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Question posted on September 8, 2010; no responses
Is it possible to have a thought that has never been thought by anyone else before? A thought or notion that is so unique and individual to oneself that it surely could never have been thought by anyone else previously?...
Mind Show

Question posted on August 31, 2010; no responses
When I am awake I see up and down and all the three dimensions as a present and irrefutable reality. In a dream I also experience those very same three dimensions but when I reference that experience in waking I...
Mind Show

Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response
Is there a correlation between intelligence and morality? I can imagine an intelligent person giving a sophisticated analysis to a complex moral question before acting as warranted by his/her analysis. On the other hand, I can imagine a...
Ethics, Mind Show

Question posted on August 26, 2010; 1 response
Why do we, psychologically/philosophically speaking, put such an emphasis on things being "real"? What got me thinking about this question is the nature of our memories - while I can certainly recall some "half-memories" which probably never actually happened or...
Mind, Value Show

Question posted on August 24, 2010; 1 response
When I was a child, I wanted to know what forever was. I would sit and concentrate -- think and think and THINK -- until finally I felt what may have been a glimpse into something infinite. It was jarring,...
Mind, Time Show

Question posted on August 24, 2010; no responses
Wittgenstein is purported to have proven the impossibility of a logically private language. There are a variety of interpretations of this argument(s). My question is this: what does it matter whether there could, or could not be a Private Language?...
Language, Mind, Philosophers Show

Question posted on August 11, 2010; no responses
I have a question. To me it seems that thinking cannot be modeled (e.g., models of critical thinking). I think at least for thinking, the reductionist approach is restrictive. To overcome this, the model should be general from which the...
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Question posted on June 30, 2010; 1 response
Does language shape our understanding of what we call reality (or, maybe, our perceptions of reality), or does reality shape our language? Is there, significantly, a German world, a French world and an English world, each of them different from...
Language, Mind Show

Question posted on June 29, 2010; 1 response
If everything that physically exists is indeed the result of primordial coincidence, is there any way of statistically measuring the chances that human beings (in our present state of development and after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution) would...
Mind, Science Show

Question posted on June 29, 2010; 1 response
Some twelve step groups advocate taking the right actions to lead to the right thinking, "right" being defined as non-addictive behavior. The phrase is "Fake it until you make it." Is there a philosophical comment on that process,...
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Question posted on June 29, 2010; 1 response
I am going under anesthesia in about a month. Once it is administered and I am unconscious, how do I know that the person who wakes up will be me and not a doppelganger with my memories? In other words,...
Identity, Mind Show

Question posted on June 24, 2010; 1 response
Does writing a book or making a film render a hard copy of (part of) one's mind outside the brain? Are these two products as close as one can get to making one's mind accessible to others?...
Mind Show

Question posted on June 14, 2010; 1 response
What happens to thoughts once they are acknowledged? I.e. where do thoughts go once they have surfaced in the mind? ...
Mind Show

Question posted on June 14, 2010; 1 response
Are there good philosophical reasons for taking drugs? Michel Foucault, Aldous Huxley and Sam Harris are examples of people who have experimented with drugs for creative purposes and in order to gain insight. Given that one is destined to live...
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Question posted on June 8, 2010; 1 response
Are dreams experiences?...
Mind Show

Question posted on June 8, 2010; 2 responses
Does the brain contain the mind or does the mind extend beyond the brain?...
Mind Show

Question posted on April 15, 2010; 1 response
What is the difference between being mentally ill and being a bad person?...
Ethics, Mind Show

Question posted on April 1, 2010; 1 response
What happens to a memory when I forget it, or realize I've forgotten it?...
Mind Show

Question posted on February 25, 2010; 1 response
Is there a philosophical value placed on the experience of deja vu? Does it work towards one philosophy's standpoint?...
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Question posted on January 28, 2010; 1 response
Is it possible for two people to have a different "worldview" while not disagreeing on any particular fact?...
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