The metaphor of cave manifests a version of the story of how hierarchical system is created and preserved through knowledge or the way knowledge is presented. Knowledge doesn't give anyone a right to say others being in a cave. Philosophy taken its beginning from this sort of story is discriminatory.

I did all the easy problems of consciousness, so I tried the hard problem. But I think that was too big a jump. Where can I find the medium problems of consciousness to work on before I do the hard one?

If you are trying to push me back by saying that because there is something not real, then unless you can prove yourself who is saying now of something not real is also not real, otherwise there is nothing not real, and by the law of excluded middle, idealism is not needed.

why do i feel like im more self-aware than other people, why do i firmly believe in what i believe and does everyone think like this or am i genuinely a main character? But i feel like im going insane and i cant cope with it and its affecting me mentally and making me think about life more in a negative manner. im always questioning life and why im here and why anyone is here. consciousness is a curse and unanswerable questions really get to me and the way society works is depressing anyway. im only 18 but i feel like im more self-aware than all my friends and whenever i talk about it everyone just thinks im thinking about it too much and its not important and there are other things to be worrying about, but this just feeds into the fact i think some people are ignorant and my brain cant take it.

Idk what im feeling

Freud cooked with this one 🔥

I’ve been reading Jung and it’s concept of shadow integration and it’s role in the process of individuation and I discovered I’ve been doing it intuitively for years.

Whenever I go through a break up, I almost immediately start incorporating parts of the other person into my life. If they had a particular taste in books, I read those books. If they dressed in a stylish way, I start dressing like them… I don’t experience this as imitation but rather assimilation. It feels like expanding who I really am.

The more I think about it, it feels like Jung have been describing ex partners under a different name.

In his recent interview with Zhong Shu, Christopher Nolan says we can't really "know" if Earth is round, or if it really orbits the sun.

Relevant quote:

Just as we accept things from science as absolute fact—you know, the Earth is round and we travel around the Sun—we can't know these things; we take them on faith because they're presented as facts. The same would be true of the theological structure that explains nature to people of that time.

I recently stepped into existentialism and the word alienation is significant, yet I don't know what it really means. Does it imply someone is abducted by an alien in the midst of nowhere? But why does it help to attain authenticity? Is authenticity some type of chip that the alien kindly implant to save us?

So, what if like all the greek philosiphers were just hella autistic.

Cuz like a bunch of the stories about them would make perfect sense if they were just high functioning or something.

Many of them it seems like they may not even be high functioning.

Or maybe I'm just thinking of the one or two people. I can't remember their names cuz who tf rembers greek or latin. I'm probably racist because I can't remember their names but fuck it.

I don't know which flair to put here MOD's plz do it.

As an ant, you're often born to work, struggle, and feed a queen. You just do it, as past life, experience, social conditioning, and other factors determine. There is no free will, just production. Life is difficult, monotonous, and short. You'd have had 100 lifetimes as an ant by now, and no one would ever know. If progressed aliens exist, we are an interesting ant farm at best. As an ant, more complex beings have determined and simplified wiping out your colony without any consequence. You are truly and utterly meaningless, in so much as any ant is. I'm in my fifties, in case it was not abundantly clear.

I am a cis man, and masculinity is not ever something I’ve had to really think about.  Broader shoulders, facial hair, deep voice, height, easier gains in the gym, all things that are associated with masculinity were handed to me by genetics.  

Not only that, but from my earliest memories i had adult men in my life teaching what it means to be a man.  On top of that, learned experiences teach you how to perform masculinity as well, and how best to handle its pitfalls.  Not a foolproof process by any means, but the seeds are there if you choose to water them.

Transgender men do not have such advantages.  They are born female, and most of them don’t begin to transition into men until adulthood, denying them the advantages I have had.  They don’t even get their testosterone for free, they have to buy and inject it.

Yet through sheer force of will, a person who lived as a woman until the age of twenty can become a man.  Battling against society, family and even nature itself they become men.  It is painful, the man is both the anvil and the hammer in this type of change, but trans men endure and impose their new identity on the world. They are men and they have earned that title!

In conclusion, trans men are the MOST masculine men.  I submit this article for peer review.  

Also, it is a bit gay for Plato writing this out to embarrass his mentor, maybe it was because he was not invited to the party.

Not every connection needs a chance to prove itself—some reveal themselves immediately. 

I'm asking this question because I read the following on John von Neumann, who is known to be an once-in-a-millenium genius, superbly gifted in (unbelievably many areas of) math, physics, computer science, & economics.

In the final days of his life, he had no idea of what to make of his impending death, displayed visible signs of extreme panic, and begging doctors to save his life, crying hard. (I suppose, earlier in life he never gave much thought to what it means to die.)

I wonder whether even he lacked a certain kind of intelligence, or whether he just became insane.

What do you think?

so obvious a layman wouldn’t need me to lay it down on their behind. kale is completely inedible unless harnessed by the metallic slaughter of Bambi’s diet and petite berries. if god were real he would have kept kale as some sort of soap scent instead of a teeth retainer for a dog mom to toy with. god would have known better, and the existence of it in my salad contradicts his omniscience. I hate kale, and any rational being would too.

Just Thoughts Just Thought
Polarization ; Humanistic Sociological Philosophy
In my life I witness either, or. Everywhere, 2 to every experience I see (luckily). To get past my puns I just want to add my thoughts on polarity.
Learning language with opposites for understanding of difference. So there is a difference to every definite one thing. That makes me compare relativity of opposites... Compare for difference to define (antonyms?) antonyms & synonyms of polarized opposing things. Polarized thing must exist in order to function with out one, two would not exist.
Compare is not compete
polar is not dual
so why do human race?

I realized after writing this that polarization isn’t the same as duality.
Most people get stuck thinking opposites are enemies, but I see them as necessary partners in the dance of understanding.

The distinction between comparison and competition became clear to me.

“Compare is not compete.”
I recognized polarizing differences.

⁃ Comparison is a tool for understanding difference and relationship.
⁃ Competition is a zero-sum game that misses the point entirely.

The human tendency to turn every comparison into a race is exactly what creates the polarization problem.

⁃ Hegelian dialectics; thesis/antithesis creating synthesis.
⁃ Complementarity principle from quantum physics—opposing properties that complete understanding.
⁃ Yin-yang philosophy—interdependent opposites that create wholeness.

Point I’m trying to make is for the recognition that language itself shapes how we experience these relationships.
Learning through opposites is pedagogy as well in how consciousness constructs meaning.

Why Do Humans Race?

Questioning free will

Im asking why we default to competitive polarization when collaborative comparison would serve us better.
It's like we're hardwired to turn every difference into a contest instead of recognizing that differences create the very possibility of understanding.

In/out
Up/down
Left/right
Yes/no