Sometimes people speak of “objective reality”, but objectivity is actually just the most unbiased treatment of things that we can mentally construct through the gathering and scrutiny [...]
Everything a person believes starts within their own mind as perceptions, emotions, and other experiences that are operated on through the innate capabilities of the brain. It is easy enough to [...]
When a person is born, their mind is not a blank slate because humans do have certain innate knowledge that is determined by DNA, but nearly all knowledge that a full grown adult has was gained [...]
All empirical knowledge is formed through a combination of experience (sense, emotions, etc.), reasoning (that which is logically implied by other knowledge), and a priori knowledge. So this [...]
Throughout most of human history, a large majority of people lived in chronic poverty, where food was difficult to attain, deadly diseases were rampant, and violence was the most common way of [...]
In a recent post, I explored the pros and cons of two foundational ways of looking at reality: naturalism and idealism. The only solid conclusions that came out of this are that naturalism and [...]
There is a multitude of emotions that one can experience. One’s experience of emotion is determined by the innate functions of the brain that are triggered by one’s senses, reasoning, and [...]
If the brain is functioning well, one can often recall some of the details of their past experiences so as to produce new experiences that are similar to the original. When one remembers an idea [...]
Our minds have an innate capacity for logic, which allows us to come to reasoned conclusions on the basis of information that is already given. The logical conclusions that we come to are not [...]
Amidst all of the clashes of worldviews that we observe in our global society, we can see that the world is suffering from a deep philosophical crisis, and we need a new approach to dealing with [...]
