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lust affection parental concern amee (friendship) dependence and similar imprinting protectiveness I'm sure there are more

Yeah. My mum was an alchoholic. She was smarter than dad but hard to deal with as the eldest of 3.

Love is a part of a set of instincts that get us to produce children and protect them and one another. It is selective to a degree, since you don't love a house fly the same way you love your wife or children. This is a problem with the word love being somewhat overloaded. Its difficult for...

Data required: Is the wood arranged to be a water tight vessel with no "foundation" on the ground? What size was the artifact? Has it ever been immersed in ocean waters? If so what is the pattern of the immersion? Is there an accumulation of mixed species of animal droppings, especially those...

When asked about our "nature" you are not being asked what "a nature" is, you are being asked what "kind of nature" is it that you propose we have? Do we have a carnivorous nature? Do we have a nature that prefers extremes to moderation? Do we have a nature that always blunts intellect? Do we...

I sit at the default position that there is no objective objective until one can be shown to exist. I have no need for an objective objective or even the possibility of one, so your comment "To recapitulate, the possibility of an objective objective, as long as it is not disproved, is essential...

I used to practice pretend talking to my dad when I needed support or help with tough decisions. He lived 3 days travel away by car and I didn't call him, just pretended he was there to talk to. Sadly when he died I just couldn't do it any more, so I do need a new pretend confidant. Gods don't...

Formal logic is not the be all and end all of philosophy. There's epistemology, ethics, aesthetics. Boolean logic does not properly handle indeterminate sets (informally known as fuzzy sets / fuzzy logic), of which it is a sub set. Consider a car parked in parking space B, except its front left...

Seriously, we need a popcorn icon.

:oops: aaaaw shucks.

I would agree with that but then a rule to make facial expressions readable would require no face tatoos, excessive makeup, face studs or face lifts.

Just chewing the popcorn. (I note a lack of popcorn emotie for this site. I will write a stiff letter to the times about it!)

Can a brick be conscious? Can humans other than yourself be conscious? Show your reasoning.

Lots of othering code names here in Oz: Illegal Immigrants = refugees desperately looking for help. Greenies = anyone getting in the way of big business concerns (used to be communists).

Tradition is something handed down with the expectation it will be accepted rather than examined. Science is not a tradition. Its underlying philosophical structure is tested and kicked at every possible turn. That science, as it currently embodied, "works" (i.e. produces useful results) is an...

The rules are that the court should not place unnecessary burdens on the participants, as that may warp their equal ability to defend themselves. The court does not require anyone to be identifiable while in the doc as long as they are known to be that person by some means. If someone wants to...

The "There was probably someone that Jesus story was based on" claim is as bad as the undefined concept of god one. Give a definition of this person that Jesus was based on so we can examine that scenario. Is that scenario necessary and consistent with reality. Does it outweigh the scenarios...

Sexual relations between parents and children and between young siblings are very problematic. Power plays, levels of immaturity and general betrayals of trust arise and cause emotional harms. So taboos here are healthy. Once siblings have matured they generally carry those taboos into...

Yeah hack, 'tis I.

Most people have a care for themselves. If something benefits them they may call it good, if it harms them they may call it bad. When living in a world with other people, if you think as I described you will wish to solicit behaviours from others that are beneficial to you and discourage...