intellect
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To Understand Descartes
To understand Descartes’ Meditations, one must be aware of the time period that he wrote these philosophy analyses. He sought to undermine Aristotelian thought (the majority of knowledge comes from the senses). While he, on the other hand, unfolds his own assertion that knowledge comes from the mind. In the first and second meditations he thoroughly discards all belief that could be doubted and thus comes to the conclusion that thought is the essential action that allows and determines the world around us. In other words, we must know more about our mind than the world around us, rather than analyzing the world. He also proves why one must analyze the mind and how one could do this.
By Katelind Sky6 years ago in Futurism
Everything you know is wrong. (Part 1)
What if everything you'd ever been told was a lie? Have you ever wondered to yourself what 'all this' (life) is really about and how the universe works? Suppose I told you you can create the life of your desires, no matter what that is? Just by reading this article, your life will change dramatically for the better. Today you start your awakening process . But don't just accept everything you're told by ANYONE- do your own research and decide for yourself. Before I start it's important to have an open mind and no ego for only that is capable of expanding its consciousness. It's vital we accept that, perhaps we don't know everything there is to know. As Socrates said "Wisdom is knowing how little we know."
By Mark Davies6 years ago in Futurism
Randomness, and its omnipresence in everyday life
What is randomness? Everyone has experienced randomness in many different situations in life. This could be when playing a board game, looking at radioactive isotopes, or tossing a coin. Random events occur all of the time whether we notice them or not and influence the outcomes of nearly everything we do. Some "random" events can be predicted if you know enough details. For example, you could theoretically predict if a coin will land on heads or tails if you knew enough facts like the speed the coin was flipped and the rate the coin was spinning (well until it hits the floor) (Matthews, 2020). However, some things are truly random and there is no way to calculate their outcomes regardless of what you know. Finding random events in board games is relatively easy but finding them in real life is a much harder task. Differentiating between what is random and what is predictable is important and could save you time, money, and even help you better understand the world.
By Ethan Terris6 years ago in Futurism
The Riddle of Reality
The notion that a physical effect necessitates its own physical cause seems to me to be a typically erroneous human assumption, comparable to say, the assumption that self-awareness is but an illusion caused by the material substrates of the brain: if such an illusion is only rooted in the physical dimension, what then, is an illusory experience if not a metaphysical one?
By James Sirois6 years ago in Futurism
Paradoxical Wisdom
Wisdom is rarely sought and when it is, it is expected to be an answer to our simple-minded questions. Humanity never understands why some truths are universal but all must come to understand that their own wisdom can not be sought in the experiences of others but in themselves, their own experiences and expression of them.
By James Sirois6 years ago in Futurism
