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Redslay wrote:I'm curious if you think that being a self described psychopath will give you advantages in an objectivist environment. Is that what objectivism is... psychopaths looking out forthemselves and f'n over anyone they can as long as they get ahead?

Where did he say he was a psychopath?

I don't like the iphone just because it's with att. I like android because it does more and there are more free apps. If iphone moves to another service I will still prefer the android phones. This negates your argument that the iphone is infinately more popular and I'm sure I'm not the only one th...

The subjectivity is in the very nature of brain receiving and processing input. For such a process to be objective, each brain would have to experience exactly the same perceptions and reactions given identical input, which is demonstrably not the case. So if color-blind people can't see color, I t...

It's often mistakenly said that "Perception is reality." Don't equate perception with reality. They have very little to do with one another. A remains A whether we percieve it correctly to be so or not. believe it can, with the faith that I can trust my perception to reasonably represent ...

If a tree falls in the forest and no conscious entity is present to hear it, it still makes a sound. The impact causes vibration in the earth and air that exists regardless of any conscious witness. However, without any consciousness present to perceive the forest, it has no art. Uhm, I think you'r...

Do you mean that anything that is perceived by a human mind is therefore subjective? All perception is subjective, even of objective reality. That is the very nature of perception. To perceive thing external to your mind is to experience your own subjective awareness of it. Why? I think this is the...

[Moderator: split from Art topic] Do you mean that anything that is perceived by a human mind is therefore subjective? All perception is subjective, even of objective reality. That is the very nature of perception. To perceive thing external to your mind is to experience your own subjective awarene...

What are the reasons to accept such a definition of art, though? Reason itself is enough to accept truth. Art cannot exist without interpretation and reaction by a consciousness. It has to be by definition a personal subjective value on thought and perception. It is in essence a subjective preferen...

No artist, labor, thought, or producer is required. Can you give me an example of such art? Only as description from my own subjective experience, of course. I find my imaginings of the cosmos to be lovely art. As I meant in context, it would be more accurate to say that no external artist, labor, ...

Aye, 'tis what I was trying to get across. Art is produced through labor and thought for enjoyment, as you said, through sensory input. :) But not what I said. :) No artist, labor, thought, or producer is required. In fact no tangible object or phenomenon need even exist for art to be perceived. Th...

Argat Bogotsch wrote:Art is a product. The producer is the artist.

I don't consider art to exist independent of thought, it is a subjective quality of processing sensory input by a consciousness. Art does not exist in and of itself, it's a property of perception.

Quite simply, burden of proof is on the source of the assertion. This is a requirement of logic. I'm not sure if you mean "assertion" as the person laying forth a new claim/theory or the person claiming something as "true". It's irrelevant which. An assertion is an unambiguously...

Quite simply, burden of proof is on the source of the assertion. This is a requirement of logic. An assertion is that something _is_, not that something _is not_. Negation is an operator applied to assertion, it has no context otherwise. To turn it on it's head a bit conversationally, to prove that ...

Kushan wrote:Your Hawaiian mind-tricks will not work on us here!

Muahhahaha, I see they are working already...

Nothing washes down hard facts better than a little poi... 8)

Aloha! I enjoyed the application questionaire and am encouraged that Taggart appears to have a robust application process. I'm in the Hawaiian timezone, GMT -10 and intend to further my mining career before expanding into production activities. I've played many MMOs over the past 13 years but EVE is...