GENIUS FORUMS

Of course, the experiencer is all accumulated experience. That is what the ego is, the mind "of" brain. The reality is the psychological phenomenon.

Are you saying that only psychological phenomena exist? As in philosophical idealism?

As long as you realize that what you like to think doesn't necessarily correlate with the truth of the matter. The ego IS the subjective state. Words mean whatever context dictates. There really isn't a truth of the matter. I'm just used to the existentialist definition of "Ego", so I wen...

That's what ego is, the 'experiencer', the continued subjective state or psychological phenomenon. I like to think of the ego as the object that the conscious understands as itself. As I've said, the conscious can't turn back and look at itself, so it necessarily must make an object of itself. Thus...

In fact, we could say that there is only one main cognitive difference . . . human beings are more intelligent. We have a much larger neocortex: the part of the brain responsible for conscious experience, intelligence, and memory. The size of the neocortex is the same in both men and women (relativ...

your attempt at humor... At least I tried... but you should ask yourself if that's another cultural circumstance or not. Given the level and intensity of the debate over this issue, I highly doubt it. Any papers that get published on such things probably get peer-reviewed to all hell. How would you...

There are some nice Diogenes anecdotes here. Cool. Diogenes was an incredibly witty fella. Although, there was one occasion where Plato outwitted Diogenes. After stomping on Plato's carpet, Diogenes exclaimed "I trample upon the pride of Plato." Plato responded to this by saying, "Ye...

The sense of self, the sensation of being a something; is an illusion, anyways. I normally define "something" as the presence of a particular phenomenon. For instance, I'm looking at "something" right now. A can of Mountain Dew in fact. I suppose I could then define my "sel...

Is that a fact? You should have been able to tell that it's an unquestionable fact by the way I used the term "probably" multiple times in my above post. :) There are just as many studies (eg Bishop and Wahlsten, 1997) that demonstrate the corpus is wider in males. You're right. Although,...

I imagine that one of two things happen when we die. Either we return to the same nothing that we emerged from. Or we become merely a feeling-of-being united with the whole of existence. Either way we cease to exist as thinking, self-aware, conscious beings; so really both my theories probably amoun...

I would imagine that at one time many philosophers would have deplored the idea of owning a DVD player. You're right. They were called the cynics. Perhaps the core of their beliefs was the notion that happiness came from within. Thus they looked at physical pleasures with disdain. Probably the most...

But when it comes to the famine of feminine unconsciousness currently pervading our society, which is even more dangerous and lethal from a spiritual point of view, hardly anyone wants to know. Women probably talk more then men due to the fact that they have a wider corpus callosum. This means that...