... (view)
Mon 7 Sep, 2009 11:39 pm - I feel like I'm missing something Larry Boy. We can remember these feelings you describe, memories play a part in the operations of the mind, so is that not the [I]loop[/I] by which these... (view)
Mon 7 Sep, 2009 05:47 pm - I don't have a solid grasp of all this qualia business. From what I do understand though, it seems if you are going to go to the trouble of using the word qualia, then it is a matter of course... (view)
Mon 7 Sep, 2009 01:06 pm - I am not so sure that we actually experience our conscious states, it seems just as plausible to consider our experience to be the observation of a representation of a mental state, rather than the... (view)
Sat 5 Sep, 2009 06:31 pm - jeeprs, I think you raise some important questions.
I wonder though, if we can't consider these questions with more precision, as long as we form our ideas with enough care and attention.... (view)
Sun 30 Aug, 2009 09:30 am - Rich, math is purely speculative, yet you clearly have great respect for it. Your position, as you express it, is not consistent. (view)
Fri 28 Aug, 2009 01:03 am - I just wasn't expressing myself clearly enough from the beginning then. That's a big part of why I'm on this forum, to improve my ability to discuss such things. Thanks for being... (view)
