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"Ultimate" is the last in a temporal sense, it's the conceptual opposite of the First. The Spirit is simply the Culture, as the synthesis of Nature an...
January 11, 2025 at 22:19
It sounds like a brutal thing to say, I would argue that we are sentient and that AI is not, but I'm still reading the paper that @"frank" linked to.
January 11, 2025 at 22:02
I never said that the Hegelian Absolute Spirit was First or Fundamental, all I said is that it is Ultimate and that it is a Truth about something else...
January 11, 2025 at 21:52
That's a fallacy. Specifically, an ad hominem fallacy. If a moron says that 2 + 2 = 4, and you say "that's false because you're a moron", then the per...
January 11, 2025 at 21:43
I already know what the ultimate truth is, about reality. It is Hegel's concept of the Absolute Spirit. And that is not factiality. EDIT: The song tha...
January 11, 2025 at 21:33
I don't think so. It depends on what genre of literature you're reading that in. If it's a work of fiction, then I wouldn't take it seriously in that ...
January 11, 2025 at 21:28
I see your AI move, and I raise you the human poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace": EDIT: As for the song, I select the following one f...
January 11, 2025 at 21:15
I'm not sure either, that's why I'm asking for your help. Thank you for taking the time to helping me. Yes, in some sense. In some contexts, at least....
January 11, 2025 at 20:47
That is indeed the semantic translation, but you lose the rhyming structure with that particular translation. It's a real poetic challenge. Like, take...
January 11, 2025 at 20:23
But this actually does come up every now and then, in political conversations. Like, I've heard fascists make the argument that human society should b...
January 11, 2025 at 20:01
Wow... what wisdom you have. And I sure like that word, simplex. Your skills as muser are even greater than your skills as a Poet. It's a lovely poeti...
January 11, 2025 at 19:40
Whoa...
January 11, 2025 at 19:28
It's a song about an eco-terrorist vigilante that says the following:
January 11, 2025 at 19:18
Right, but you wanna know why bees are like that and we're not? This is a curious biological fact that I learned when I was working on my doctoral the...
January 11, 2025 at 19:16
Hi. Can I answer with a music video by the band Earth Crisis? Because the lyrics say something about The Hand of Fate. Is that what you're talking abo...
January 11, 2025 at 18:59
Damn, this got real dark all of the sudden. That would be either a scientific hypothesis or a philosophical thesis. Or both. Or perhaps none.
January 11, 2025 at 18:56
Right, but, look at the point I'm making here, for a sec. It seems to me (and I could be wrong here) that you're mixing up the topic of politics with ...
January 11, 2025 at 18:48
Ok, let me see if the following analogy holds up, then. When looking at a bee colony, we usually point to a very large individual bee, which is clearl...
January 11, 2025 at 18:19
@"Count Timothy von Icarus" what do you think of what I said ?
January 11, 2025 at 17:33
Yeah, but what folks are telling me about that, is that to discuss the topic of reincarnation is to go Off Topic in this Thread, since it's about Aris...
January 11, 2025 at 17:24
Damn, Queensrÿche in the First Place? Brave move, I can respect that. (hello BTW, really scary pseudonym you got there, honestly) Judas Priest in seco...
January 11, 2025 at 17:07
There's a Thread that I started in this Forum about their philosophical and political ideas, and there's some Youtube videoclips of their songs that I...
January 11, 2025 at 16:59
So... as in what, then? Is it Divine, in your opinion? The Absolute. Is it Divine? Cool verse. But the third one is a free line, because the ending wo...
January 11, 2025 at 16:46
I need to correct this thing that I said. Scandinavia also includes Denmark, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. Why didn't you point out this mistake tha...
January 11, 2025 at 16:33
Here's a working example of the Alignment table. Ten years ago, more or less, the philosopher Alain de Botton said that the city of Brisbane, Australi...
January 11, 2025 at 03:44
You know what? After careful consideration, I have arrived at the following conclusion: you are the best Poet in this forum!
January 11, 2025 at 02:00
Wow... You're on roll lately, just delivering pure wisdom! You might even convince me that divine magic exists in the same sense that arcane magic doe...
January 11, 2025 at 01:51
Hmmm... Ok, I'll bite. By your lights, what should I do in this case in relation to my previous posts, then? What would be the best thing to do here, ...
January 11, 2025 at 01:28
Hmmm... Ok, I'll bite. We shouldn't be hierarchical, ever? A hierarchy is just an arrangement, objectively speaking. It's just an organizational instr...
January 11, 2025 at 01:23
Lovely verse! Hmmm...
January 11, 2025 at 01:10
Indeed. But it seems that people nowadays want to call experiments themselves into question, just because "philosophy is cool". Just look at the peopl...
January 11, 2025 at 00:30
Sure, but that's just like, a state of affairs. It doesn't really tell me how we should "go about it" in any meaningful way. Should there be an academ...
January 11, 2025 at 00:26
Well Mario Bunge uses that term in a positive sense, in many different texts, for example in his article titled In Defense of Realism and Scientism. I...
January 11, 2025 at 00:19
Sure thing, my apologies.
January 11, 2025 at 00:15
This happened to me with Hegel, before reading Deleuze's book Nietzsche and Philosophy. Before reading Deleuze's book, I had wondered if someone could...
January 11, 2025 at 00:13
That's fair. I would say that they have that preference during their routinely, day to day work as scientists. They have to. They can't be reading poe...
January 11, 2025 at 00:04
Sure, so did I. That wasn't my point though.
January 10, 2025 at 23:29
Fixed. It is now in the Lounge category instead of the Philosophy of Art category.
January 10, 2025 at 23:24
Why are you using scare quotes? Honest question, genuinely curious. Like, just say it: a body of water cannot have a hill in it. It has waves. And a h...
January 10, 2025 at 22:09
Smart maxims to live by.
January 10, 2025 at 22:09
I've never seen my own brain. How do I know that I have one? Maybe there is a machine inside my skull, that has mechanical gears and Steampunk technol...
January 10, 2025 at 22:06
I don't know. Does anyone know that? Things of that sort can be investigated, officially. At some point you kinda get to the bottom of it. It's just s...
January 10, 2025 at 21:46
Ok, this could be a Moorean answer in some sense. And Moorean answers tend to be correct. Perhaps not due to the right reasons, but Moorean arguments ...
January 10, 2025 at 21:40
Hi Wayfarer. For what it's worth, I don't think that ChatGPT and Claude AI are very good philosophers. They sound stupid to me, those A.I.s. Just an a...
January 10, 2025 at 21:35
I would say so. Probably. What would that mean? EDIT: @"Hanover" I've found an English translation of that part (it's not my translation, but I'm link...
January 10, 2025 at 21:01
That's an amazing thing to hear, and I say that as a professional philosopher. I can't believe that someone actually gets something that useful out of...
January 10, 2025 at 20:47
I'm trying to think of a Moorean answer to the OP's question but I can't think of any. That doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't any. Moorean an...
January 10, 2025 at 20:45
These are some of my favorites: EDIT: I have moved the contents of this comment .
January 10, 2025 at 20:02
Smart move on his part. Nice.
January 10, 2025 at 19:14
My brain tells me that I'm thinking.
January 10, 2025 at 19:13