TheMadFool

Non serviam Some heavy interpretation in there. Could the so-called "God" of the Bible have been Satan who'd demonsrated beyond the shadow of a doubt ...

Et tu Brute. :lol:

Would really like to believe that but...did you ever win a prize, a medal, a certificate, or the like for "...how you play the game..."?

The detective is the murderer! There's not much you can do about the murders without compromising the investigation. So, you may fault science all you...

I may have completely misunderstood representationalism and anti-representationalism both but I recall writing in another thread that if the former is...

Guilty as charged! He is winning though!

Banno's winning. I more or less concur, science is a self-cleaning (c)oven of witches scientists. To clarify, science does create problems, huge ones ...

User Illusion Self Model The last quote needs a brief explanation. Assuming physicalism, every thought, from day-dreaming to logical analysis, every a...

First off, I concede that rationality is the best tool at our disposal - it's made all the difference! We owe rationality for the massive transformati...

A few tips I picked up but rarely use: 1. Embrace nuance & complexity (hard) 2. Avoid fallacies (harder) 3. Be skeptical (easy) 4. Keep an open mind (...

You started it! kinda back and forth until both sides are utterly exhausted or one side is wiped off the face of the earth or a truce is established o...

A quick drive-by of the Wikipedia entry on The Tragedy Of The Commons confirmed my initial suspicions, its about social dynamics - how individuals mus...

:lol: I don't know if there's a red future or a blue future, but I do know there's a future.

That resonates with me and is a far better formulation of altruism than my own. Indeed, we can frame altruism as cases where personal gain is a second...

I found it interesting, the parts that made sense to me though. I didn't know Soviets had a thing for paradoxes (contradictions). I suppose living und...

This reminds me Ted Chiang (sci-fi writer b. 1967) short story on something he calls calliagnosia, a condition in which the person undergoes a neurolo...

Look here

"Altruistuc egoism" sounds like an oxymoron à la "bitter sweet" but hey, there are times, many in my own life, when the latter is precisely what the d...

The Golden Rule Google definition of Empathy ( n ): The ability to understand and share the feelings of another. The Golden Rule is allegedly ubiquito...

@"180 Proof" To three of you: My own take of whether Descartes' so-called argument is a tautology is similar in vein but to be specific I believe Desc...

I considered that possibility but it doesn't add up. In my humble opinion, just as Descartes reasoned to the conclusion "I exist", those who suffer fr...

From your link: Mind weighing in.

What about us just cunts? :rofl:

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Why, may I ask?

:up: Will get back to you if I think of something interesting but don't hold your breath. :lol:

Did you read the links I gave? I'm not completely sure about this but to be fair to irrationalism, rationalism hasn't much to show for its roughly 2 m...

Well, that's the catch isn't it? Rationalism recommends irrationalism, if not everywhere, at least in some areas where millennia of rational inquiry h...

Well put, sir/madam, well put! A gold star to you for your eloquence.

Not to contradict you but take a look at :point: Irrationalism (Britannica) and also :point: Criticism of Rationalism (Wikipedia)

You're making an unfounded assumption, in fact this question commits the complex question fallacy. By asking for "...rules..." you're already assuming...

This is the sticking point I believe. I should've thought about it earlier. I recall someone saying quite a few years ago that Descartes' didn't quite...

https://youtu.be/N-gL21TynZc A must watch! It's the opposite of the martial arts maxim of "hitting where it hurts the most." Hit where it hurts the le...

This definitely might be a factor if posts are of poor quality but then there's this paradox: if one must make quality posts, one must be an experienc...

Or...have you gotten better? I'm betting on you having improved in which case this site ain't no longer going to be of any benefit to you. You've grad...

I want to, one of these days :smile:

The statement, "If X is non-random, then X has a telos or X doesn't have a telos" is a tautology . Since your statement, beautifully and lovingly craf...

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Found this informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wo2TLlMhiw An honest account of one of the world's unsolved problems in language that's funny...

There's a Western version and an Eastern version to the answer as I will explain vide infra, 1. Evolution is non-random. Non-randomness is a feature o...

C'mon man! You know better: Science's Useful Fallacy

Mea culpa! :grin: I guess there's no point pursuing the matter any further although, in my defense, it has to be said that chaos theory isn't relevant...

Debatable but I'm running with your claim that it is non-random. Irrelevant. All that matters is the claim, yours, that evolution is non-random. Why? ...

Thanks for the kind gesture of resuming the discussion with me. I'm grateful. A few things we need to be clear on before we proceed. 1. All teleologic...

The status of the heliocentric model, an astronomical hypothesis, is CONFIRMED.

Metaphor commingles with the literal in this thread. The question seems to be reasonable, a product of a sensible person but, not to exclude myself fr...

Zombie thread but let's milk it dry. It all boils down to the much-discussed and highly-regarded notion of cooperation. Given a common pasture (resour...

That's interesting but binary thinking, if I understand what it really means, is still a problem. Imagine the usual way to break the habit of binary (...

It was worth a try. Thanks for the advice though. Good day! Too bad. I want to run something by you if you don't mind. First off, @"Banno" & @"180 Pro...