Sat 4 Dec, 2010 02:02 pm - Bergson answers this question in terms of teleology which might be understood causally as well. We are means to an end, an end among many that are themselves means to a higher end. Nobody knows... (view)
Fri 26 Nov, 2010 04:28 am - The earliest mention of "political correctness" seems to be when Heidegger was reporting his tutors and colleagues to the Nazis. Therapy?... (view)
Thu 25 Nov, 2010 05:52 pm - [quote]If you think that reality could itself be a dream, then what would a dream be?[/quote]
It would be a dream within a dream, or dreaming that you dream. As normal dreams are reality... (view)
Thu 25 Nov, 2010 02:18 pm - Eating and drinking are vital for your health and much, much more important than having an appetite or not. All other things in your life depend on it, including good mental health. When that gets... (view)
Thu 25 Nov, 2010 09:39 am - I believe that the problem of consciousness is hard because we have not integrated the objective and the subjective. To the observer, objectively, the subjective is consciousness' form. To... (view)
Thu 25 Nov, 2010 08:46 am - She probably treats you like dirt to justify in her own mind what she does to you. When there is no good reason, any old bad reason will do. If what you had was good and better than what she has... (view)
Sun 14 Nov, 2010 12:43 am - Meaningful communication imho should be about what is true or can be independently confirmed, learning to avoid the same words for different things caused by dependent confirmation (favoritism) and... (view)
Mon 8 Nov, 2010 06:39 am - [quote=Francis][quote=David]Occasionally, the self (i.e., consciousness) leaves the human body.
[/quote]I've witnessed it happening to some, permanently... [/quote]
Isn't that... (view)
Mon 8 Nov, 2010 04:56 am - This is how I see it and correct me if I am wrong:
The self in reality (objectively the subjective), is the content of your or the other's intuition of-, not (yet) having metabolized your... (view)
Sat 6 Nov, 2010 09:53 am - I am not sure either how exactly I can differentiate between knowing and sensing. It occurred to me that my environment 'produced' me and as a sensing organism I am thus instinctively... (view)
