GENIUS FORUMS

I don't have much time so I'll have to make this quick. I don't have time to be as comprehensive, but I hope the comments communicate well enough. Good question. I guess the only honest answer is that I fundamentally or radically disagree with even the most basic and common ideas people have about w...

I'm less certain that 2+2=4 than I am that you are displaying delusons. How can you be less certain of something which is absolutely certain? Oh, you were joking? My apologies. My modulator seems to be malfunctioning. A little oil should fix.. I mean a good night's sleep ought to make me right as r...

2 + 2 = 4 can be known with absolutely certainty and causes no stress, however, I am absolutely unable to reason my existence/causality with absolute certainty, ergo the presence of stress. Concerning pure understanding, 2+2=4 is synthetic a priori, existence/nonexistence is synthetic a priori, cau...

the absolute is realized when reasoning is understood. Just take a moment and look at this comment. You, the realizer, are realizing the absolute, that thing which is apart from you and must be realized. Let me ask you something. How does one go about understanding reasoning? Does one use reason to...

The point of this thread is to question the effect of the dichotomy of what appears to be, for consciousness, an inherent desire or will for meaning permanence despite knowing that this inherent desire is ultimately a deluded one. Is it so deluded? In fact for consciousness, it can be said there is...

Pure or raw, the invocation sounds similar. In case you're interested in the term, at this forum I wrote quite a few times about intuition, including Spinoza's and Nietzsche's usage. What I mean by pure is that pure intuition or pure understanding for that matter are a priori. A pure intuition is k...

Perhaps, but I think that this theory of consciousness is off. It seems that's what everyone that doesn't understand Jaynes' theory says about it. If you paraphrased the theory to understand it and said you had evidence against it and perhaps even an alternate theory of the development of conscious...

Glostik91, On a bit of tangent, I wouldn't say people with half a brain are "perfectly normal" but tests would likely demonstrate severe limitations in their cognitive abilities. But that's beside the point of Jaynes theory. mhm http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/girl-with-half-her-brain-beco...

Any invocation of "raw experiences" is not going to help your argument. Might just as well invoke god, heavenly vision and the like. In order to be more precise I should have said pure intuition instead of raw experience. Intuition of the object is what I was referring to. It would seem s...

Glostik91 (and others who are interested), As far as I am aware, Julian Jaynes never wrote about wisdom and genius. If he did so, please point out the relevant passages. Julian Jaynes worked on a theory to explain the empirical evidence of the development of cognitive functions in humans. His defin...

According to the distinction you have made between "understanding" and "intuition", there is no relation between them whatsoever, because understanding is supposed to be the category of all relations/causes. A relation between the category of all relations and another category w...

Are you familiar with Kant's famous argument against the idea that time has beginning? http://www.phil.pku.edu.cn/resguide/Kant/CPR/16.html Please scroll down to the 'FIRST CONFLICT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL IDEAS' and you will see that your Kant quote is actually Kant attempting to prove that time has...

Both intuition and concepts are fundamentally webs of causality, just like everything else. If concepts are causal relations, but intuitions are not, then it follows that the latter has no cause; that isn't possible. Understand what I am saying here. Understanding is causality. Experience is intuit...

True, it does not describe the situation precisely. But it can rustle up a sense of how free the spiritual life is. That's fair enough. Yes, our brains, our neural pathways, our habits, our past experiences, our genetic make-up, etc - all of it shape how we experience the world in each moment. Ever...

Then you are experiencing this quality or that quality. But they are all objects in their own right, that is, to a subject, no matter how shifty or timely you care to define or remember your experiences as. Aren't you just shifting your "mouse" here towards a more loosely defined set of e...

Why have you arbitrarily distinguished between "my understanding" and "any conscious experience"? Don’t let me spoil your own fun in discovery too much. When I view this black mouse, I not only see the black color, but I understand that the color is black. Intuition is the direc...

One becomes more attuned to the formlessness and intangibility of everything. One begins to see more and more clearly that nothing really exists. Nothing really exists? Hm, not quite on the money but close. From where I’m sitting, I don’t experience an object as existing or not existing. I can expe...

Perhaps I have overlooked the main stream of this thread by not being able to comprehend how a human mind can speak on the wisdom of the infinite, when no one knows what that wisdom is for the simple reason no one can define infinite, nor speak of that which is beyond themselves authentically, nor ...

It’s fair enough to focus on cause and effect because it is fundamentally the method by which we come to an understanding of anything. However causality is not the whole enchilada here. While experiencing a thing, one doesn’t actually experience causality. Causality isn’t an experience; it is the fu...

Does reality depend on the mental images projected by one's mind? hm, well that is an interesting question to ask. So this mind which is hypothetically 'projecting' reality, is it not also a part of reality? A projector isn't a part of the film being projected on a screen. So how am I supposed to ma...

Yeah, it's a bit of work. I was compiling my own list but got lazy. But I feel if you want to express a meaningful opinion on Trump and this regime you ought be over this stuff. Otherwise, what is it you're speaking to? Just browsing quickly, I seem to be familiar with most of the items in this lis...

I appreciate the sceptical and cautious tone of this, along with the desire to actually be fair to Trump, but I don't find that the state of play warrants that caution. For me it is not remotely accurate to say Trump hasn't done much yet. The negative or positive quality of what he's done is, obvio...

Without Trump actually having done anything much, (it’s been hardly 3 months) we can’t know with any serious resolve whether Trump’s presence will be a net positive or negative. No one knew Iraq was going to be such a clusterfuck. Bush Jr probably thought the war would be as easy as his father’s Gul...

What about an attack on an overseas Trump property? Will that qualify (in Trump’s mind) as an attack on the US? I think we all know the answer to that, don't we? To a terrorist, those big gold TRUMP letterings must be awfully tempting.... I imagine it would, but what concerns me more is what Trump ...

Isn't this too much of a sledgehammer approach? To put the same question another way: The very idea that the bloodsucking brute, Trump, is capable of being of value to the world is predicated on the assumption that the system is so corrupt and rotten that it needs to be blown apart. Is the system r...