Category: Mind Philosophy
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Consciousness as a parergon of materialism - A theistic argument?!?
Consciousness is often considered as the cornerstone of all anti-materialism arguments. Philosophers have for a long time used consciousness to build their case against the idea that wants us to be just lifeless particles. Could they be wrong? Could we be so much fooled by our senses that we are using the wrong argument for…
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Self reference, Mathematics, Consciousness
Self-reference is the cause of so many problems (call me Paradox) in mathematics. Science cannot easily cope with self-reference. And yet we every day think, we every day know we "are". Our inner consciousness is dealing with what mathematics cannot handle every passing minute. I think about my self. I think that I think. I…
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Philosophizing, happiness, misery...
Is philosophizing synonymous with misery? If people who do not care much about the problems of the world are really happy, then what is the point in thinking too much? one might ask... However being conscious of one's happiness is a gift. We are conscious beings! And we should honour that gift in the best…
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Murphy’s Law - Thinking = Formulating reality?
The one time I want to get a taxi, I cannot see any passing by even though there were millions of those yellow things passing by before. When I need a spoon all I see around are forks. I want to open the toothpaste card box and I open it from the wrong side. Some…
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Human Consciousness and the end of Materialism
This article provides some insight on how and why the explanation of human consciousness might be the reason for a paradigm shift of science away from materialism.
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