GENIUS FORUMS

You have to remember that we can't be certain of what's out there causing our experiences. Anything you propose is going to be speculative, whether it's matter or energy or people or whatever. I am not speculating when I say you are "causing" your experience. You are choosing it. This may...

Your mind is so steeped in the inner world of solipsism/idealism (say logic without any credible input from perception) that you totally exclude the possibility that the world/cosmos is real independent of your (or anyone's) perception. I can't speak for Kevin, but my take is one of a collective pe...

mikiel wrote: An old fave in the argument against such idealism/solipsism is this: If I punched you in the face a few times and you seemed to dislike it for some reason, I might ask why you were creating this absurd and painful situation. (Like stomping on your foot, in recent discussion here.) None...

I think the connection between hexagons, water and life is interesting. But I don't think the universe is like a big piece of hexagon graph paper. Maybe the brain is like hexagon graph paper due to its basis in water, so it makes the universe look like that to us, but I don't think the whole univer...

Redefining to conclusions is reasoning. There is nothing else to reasoning other than this. Well, there's inspiration, isn't there? A scientist can look at some data and be like, "Oh, that reminds me of . . . hexagons!" So he forms a hypothesis based on hexagons and starts to reason his w...

I think the connection between hexagons, water and life is interesting. But I don't think the universe is like a big piece of hexagon graph paper. Maybe the brain is like hexagon graph paper due to its basis in water, so it makes the universe look like that to us, but I don't think the whole univers...

You can be intelligent and learn without suffering by thinking and planning ahead. I think you're talking about the Lemming Method of learning.

In past discussions I have occasionally asserted the neurotic nature of American culture. Both Matt and Anna have quizzed me on this so I present here an attempt at a more fullsome analysis of my reasons for doing so: Your hatred of Americans is unbecoming. Am I to believe Australians are less neur...

I think you and Unidian waste a lot of time arguing against people who are basically on your side because you guys aren't listening or something. It's . . . really odd.

I don't even want to go there. I'm just talking about his attitude and why people react to him the way they do. I mean, society doesn't have to adopt his socio-economic model or even take the time to consider it.

This conversation between Victor, Unidian and Dan is ridiculous! This whole same conversation that's been had fifty billion times always starts with Unidian. His position is that he can't work because he has, let's say, "philosophy sickness", and that society is morally obligated to provid...

Unidian, Matt: If you're not willing to alienate yourself from women and society for the sake of this understanding, then you're not 100% devoted to truth. Unidian: Hehe... amazing that you can say this and yet have no idea what I'm getting at in the other thread. Believe me, I get it. You're the on...

Daybrown, This business of wisdom, sagacity, and smarts is culturally driven to some considerable degree. The very words we use, 'wisdom', 'sage', 'arrange', 'judge', or in other languages- regina, raja, aregon (lat, skt, grk) all trace back to original Aryan root words that were all *female*. Makin...

Woman has reasons that man will never know.

Well, I know I'm going to be sorry for engaging in this thread, but I think Victor is right about Unidian's rationalizations. Take the original post and replace "work" with "tooth brushing" or something and you can see there's no argument there really, just vague rationalizations...

The defining psychological difference between the sexes is the area you want to aim for and develop if you're interested in truth, that's why it's so useful to understand it. If you're not willing to alienate yourself from women and society for the sake of this understanding, then you're not 100% de...

Yeah, well I think most people use memory in a very constrained way, like the strictly verbal thinkers and the fact reiterators. Their memory is selective. They weren't trained to remember every friggin' thing that occurs in the mind. Most people ignore most of their minds, that's why people are so ...

I think if someone's memory is strong enough, the mind will naturally prioritize things towards truth. I think consciousness has a natural tendency to complete itself but it gets short-circuited by attachments, but I think the function of memory counters that. It allows us to look further in the fut...

I think the capacity for wisdom boils down to memory and that everything else like testosterone is just means to develop the memory. If you have an exceptional memory then you can naturally see when you fall into contradiction, which is enough to push you towards truth. Whereas people with poor memo...

Of course the odds are that the book will never take off, and that only a few people will read it, but it's not wise to work on a book with the assumption that nobody will read it. Rather, it's far better to assume that it is the only book in the world. That way, you are more likely to give it prop...

However, if the earlier linked scientific article is correct in that a Y chromosome is just a damaged X chromosome, and that some mental functioning was encoded on the leg of the X that got lost - it would be more accurate to say that women can understand what it's like to be a man simply by shutti...

Kevin, we can tell from the context how we are to understand a statement. Are you sure about that? Is that an absolute truth or an empirical observation? The reason I ask is that there are a lot of borderline cases that make it difficult. I think that statement you made is one. A simpler one I can t...

If every time we make a statement it appears to be absolute, then is this a flaw in language? Let me try to illustrate what I'm saying because I think it's not such an easy thing to understand. If I say, "This is a statement.", the implication is that it's a statement for all time and plac...

Nietzsche's a hard nut to crack. I think most people massively underestimate the difficulty of Nietzsche's writings. They think he was talking about cavemen or something.

My first philosophical question was "Why am I me?"