Agent Smith

That might be me! :lol:

What happens to one's corpse? It's either buried/cremated and in both cases, perfectly working organs are destroyed when they could actually save live...

Yep, an aggravation that isn't an aggravation. Go figure.

If you insist.

What if the biggest puzzle is there's no puzzle. A puzzle solver (h. sapiens) with no puzzle to solve. Precisely what Albert Camus was referring to, w...

Well, the question boils down to certainty, oui? The kinda logic that gurantees certainty is deduction, but then Agrippa's trilemma + good refutations...

:up: Then I was mistaken, apologies. Do you agree/disagree that what the world is going through is a war of worldviews?

Indeed, worldviews may not be well-articulated, giving an illusion that it either doesn't exist or is ill-formed. By "it" I mean life. You have a poin...

:up: Let me add to that most illuminating list ... nirvana. We're all tryin' ta flee from it all, but we forget it's a treadmill, we never get anywher...

:ok: Wealth, Fame, and Power, the 3 (modern) transcendentalia. I intelligo.

@"Bylaw" it is, after all, a war of worldviews.

@"ucarr" considers philosophers as detectives attempting to solve a puzzle.

To collect samples, perhaps. I'm sure a logician might wanna include some of what we say in here in their book as exercises (find the fallacy).

Shouldn't there be some time limit to causation? I haven't heard of cases where a man hit on the head 50 years ago pressing charges against the assail...

Is Donald Trump a typical (American) billionaire businessman? Loose morals, domineering, money-oriented, etc.? :grin: Those are not my words, haven't ...

:up: It seems that you're not wrong but without being right.

Well, what about pain & pleasure as a guidance system? Axiology 101.

How can that be, mon ami? However ... you're better in all this than me and so we probably are talking past each other. By the way I prefer duotheism ...

Congenital Analgesia. A curse/a gift, both, neither?

Exactamundo!

Opposites do cancel each other out e.g. fire boils off water and water douses fire. More to the point, I was referring to the inadequacy of monism as ...

In Egyptian math the glyph for 1,000,000 is a sitting man with his arms raised above his head (in astonishnment), I can picture Jeff Bezos :yawn:

Yep, dialectical monism and hence, inter alia, monotheism - instead of two entities, one with two mutually cancelling properties, which of course lead...

Plants don't have a nervous system i.e. it's impossible for plants to feel either Algos or Thanatos. Instead of modifying the laws of physics, God mad...

@"Astro Cat", does pain make sense to you in evolutionary terms? Why did we evolve to feel pain and why is pain so damn unpleasant?

I thought the Tao was a dualistic entity consisting of two opposites.

:lol: The Pyrrhonist argument is quite simple and as powerful. For every thesis an equal and opposite antithesis (adiaphora). The scale of truth is pe...

@"universeness" As far as I can tell, as Gnomon has done his homework well (he deserves an A+). The only ethics that's compatible with Enformationism ...

@"universeness" Gnomon's Enformer has all the qualities of God (as a creator/creative force, Eros aka life drive), but Gnomon stops short of claiming ...

:chin: Intriguing. Leads to fallibilism.

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My friend, we'd known each other for only about 6 months or so then, was an Oxford University fanboy - he couldn't stop talking about how great Oxford...

:fire: I like the all-inclusive (BothAnd) nature of yer philosophy. https://youtu.be/uyGY2NfYpeE

:chin: That which is without purpose fades away (re vermiform appendix, which'll be gone in another thousand or so generations). Uselessness is a tick...

As @"apokrisis" once said, nothing is not nothing, but actually everything. Something can come from everything which to those who don't know of this e...

I would beg to differ. Smith is categorically not justified to conclude that the man with 10 coins in his pocket will get the job, because a shaky pre...

The pleasure-pain system is, in me humble opinion, our primary guidance system. We're supposed to do what's pleasurable and not do what's painful. Tha...

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:lol: The OP is like a jigsaw puzzle with crucial pieces missing. The puzzle can't be solved. We could, however, construct pieces that would fit the o...

Like \pi, an irrational - only an approximation is possible. Reduce error and, in more general terms, recognize one's mistakes, awareness of where one...

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That's a good stance to adopt. Prefix every statement with "I could be wrong, but ..."

No, ex mea sententia, no! However, though the objective is knowledge (theoretical and practical, re sophia), philosophy is also the realization that t...

Plato's academy eventually evolved into a school of skepticism as per some reports. Did all the work done upto that point lead upto it (knowledged sea...

:grin: I'm surprised that a man of your caliber isn't a Pyrrhonist/skeptic. Just so you know, your memory is exceptional. I wonder if others have noti...

Rigor mortis is postmortem mon ami! I'm done trying to find the true view (satya drishti or orthodoxa): my stance (view) is no stance (no view) - ther...

The root of philosophy, dear OP, is to (try and) suss out the root of all things. You answered yer own question. I guess, sometimes, we don't know how...

Deeply insightful post. Psychological health is based on, as you said, how adversely one's current emotions/thoughts affect what's a "normal life" (th...