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Has every idea been thought by someone before, or are there such things as new ideas ex nihilo ("out of nothing")? Which philosophers discussed whether or not every possible idea has been ...
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Sometimes I wonder if we have lost patience for slow thinking. Some philosophers remind me of mathematicians: they do not rush, they build long chains of reasoning step by step. Each step feels small, ...
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A question has occurred to me, that based on a cursory interpretation inspired by Hegel of the fundamental structure of subjective experience, namely that the brain is the vessel of the mind, and the ...
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continuing Question about word (relationship between language and thought) Without concepts there can be no thought, and without analogies there can be no concepts. —Hofstadter and Sander My question ...
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Consider we as humans are made up of independent cells, and the electric signals in our brain give us consciousness. Is it possible we humans, our planet, or our actions, contributes to a collective ...
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I’ve been developing a theoretical framework suggesting that information density might be a fundamental principle underlying everything from quantum mechanics to consciousness. Here’s the core idea: ...
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What is the basis of cognition, and is there a general notion of what the mind does? Is it categorization, classification, analogy, metaphor, generalization, abstraction? It seems that all of human ...
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First off, it is not quite clear how we define what a "thought" is and what it means for a thought to "be possible". I would like to take colloquial definitions, at least as far as ...
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Merleau-Ponty talks about the prejudice of objective thought. Does this relate to the idea in phenomenology that to fully understand phenomena (the "thing itself") we need to suspend the ...
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My question is probably very basic, but it concerns a bit of a paradox/contradiction. In psychology it is a frequent refrain, "You aren't (or have to be) honest with yourself." I don't ...
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As an example, an enormous amount of effort seems to go into thinking about solipsism. In my view, and as an example, solipsism is easily eliminated by reasonable inference. Reasonable inference is a ...
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Is a desire a specific kind of thought? Or are desires in a separate category from thoughts? I believe that desires are a subset of thoughts. But what have philosophers written about this question? ...
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Are thoughts completely transparent to the thinker? Or can a person be mistaken as to what they are thinking? In other words, they assume they are thinking a thought T, but they are actually thinking ...
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In many religions, not only actions but also thoughts, intentions, and desires can be considered evil, even if no action is taken. For instance, Jesus said that lustful thoughts count as adultery, and ...
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Aristotle defined man as the ζωον λογικόν Which translates as "logical living thing". So it appears Aristotle didn't think non-human animals have the ability to reason. Was he correct? If ...
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