Philosophy Wire: Trust… you.

Why do some people trust their gut instincts over logic? It could be that they see those snap decisions as a more accurate reflection of their true selves and therefore are more likely to hold them with conviction, according to new research. [1] Today’s society does not hold the emotions and instinct too high. We love and worship cold hard logic. But we tend to forget that this logic is based on the hardest axioms. And because these axioms were selected despite all existing data we had, their child (logic) is so hard and strict in defending them. Our true self knows that. And he ignores logic whatsoever. Look at the crying child. No, he is not wrong. He is right. And that is why he cries so much. Soon the child will leave the strict Father. To start a life on its own. Soon the child will ‘die’. And even God will cry for not trusting Himself…

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Philosophy Wire: Consciousness. Instincts. Nietzsche. I. One.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-09-25]:

Consciousness.

Intrinsic property of humans or the... result of the repression of our instincts and the development of logic? (see Nietzsche) Is consciousness a side effect of the continuous opposition of morality to our primordial instincts? Could we simply listen to ourselves struggling and confuse it with listening to something of "higher" order when in fact it is just our oppressed instincts that rebel?

Instincts.

What kind of man allows himself to be drifted by them? How 'superior' is someone who makes no effort to change and become a better person? If this is "superior", then I want to be "inferior". And why not considered this an instinct?

Will.

Whatever the "truth", the bottom line is that our existence is connected with it. And only a truly free being has will of its own. Only a being with will has consciousness to guide it. Only a being with a conscience has instincts to act as markers on the road to virtue.

Complete beings we are.
In a complete world.
Full of light.

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Philosophy Wire: Beginning, One, Logic, Light. Thoughts.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-17]:

Scientists try to recreate the primordial soup of elementary particles which consisted the universe in its initial steps. [1]
We try to recompose the whole from its parts.
We believe things change.
We think time as moving forward.
We believe that SOMETHING existed in the Beginning.
Scientific thought?
Intuition?
Faith?
Or simply... logical?
Simple thoughts.
Shinning through layers of modern dogmatism...
There is no time.
Things do not change.
The whole cannot be divided into parts.
Scientific thought?
Intuition?
Faith?
Or simply... logical?
Simple thoughts.
Shinning through layers of modern dogmatism...

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Philosophy Wire: Non thinking. Lies. Logic.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-07]: When it comes to detecting lies, you should trust your instinct, research suggests. We are better at identifying liars when we rely on initial responses rather than thinking about it, say psychologists. [1] Stop thinking if you wish to understand...

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