It seems to me that there are two threads of thought going here that are speaking somewhat across from each other. There would be two different...
Reading this, I think of the goth kids from South Park. The only way not to be a conformist is to dress, think, and act exactly like the goth...
This is a very common feeling. I am a Ph.D candidate in philosophy and part of that always includes being a TA. Usually it is for an...
Every right comes with an associated obligation. So if a person has a right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," then everybody else...
I was thinking about this just this morning. I started lurking in Hip Forums in around 2001 I believe. I know that I was in High School so no...
So to be honest, at this point, I am really uncertain about many of the claims you are making. I am not exactly clear what many of these phrases...
I think the word junk is pretty funny. Maude Lebowski: Yes, they don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say whereas without batting...
Hi Fairlight, did you mean consonance and dissonance. Although assonance and dissonance is interesting. It sounds like a heavy metal meets art...
This would lead to some rather odd conclusions it seems. It would mean that something like a bacterium is just as conscious as us, for certainly,...
I think you are probably correct on that. I like the metaphor for an operating system. That probably works well. I am a little unclear on "the...
You might receive some push-back from that particular claim. There is no real consensus on the purpose of consciousness. One can imagine robots...
You run into a bit of a problem though when we consider dreams. You might have a very vivid dream that you stub your toe on a table. It seems so...
I see. Skin doesn't have a mind supposedly. A surface need not perceive a color in order to have it absorbed or reflected. I am not sure that...
I am not exactly sure what the question is. Skin pigmentation would just be a type of color. Photons bounce off of skin and depending upon which...
This sort of thing does happen quite frequently. You have people who have conscious experience of seeing, but are blind. You also have people...
Neither of my dogs ever seem to catch the squirrels either, but they sure give them hell.
I would like to think that my dogs dream about me. Mine probably also dream about walks in the park. I know they dream about chasing squirrels...
I could not stand living without winter. Without winter there would be no fall, and fall is the best time of the year.
I see the question now. This is interesting. In a certain since we definitely can. I mean we take certain psychedelics to bring those things...
I have been kind of addicted to Dr. Mario on Wii. I am normally very not competitive, but when I start playing that game, I get a little aggressive.
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