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Ink, If an adult needs a stranger, by way of a book, to tell him he's not the slave of hs life/thoughts/etc. then that needy person is severely retarded. And Tolle: he just shovels up shit, labels it 'teaching' or 'wisdom' and those poor retarded souls just eat it up. As they (you) like. Did u know...

Hating in that way on the work of this man is the same as blow him and preach his work like he's God: a thoughtless attitude. Even if things in the book could be guru enlightment shit, there are some real philosophical concept like the identification with our minds which help control our thoughts an...

The more I think, the more I think they are several minds, which each one might have been evolved for its own purpose. there is the mind " I am what i think i am" the mind " I am what others think I am" the mind " I am what I do" and I think each mind work on each other...

The human jawbone can be properly understood in evolutionary terms (whether it is or not is beside the point) by virtue of surviving fossils. Well preserved relatively aubundant fossils are considered reasonably direct evidence. The human elbow can also be observed through time in this manner. Evol...

If u have others examples of this kind of conditioning by society except social media and laws i'd be happy to know them. edit: and gambling of course. You can't really make laws an exception when considering society. what I meant by "except" was that I already noticed these were using co...

yeah, I think you have described the situation very well. It's all stereotypes and labels on people to simplify control. the problem is that people ARE conditioned and with time, I see an inevitable increased standardization/conformisation of people, way of thinking,... On all fronts, not only polit...

China’s social credit system https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4 In China your social credit score, which is your worth to the government, will display in response to the facial recognition. There are rewards and punishments involved. ...

Do you ignore all sciences which are unable to collect enough data relatively to others ? and why ?

The ablity to confirm and disprove are only part of the matter. If you have a burning desire for the precise expulsion of doubt, then there are no social sciences that will suit your purpose because that is entirely the province of the hard sciences. Are u saying that the human mind will never be u...

FlashDangerpants: I think i get yr point, while physics use the methodology of discomfirmation to destroy a model, social science use confirmation to justify it and so are in need to create other fields to match with more complex phenomena. I agree that the first is much more effective but the point...

No. I'm taking about the bias towards what is better for society than the individual. They are searching for truths and solutions though a biased lens, the bent being towards the larger group. Nothing to do with exactness or 'truths'. Think of economics for example. In itself, it's a simple science...

Have you read about Szasz’s views, and what do you think of them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz “Szasz argued throughout his career that mental illness is a metaphor for human problems in living, and that mental illnesses are not "illnesses" in the sense that physical illness...

Hi everyone! I'm interested in psychology and in a lot of social science but I recently read about Nassim Taleb and his point of view of them which is along with Karl popper's statements. Now I'm struggling to find the truth because I was about to start psychological studies but these guys really in...

Hi philosophy explorer. I know that people who take some psychedelics can " see the sounds and hear the color" and this is due to synestesia like u all seems to know. but i also read that synestesia could occur while deep concentration or méditation. I once experienced a meditation when i ...