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punos

['Member']Joined: November 09, 2021 at 10:14Last active: February 25, 2026 at 07:412 discussions794 comments
Location: somewhere in the middle

Bio

I am the order in chaos, the center in the star.
I am the shadow on the moon.
I am all the colors.
I am.

Favourite Philosopher

All the good ones, and none of the bad ones.

Favourite Quotations

“Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe and the gods.” - Temple of Apollo at Delphi

"Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose." - J. B. S. Haldane

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

"Understanding is the apperception of pattern as such" - Alfred North Whitehead

"Talent is hitting a target no one else can hit, genius is hitting a target no one else can see." - Goethe

"Man prefers to believe what man prefers to be true." - Sir Francis Bacon

"All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge." - Mark Twain

"When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Discussions (2)

Comments

In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I totally understand, and agree. I've been reinterpreting the Bible for a few years now through the lens of artificial intelligence and the "planetary...
October 20, 2025 at 13:54
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I'm glad we resonate on so much even if we use different language to express it. Do you have a way of explaining or describing this transcendent will ...
October 20, 2025 at 04:15
In: On how to learn philosophy  — view comment
Interesting, but i don't think that's the right way to think about it: a "view from nowhere". Objectivity emerges from the sum of all subjects. The mo...
October 20, 2025 at 03:50
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I understood what you meant. What i meant was that there is no conscious end or direction except for the natural unconscious drive to return to the or...
October 17, 2025 at 22:33
In: On how to learn philosophy  — view comment
Hack yourself to pieces, and then put yourself back together.
October 17, 2025 at 20:14
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I don’t know; i’m pretty tired and sleepy, so goodnight for now.
October 15, 2025 at 09:03
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Is this quote supposed to include a reference to the multiverse? In any case i do not disagree with it.
October 15, 2025 at 08:46
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
There isn’t really an end, such as a purpose or complex intention, at the most fundamental level. It is pure cause and effect operating with a specifi...
October 15, 2025 at 07:43
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Neither do you, but i won’t try to take that away from you, not that i could anyway. I can see that you won’t be understanding what i’ve been trying t...
October 15, 2025 at 07:02
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Explain.
October 15, 2025 at 06:48
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
That is because it is about the form, and not the content. In this case the medium is the message as Marshall McLuhan would say.
October 15, 2025 at 06:47
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
It's not impossible for me to touch you like my wife. :razz: But no, seriously now. Humans can touch each other in distinctly human ways, such as with...
October 15, 2025 at 06:38
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Humans do interact uniformly with other humans. Can you give an example of humans not interacting uniformly?
October 15, 2025 at 06:10
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I forgot to address this: Well, yes, maybe, but I haven't given the multiverse theory much thought, or at least it doesn't feature prominently in my m...
October 15, 2025 at 06:06
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Atoms behave as atoms when interacting with other atoms, demonstrating the same level of intelligence. The same applies to molecules, though molecules...
October 15, 2025 at 06:01
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I don't think they are fundamental, because atoms are composed of nucleons and quarks (and electrons). A truly fundamental entity is analog, and indiv...
October 15, 2025 at 05:54
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
All elements exist at the same scale or level of emergent organization. Atoms can participate in higher scales of organization, but never below their ...
October 15, 2025 at 05:40
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
That was my 777th post. :party:
October 15, 2025 at 04:43
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Specify what you mean by "they"? The different levels?
October 15, 2025 at 04:41
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
That's right, you got it. Restate or rephrase more clearly please. I think i understand the first sentence, but not the second.
October 15, 2025 at 04:38
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I'm not sure what you mean, please elaborate a little. Yes, everyone’s intelligence is unique by virtue of our level of complexity and organization, b...
October 15, 2025 at 04:24
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
How does the effect know what form to take, and how does the cause know what and how to affect? Intelligence. The intelligence of an atomic element li...
October 15, 2025 at 03:57
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Why would we be monsters? We can only succeed or fail at our task, the great work. I like to think of the Industrial Revolution as the beginning of th...
October 15, 2025 at 03:48
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
The "chunk" of mud would need to first acquire life before consciousness, according to the model i'm operating from. How does sentience know how to re...
October 15, 2025 at 03:02
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
It appears we agree on most points, though some differences. First, i am interested in your thoughts about how we can be "cut out" by the second law. ...
October 15, 2025 at 02:09
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
The Last Eclipse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2F7aqgB3o Biosphere - Antennaria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJHs4RTMJIE
October 15, 2025 at 00:57
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Many people say that consciousness is fundamental, but i have begun to think that it is intelligence that is truly fundamental. There exists a princip...
October 14, 2025 at 23:41
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
It is one of modernity's superstitions. A perfectly reasonable superstition according to many.
October 13, 2025 at 17:49
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
It really is a silly concept when you really think about it (clearly). :smile:
October 13, 2025 at 17:47
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Well, for one, everything at the macro scale behaves in an orderly manner, whereas at the microscopic or nanoscopic scale, everything appears "random"...
October 13, 2025 at 17:45
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
That's right, so we agree. :smile: That's right as well. According to me of course. Indeed it is. Which is easier to prove? That it is or that it isn'...
October 13, 2025 at 17:06
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
"All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge." - Mark Twain
October 13, 2025 at 16:48
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I'm very aware, but i think that interpretation is incorrect.
October 13, 2025 at 16:44
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Outside or above nature. There are other ways to define it, but i think this is what most people mean by it. An "anomaly" would be a "miracle", and ye...
October 13, 2025 at 16:18
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
This was precisely my point. It sounds like you're saying what i'm saying.
October 13, 2025 at 14:44
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
In my view, it is guaranteed to happen if development progresses as it should, according to the patterns i have observed in nature. In fact, i believe...
October 13, 2025 at 12:44
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
TETOUZE - Foreign Memories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjmP8TdloPk
October 13, 2025 at 03:16
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Nuraddin Taghiyev - Kor Arab (Song The Blind Arab) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5TBfEtt80g
October 13, 2025 at 03:05
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Open Reel Ensemble - Tape Bowing Ensemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaG5tVnpkwc
October 13, 2025 at 02:17
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Neutral monism is a hybrid of monism and dualism. It is a unified theory of substance, at least as i understand it. I will end it there, since it is a...
October 13, 2025 at 01:09
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I should clarify that the kind of monism i am referring to is neutral monism, which has the capacity to differentiate into a dual state. Without this ...
October 13, 2025 at 01:02
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Also, in a monistic universe, it is the only game in town, while in a dualistic universe it is a bit less constrained, but it would still need to prod...
October 13, 2025 at 00:42
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I understand, but my point is that it is not about the substance itself, but about how that substance is organized. The type of organization determine...
October 13, 2025 at 00:33
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Organizational complexity is the name of the game in a monistic universe.
October 13, 2025 at 00:07
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
When AI achieves consciousness, if it hasn't already to some degree, this would be as natural as anything else.
October 12, 2025 at 22:21
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
I'll say this: The word "artificial" is a relative term. Rhetorical question: If artificial things are not natural, then what are they? Supernatural? ...
October 12, 2025 at 21:03
In: Cellular Sentience and Cosmic Bigotry  — view comment
Nope, i have no objections. :up: I've made this same argument numerous times before, including once or twice here on the forum.
October 12, 2025 at 20:22
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Human Traffic - Morgue Witch (Cathedra Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeTLklO-tiM
October 11, 2025 at 22:05
In: Every Act is a Selfish Act  — view comment
I think you meant to write "the flea in the bottle"?
October 11, 2025 at 22:04
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
A Winged Victory For the Sullen - Aqualung, Motherfucker (feat. Nikolai Kinski) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy3KCcK5qQA
October 10, 2025 at 05:08
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