Recent content by allanpatrick

Regarding the post of graffix on being sure only of one's own existence, Rene Descartes created that problem out of not regarding the body as the kernel of existence. Descartes' problem concerns finding a link between the cogito (literally, a cloud of thought) and the rest of the universe...

I once asked a teacher in Philosophy this question: if a tree falls in the forest and nobody heard it crash down, can anybody even say it made any noise? The answer is of course no. We would have no way of knowing; human consciousness is limited by the finite physical nature of our bodies. There...

Consciousness is awareness and comprehension of ideas and concepts that are readily at hand or within our circle of influence. Comprehension of ideas and concepts may include minute analysis of everyday mundane life processes like the simple awareness that one breathes. Consciousness is the mind...

here's another question... what would u rather eat (if this were the last meal on Earth and u'd die if u didn't eat it): (a) pudding that tastes like dog poo or (b) dog poo that tastes like pudding?

No he isn't. :smile:

Mr Robin Parsons, if u don't like watching or purchasing pirated or shared movie files then that's your calling. it's another thing to impose what u want on people who want to spend less on movies. Not everyone has the capacity to buy expensive, original copies especially people from where I...

cool! maybe i should start putting lemon in all alcoholic beverages in my boarding house's freezer because i think when women in my boarding house drink. i believe they are just pretending to be drunk. now i can catch them pretending to be drunk! or i could just play along...Ü

I don't like memorizing a list of facts. What I do though is make a drawing of a particular list, a drawing that can describe everything in the list. When a test calls for enumeration of such facts, I just try to remember what I drew and the rest is done! I also do acronyms or codenames for such...

i flunked "Fourier" series last sem... i plan to take it again next year, during the 1st semester. please recommend and help me find a good book about it. I'm just so terrible when it comes to fourier... thanks in advance!Ü patrick

“How can we agree on 'what is fair' until we can agree on 'what fair is'?” --Alexander Rohde How can we agree to what the solution to Philosophy is until we can agree on 'what philosophy is'? I don't totally agree to the reduction of Philosophy to semantic points. I have read your web...

haribol, regarding the possession of a body, Gabriel Marcel and Luij Pen (I don't know if i spelled pen's name correctly) offers a solution to the mind-body dualism issue: I am my body. The word MY expresses distance and possession yet the word AM expresses being in Being (unity). Luij says we...

For the benefit of everyone, I'm posting the meaning of aufurny's favorite word, semantic: se·man·tic adj 1. linguistics relating to words’ meanings: relating to meaning or the differences between meanings of words or symbols 2. linguistics of semantics: relating to semantics...

I'm a Christian! wooohooo!

I think Doc Ock's joke ridicules honesty (in terms of returning what one has found). Instead of returning the wad of 20's wrapped in a rubber band, the person who found it probably has already spent those 20's so all he has to return is the rubber band.