This is a question I thought of surrounding the problem of other minds (Given that I can only observe the behavior of others, how can I know that others have minds?) — TigerFan98
this is an entirely fatuous OP. — Wayfarer
In my opinion there are no non conscious, everything has a consc, but consc types vary; someone may be 1/16 quantum, others may be 1/1 quantum and there could be other types other than quantum(or as you would term 'real', instead of quantum, but I find quantum a better term because something that is, improperly defined as unreal, if existent, is also real, so this real/unreal logic doesn't work - the correct term is Quantum.) — Barkon
But I think it’s also important to have a forum category where people can ask for help or advice about something. Sometimes people find themselves lost in their life and need some help or guidance to get out of their predicament, and sometimes the help they need is found neither in their family, friends, or medical practitioners but in philosophy. Many times people have come here and said that they didn’t know who else to ask because there are certain subjects they can’t discuss with someone they know, either because it’s too personal or because they feel misunderstood, and in that respect the openness of philosophy is important. That’s also partly the job of therapists, but therapists are not always good philosophers, and their help comes with a price while some members here are happy with trying to help people. This isn’t to say that we’re all great philosophers (at least many of us are trying), and this isn’t to say either that we will always have the perfect answer to some problem, but if we can offer some help or guidance to people who need it and don’t manage to find it anywhere else, I think it’s important to allow that kind of threads somewhere in the forum. — leo
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