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If memory serves, Dawkins almost used a title like that. The 'altruism' of the individual gene-carrying organism (the greenbeards) is the 'selfishness...

First, for context, I'm a moderate on this issue. Language is a huge part of human reality. We live together in something like a historically and symb...

Indeed. Math is arguably a less impressive product of abstraction from a far richer linguistic ability, like bony driftwood next to a living tree. It'...

Well put.

This is a just an analogy, but it'll help me make my point perhaps. Let's imagine 'mind' and 'matter' as - \infty and + \infty respectively. Then our ...

Perhaps you are being unfair to Dawkins. The selfishness of genes is just an anthropomorphic trope for self-replicating pieces of code that don't care...

OK, perhaps. But will one of them speak up?

To me that's only plausible 'in the limit.' The costs are relatively 'infinitesimal' but nevertheless positive. Imagine two programs using the 'same' ...

Who was that fool officer who goddess chews dunk in the mud ? Or was it a bottle-bested beetle ? Shall we tank away his budge? (We did muck a mash of ...

If an unfair god is unworthy of worship, and this fairness is our human concept, then it's our own human virtues we worship. We can cut out the muddle...

You might come off as ego-centric, but what ambitiously creative philosopher is not? You might come off as accidentally aggressive by harping on the S...

But where are such rascals hiding ? Will anyone here defend that claim? It's so loopy to see nothing 'non-physical' in reality that misunderstanding i...

Yes, slur. Lag a toe shed to fire ah bend knot over thong goose. Agreed.

Nice!

I very much appreciate the kind and encouraging words. Till necks time, friend.

Ha. To be sure, conflict has its germs.

Thanks! Old Wet-gun-sign talked about a philosophy made of jokes, and I think word play can just maybe show wet cannot be sad.

To be frank and fair, I've enjoyed posts by both of you, so the misunderstanding seems unfortunate and is hopefully temporary. But I couldn't help lau...

I think the bolded statement is correct and important. The first statement might admit some exceptions, but one must allow for the ineluctable ambigui...

Beautiful word, friend. You squeezed 'anon' in there, which makes 'beating the gross off with a stink' even creakier. There's also an 'on and on I' hi...

Gott could arguable decide that there was no best time and that the decision was of no importance. Perhaps he used an informagical going flip to decid...

Joyce's Book of the Dark : Finnegans Wake John Bishop Strong start so far, different emphasis than my other books on FW. James Joyce Richard Ellman 'R...

Critics of the game are still players, no? It's the game of getting beyond mirror games. The future isn't what it youth to be.

Tanquam ex ungue leonem ? 'The goes was mud of words.' Hamlet's paw was poisoned through the ere (promise creamed.)

Contrast whatever it is with the false epistemological modesty of a camouflaged evangelist who 'nose wets' at the End and not the And of inquiry.

Don't forget the forging of and the foraging for such claims. Consider your own claim above.

Such 'Materialism' looks like a bogyman to me. A few are still gettable who'll put on the cape and horns for a laugh or in a fit of sentimental nostal...

Is it not wise to abandon the muck of a dialogue made mostly obsolete precisely by and within that 'wary' dialogue? The 'soak' puppet battle of 'mound...

Greetings. I do not think you are nutty, sir. A bit knotty perhaps. The 'informagical' barb was lobbed not at old time religion but at a more sophisti...

I try and these days mostly succeed at finding the sacred in the dear dirty daily details. If we can't have (or deny ourselves the pleasure of having ...

Possibly. (I see what you are getting at, but I've learned (with difficulty) to be wary of dragging in foggy grammatical habit as ethereally hyper-log...

Does 'reality' have an exact, context-independent meaning? Is such a situation even possible? (And what exactly do I mean by 'possible'?)

The problem seems to be that sophistry is always something they do. We of course are rational and clean and nice and good.

Half the time it seems to be about religion and anti-religion. The other half of the time it seems to be about either taking a side in a venerable if ...

Affirmative. Ten four. And also our words and various well-worn, inherited dichotomies are both semantically interdependent and mobile, a fog of the b...

I think you are correct and that your capitalization is appropriate. Idealism is (often) a continuation of religion through increased abstraction. The...

The materialist is the guy who doesn't think he will win the lottery just because he bought a ticket. To the materialist, the (religious) idealist is ...

The path with flowers on it is that of the rejection of the existence of thoughts. This is not the rejection of language, which would be even more off...

The mind is a terrible thing to chase.

Perhaps you project, sir. There are approximately 450 to 500 million nonbelievers worldwide, including both positive and negative atheists, or roughly...

Genuine speculation is less annoying and perhaps less common than hawking the next flavor of informagical kool-aid.