We can never know what is going on in the OP's mind because he always tends to not answer our thoughts and posts:cry: — javi2541997

He has the right to remain silent! :lol:

Perhaps I speak too soon - the circumstances are such that some of the traits we possess can't be identified as good/bad for survival; are some qualities we possess being maintained/honed/discarded? Only time will tell I guess. In addition we seem to have created a quasi-Matrix-like artificial world for ourselves with its own set of rules and only a handful will survive for more than a few hours out in the wild.

Wonderful! Abso-fucking-lutely hits the nail on the head. While painful memories are included under forgettable moments, I'm mainly concerned about, in a manner of speaking, junk files - they do consume valuable real estate, oui monsieur?

No matter. :cool: I just posed a question to think about. Philosophy is all about missing questions not 'truth'. It's aporia. — magritte

Aporia is somehow supposed to induce/lead up to ataraxia. No clues as to how and why (Wikipedia's not helpful on that front).

The OP maybe conflating chronos with logos.

This :point: The Unexplainable is right up your alley.

Can you be a little more specific? — Alkis Piskas

As of now, can't find the words! Apologies!

Right you are! Aye, aye!

Are you by any chance referring to holism and/or superorganisms? Of course you are; silly me!

Having a lively imagination is no excuse to misunderstand what possible interpretations exist. Biological facts do not support a teleological interpretation. Period. — Benkei

Mea culpa. Philosophy ain't no picnic. Sometimes, I feel like I came to the wrong place!

The wise one avoids problems.
The virtuous one solves problems.

:snicker:

There are certain priniciples e.g. the PSR (the principle of suffucient reason) that have to be, well, assumed innocent until proven guilty.

:pray:

2 × -3 = 0 + -3 + -3= -6 (add -3 twice to 0)

-2 × -3 = 0 - (-3) - (-3) = [(+6) + (-6)] - (-3) - (-3) = +6 + [(-6) - (-3) - (-3)] = +6 + [(-3) - (-3)] = +6 [subtract -3 twice from 0]

:snicker:

On point!

No it isn't. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of how evolution works to suggest we're programmed for a purpose — Benkei

The purpose is inferred from facts as they stand/appear to us. Objection sustained!

My life ain't something to brag about but here I am, (seemingly) content, happy enough to want to keep breathing.

That's not food for thought, that is a regression to Aristotlean teleology instead of taking into account what we know now about evolution. — Benkei

Fallacy of composition?

It is an interesting line of inquiry though, oui? Bios may have a shelf-life i.e. it has an expiry date but we're not talking of mere kiloyears here; think geological timescales. Most ELEs (extinction level events) have been external ones but it's possible that there could be internal gene-based extinction codes that could be turned on after some millions/billions of years. Random thought.

Fiction & so-called sublime doodads seem to take the edge off dukkha - by just the right amount and just long enough - to make us wanna procreate. Ah, but I repeat myself.

A thousand apologies. — Ranjeet

Now for the philosophical point (remembering that I don't care what Catholics think, I only care about what makes sense - which seems very different). — Bartricks

:up:

That the Hindus did commendable work on negative numbers is part of mathematical canon. Thanks for the memory refersher!

If the mind's divisble...

Oh, do you regret not living in Peoria? — Bitter Crank

Now that you mention it, I quite do (regret not living Peoria)!

Most interesting. — Ms. Marple

Food for thought (re anti-life)

1. We're all programmed to die (senex) in a manner of speaking

What if, just what if, bio (life itself) is also programmed to, well, die (off)/go exitinct?

We've had enough. — Jamal

Life sucks, eh? :snicker:

@Alkis Piskas (re your optical illusion). Something doesn't add up!

I'm interested in bank interest rates and how they relate to inflation. What is the point of depositing x dollars in a bank with y% interest if the rate of inflation is such that the amount at the end of say 5 years $\leq$ the amount I deposited at the beginning of those 5 years. We're being fleeced, robbed in broad daylight, oui? :snicker:

P.S. I'm poor! :grin:

The first culture to do math with negative numbers was the Chinese and they didn't have the concept of 0. I wonder what their definition of negative numbers was.

That sounds about right to me. Scientists freely determine the bounds and setup of controlled observation and analysis. In between, the experiment proceeds in the physical world in real time independent of humans. Experimental details are indeterminate to start until analysis succeeds in sifting planned or fortuitous often statistical information from the data. So the simplified question becomes what small part of nature can be described by any logic.

What would nature do in our absence, could there possibly be any conditions for either determinism or free will? — magritte

In this case I merely paraphrased Wikipedia! :lol:

Pain, as of the moment, taking into account our biology, is absolutely critical for survival - consider it a necessary evil if you will. Our nociceptive systems have evolved to be hypersensitive - pain is many times more intense than is warranted for the severity of the injury i.e. it breaks the cardinal rule of proportio divina and is disproportionate, ugly, hideous, grotesque. Pain makes complete sense to me!

We're pattern chasers! That, however, ain't the whole story, oui?

Superb post!

Given the choice truth or survival, we've been programmed to opt for the latter. A delusion/illusion can make the difference between life and death and hence the abundance of cognitive biases which, though leads us away from the truth, keeps us safe and sound.

Anal intercourse more common among straights than gays? Not likely. 80% of gay men report anal intercourse while about a third of straights report anal intercourse. And the third of heterosexuals reporting anal intercourse ay not be your typical couple in Peoria or suburban Atlanta: — Bitter Crank

I stand corrected but lament the fact.

It's true that Alzheimer's is treated as a debilitating illness and so is amnesia. I was simply wondering if DC/Marvel comics could create a superhero whose superpower is, well, an awful memory; something tells me it will be a huge success. Picture Lemo-man, unable to recall a vital piece of info Thanos/Darkseid needs to destroy the universe! :snicker:

Of course. Don't play dumb. — Jamal

Copy that!

Wow! A question: Is there anything in your life that you don't want to remember or wish you could forget (but can't)? There's no need to breach your confidentiality protocol though. Up to you how to answer the query.

Plus, do you have an argument, weak/strong doesn't matter, why forgetfullness is a weakness and not a strength?

Oh, before I forget ( :grin: ), I wanna thank you for your post - very informative!

I think we're on the same page. A philosophy book should tell us about the/our world. It can do this be focusing on the 'how' of our seeing it, and phen. sometimes does this well (Heidegger's hammer is cool!). I'm mostly just griping that constructing the world from the inside out doesn't make much sense. Yet it's taken as the 'obvious' starting point. It's like 'well clearly Venusians run the world, but we don't know if it's through the CIA or the Girls Scouts of America.' — Pie

Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist, science educator, author) said something to the effect that the universe isn't in any way obligated to make sense to humans - it (the universe) can, it looks as though, do whatever the hell it wants; humans and their silly standards, bah! :snicker:

@Jamal (mod), is this post ok?

Finally!

@180 Proof

Recall you divided the mind into 3 parts:

1. Metacognition
2. Cognition
3. Subcognition

Bravo!

Assuming all these 3 aspects of the mind have something to do with memory, I would like to query "is there a (very good) reason why we forget?" In other words, is a photographic/eidetic memory a curse?

Assuming evolution is true,

1. Our senses would've evolved to get as close to the truth as possible as any deviation from veracity would significantly lower one's odds of survival, sensu amplo, oui monsieur?

2. If one studies/examines life rationally, it sometimes feels pointless, vide the alleged Sisyphusean nightmare scenario as depicted by Albert Camus. Ergo, evolution could've/should develop systems that in a sense lessen the burden of existence and one way of doing that is to create illusions that deceive us into thinking life is, to put it mildly, abso-fucking-lutely amazin' (maya).

If evolution is to succeed with humans, it has to balance reality with illusion, hit the sweet spot so to speak just so that we stay alive long enough to transfer our genes to the next generation. Wicked!

All that I can say is that, absit iniuria, homosexuals seem to be the chink our armor against certain, not all, infections. I hope I don't ruffle any feathers in stating what appears to be a fact.

That said, homosexuality just doesn't revolve around (anal) sex, it's a bona fide culture onto itself, complex to boot and we maybe guilty of the fallacy of oversimplifed cause.