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By Dale, on April 12th, 2010%
The ‘proper’ basis for the personal identity of any given human is a hard thing to derive… if you’re limited to the tools of, say, science. Science wonderfully (and tragically in the case of murder, hate, discrimination, etc.) describes what humans ‘do’ (human doings), but not what/who humans ‘are’ (human beings).
I’d want to affirm that ‘doing’ (as well as ‘knowing’ and ‘feeling’) is a necessary component of what a human ‘being’ is, but not the whole composition. Any identity based on only feelings, actions and intelligence alone is incomplete and leaves out something. Continue reading sex & identity
By Dale, on January 29th, 2009%
…of “all of [them] on the Facebook Team” to wish me a happy (30th) birthday (on the ’30th’ of January). Continue reading how nice…
By Dale, on January 28th, 2009%
Consciousness is at least sentience, but not less.
We can imagine a spectrum of least sentient to most sentient. The nearest animals to humans, in this case, would (obviously!) have the closest kind of sentience to humans. But (however this ‘emerged’ or came to be) humans are ultra-sentient. We have more than sensation (sentience); we also have a perceiving, yearning kind of consciousness. We are self aware of our own self awareness. Continue reading sentience and consciousness
By Dale, on October 27th, 2008%
Epistemology is (loosely defined) as the study of knowledge.
As the ending of this very sentence will show, it is circular to assume ( that is, before investigation or a priori ) that you know what it means to know something (i.e. that you know what knowledge is!). Continue reading knowing about knowing
By Dale, on September 12th, 2008%
(Click the post title to see the 19.5 week scan!)  Continue reading here’s looking at (our) kid
By Dale, on August 7th, 2008%
Have a read.
It’s not just those fundamentalist, conservative, annoying Christians who are concerned about our western . . . → Read More: so sexy so soon
By Dale, on May 8th, 2008%
I’ve posted before on this topic, and thought I’d share a bit more about it. Hopefully, these thoughts will be helpful in aiding fruitful discussion…
I’ve observed a distinction between 3 things that I feel are necessary to distinguish between in order to most helpfully discuss the topic of sexuality. Actually, these three things can, I suggest, be distinguished helpfully when discussing other topics as well… See what you think…
Continue reading sexual identity – again…
By Dale, on May 1st, 2008%
 There are a few, perhaps, who would answer this question with a casual (or insistent) “None. Get over it”, but most, I suspect, would agree: porn (obviously only for societies that have it) is a problem.
Some better questions would be ‘what kind of problem is it?’, ‘where does it come from?’ and ‘how do people deal with it?’
Jason Byassee has written an interesting article over at ‘First Things’ website. He refers to a book by Pamela Paul, ‘Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families’, whose Times article titled ‘The Porn Factor’ begins with this synopsis of a ‘Friends’ episode: Continue reading what’s the problem with porn?
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