Is it true that the Earth is spinning around its axis, or is it a belief?A spinning Earth for explaining the movement of the sun from sunrise to sunset requires you to become a human observer riding on it as a merry-go-round. Do you believe that you are a rider on a carousel?
Am I a human body?What am I is a fundamental question? All answers are beliefs. Every belief provides a way for the questioner to live. If the belief works, the questioner disappears. Why isn't your belief working?
Arius Didymus "Stoic Ethics"I just recommended this book to someone asking me a question in a DM. I recommend it to anyone interested in self improvement or philosophy. Arius Didymus was the court philosopher of Emperor Augustus of Rome, he was taken from teaching at the... See More » (1)
The Nature of GothicI remember reading John Ruskin's The Nature of Gothic, part of his larger work The Stones of Venice, and thought at the time is was a good psychological theory for the 19th century. As I've gotten older the less I feel about this. His idea was in... See More » (1)
Spiritual machine: the transcendent manScientists say nanotechnology will augment our bodies and cure cancer even as humans connect to computers via direct neural interfaces or live full-time in virtual reality. Our material world, as it is, is a virtual presentation of sensory... See More »