Modern Athena
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Mine started at 19. Think of it as a way to explore the wonderful world of hats
But wearing hats for a relatively long time (especially in the summer) can damage the scalp by preventing air circulation. Sweat can clog up the pores in the scalp and promote hair loss.
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I use Propecia and it really works extremely well. I see no side effects. Also combine it with Nizoral shampoo twice a week.
This is true, Propecia reduces the levels of DHT (a hormone that shrinks hair follicles), but it works best in young people whose hair is just beginning to thin. However, this drug comes with drawbacks. It can (and most probably will) reduce sex drive. You see DHT is also responsible for maintaining libido, boosting fertility and balancing estrogen levels.
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Well I didn't know that
To be honest, I thought he was a woman. Men rarely complain about hair problems.It could be genetic then. Is your father bald?
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I've experienced this problem last year at the age of 17. Personally, it was because of hormonal imbalance and poor diet. I suggest you take vitamin supplements. As for medication, try Doriance and Topikrin shampoo. You should take Doriance for at least three months.
You would not be disappointed!
However, I suggest you tackle the reason behind your hair loss. Do some blood tests; it's most likely vitamin deficiency (mainly B12) or Anemia.
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Slaves for Life- Amaseffer
Symphony X- Paradise Lost
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Tchaikovsky violin concerto Op.35
Promise- Ben Howard
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I am an Objectivist from Israel. It's nice to hear about you Nada, specially when I think about 2006. I graduated the same high school Yaron Brook did. By the way, there were few pupils from south Lebanon in my class.
Perheps you can write a blog in arabic? I can spread it among some arab acquaintances of mine.
Sandmonkey (Egypt) is not an objectivist as far as i know, but he writes very well.
Leonid: The New Liberal movement is not an Objectivist movement, though there are Objectivists among the supporters. Boaz Arad is one of the founders of the movement. Isn't it odd for Americans to hear about Objectivists supporting Liberal movement? here the semantics is different.
Likewise
Oh of course, I'd give it a shot. But I can't write about anything political (you surely understand the reason).
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This follows to some extent on #7.
Reductionism's mistake is to confuse a necessary condition with an equivalence. An animal needs physical equipment and physical events in order to be conscious, but that does not suffice to show that they are the same object. The standard test for calling two objects the same is Leibniz's law: if they are the same, then whatever is true of one is true of the other and whatever is false of one is false of the other.
Consider a loaf of bread. Its ingredients are a necessary condition of its coming to be, but they do not amount to the loaf of bread. The latter has a degree of doneness, a shape, a degree of freshness and a baker who made it, but these do not apply to the ingredients individually or collectively. In this vein, the standard philosophical argument against reductionism consists of pointing out such a contrast between what we can say about consciousness and what we can say about its material requirements. Thoughts are insightful, funny, fallacious or mutually consistent. None of these makes sense, much less is true, of neural events, so they are not the same.
Dualism is the doctrine that consciousness and its bodily substrates are both entities, which Rand never claimed. Get rid of this requirement and you are no longer a dualist.
I never thought of it this way before.
An axiomatic concept is not reducible within epistemology. That means it does not have any other propositions or concepts which are necessary to understanding the axiomatic concept. An axiomatic concept is therefore also one of the first level concepts, whose meaning is established by its reference to an existent (as opposed to another abstraction).
For everything that exists, including consciousness, it is always valid to inquire into how it works and what it is composed of. That kind of physical , scientific reduction does not and cannot logically result in denying the reality of the thing reduced. For example accepting the atomic theory of matter does not logically imply that one must accept that life does not exist or is in some way illusory because no atom is alive.
The logical fallacies of division and composition are relevant to this topic. From the fallacy of division entry at Wikipedia:
Thank you! Someone pointed that out in a message earlier. I only considered this issue ontologically and disregarded the epistemological fundemantality of consciousness.
I recently watched an interview with John Searle where he discussed this subject. I loved the way he put it.
" To clarify the relationship between the consciousness of minds and the neurological architecture of brains, it must be understood that they are both one system, not two distinct entities such as the vocabulary of 'mental' and 'physical' would suggest. The word 'Mental', meaning mind that occurs independent of the 'physical' body and vise versa. The state of the brain, such as consciousness, is a mode, a state, of existence much like liquidity is a state of water. Simply stated, it is that brains cause minds and minds are features of brains."
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Of course, Israel is included. Thank you
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As far as I know, I'm the only one familiar with Ayn Rand's philosophy in my country. Others don't even know who she is. In fact, up until last year her books were not even found in bookstores or libraries in Lebanon. I'm pretty sure they're not even sold in countries like Saudi Arabia as well.
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I love her optimistic nature and how she struggled to live in a world where she clearly did not belong. I also admired how she faced society's disapproval. Despite being portrayed as an unsympathetic workaholic and a dirty mistress, she took pride in herself. She alone manages to challenge the society's conventional wisdom.
Her purpose in life is to live up to her highest values and become worthy. Her code of values is what makes her inspirational.
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When did this start? I'm not an expert, but I think I can ask my professor (she has a phd in neuroscience).
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I'm not sure I fully grasp the above statement.
According to Ayn Rand, "An axiom is a statement that identifies the base of knowledge and of any further statement pertaining to that knowledge, a statement necessarily contained in all others, whether any particular speaker chooses to identify it or not. An axiom is a proposition that defeats its opponents by the fact that they have to accept it and use it in the process of any attempt to deny it."
(Copied from the Ayn Rand Lexicon)
Now many contemporary neuroscientists and philosophers reject the axiomatic nature of consciousness and appeal to reductionism where they reduce consciousness to physical events occurring in the brain. Hence consciousness is often described as the "product" of neural mechanisms.
While I agree that consciousness is axiomatic in the sense that it doesn't require proof and all knowledge rests upon it, I find it hard to believe that it is irreducible. For, we can clearly explain the causes of our perceptions in terms of neurophysiological phenomena.
So how can consciousness be an irreducible primary distinct from the physical? Doesn't that imply dualism?
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While I admire Hank, Francisco and John, Dagny is certainly the most inspirational and influential character.
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Thank you
Bear with my writing for a while until I improve it. Nicky, I fully agree. I read quite a lot of English prose but I still seem to make mistakes. -
Hello. As you probably guessed, I'm new to this forum. I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Nada, from Lebanon. I recently finished high school and will start university in the fall. I've been following some of the posts on this forum for a while and I finally took the step to sign up. Admittedly, I have stayed out of most Objectivist discussion groups because I found that some endorse Ayn Rand's ideas without relying on their own judgement. Nevertheless, I look forward to participate in this forum.
My first encounter with Objectivism was about a year and a half ago (I was 16-17 of age).When I first read Atlas Shrugged I immediately fell in love with the characters, especially Dagny. The book changed my life, since then I constantly strived to better myself and fulfill my full potential. Naturally, I decided to research Objectivism in depth, and I was struck by the clarity of the ideas it represented and its overall message.
I was delighted to find answers in an an area where I had doubts, questions and uncertainties. I'm proud to say that Ayn Rand has awoken my sense of life, happiness, pride and confidence.
Note: I'd appreciate if you can point out my mistakes in future posts (including grammar).
What are you listening at the moment?
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One of my favorite bands
I've never seen this video though.