OC An Argument Against the "Mary's Room" Thought Experiment
In the thought experiment Mary's Room, it is argued that Mary gains new knowledge about the colour red when she leaves the room....
In the thought experiment Mary's Room, it is argued that Mary gains new knowledge about the colour red when she leaves the room....
This is a series of proposition that leads to the conclusion (somewhat convincing in my eyes) that we are not physical, but informational/numerical/mathematical structures....
As a thought experiment, consider a reality with a single human. There are no other humans, animals, or anything of that nature. Not in the past, present, or future....
"the ability of a person to create his own meaning after fully accepting that the universe is a large place of meaninglessness."...
Life is...well, it's something alright....
Most agree that health is better than sickness, abundance is better than poverty, and peace is better than war. But many now point to a fundamental problem. Despite better access to healthcare, education, and more disposable income, cases of depression have increased by over 50% worldwide since 1997. Research shows that richer...
I recently got interested about the Age of Enlightenment, and more specifically Voltaire - and would like to read some of his works to understand him better....
On the dissonance of the free prisoner
We were designed to enjoy life's pleasures, not just to constantly seek self-improvement. Today’s self-help ideology echoes Nietzsche’s concern about the dangers of ascetic practices as a form of self-punishment.
Imagine a future where technology has advanced to an extent enabling the creation of an customized universe, for every individual. This extraordinary realm would be finely tuned to match each persons preferences, values and aspirations. Within this universe individuals would have control over their surroundings and experiences....
How the theory of relativity explains our minds.
Human beings are hardwired to think about mundane irrelevant things periodically even if we elevate our state of consciousness to an higher level of thinking.The effect is ephemeral and we tend to go back or settle down to a lower tier again. It’s like constantly running away from darkness in search of light,(i.e the big...
The most based philosopher of all time
A journey to understand the hidden prejudice that nobody takes seriously.
Philosophers have had surprisingly little to say about the experience and meaning of grief. In this interview, Kathleen Higgins rights that wrong and argues that grief has a deep connection to art, especially music, in the way it disrupts but also reorients our relationship to the world and others.
Richard Wolin shows how Martin Heidegger’s literary executors manipulated his manuscripts to disguise and downplay the philosopher’s antisemitism....
If you like something ironically, do you actually like it or not? Paradoxically, the answer seems to be yes AND no.
Short answer: Nature is governed by the logos which is based on reason....
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE SHOW SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN....
In this lecture Bergo presents a really interesting survey of how anxiety has been understood through the history of philosophy. Special attention to how Schopenhauer and Darwin use the term. the audio is bad, but I found it worthwhile....
Statesman, Stoic, and millionaire. How can we find virtue in Seneca’s complex and even contradictory lifestyle? ‘This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and wo…
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