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To be serious about your mental health is to not take things so seriously.

Confirmation bias has an other side. When you're actually right, you actually see confirmation everywhere.

here's most of the answers:
https://kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/m ... a-nutshell

here's most of the answers:
https://kaiserbasileus.substack.com/p/m ... a-nutshell

You can never feed Comfort Monkey to death. You can only conquer Comfort Monkey.

There's no inherent difference between physical and non-physical harm for ethical purposes and either may be as extreme as the other, up to and including total dissolution of self. That's quite important to acknowledge in order to undercover the aggressive tendencies which may lead to harm as well a...

If you can ask a stranger for directions to a place you have never been, and get there, there are only a three possibilities: a) the universe is basically the way it appears to be ( null hypothesis, trivial realism ), b) you are being fooled by an outside source, or c) your subconscious is privy to ...

If there was any I in AI, or its creators, it would come to a place like this, strip out logical fallacies, cognitive biases, and incoherence, organize the rest by factor analysis, and present it to the world.

[quote=Walker post_id=807451 time=1781872144 user_id=11599]
Patanjali was a great scientist ... and artist of the mind/body.
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So was Pinhead.

[quote=Walker post_id=807450 time=1781871816 user_id=11599] [quote=Advocate post_id=807405 time=1781822718 user_id=15238] [quote=Walker post_id=807364 time=1781753345 user_id=11599] Is the purpose of life to philosophize? Or, is the purpose of philosophy to enhance life? [/quote] The purpose of half...

[quote=Walker post_id=807364 time=1781753345 user_id=11599]
Is the purpose of life to philosophize?
Or, is the purpose of philosophy to enhance life?
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The purpose of half of philosophy is to enhance life - Practical Wisdom.
Truth Wisdom is about understanding, independently of intent.

Picture a speck. Now picture that speck on a dot. Now picture that dot among a billion dots. Now picture those billion dots on a surface, like a page but infinite on the x and y axis. Now picture a trillion of the pages stacked upon each other. Now picture those infinite pages are in a speck, and a ...

The most natural shape is a sphere, the most unnatural is a fractal pyramid.

Truth = the weight of evidence. (see chart below) It cannot be more than the evidence currently available and it cannot be less than is sufficient for whatever purpose you're trying to use it for. The Truth is whatever replicates continuously. Logic is rigorously discovered relationships that always...

[quote=Scholar4truth post_id=805938 time=1780110589 user_id=27449] Hello, I'm new to the forum, I enjoy studying philosophy and discussing daily topics and came across this site and it peeked my interest so I decided to sign up. 8) [/quote] Here's most of the answers: https://kaiserbasileus.substack...