No human being is so-called 'cleverer' than another is, (since when human beings evolved into existence to when they either will evolve into and up to the next level and stage along the evolutionary continuum of Creation, Itself, or, they just cause and create the extinction of themselves), all adult human beings, individually, are just more open or more closed than others are.FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:46 amMy first thought is that there is no reason you shouldn't post that question in one of the livelier sub forums such General, or Phil of mind.friendofyours wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:18 amOkay, I'm going out on a limb here and possibly opening myself up to merciless ridicule, but I will be brave and forge head regardless.FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:41 pm
Did you actually attempt any real discussion about philosophy?
Here is my philosophical thought for people to ponder:
Is there a possibility— or would it be impossible— that every human (since I’m not sure exactly when, but I would guess around the emergence of genus Homo, which have similar brain size) has had the exact same thoughts, given the opportunity to do so? What I mean by this is that, for example, if someone was born in a place that did not have access to modern knowledge, then they may not be able to have certain thoughts, since they do not have access to that knowledge. However, if they did have access to that knowledge, would they have the exact same thoughts as all those who also have access to that knowledge?
Also, to be clear, I do not mean that they would necessarily accept their thoughts as being true or accurate. They may well accept or reject their thoughts, depending on their circumstances and backgrounds, but that is not to say that they didn’t have the exact same thoughts as every other human being.
A basic example would be that every human, with approximately the same brain size as present humans, would have had the thought that the earth could be round. However, for whatever reasons, some humans chose to believe that it was flat.
This thought occurs to me every time I post a philosophical comment because I think to myself, “Why bother to post this thought since the same thought must have been thought so many times before?”
What are your thoughts?
Some other thoughts are that I have seen some similar sounding things raised among philosophers and historians about certain ideas whose time just arrives, and which we associate with the first person to write them down. An example being Darwin who was by no means the first person to think up evolution, but I am told he did happen to be one of the two people who thought about it at exactly the right time for it to make sense in conjunction with all the other comparatively new ideas people were having in that era.
If that approach to your question puts a breeze up your skirt as it were, then a fine example of the craft is in progress, as Willy B (an actual expert in subject of philosophy of science) and Immanuel Can (a grunting halfwit with delusions of grandeur) are currently debating whether Francis Bacon single-handfedly invented the scientific method, so presumably the stuff in that last paragraph is due a mention there relatively soon.
In broader terms though, whoever invented picking up a burning stick and using it to set fire to some new thing to make a hut warm and a steak tasty must be one of the cleverest bastards ever, so I find it unlikely that any modern knowledge would be beyond them should we manage to locate their DNA in some old bone and send a clone of them to a modern school. Whoever invented knitting in 40,000 BC was quite a clever bastard too.
Although some believe that they are more clever than others.
But, obviously when one is just more open, then they are able to learn, understand, and/or reason more things. Which leads to that when, and if, one is Truly OPEN, then that one is able to learn, understand, and/or reason all possible things.
I agree absolutely, and totally.FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:46 am So on the one hand I should suggest there is no reason to let anyone put you off saying your thing.
And, especially when one defines the word 'philosopher' like "flashdangerpants" does here.FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:46 am It's impossible to be the best philosopher here because at least 7 of these window lickers are the single greatest mind ever to live.
Which, by the way, "flashdangerpants" is one of the ones here who believes that it is not just the best "philsopher" here but is also the best at other things as well here.
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:46 am Likewise, you cannot really compete with those same 7 for the actual worst. So you will just have to occupy some middle ground with the sane people, it will be fine, you'll just have to decide for yourself which bullshit to tune out*.
*LPT never look in the Gender sub, it's nothing but incels.