GENIUS FORUMS

The person who helps himself, helps himself for the sake of something else. The person who helps another, helps another for the sake of something else. Why should either be condemned? Selfishness is judged to be bad only compared to an altruism which is judged to be good. It is perverted to claim th...

A system has personality if it has infinite unique variables associated with it. Perfect knowledge of such an entity is impossible through induction. Emotions (and perception in general?) arise from interference patterns between expected systems and actual systems. Is that the gist of it? Your surpr...

Saying that things are interconnected is not the same as saying that things are essentially a featureless jello. Boundaries exist, but they are not absolute. There is certainly contrast - that is the basis of all discrimination. I don't have an answer why ... Most people these days agree that there ...

Consciousness (or the lack thereof) does not reside outside of the skull.

That's not what he said.

Although I do disagree with a lot of what he was saying.

Every man has a story, and therefore knows origin. Every man has goals, and therefore knows intent. Every man has his reasons, and therefore knows purpose. Sure I have a story. But do I know how things actually happened? Quinn addresses this in his book. To paraphrase: there is no difference whatsoe...

You have misunderstood my previous comment if you think it demands that I have a satisfactory answer to your questions. Whatever intent and purpose you see - that is intent and purpose. It's not mysterious at all.

prince wrote:

jufa wrote:So then, man lives from his conscious awareness of thoughts which he has no clue as to there origin, intent, purpose and reasoning.

An unenlightened man.

Every man knows origin, intent, and purpose. It is the nature of this knowledge which some people understand better than others.

I haven't the patience to read all the debate, but I will chance a reply anyhow. Why does one's subjective consciousness inhabit a particular body and not another? The question makes presumptions which create paradoxes, namely, that subjective consciousness is unique, subject to possession, and res...

I haven't the patience to read all the debate, but I will chance a reply anyhow. Why does one's subjective consciousness inhabit a particular body and not another? The question makes presumptions which create paradoxes, namely, that subjective consciousness is unique, subject to possession, and resi...