RE: On Genuine Conversation
wow, what a list!
I was just reading a little across. A debate about unresolved problems would probably raise more questions than answers, but I think that would be the point of such a debate?
Hehe. At the beginning of the Wiki entry examples were given:
"What is the meaning of life?", "Where did we come from?", "What is reality?
Where I am now in life, the first two questions are predestined to take up the question of creation. Since I now agree with the Buddhists that the question of the origin of life is only relevant to the extent that one comes to the conclusion that it is quite useless:) There is no beginning without an instance of creation. For me personally this is okay and I have hardly any debating spirit left in it.
The question "What is reality?" is much more exciting to me. I have written two articles about it.
Maybe we should - if we agree on an idea or simply exchange ideas - choose a topic on which each of us has not yet written any concrete thoughts or texts? What would be your preferred topic from the wiki list?
Tough question, there's so many good ones: qualia, the hard problem of conciousnes, why there is existence rather than non-existence, counterfactual conditionals.... many are unsolvable in my view, and that's what's so interesting.
I'm sure there is a lot of overlap within them too. Having a number of articles on the same topic will certainly spark some complicated and rich discussion...
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If we get more people involved we could do a suggestion round and then a vote from a short list...
I am thinking about how to / if to organise. I'm still very small time plankton but I do think something like this would give some direction and a sense of community to a scattered group of non-fiction / mind science thinkers...
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Let's hear what Kimberly is saying.
There are many in philosophy interested people here, but not actually a community, as far as I know. I do sometimes write science related articles for the steemstem-community but there the talk about philosophical matters is limited.
Maybe we could open up a philosophers round but then this would be going to be a lot of work. Building a community is quite an effort here.
I sometimes asked myself how much time I can spare for how many communities and I always come to the conclusion that I already came to my limit. On the other hand, you never will get any significant success when you are a lonely rider. Which is fine, as well. Depends on the goals one has ...
You're right, does sound like a lot of work which is why I need to consider it more... and (hopefully); become more established on Steem.
I never know what to write about so will use some of those questions as I for myself in the meantime..
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good.
Are you aware that the next hard fork is going to take place today? They will work on the blockchain:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/launch?iso=20180925T15&p0=%3A&msg=Steem%20HardFork%2020&font=cursive
Yep, thanks. I was assuming everything would go well enough, of course I could be wrong...
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