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Is it moral for our governments to impose poverty on us? No. Taxation determines what poverty levels will exist within it’s demographic form. It controls the graph shown below. Governments control taxation and thus control poverty levels directly. Imagine if you will, the real truth of that taxatio...

Before y'all folks jump all over me: I meant to say that science never explains the "why". It explains the "how". That's what I meant by saying "science does not explain anything." Ah. Now I understand. Please excuse my past misuse of “why” (I.e. as if how something happens is why something happens).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart good creed, not my style - find it too much jazz (complicated). but affirm him as talented. so why do you like his works? It feels mathematically stimulating. The grace notes and trills feel like divisions on a number line. If you like syncopate...

Consciousness, if it exists, could explain cognitive behavior.

Consciousness is the nature of reality, just as consciousness is the nature of dream. I agree, but just as a matter of curiosity, I was thinking about dreams we remember when we wake up v. the dreams we don’t remember at all. Were we conscious of the dreams we don’t remember in the morning? You are...

Dontaskme wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:15 am

Consciousness is the nature of reality, just as consciousness is the nature of dream.

I agree, but just as a matter of curiosity, I was thinking about dreams we remember when we wake up v. the dreams we don’t remember at all. Were we conscious of the dreams we don’t remember in the morning?

1 Is the Absolute 2 is Consciousness 3 is Space. By Association: 1 Is Dreamless sleep, 2 is the waking state, 3 is the dream state. If consciousness is everything, as you argue later, then it is both dreamless and dreamful. This seems contradictory. All there is is Consciousness... All there is and...

is discordant music unaesthetic or even unethical? By my initial thinking, yes. We need a better heuristic than what I have implied. Do you think this discussion would hold more weight if I were to say that judgments, such as those concerning discordant music, are individualized? Would that help? t...

Nick_A wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 12, 2019 4:25 pm

So why not begin by telling us if your question refers to an objective or subjective appreciation of "value."

I’ll tell you this: regardless whegther value is conceded to be objective or subjective, more value is greater than value. Why don’t you start a fresh thread relevant to value?

is discordant music unaesthetic or even unethical? By my initial thinking, yes. We need a better heuristic than what I have implied. Do you think this discussion would hold more weight if I were to say that judgments, such as those concerning discordant music, are individualized? Would that help?

If either of the two is able to be of greater value, they may be equivocal. No one has said they are not so.

If aesthetics and ethics are at all similar in any way at all, then which has the greater value for living the good life? I would say either one, or the other. They are of equal value then? The qualia of hearing Beethoven’s fifth symphony is equal in value to that of feeding a homeless person? What...

Some would say that aesthetics and ethics are simply two different means to the same end: a fulfilled life, rich with beauty and good deeds. Just examine the many adjectives that are used to describe good/bad art, music, dance, theater etc.vv. good/bad ethics, e.g.: gratifying/displeasing, meaningfu...