Agent Smith

:up: Different degrees of darkness! Scientific!

No pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!? Reminds me of Meno's Paradox: If you know what you're looking for, inquiry is unnecessary. If you don't kno...

Oh! So, I'm on my own! Good to know.

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Who the hell turned off the lights?!

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As per Yuval Noah Harari, we're, get this, the most prolific serial killer in evolutionary history (assassins, we all are, agents of extinction). Is m...

Are there Wikipedia articles where I can get more details on what you're saying?

Thanks for the exposition. It hits quite close to home for me, c'est la vie! Suffering is a(n) (prediction) error! When plans go awry, that's precisel...

I'm not as certain as I'd like to be but does your philosophy have psychological underpinnings? It sure looks like it does. From actions we move on to...

I haven't yet taken the time to settle on a particular worldview 180 Proof. Folks like us, with below-average IQ and EQ, need to work extra hard to ge...

1. We're not Boltzmann brains. 2. If we exist then causality has to exist 3. We exist Ergo, 4. Causality has to exist (causality is necessary)

The Mind-Body Gap Not much has changed, bodily, for the past 35,000 years (Cro-Magnons looked like us and we look like them) Mentally, however, we've ...

:up: We talked about margin of error! So, suffering is, at the end of the day, an error! Is that why we dislike suffering so much? Nobody likes making...

Update To put this thread back on track. Define 1. Existence: That which can be perceived (with our senses & instruments( exists. 2. Physical: That wh...

Yeah, yeah, I love you too! :grin:

Would you rethink your position on God if I were to say that God is just one of the many explanatory hypotheses out there for the existence of the uni...

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It appears that minds can exist, albeit only for mere fractions of a second, in chaos (re Boltzmann brains).

We all have an unexpressed desire to be be special. Despite how the vast majority of royalty is plagued by a poor track record, a young girl's dream i...

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You know what, take this as a compliment for I intended it as one, your EnformActionism is, to my reckoning, what religion will look like in the dista...

I'm afraid I lack the background to grok your post. However I've encountered the particular strain of philosophy you're espousing - reads more like li...

It all depends, I guess, on whether we're baffled or not? So, are we baffled or not? Aporia \to Ataraxia

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Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (The Blood Countess). If her story is true, she's the most prolific serial killer the world has ever known, 650 vi...

Most fascinating!

You da man 180 Proof Would I be correct if I said that your philosophy is scientific to the degree it emphasizes (the avoidance of) falsehoods while t...

We're in the dark and we're shooting! What could go wrong?

I haven't yet reached the stage to answer the OP's question. Like has always been the case, I'm a walking teetering, tottering mess of a human being.....

@"Banno" Is there a philosophical argument that attempts to prove that language & thought are the same?

Remind me to stay away from idealists! I lived a life as one! It didn't work out!

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You completed the list then, mon ami! Merci beaucoup! :grin: What do you think I am? Socrates' avatar? You know what? I do feel like the Athenian gadf...

But it's an interesting angle, oui? The clearer the picture of reality in your mind, the less real it is! Where have I heard that before? Too good to ...

Are these also called blank verse? Fun fact: In ancient times it was customary to write on topics such as logic & math in poem form.

Something's better than nothing! What's the opposite saying? Do things well or not at all?

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:chin: For now, let's say my thesis is restricted to worlds with minds. You touched upon something that's been bothering me viz. the necessity for min...

Thank G... I'm an agnostic! What's the equivalent to "Thank God" in atheism/agnosticism?

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Helpful tip! :up:

You mean to say that clarity, consistency, certainty are markers of illusion? That's interesting! So the more you (think you) understand something, th...

I didn't participate in that thread because I lack the right equipment so to speak to do so. Anyway, from what I can gather, to call those items you l...

:chin: The statement "there are no truths" was meant to be understood as "there are no true propositions". You yourself pointed out that only proposit...

Thanks for the feedback! I'll see what I can do to improve.

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Are these illusions illusions? How?