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This is their chart by the way

>>19327755
A lot of /x/ finds it pretentious because of the meaning behind it. But I found it spooky at times

Which ISU? For Indiana, I'd say there's a few more things around here, as far as urban legends go

How do you know it was Enki/Ea?

>>19327652
Really though? What about this exactly is so frightening? The breathing on the mic or the guy trying to make 1337 H@x0rz sound like gods?

>>19327652
Stop shilling your shitty channel, please.

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>>19327551
YOUTUBE
>The Introspective Argument:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l1lQMCOguw
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4DyfIsj8FU
>Dr. David Chalmers explains why materialism is false
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdbs-HUAxC8
>Why substance dualism is roundly rejected in contemporary philosophy of mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVbG90kr1B0

Substance Dualism is laughed at nowadays.

The idea of a ghost in the machine absurd giving the interactions of mind and brain. Destroy a part of the brain and you destroy conscious mechanisms. If the mind were like a ghost piloting the machine then the ghost should remain intact whether the machine is damaged.

However, people take this to imply materialism/physicalism: that we are nothing more than our physical makeup and our mind is either housed in our brains (almost like dualism) or is identical to our brains and/or its functions. This is a non-sequitur. This only implies that substance dualism is false.

More to come on materialism/physicalism (from here on known as physicalism)

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Physicalism suggests that all of reality is composed of matter or the physical, which is supposed to be non-mental and exists independently of consciousness (objective). However, consciousness exists (subjective). We know consciousness exists more certainly than anything at all. Even if you're skeptical about whether you're in the matrix or if this is a dream, you're still aware that you're aware in each scenario. No matter what you're still conscious, this you definitely know for sure if there is anything that can be said to be known for sure. However, this is impossible if all of reality is supposed to be physical, which is non-mental. If all is non-mental how can there be the mental? This is where reductionism fails on its face given the hard problem of consciousness.

From here the only way out for the physicalist is to a) deny consciousness, which is simply contradictory given we are most certain about the awareness of our awareness more than anything in our perceptions or ideas or b) embrace non-reductive physicalism.

However, this cannot work as noted by Jaegwon Kim in the Exclusion Problem. You will either end up lapsing right back into a substance dualism or you will fail to account for mental causation and you're right back to the mind-body problem of substance dualism all over again.

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Idealism works as a perfect alternative to Substance Dualism and Physicalism. Idealism embraces the reality of consciousness without trying to reduce it, thus avoiding the hard problem of consciousness altogether, and embraces a non-physicalist monism which faces no exclusion problem whatsoever so there's no issue of mental causation. No mind-body problem, and no skeptical problems if all of reality is consciousness. This works as a perfect ontology and epistemology and could provide fertile ground for a meta-ethics given morality seems tied to conscious agents most of all rather than non-conscious entities

>>19327506
You're fine anon you have a wide range of emotions like myself. We are complex people, just like many many other people. Many narrow their spectrum of emotions and thought patterns throughout the years to define their ego, but it's not necessary in the least. Although you should place some goals for yourself and make some life plans etc.

But what you are going through is absolutely normal.

>>19327528
>Although you should place some goals for yourself and make some life plans etc.

I think this is what I struggle with. How do I make life plans when I don't even know who I am as a person or what I want? I feel like I'm missing my soul or something that defines who I am. I look inside myself and there is nothing there.

See also: Yaldaboath and the demiurge

Because they haven't taken the quantum immortality pill and don't realize they are already in hell and the fact that they will live forever here is the eternal suffering.

>>19327363
>quantum immortality
Unproven. But it would be an interesting sort of hell.

Yes, they all seem to be pretty much the same

I've crossed paths with some strange people innawoods but where I live is pretty well known for meth labs and weed farms so they were probably just tweakers. They never really approached me or talked to me, they just walked funny and had a wild look in their eyes.

>>19327971
Yeah that sounds pretty creepy

>>19327243
Remember that you can find, and be found by, things you're not looking for. Bears, rattlesnakes, meth cookers, et cetera.
Out in the woods, it's on you to not get lost, starve, dehydrate, freeze, heatstroke, fall down a hole, or get eaten. Being prepared is more fun than dying.

>>19327096
Wut

>>19327078
>>19325152
Spammer.

self bump because fuck y'all

that cat looks fishy

>>19326585
google