surreptitious57 wrote:Mortalsfool wrote:surreptitious57 wrote:
The avoidance of any position that cannot be logically or empirically supported
The realisation that all I will ever know is in relative terms practically zero
There is nothing in my OP that cannot be logically supported. I described it as a method completely sound in its mechanics and contains nothing that smacks of supernatural needs. So I would argue that it is not only possible but is a logical conclusion of an improved [ enlightened ] method
of deducing accurate and pertinent answers to questions: a method that is not common to our ways of thinking
I ask you can you think in the same way I describe? And can you see the benefit offered?
I can certainly see the benefit offered. But I cannot think in that way since I am human and so think emotionally as well
as logically. So this is a task more suited for artificial intelligence one it reaches a certain degree of cognitive capability
If a human is unable to think in the way I described, how could I describe it? That's my whole point in asking for
first-person views of philosophic accomplishments. If a person is in fact able to describe something that you are not yet able to do, as long as its dynamics require nothing more than a logical and ordered use of the information you already contain, there is no reason for it to be muddled up by emotional influences. It is indeed,
emotion that screws up a person's ability to see things untouched by emotional clouding.
Unchecked use of emotions removes the possibility of 'seeing' reality as it is, one interpretation; it is what it is! Blocking clarity, the person whose control lacks ability to un-see multiple interpretations of an event seen with emotions, includes thoughts, that if true, would indeed require considerations that contain an excess of what 'reality' requires.
When I say that emotions are a weakness, most people respond by saying, "It can't be a weakness, love in an emotion". I disagree, love stirs emotions but is not an emotion itself. The whole purpose of learning to think philosophically, is to see things without having an emotional patina clouding the truth.