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I haven't made any predictions.

I am an old carpenter and a stone mason.

Interesting to know. I see that Berletic is well established on the New Atlas platform. I remember some of that messaging from the Syrian conflict. It...

Certainly. Pardon me, I misunderstood you the first time around.

I was not questioning the validity of QM. It is the connection of that theory to the emergence of consciousness that needs more than wishful thinking.

Yes, I see that you are not saying that one realm excludes the other. But how do we know enough about consciousness to recognize it as a player in the...

I am curious why you frame the idea as a possibility rather than as something you know about directly.

Did you not introduce transcendence as what the 'physical' could not provide?

You have introduced a 'non-vital' substance to surprise us with what it is not. Aristotle took a different approach.

I agree there is a dynamic between public and private that is difficult to understand. Aiming for excellence depends upon how that is conceived. If it...

I grew up in a parallel set of expectations regarding performance. My mother was a performer of song for a good while. My father was deeply engaged wi...

How do you know that a 'physical ground' is bereft of life? It seems like you excluded the possibility as an assumption in order to introduce it as a ...

I, too, was greatly impressed by the influence of indigenous voices, both as a competing vision of social order and how the thinking in Europe was cha...

In regard to the experience of heading up or down, I have been long influenced by the perspective of Stanislavski given in his work An Actor Prepares....

Wow. I read several of those articles and found the talking points of boethius and Tzeentch in bold relief. In some cases, they have been transcribing...

I have learned a lot from people who have read the same works I did. I have been encouraged to read new works as a result. Sometimes the arguments inv...

I think there is a Yin/Yang relationship in design. The imitation of symmetry and patterns we encounter in nature are transformed into the formal elem...

By saying, 'mapping the body', I meant to distinguish Chalmer's issue from the question asked by many as to whether 'consciousness is purely physical ...

Drawn and quartered? Seems messy.

Medvedev agrees with your view of Georgia incursion.

Which text from Occam do you derive the proposition that "Occam says properties are lies?" When Occam admonishes those who 'multiply causes beyond nec...

You seemed to be on the verge of recognizing those aforementioned crises are real ones and then you say: "European stake in this conflict is mostly th...

Alas, rounds of hypocrisy abound. Machiavelli lives. I was not, however, addressing the purity of their hearts but your claim that only the U.S. (and ...

Ah, Spinoza, in a nutshell with a side of I am.

By only framing it as a matter of a U.S. agenda, you fail to see or hear how much other nations want Russia to lose. They have all said as much and ha...

That is not the case: Bilateral Aid as percentage of GDP from nations The above combined with shared forms of support and totals allotted Ukrainian re...

The red line has been drawn. Only crossing it will show the answer. Mearsheimer's point about reluctance to escalate because of MAD applies to Russia ...

What the NATO countries have said is that if Russia hits Ukraine with nukes, the previous efforts to stay out of the conflict will come to an end. The...

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. A great challenge to many past and current views of human prehistory. In addition to the sc...

Agreed. Beyond the question of Macron's agenda, France and Poland have much to repair in their relations. At the very least, recognizing and compensat...

Do you look at those experiences as opening a view that otherwise would have not been shown?

Very interesting OP. I hope to respond in other ways but will start with this. My take on what Chalmers is presenting is something like: "can the worl...

Why else talk about it? If the topic is not germane to situations where the desire to make a difference between possibilities is what is being discuss...

Aristotle posited the idea as the best initiation of the activity he could come up with. Was there an alternative explanation at the time?

I think you misrepresent the role of the 'demon' in Descartes's arguments. He does not conclude that the environment was set up to fool us. In fact, h...

I see that gap. And maybe it will get bigger. I am not trying to shake pom-poms for him. On the other hand, he is basing his view on not returning to ...

The Freiheit article points to an important dynamic between France and Germany regarding common defense beyond the structure of NATO. The last paragra...

Yes. Since Macron also says Ukraine must take the lead on what terms they would accept, this matter of 'security guarantees' provided directly by the ...

It is relative to the situation. A gentle ribbing versus a final judgement. The latter gets pretty rough.

That reminds me of the use of 'burro' in Mexico and the Hispanic portions of U.S.

Your question is close to what Krishnamurti is asking from a different direction. When accepting that one is a bundle of thoughts and perceptions, is ...

The word asinine is from the Latin. It is good because it gets the stubborn part in as well as not being very bright. I don't know how the anatomical ...

The TTC verse points to a way to avoid the risky nature of 'going up and down the ladder'. Love of persons takes that risk. A lover will always be a d...

I like W.H. Auden because he approaches the question through our incapacity. The poem Villanelle: This is different from the confidence of the Tao Te ...

Cool beans.

Got it. In the spirit of adding stuff, the latest Kremlin speak regarding the annexations and talks:

I didn't mean to suggest Crimea is now militarily secure for Russia. On the contrary, it is more vulnerable than Donetsk. I was trying to frame the id...

Yes, I have seen that. Speaking for a friend.

Now that Kherson and Zaporizhya have been formally annexed along with Luhansk and Donetsk, retaining Crimea has made the Sea of Azov into a Russian La...

For my part, I don't know who I am enough to give a report. It makes me nervous when others do so. I understand indulgence of some desires are done in...