Agent Smith

Si, si! I found this :point: Sophie's choice on Wikipedia. Then there's the trolley problem (re utilitarianism) and the axe murderer at the door (re K...

I'm interested, deeply so, in dilemmas and its close cousins if you know what I mean. Making hard choices, tough decisions, finding oneself between Sc...

I want a definition of truth but for that I must already posses a definition of truth!

Fun fact: Pathological lying in medical jargon is mythomania aka pseudologia fantastica.

A blessed life 98-year-old man! Requiescat in pace. :death: :flower:

I read, well, actually skimmed through the essay - Wolpert gets an A+ as far as penmanship, grammar (@"180 Proof" :grin: ) & rhetorical flair goes. Th...

De gustibus non est disputandum vs. the PSR.

Well, what I've said isn't something we aren't already familiar with (re novacula occami + other qualities (seemingly) unrelated to truth such as beau...

As far as I can see, people aren't convinced the world isn't real. Skepticism doesn't work that way - all it does is raise a possibility, an alternati...

So David H Wolpert is alluding to the technological singularity which some scientists have predicted is bound to happen at some point in the future. W...

:up: By the way, what, in your assessment, would be a good life? It seems that because the Greeks thought of morality in terms of character (of a pers...

We can override our biology! Isn't that awesome? Hunger strikes, celibacy (voluntary), etc. Mind-blowing as far as I'm concerned. Hardwired!? Pfft! :s...

I believe what you said in a previous post obtains - I'm unable to grok your theory of EnFormaction. Perhaps, like some quantum physicists claim, unce...

All that comes to me mind is that we're in really hot water! The easy way out is to die and/or not procreate (celibacy is a virtue in almost all relig...

I hear ya. The literal-figurative distinction probably didn't exist in antiquity or didn't matter as much as it does today. Fact & fiction merged toge...

In a nutshell philosophy is subjective but it values the objective and atempts to be so; a sinner trying to be a saint; the irony, o the irony!

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:blush: Apologies for that silly mistake.

Not an expert here - 10 minutes of "analysis" by Agent Smith doesn't hold a candle to decades of dedicated study by qualified mythologists.

:smile: Good points! Nothing is what it seems! Is there an authentic story of self-sacrifice you know of? I'm too lazy to google. Apologies. P. S. Vis...

Sadly, I'll have to agree with you. If the world were a novel, Jesus is a poorly developed chracter. I wrote it on the spur of the moment - it just fe...

The Good life = Jesus of Nazareth (only a man and yet ... a god).

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The trouble you went through to share your ideas! I'm sure everybody's thankful as I am. The categories you use to compare prescientific and post scie...

Explain! Please.

:lol: I'll need to look that up! See you around Yohan.

This will be of great use to me mon ami! You're my AWACS; muchas gracias señor! I pray to The Almighty that my performance meets everyone's expectatio...

Good advice! I'll keep that in mind for as long as possible. I'm in two minds about this but here goes anyway - reject accept Maya, don't we all enjoy...

I have no idea - the veil ignorance is, as of now, impenetrable for me. I have a feeling it's gonna stay that way for a long, long time.

So it seems mon ami!

There's a lot we have to work on!

Love it, hate it, sic vita est, si señor?

Vide Trust You hit the nail on the head when you said skepticism is self-refuting - to argue that no argument is good enough is indeed to shoot onesel...

The word "myth" has a rather negative connotation in the modern world, its meaning very nearly is lie/falsehood. Myth busting is a bloody profession, ...

No worries, I'm ok.

You can say that again, but some would say humanity went through a "dumb" phase viz. post-Hellenistic religious stage (the Abrahamic triad) which last...

Danke for understanding mon ami!

I'll get back to you.

Vishvakarma/Tvashtar (The Architect/Lord of the machines). :pray: Om Vishwakarmane Namah! :snicker:

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I wish! It's just that I can relate to computers (machines); of course not at a grand scale the likes of which you see in films i.e. neither can I com...

Danke for the reply. Anything else that you might wanna say?

The Münchhausen Trilemma takes care of Descartes' cogito in my humble opinion. I ain't sure though, I'm a skeptic, comes with the territory or thereab...

Ati sundar! :clap:

White elephants aren't exactly white; they're just light grey if I remember correctly. Talk about lowering one's standards. :snicker: Yellow is the ne...

Imagine how fascinating it would be to have a shrine to Sophia (wisdom), complete with a statue(ette) in every philosophy department around the world?...

:blush: One can't be always right! Oh well!

This probably isn't biological but more of a sociological phenomenon. The age of puberty for girls is falling according to reports and they've chalked...

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So we've discussed the pros of mythology, what about the cons? Let's not forget its limitations too, oui? One downside that stands out like a sore thu...