PopeBeanie

@Popebeanie

Very kind of you to say so.

My short term memory isn’t what it used to be. I have whiteboard for important appointments.—Can’t tell you what I had for dinner 3 nights ago—But, I can remember what  I bought for lunch in Harrods food  hall in London in 1985. Being on a forum is good for mental acuity.

AI: I really don’t know. I’m…[Read more]

@Popebeanie;

Ah, I had been wondering. Consciousness outside of the brain looks a lot like a sneaky way of arguing theism.

But then, I’m old and easily confused.

@popebeanie – well done on getting your degree.

“mathematics” and “logic” are just words, just constructs, because language itself is an invention, a construct

But an abstraction is different from a construct, and they are more than mere words, they refer to a world of abstraction.  Also, maths is discovered rather than constructed – and if a con…[Read more]

@popebeanie It depends if it’s tax exempt.

@popebeanie – “The synapses between neurons actually evolved from sensory cells that could detect various environmental conditions to be seeked, or avoided.”

This kind of indicates that the brain is in part at least a sense organ, or a sense-organiser, or both.  The brain must be included with the nervous system in this overall…[Read more]

@popebeanie – “something spoken or written should have some exact interpretation, per purported dogma”

– I would have thought that if the person listening understands what the person talking wants to say to them, then the two people are communicating successfully.

@unseen – I think “good” and “evil” are real and not constructs.  Hitler’s Germany was an evil place where people did evil things.  Evil reigned for a number of years.  Isis are evil, and where Isis reign, evil reigns.

@jakelafort – “The sophisitication of cooperation is quite remarkable not only intra-species but among different species.”

– it…[Read more]

@popebeanie – of course hoarding makes sense as part of a spectrum of “keeping things”, but as a dysfunction, it probably depends on the reasons why people do it, and how easy it is for them to stop.  We probably all collect things.

@DanielW – I’m sure that your “Aspergers collecting” is a separate thing from addiction or hoarding – I’m always…[Read more]

DrBob wrote:
[…]they were apparently used to temporarily ban @popebeanie as well.

Twas but a scratch. Please don’t give up, Dr. Bob. 😉

@popebeanie – “At times when I wished for then achieved something precious”

– this wasn’t that – we all do that.  Sometimes it comes off, sometimes it doesn’t, that’s life.  What I’m talking about is a very specific and unique set of circumstances.

@popebeanie – “as long as it can somehow maintain openness to self-examination.”

– in fact, the whole idea is that you don’t just write any old thing – it has to be shown to be correct.  This is in the very nature of philosophy – it’s an enquiry into truth, which involves painstaking examination.  There’s an ongoing peer discussion and revie…[Read more]

@popebeanie – “as long as it can somehow maintain openness to self-examination.”

– I agree, this is necessary.  It seems that human rationality is a social process.  When we make sense, it’s for the purpose of making sense to others.  This examination, and discussion, is part of the process of true rationality.  It’s how we progress.  This is w…[Read more]

ro3bert wrote:
This is crap! How the hell can we make any changes to the text? Color, size? All there is is Bold or Italic. There are, as far as I’m concerned better atheist sites. But then I don’t do social media stuff. I don’t even text or receive texts. Umar please delete my membership completely.

Hey ro3bert,

Not many sites give you a way t…[Read more]

@PopeBeanie – “It’s an artificial value that human beings assign to it.”

– are you saying that values are artificial? Values are human. We take value from physical flourishing, we value a healthy baby, for example. We don’t like to see our house go up in a fire.

So there are such things in life as fact/value crossovers. Or s…[Read more]

@PopeBeanie I think your first answer is more on target.