ship_shlap

• ship_shlapApr 23, 2024, 7:06 AM

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  in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: My at­tempt to ex­plain Look­ing, in­sight med­i­ta­tion, and en­light­en­ment in non-mys­te­ri­ous terms

  Based on the link, it seems you follow the Theravada tradition. The ideas you give go against the Theravada ideas. You need to go study the Pali Canon. This information is all wrong I’m afraid. I won’t talk more on the matter.

• ship_shlapApr 22, 2024, 3:17 PM

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  on: My at­tempt to ex­plain Look­ing, in­sight med­i­ta­tion, and en­light­en­ment in non-mys­te­ri­ous terms

  I won’t correct everything I find wrong, but I felt that the “Understanding Suffering” section was completely off. I will just mention one of the major points:

  
  Remember, enlightenment means that you no longer experience emotional pain as aversive. In other words, you continue to have “negative” emotions like fear, anger, jealousy, and so on—you just don’t mind having them.

  This is utterly wrong. Enlightenment in Buddhism means emotional pain cannot arise, period. In Buddhism, there are five “hindrances” or negative mental states: desire, aversion, compulsion/​agitation, slothfulness and remorse. This list is said to encapsulate all possible negative feelings. In an enlightened person, these hindrances cannot arise. The “fetter”, the bond which causes a person to experience these is uprooted.

  Secondly, in Buddhism, it’s believed that negative mental states are always a bad and painful experience so it’s impossible to not mind having them. If you think about it, you can’t be sad and not mind it. You can’t be angry but not mind it. There are a few Buddhist circles which believe you can be detached from anger or desire, but this doesn’t make sense because in Buddhist theory, such mental states arise from attachment in the first place.

• ship_shlapJul 12, 2023, 3:00 AM

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  on: Con­scious­ness as a con­fla­tion­ary al­li­ance term

  Small typos in Section: Purposefulness

  These is a sense that one’s live has meaning

  Consciousness is a deep the experience of that self-evident value

  Interesting post!

• ship_shlapAug 7, 2022, 4:24 AM

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  in reply to: ship_shlap’s comment on: A Solu­tion to the De­sire-Ac­tion Conundrum

  I take back this comment

• ship_shlapMay 27, 2022, 6:58 PM

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  on: Belief in the Im­plied Invisible

  “So does it boil down to, “I believe the photon goes on existing as it wings
  off to nowhere, because my priors say it’s simpler for it to go on existing than
  to disappear”?
  This is what I thought at first, but on reflection, it’s not quite right. (And
  not just because it opens the door to obvious abuses.)
  I would boil it down to a distinction between belief in the implied invisible,
  and belief in the additional invisible.”

  Eliezer, what are these obvious abuses?

• ship_shlapMay 23, 2022, 1:47 AM

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  in reply to: Sebastian_Hagen2’s comment on: Zom­bies! Zom­bies?

  -Conceivability vs Actual Logical Possibility
  -Mysteriousness is our projection of it/​how we view it, nothing is inherently mysterious—reductionism

• ship_shlapMay 19, 2022, 6:58 PM

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  on: Brain Break­through! It’s Made of Neu­rons!

  I remember reading that Aristotle initially thought that the brain was meant for cooling the blood. That was my basis in physicalism, super humbling and it made me think about all this stuff in terms of how it would be discover something or formulate a theory for the first time, to get rid of the “conventionally known” fact realm for everything I knew and seeing how I would think out the problem. Made me feel like a caveman, but a rational one.

• ship_shlapMar 11, 2022, 9:08 PM

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  on: 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

  Number 9, “dis ease” typo

• ship_shlapMar 7, 2022, 2:12 AM

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  in reply to: Alex Vermillion’s comment on: You’d Want The Right Answer

  My point was that we’re talking about getting the best answer assuming the professors also know the best answer. I feel like it’s nitpicking to go around diving deep in arguing about the assumptions. The point of the article still stands.

You’d Want The Right Answer

The Myth of the Blue Sun­light

• ship_shlapFeb 24, 2022, 5:58 PM

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  in reply to: Lee_Corbin’s comment on: Words as Men­tal Paint­brush Handles

  I don’t have anything important to add but the inability to visualize is called Aphantasia and some people still have it today.

• ship_shlapFeb 15, 2022, 3:25 AM

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  in reply to: tcpkac’s comment on: Ta­boo Your Words

  You missed the point. It’s about 1) Getting two people to confess their true meanings of the word ‘sound’, because both of them have a different meaning in a forest-sound situation, 2) Getting rid of empty labels or their illusion of inference and to uphold the empirical weight of a definition, 3) Forget the ‘common usage’ idea, 4) other reasons that are not coming to mind yet

  Edit: The next article after this discusses better why Taboo for rationalists helps

• ship_shlapFeb 14, 2022, 5:14 PM

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  in reply to: meedstrom’s comment on: Real Reality

  Thanks, edited it.

• ship_shlapFeb 8, 2022, 5:32 PM

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  in reply to: Ape in the coat’s comment on: A Solu­tion to the De­sire-Ac­tion Conundrum

  That’s true, but only to the individual level. The problem lies in finding an optimal solution for the individual which still sufficiently benefits the collective.

• ship_shlapFeb 7, 2022, 6:09 PM

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  in reply to: superads91’s comment on: A Solu­tion to the De­sire-Ac­tion Conundrum

  That’s true. I’ve always thought that Buddhism’s concepts were great but then the ideal Buddhist would be someone who spends his entire life meditating. I saw a documentary on it, and the monks would receive all of their food from donations. If everyone was a Buddhist, no one would have anything to receive as donations. There would be no donations because there’s no one there to do any work. Therefore I believe Buddhism is flawed, but it’s ideas are still useful and so they should be practiced to a certain degree.

A Solu­tion to the De­sire-Ac­tion Conundrum

• ship_shlapFeb 7, 2022, 4:12 PM

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  in reply to: Ape in the coat’s comment on: A Solu­tion to the De­sire-Ac­tion Conundrum

  Omg I didn’t realize that saved drafts were public. This is only my 3rd writing piece so I didn’t know :)

  Yes I plan to show a possible solution

  I’m going to finish it today

  Edit: I’ve finished it. I see you’re saying the answer seems obvious. Can you explain that? It’s not obvious to me at all, so I’m curious about what you think :)

Real Reality

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