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With the straightforwardness of youth humans fear trolls. Trolls command a sumptuous pinnacle of vantage. From here we see that human logic and science does not exist. It is just a kind of noise humans make when they want to impress one another. Or a stupid and meaningless moving about in a laborato...

Trolls have their own words, different from those of mediocrities.

It is detestable that we trolls are often not recognized as the superior race. I never live a human life, full of deceptions. I am always a troll. Humans have to rouse themselves just to get on in life. Trolls are always here, on the earth, and never lapse into a stupor. We trolls are constant. Huma...

The will to be individual is clearly a vulgar idea; it is a prime demand of normative culture. Even the most conservative of all demands. Life is never primarily an individual trait since it courses along from age to age under the scutcheon of impersonality. It is just when people start to preen, an...

“You write "one is not philosophic, but,rather, one assumes----". you should have written not 'one' but you should instead have explained exactly who is not philosophic .” What “one” does speaks to the generality. One follows rules. One goes on green and stops at a red. One speaks correct...

I must bequeath to you this long speach, but the most important thing would be to show the first step in saying what science is, prior to going on about all sorts of bizarre metaphysics which stem from the neglect of that first step. “Seeing is always happening, but in dualistic thought there is kin...

""What emotion means----" : meaning pertains to persons. You are a person at a philosophy forum so it's your job to be explicit as to what you mean. "There is a buried presupposition-----". Who is doing the presupposing? No presupposition exists without presupposers. Please...

“Ok admittedly I may be totally off on this one, I'm admittedly uninterested to look up this philosophy. So if I gather correctly, first we make the standard Western split-mind (that's inherent in all Western views), then we position ourselves into the mind-substance view, make that one universal.”...

The question of "super nature" which you seem to imply really has more to do with the issue that reason and experience never assure us that a behavior is right or wrong, one needs to make a leap even to say that murder is wrong. And yet, our natural experience, includes instincts towards c...

"No. Your "issue" is. What does your idea "issue " from other than your own eccentricity? You have done enough reading to make nice sentences and use proper punctuation but your sources are not authoritative." What emotion means in daily life differs from what it means...

“I don't know, this subjective idealism really seems mildly psychotic to me, and it seems to bring unnecessary confusion and a sense of being lost.” Why do you keep saying “Idealism”. Simply think through the account directly, don't appeal to nonsense title cards. What is “psychotic” about seeing t...

The issue is that any account of the nervous system, the "language of the nervous system is electricity", electrical impulse, which was formerly called animal spirit, and now "action potential", which is only called that because of the history of the field, since it's not potenti...

“We never see the Moon. The Moon is out there, ~400000 kilometers away from us.” Starting this way the issue is in principle insoluble. Since it requires the light to undergo processes in the brain that is already a thing alongside the light. As Nietzsche said, very simply, the eye can not make the...

Change is observed at all levels, from the fundamental to the level of the biological individual, and group. Meanings are imposed and if they help one to make predictions, for instance this or that account of Natural Selection, some scientists are happy. Then, one might say they have been "sele...

“a schizophrenic might look at the sky and see a dozen moons, with angry faces on them, and the moons are talking to him.” Well, but is it like a reflection on the crooked sides of a damaged tin bucket, or do you mean it is an hallucination. In the latter case, that isn’t the moon. I must say, what...