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In a spirit of cooperation with Flash Dangerpants, I am taking a suggestion he offered to initiate a new thread. This thread also is in keeping with Kant's book, Logik, written earlier, but translated into English in 1800, a book in which he introduces three basic kinds of concepts: the construct, ...

In the case that everybody receive the same information through a wire link to theirs brains, and the information is: "White is black", everybody will understand it with the same meaning? Avoiding the barriers of language, everybody will get it in the same way? Imaging that you are in a ro...

We are able to divide the world in different dimensions, as if the world were something etheric like the universal space?, receiving that projection into our common space in the world, will be something practical?, I really confused my personal estructure with the definiton of being outside of it, I...

Impression is an experience related to having a sense aligned with what we observe. For example we feel a sense of beauty when we look at a picture. The question is how the sense of beauty gets aligned with the experience of the picture. The pictorial lines express beauty and plasticity at the same...

It seems that the isomorphism shows, on the differentiation of the self, how belonging to a team, to a service reactivated the elements of relational indifferentiation present in each one of us. Labor relations involve, in effect, an inscription in a group structured by instituted relationships tha...

It is interesting to think that when we are in the womb things seem like there isn't existence but our bodies are growing and making changes, and we are not only in one reality, also at least three the womb, the reality of your mother and finally the world outside (which contains other realities, fo...

Professor David Chalmers believes one possible answer to the hard problem is a view known as panpsychism. It sounds spiritual, but it isn't. According to panpsychism, consciousness may be a fundamental property of reality in the same way as space and time. "We're not going to reduce consciousne...

It seems that the isomorphism shows, on the differentiation of the self, how belonging to a team, to a service reactivated the elements of relational indifferentiation present in each one of us. Labor relations involve, in effect, an inscription in a group structured by instituted relationships that...

In accordance with the discipline we received from our families don't mean to be out of other forms of education as nihilism, But regarding to the fact that people want to control their perfectionism trying to hide the real form of being as empiricism. In your text your refer to the limits we have i...

We know many things by heart, even if a condition shows a theory, the opposite demonstrate the first case and vice versa. For example: If we read one thing from right to left, we can reflect that text on a mirror and you will read it from left to right but you know that is a reflect, for this reason...

The Law of Excluded Middle is excluding a third possibility - not a third rule. Either/Or - binary. But binaries can have more than a 00 or 01 or 11 - it can have 01011 (11) - it doesn't mean it has 11 possibilities , but 11 bits of whatever. That's entirely a different thing. The Law of excluded m...

Clearly there isn't a unique way to solve things or having a conclusion, using the a paradigm which include case A, case B and case C, we obtain several results, First All have a different status, Second At the beginning they diverge even from themselves and finally finding a way in common, Third th...

The nothingness induces itself to the reality which contains the sight of our souls in order to assume that vacuum is located behind something, so the effect in fact is bringing a cause in itself that is the reason of our beliefs, therefore there are thoughts that make uncertainty, as if the things ...

Morality gives us every day clues how to act by intuition if you damage someone because you treat him as it is for you in a lower status (slavery) and that person behaving in the same way than you feels bad, clearly you are not acting correctly. But if for example in the same way you are next to som...

Egyptians had a great knowledge, and they developed many sources that clearly western cultures copied to enhance their society. It is amazing how egyptians had used mathematics to calculate areas of lands with a simple rope. They introduced many designs which are very logical in constructions and ma...