Recent content by TransientMoment

I live alone... I prefer to be alone... I get energized by being alone. For projects, I sometimes envision working with other people, but then when I think about my role, I do pretty much everything. I'm a philosophical guy, a deep thinker, and a sci major. My social skills are lacking, which...

Is it just me or is it that INTPs here tend to pick videos with really weird screenshots?

The psychophysical harmony argued isn't based on just "matching" reality, as if somehow our brains correlated with reality to match inputs. The real peculiarity is that the experienced states are the same for everyone. That is, I feel pain for the same reasons someone else feels pain, and I feel...

Modern laws have morphed the idea of stealing. Stealing should - as it does for me - mean removing something from someone else's possession. The idea of "taking" in the digital world is illusory, since everything on the internet, including the page you are reading now, is a copy. Should A.I. be...

@Animekitty Each of us has 1) expectations for ourselves 2) expectations for our partner These two can be kept separate or they can become entangled and cross over, and for some (maybe not all) people drawn to trans, it is the latter. When a person feels they must become everything, they...

@Animekitty Both men and women contain attributes of both what is "masculine" and "feminine", and while both usually lean towards what is natural to their sex, the overall personality is based on focusing on what you like about one sex or the other. So you like being soft, so you become soft...

Gender dysphoria can be explained in two parts: 1) Personality types 2) Focus BTW, I'm not talking about biological differences, which determine sex. Changing sex doesn't solve the problem: Truth does. 1) Males tend to be XXTX types, so their subculture has those facets, and thus the alpha dog...

lol There's some different in character, but it varies by the artist, and it can take an eye to notice the differences. Usually one artist draws identical characters, which is certainly true for anime where there are like 1 maybe 2 MAYBE 3 character designers.

What a great comment to get a bunch of responses. I think some of the reason is that INTPs are very perceptive. INTPs in general are actually pretty balanced, so if you swing too hard in one direction, they will show you why you're wrong and - to extremists - they will look like extreme...

@Cognisant Are you surprised when culture starts following the natural course of its philosophy? Liberalism leads to lack of definition in culture. It demands the destruction of all that society is, its institutions, frameworks, history,... everything, and all for the sake of a "new" order that...

Nice to have a place to go where you know to test your ideas and get feedback, although I guess having a small crowd has its drawbacks... and probably deters people from joining a place "half abandoned". Most people like community, but INTPs aren't "most people".

I hope someone does research on the intelligence of octopi. They seem really clever, like squirrels, but whether this equates to the ability to communicate effectively, who knows. In answer to the OP: I would say different levels of intelligence do exist, but it's hard to say because we don't...

I like tardigrades. There's probably a ton of them nearby and I just don't know it. @higs - That furball is cute. Does it bark? Is it potty-trained? And can it hum the French national anthem?

I do this too, but...

I hate posting Wikipedia, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A tl;dr - There were several ways of writing A, but in Italy, the two common forms we have today evolved. The circle with a line on the side is the "italic" (used in writing), and the circle with the line over the top is the "Roman"...