Agent Smith

Read this in a meme: Modern problems require Ancient solutions. I deeply appreciate your, I believe successful, attempt to revive/restore/rejuvenate a...

Précisément! If everyone is insane, who do we turn to to lead us to the light? It's like a group of adventurers lost in the woods, each one has a map ...

Yep, that should've been obvious. A good justification can't contain a false premise.

:up: We're in for a treat!

True that. I guess one is moral to members of a group you belong to to be immoral to members of other groups. Basically its some kinda military pact b...

:up: Indeed, it ain't in any way simple. I'm just questioning the reliability of the entire perceptual and analytical system (mind + senses) - both ha...

It's not a perfect match, but the overall life histories are comparable. It's also a lesson on essentials and true not all individuals are a success s...

Interesting. Of course those who claimed the mind is a sense have their own (good) argument.

How, pray tell, did Aristotle dispel the notion of mind as a (the) (sixth) sense?

Well said and on point! A Buddhist monk, once, was looking up the English translation of a Tibetan phrase and after much gnashing and gnawing of the t...

:up: How to answer unanswerables? How to eff ineffables? How to comprehend incomprehensibles? How to explain inexplicables? How to prove unprovables? ...

@"Wayfarer", the two truths doctrine (re Buddhism)? Questions: Why would our senses lie to us? Inversely, why would our senses tell us the truth? Is-o...

A familiar phenomenon, si señor! I haven't personally experienced it though. :sad:

I intellego señor.

This Tao of thinking, the one you've so masterfully wielded, is precisely what @"Gnomon" is doing. Frankly, it puzzles me why the two of you don't see...

Précisément!

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The speed of life differs from organism to organism. A Mayfly experiences everything a Greenland shark experiences but in a fraction of the time. A ma...

I can't afford that either mon ami! Philosophers, not that I'm one, are some of the poorest folks around, they simply can't afford anything at all, ou...

My own, perhaps idiosyncratic, take on philosophy as joke, a laughable matter, a ludicrous proposition ... Philosophy is like one of those small mock-...

:100: I suppose philosophers above all can't afford to get upset. It's an expensive item, but there are unverified tales of some of them having bought...

The OP is on the right track. Not just consequentialism, even Kantian deontological ethics is about cooperation. "Act only according to that maxim whe...

Try Pyrrhonism. For every argument, a counterargument and/or refutation. The scale of truth is perfectly balanced. This aporia (bewilderment/puzzlemen...

Socrates was the Greek Wittgenstein or, inversely, Wittgenstein was the German Socrates. The meat and potatoes of the dialectical method is to demonst...

Synchronization, I don't know why I thought of this. Have you heard the expression "their hearts beat as one"? I recall seeing two heart cells kept ap...

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Muchas gracias. No offense taken.

Rubbin' salt on an open wound? Youch! I could be considered an older, glitchy, version of ChatGPT. :cool: https://youtu.be/k50nxrJKSDY

:lol: but it is a belief (about theism - that it's false). Ergo, atheism can't say of itself that it's a lack of belief, oui? This issue must be settt...

:up: The difficulty arises when the ends and the means have opposite moral valence. This is precisely what ends justify the means is all about. 1. Bad...

So it was all hype, no substance, but then the absurdity.

Let's do a recap. A Gettier case is a justified, true belief that isn't knowledge. However, in every case we've analyzed, we've always found that ther...

Well, yes, Noah's idea of companionship seems to be reproductively oriented, but I've heard men and women say "my wife/husband is the best friend I've...

We do experience Being, both in others and ourselves. I am and I can see you are. What's amness and areness?

I'm just surprised that the statement that describes the Schrödinger =n isn't that of ignorance (The cat may be dead or the cat may be alive, we don't...

@"Gnomon" Last time I checked, Planck units were proposed to bring some naturalness to our units. The SI and the English FPS systems are, as you all k...

Well, one thing's for sure, ChatGPT is smarter than me! One simple test, I'm sure extremely difficult to perform given the volume of literature out th...

:lol: Allah Rahim.

Noah took two of each animal on his Ark.

Much obliged!

Correctamundo señor! I haven't been able to make the connection between aporia and ataraxia. I believe I must've read some St. Augustine/St. Aquinas w...

Gracias for the kind words. My Pyrrhonism, intended/accidental, makes me what in the world of espionage would be called a double agent, a traitor to b...

I have no option but to agree with your appraisal and recommendations. My mappa isn't going to help us navigate the territoria in any meaningful way. ...

Socrates did accept the verdict of the Athenian court. Not that I compare myself to Socrates. It's just that I should meet the standards of the commun...

I understand.

@"Gnomon" is, ex mea (humble) sententia, constructing a more elaborate interpretation of The Matrix which is itself based off of The Simulation Hypoth...

Okie dokie mon ami.

Your own worldview is interesting - the one salient feature I recall of it is that you seem to be trying to solve a deep mystery. You have multiple le...