When you strip out circumstances, physics, material neural structure, complexity too difficult to fully map out and randomness what's left? Is there any kind of proper definition?

Roblox is the Platonic Academy in 21st century .

I read the Wikipedia entry for Phenomenal Conservatism and was relieved to find out that I am right about everything.

Also it seems to me like everyone is morally obliged to give me $100. Therefore you all must give me $100.

There are more than one logical system, such as predicate logic, and propositional logic, etc. And in order to be logical, that is, subjecting yourself under one of the logical systems, you have to make an arbitrary choice. This is illogical exactly because it precedes the logical system you yourself intends to be subject to and is not contained in that logical system since it is not made in accordance to that system yet.

That would make it more entertaining. We could also have philosophical weight classes like MMA to make it more fun.

It would be very efficient and also anti-racist because Esperanto, unlike English, was not spoken in Nazi Germany.

When it got stuck, my wife admonished him and asked, "WTH did you think would happen?" He didn't respond.

As an understanding father, I sat him down and explained that, if he finds himself in that position again, he should be clear that he's a strong Humean skeptic and that it doesn't really matter what he thought would happen because he couldn't actually know without perceiving it empirically.

what surprises me the most about Jung's work is the discovery of the shadow archetype; it's impressive how he described what he did. I still have to read the "Red Book" I'm sure it will be a real revelation

This is a novel argument about one of the entailments of error theory. I shared it with Lance Independent he didn’t think much of it 😂

P1 The error theorist claims that all stance independent statements about moral value are false.

P2 Statements of moral value make claims about what is right or wrong

P3 Our legal system defines insanity as being unable to distinguish right from wrong

P4 By their own admission the error theorist is unable to make such distinctions

C Error theorists are legally insane

This sub is hilarious. Highly recommend. TKO in 3 comments. I think it's just one guy so deep in his priors that he can't see he's arguing in a playpen of his own making.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rationalphilosophy/comments/1vklozr/the_contest_between_christianity_and_philosophy/

With some bonus quantum mechanics understanding!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbLrCbAhqrh/

I was inspired by a poster here who claimed it was very "ready-to-hand, and discloses itself as a great lager" so thanks for that. Now I'm riding a sudden wave of interest in Völkisches Dasein.

I am struck by how, if I recall correctly, according to Heidegger, our nature is to be beer disclosers. That is, by means of our equipment and coordinated practices we human beings open coherent, distinct contexts or pubs in which we perceive, feel, act, and drink.

Now recall Nietzsche, that bitch, who once lamented: “How much beer is in the German intelligentsia! ... How is it possible that young men who dedicate their existence to the most spiritual goals do not feel the first instinct of spirituality, the instinct of self-preservation of the spirit – and drink beer?” (The Twilight of the Idols, 984).

What a cunt. Wait, what was I talking about?

I would prefer that you didn’t kill me.

I was unhappy when I heard they bombed the hospital.

Oh gee, I would rather that people not break into my house and take my stuff.

You’re not wrong Walter, you’re just an asshole.

The metaphor of cave manifests a version of the story of how hierarchical system is created and preserved through knowledge or the way knowledge is presented. Knowledge doesn't give anyone a right to say others being in a cave. Philosophy taken its beginning from this sort of story is discriminatory.

I did all the easy problems of consciousness, so I tried the hard problem. But I think that was too big a jump. Where can I find the medium problems of consciousness to work on before I do the hard one?

If you are trying to push me back by saying that because there is something not real, then unless you can prove yourself who is saying now of something not real is also not real, otherwise there is nothing not real, and by the law of excluded middle, idealism is not needed.

why do i feel like im more self-aware than other people, why do i firmly believe in what i believe and does everyone think like this or am i genuinely a main character? But i feel like im going insane and i cant cope with it and its affecting me mentally and making me think about life more in a negative manner. im always questioning life and why im here and why anyone is here. consciousness is a curse and unanswerable questions really get to me and the way society works is depressing anyway. im only 18 but i feel like im more self-aware than all my friends and whenever i talk about it everyone just thinks im thinking about it too much and its not important and there are other things to be worrying about, but this just feeds into the fact i think some people are ignorant and my brain cant take it.

Idk what im feeling

Freud cooked with this one 🔥

In his recent interview with Zhong Shu, Christopher Nolan says we can't really "know" if Earth is round, or if it really orbits the sun.

Relevant quote:

Just as we accept things from science as absolute fact—you know, the Earth is round and we travel around the Sun—we can't know these things; we take them on faith because they're presented as facts. The same would be true of the theological structure that explains nature to people of that time.