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Michael Sol

['Member']Joined: February 20, 2022 at 10:07Last active: February 25, 2022 at 08:521 discussions35 comments
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Bio

I am a 63 year old Parlour Intellectual presently engaged on completing the six-thousand or so word Metaphysics of my Universal Philosophy.

I would like to thank everyone for their time and honest comments. There are a lot of very penetrating, honest minds on the Forum, and I congratulate you on creating such a decent cyber-place. If anyone has any particular thing they'd like to say to me, I can be reached at [email protected].

Be safe and well, everyone.

Favourite Philosopher

Aristotle, Joseph Conrad, Jim Croce, greeting cards

Favourite Quotations

"Well, we could consider Global Domination a Philosophic problem, but maybe we should start with something like, maybe, the Good, don't you think, young Alex?"

"But he [Jim] was one of us."

(Completely repudiating Sartre's main point) "After all it's what we done, that makes us what we are,-"

Descartes said to Think is to Be; Sartre said to Do is to Be; Sinatra said Do-be-do-be-do.

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In: To what degree is religion philosophy?  — view comment
Jewish. I made it past the bar-mitzvah before I saw the Light, and Escaped.
February 23, 2022 at 10:00
In: The Existence of an Evolved Consciousness is Proof of its Objectively Extant Universe.  — view comment
I would like to thank everyone for their time and honest comments. There are a lot of very penetrating, honest minds on the Forum, and I congratulate ...
February 23, 2022 at 08:57
In: The Existence of an Evolved Consciousness is Proof of its Objectively Extant Universe.  — view comment
Tom, your comment: And, uh, I have a completed, a priori theory that shows how consciousness was produced through evolution, a successful Thought Expe...
February 23, 2022 at 08:53
In: To what degree is religion philosophy?  — view comment
I'm sorry, and I appreciate that you are busy, while I, being old, am much less so - And honestly, why you keep trying to paint me as an obdurate crit...
February 23, 2022 at 08:46
In: The Existence of an Evolved Consciousness is Proof of its Objectively Extant Universe.  — view comment
Er, if the consciousness was never created, how is it logical it should exist?
February 23, 2022 at 08:41
In: The Existence of an Evolved Consciousness is Proof of its Objectively Extant Universe.  — view comment
Uh, I believe the problem with infinite regression is obvious. And, uh, I have a completed, a priori theory that shows how consciousness was produced ...
February 22, 2022 at 23:23
In: The Existence of an Evolved Consciousness is Proof of its Objectively Extant Universe.  — view comment
Yes, it's not only more reasonable, it is proven by the fossil record.
February 22, 2022 at 23:20
In: The Existence of an Evolved Consciousness is Proof of its Objectively Extant Universe.  — view comment
What does that mean, uncreated?
February 22, 2022 at 23:17
In: Basic Questions for any Kantians  — view comment
Mww: You said: Categorical error. The axiom of Identity is derived a priori. That which is analytic, such as the axiom of identity in the form A = A, ...
February 22, 2022 at 19:30
In: The Existence of an Evolved Consciousness is Proof of its Objectively Extant Universe.  — view comment
Yes, I agree with all of the above, Mr. Clark; but I don't just agree with Mr. Kant, I appreciate the axiomatic nature of matter, which is it doesn't ...
February 22, 2022 at 19:19
In: The Existence of an Evolved Consciousness is Proof of its Objectively Extant Universe.  — view comment
As we cannot even Imagine a means of Creating a Consciousness other than by Evolution in a Material Reality, — Michael Sol "I can. Many people can." Y...
February 22, 2022 at 13:38
In: Basic Questions for any Kantians  — view comment
No, I disagree, Mww. Implicit truth is still truth. The Axiom of Identity is utterly proven, a priori, by the conception of all Objects. You cannot ev...
February 22, 2022 at 13:29
In: Basic Questions for any Kantians  — view comment
MWW wrote: "How many neurotransmitters does it take for a ‘57 DeSoto? Which particular pathway are they on? What’s the maximum permissible distance of...
February 22, 2022 at 11:48
In: The Existence of an Evolved Consciousness is Proof of its Objectively Extant Universe.  — view comment
Infinite Regression is Absurd, because there is no such thing in our conception or experience that is an iinfitiude. Um, Magic, some sort of means of ...
February 22, 2022 at 11:11
In: Basic Questions for any Kantians  — view comment
Uncreated? Forever extant? Huh?
February 22, 2022 at 09:22
In: Are there thoughts?  — view comment
I'm with the WTF group. Thoughts are your experience of Neural Activity, there is nothing mysterious about them. And if a Consciousness proves your ow...
February 22, 2022 at 09:17
In: Basic Questions for any Kantians  — view comment
Wow, what if you just deny absolutely the existence of anything non-material, and name the Physical Universe the Metaphysical? Than there is no idiocy...
February 22, 2022 at 09:10
In: Debate Discussion: "The content of belief is propositional".  — view comment
I'm sorry, I don't follow you at all. Why is it not a proposition, as it attributes a (false) belief to subject?
February 22, 2022 at 08:52
In: To what degree is religion philosophy?  — view comment
Oh, sorry, the sentences are long, but every one makes perfect sense; and you again contest none of my arguments Real. Well, talking instead of debati...
February 21, 2022 at 23:06
In: To what degree is religion philosophy?  — view comment
Have you seen Alan Coley and George Ellis' Theoretical Cosmology? The Standard Model of Cosmology is a joint project and the accepted standard for Phy...
February 21, 2022 at 22:36
In: Atheism & Solipsism  — view comment
Like it or not, you are wholly material until you show some axiomatic need or empirical proof that there is something that is not material, which you ...
February 21, 2022 at 16:44
In: Debate Discussion: "The content of belief is propositional".  — view comment
Can you give me an example of a belief that is not a Proposition?
February 21, 2022 at 16:30
In: Debate Discussion: "The content of belief is propositional".  — view comment
Ok, I was talking about Jack's beliefs in the figure. How can a belief, how can anything but nonsense, not be propositional? What non-propositional st...
February 21, 2022 at 10:36
In: To what degree is religion philosophy?  — view comment
Well, since you did not detail my "logical flaws and misinformation about human nature and history," I have no idea what you are talking about. Religi...
February 21, 2022 at 10:17
In: The problem with "Materialism"  — view comment
I refer to all of the mysterious beings, from Zeus to Jehovah and before and after, Humanity has invented to explain their own and the Universe's exis...
February 21, 2022 at 10:00
In: Atheism & Solipsism  — view comment
Uh, not to be disrespectful, but, really, what sort of similarity is "nearly as one with same;" nearly never cuts it in Philosophy; which is to say, t...
February 21, 2022 at 09:41
In: The problem with "Materialism"  — view comment
One experiences Thoughts and Emotions, but they are experiences formed out of the material operations of your body. Every thought has a unique place i...
February 21, 2022 at 09:30
In: Does magick exist? If so, can modern technology be used in the practice of magick?  — view comment
Whether we know how this or that dynamic process works in every particular or not, we can be assured that these processes are not effects created by s...
February 21, 2022 at 00:33
In: Debate Discussion: "The content of belief is propositional".  — view comment
CreativeSoul - You said: "It's about belief. Get that wrong and you have gotten all sorts of things wrong. I could not care less about the failings of...
February 21, 2022 at 00:33
In: Atheism & Solipsism  — view comment
Where to start? If the Fundamental condition of any possible form of Reality is Matter, then it isn't exactly Atheism one believes in, is it? I believ...
February 21, 2022 at 00:33
In: Atheism & Solipsism  — view comment
An Objectivist Epistemology is a decent little work. Atlas Shrugged, contrariwise, is out and out loony, the embittered daughter of Tsarist aristocrat...
February 21, 2022 at 00:33
In: Political Polarization  — view comment
It's not the Polarization that is critical, it's the Delusion. Fascism requires of its followers their complete faith in the Party Line, however bizar...
February 20, 2022 at 11:38
In: To what degree is religion philosophy?  — view comment
Religion has exactly the same relation to Philosophy as paste or costume jewelry does to those adornments made of gold, silver, diamonds, rubies, and ...
February 20, 2022 at 11:38
In: Debate Discussion: "The content of belief is propositional".  — view comment
Uh, isn't this a lot of parsing for no real good reason? If we were not trying to study language and, specifically, the Proposition, for clues as to R...
February 20, 2022 at 11:38
In: The problem with "Materialism"  — view comment
The thought exists in the material world in a very real, very particular, dynamic configuration of synapses and neurons in your brain. Every thought i...
February 20, 2022 at 11:38
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