Questions tagged [dreams]
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Have the inventors of LLMs/image-generators/w/e fulfilled Kant's assertion about the "art" of the productive imagination?
Consider the part of the following text (from Kant) that I've emphasized in bold:
The conception of a dog indicates a rule, according to which my imagination can delineate the figure of a four-footed ...
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Is Oedipus/Electra Complex real? [closed]
Is it possible that the Oedipus Complex is real? Freud couldn't prove this because normal people were too afraid to come forward and testify to his theory.
My point is when we have erotic dreams, ...
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How to interpret sleep in metaphysical solipsism?
Sleep is a curious necessity for most beings and impacts health when neglected. How does metaphysical solipsism interpret this regular activity?
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From a solipsistic viewpoint, sleep could be ...
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Where is it that I go when I dream? Part 2
The body is often referred to by some as a "Temple". If it is a Temple, then to be awake is like standing outside of same during the day and to have a dream is like entering the foyer of it ...
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Does Descartes exclude madness from his meditations?
For Descartes, is madness fundamentally different to dreaming?
Reading these blog posts (I am unfamiliar with the discussion really), which has a few points against Foucault's analysis that it is ...
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How certain should you be of not dreaming when you’re awake? [closed]
Presumably, you’re reading this while you’re awake. How certain are you that you’re awake? And how much of a sliver of doubt should you have that you’re possibly dreaming? If we think in terms of ...
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Which branch combines solipsism and monism?
Which branch of philosophy whole-heartedly accepts (and builds upon) that only self exists (solipsism) and the universe is the part/creation of self (monism) by eliminating the possibility of ...
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Are we awake, or are we dreaming that we are awake? [closed]
What is the difference between our dreams and our so called awakened state? Are they not both being witnessed by the same "awareness"? Do they not both feel real as we are experiencing them,...
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The Philosophy of Mutual Dreaming in the New SpongeBob Movie: Ontological as well as Metaphysical?
So, in the movie SpongeBob: Sponge on the Run, Patrick states that:
"Two people cannot have the same dream, let alone be in that same dream at the same time. This is philosophically untenable.&...
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Is dying in a simulation ever sufficient for death, and if not does that make death inconceivable?
Is dying in a simulation -- any simulation at all -- ever physically sufficient to die at that instant outside it?
I mean a simulation like in the film the Matrix, or in a dream, one that kills your ...
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Are dreams just the world without the big Other?
Are dreams an alternative world where there is no big Other as the ever observing agency mentioned by Lacan?
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How does Socrates's acting on a dream in Plato's Phaedo square with his rationality?
Socrates is a symbol of rational thinking. He called himself a lover of wisdom. But, on the other hand, he started to make music (poetry/composing) just on the direction of a voice that he heard in ...
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Why does the dream argument posit that the senses are untrustworthy when it's the mind that is being tricked?
According to the wiki of the dream argument, "the act of dreaming provides preliminary evidence that the senses we trust to distinguish reality from illusion should not be fully trusted, and therefore,...
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Why does striving to achieve my goals make me suffer so?
I am continually confused by my desires. Normally I love being alone, watching movies and eating snacks--just living life. But I don't know what devil has possessed me to desire more, to achieve more, ...
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Philosophy of dreams
According to some eastern teachings (Tantric, Buddhist, etc) it's a good thing to ponder and meditate on dreams:
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A person dreams of finding money or gold or any other luxuries. This
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Are we living or dreaming?
They say when you die your brain has approximately 8 seconds of brain activity in which you go into a dream state. Now it is know that in a dream state 8 seconds can feel like a lifetime in which you ...
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Can I know I am not dreaming if I can't tell the difference between sleep and wake?
I know this question has been asked before, so before you shut it down for being a duplicate, please hear me out. The answers I saw in other similar threads were not satisfactory to me and they left ...
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Have any thinkers applied empiricism to the dreaming and deep sleep states?
The Mandukya Upanishad is a philosophical text found in the Vedas, which are among the most important scriptures of Hinduism. Here is what V. Subrahmanya Iyer says in a foreword to a translation of ...
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Dreaming and Awakening: Both False?
Please pardon my layman's language as I am not a student of philosophy.
I was talking to a friend who has read Advaita Philosophy of Shankara in-depth. He iterated the fundamental theory of this ...
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Dreams inside dreams
When I was a little med student we had a philosophy lecturer in to talk about ethics and she mentioned the Chinese proverb about the man who dreamt he was a butterfly and now wasn't sure he wasn't the ...
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Convincing a brain in a vat of reality
Pondering at the arguments at wiki:
In other words, if a brain in a vat stated "I am a brain in a vat", it
would always be stating a falsehood. If the brain making this
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Can applicable skills be gained through dreaming?
Recently had a dream where I was in a situation I have never been before in "real life" - (no real experience prior to the dream of this situation).
After waking, all the feelings, thoughts, ...
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Does Descartes prove that he isn't dreaming?
I had a midterm question where this was relevant, essentially it was:
"Assuming you're an atheist, how would you prove to Descartes that your last vacation wasn't a dream?"
I put that since ...
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Who was the philosopher with the thought experiment about the king who dreamt he was a pauper?
The story went, a king dreamt he was a pauper every night, and a pauper dreamt he was a king every night. The philosopher asked whether there was a difference between the two.
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How does one know one is not dreaming?
How could one logically demonstrate to someone skeptical that one is "really" there, and awake, and not just dreaming about the entire world around them?
Which philosophers or philosophies ...
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