Philosophical Speculations

It's mostly so I'm able to make others happy, You can't make anyone happy. They get happy on their own. You might trigger something in another that then evokes happiness in them, but you can't "MAKE" someone happy. So stop trying. Just be your authentic self. Be aware. Be responsible. Be ...

I've heard of neuroscientists being absolutely sure that they know nothing is affecting the brain beyond matter and causing it diverge from expected cause/effect outcomes, what would this bode for the assertion that there is something to be made of higher domains or that any extra self control can ...

Bernardo seems embarrassingly uninformed about how neuroscience understands vision and other senses work. In the article, he seems to believe that materialism somehow requires that the brain be a passive recorder of the external world like a camera. I don't think that the brain can be compared with...