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Yes and I would add; Being a strong leader. Last week Putin said the European leaders were weak, “piglets”. While laughing at them. In a setting where...

I would say that knowledge by acquaintance and by participation (and to this I would add knowledge by witness), doesn’t need to be appropriated in thi...

I had spotted dick for pudding tonight.

Yes, I realise that, your just telling the way you see it playing out. I hope you’re wrong. I won’t be coming to visit any time soon, now that they ar...

So full on MAGA, I’m not seeing it. But I’m not in America. I can give arguments for why that isn’t going to happen, but it might do all the same and ...

I doubt that, Trump maybe and his acolytes. The issue is though that Trump has lit the touch paper for the U.S. to withdraw from Europe. Not necessari...

Even so, the structural circumstances had changed, surely they were aware of that?

Was he asking to be banned, in a round about way? That’s what I thought. Otherwise he was pushing, or testing the boundaries repeatedly while saying I...

Yes, there is change in the air as a result of world events and the politicians are very slow to catch up. In many cases, they seem to ignore it and s...

Yes, very much so, for me mind is not just the intelligent part of us we are consciously aware of, but something about the whole being. Also that ther...

Yes, this quite the conundrum. We’re either missing something, or have a perspective which generates these paradox’s. I like the idea that mathematica...

Your referenced material is deeply politically biased to the right. In the U.K. two tier policing is a deeply divisive culture war issue whipped up by...

I think you’re addressing the wrong crowd, I’m sure we’re nothing but a bunch of harmless philosophers.

Well I don’t know who thought America was going to be able to pull back and leave Europe to take up here previous role following the war. That was nev...

Following WW2 Europe was devastated, it was going to take decades to rebuild and re-arm. The war wiped away the colonies of Great Britain (although th...

I don’t know if this addresses the question, or whether I’m missing something. If we take away Newton (and all of humanity) from the situation describ...

I take on board your criticism, I don’t normally get involved in tit for tat comments, although in this occasion this did happen after I pointed out t...

Yes, I was seeing information (the same information) as meaning different things to different observers, depending on their position in the ecosystem....

Yes, I saw that, Putin laughing and calling the EU leaders piglets. Reminds me of the little green men in Ukraine. He has contempt for European instit...

Perhaps if that’s what I said, but it isn’t. I said Putin would agree that the EU should be got rid of too. That’s all.

The biological machine (society of cells) behind the scenes, is alive and imbues the puppet with sentience. I noticed that there were no living cells ...

it seems Trump and Putin would be in agreement with you.

Yes, it’s a crude metaphor, perhaps a society of cells is more appropriate.

When we look at the outside world, we are observing a view (a stage) with perspective and a horizon. We are accustomed to understanding what is going ...

Then the way forward would be to create a cyborg. The technology is already being developed, but is in its infancy. It’s only a matter of time now.

People who don’t have access to unfettered news outlets. Oh and president Trump.

Yes AI are masters of mimicry, it’s important to keep what they do separate from being conscious.

There seems to be a conflation in this discussion, between self reference and self awareness. Claude is clearly both self-referential and self-aware. ...

Brexit was as a result of Russian friendly populists playing the race/immigration card. The links to the Kremlin are slowly coming out. A former leade...

As you say, Germany has got the message. I was hearing reports that German troops are helping dig trenches and tank traps in Poland.

These restraints and observances can be woven into a modern life, but it’s not easy to pass this skill onto a seeker, or chela due to the discipline r...

It is quite difficult to explain, but is also quite simple. I’ll approach it in two ways, firstly, imagine a spectrum like the electromagnetic spectru...

Yes, that is a possibility and the U.S. is now untrustworthy. But with Democrats in office they would not likely pull out of NATO and by the time of t...

It’s all relative. Name a nation acting more strategically in it’s own interests?

I don’t know, I thought that was your position. For me it’s more a case that consciousness is fundamental in the higher (subtle) realms. Not necessari...

What the U.S. and Russia are doing in this regard are undermining their interests too. Not for Trump and Putin personally, but for their nations. Trum...

I can see that and I can’t deny that it is compelling. I just feel it misses a lot, for me physical material is an accretion, a world of surfaces and ...

I can relate to the idea that consciousness is everywhere, but not necessarily that physical material is conscious, as I regard it as an artificial co...

But they might only appear to be entirely separate from our limited perspective, from another perspective they might be related.

So it’s ok for Russia and the US for that matter, to carry out illegal actions, but not Europe? I think Putin may have a bit of the blame for that. An...

This is the problem, or so they say. That if they are entirely separate, how do they happen to come together? I like you don’t see it as so much of a ...

I’m probably not the person to critique this as I’m not a trained philosopher and come to this from a different school, so the other end of the stick ...

I too picked up on this. I had thought we were not allowed to admit undiscoverable components. I would point out, though, that something that is undis...

I agree with this admission and your position on philosophical zombies. It does leave a rather large gap for “non-physical alternatives” to creep in t...

I began my reply with “yes”, I was agreeing with you. Going back to where this line of exchange started, whether we do know what it is we know? I’ll p...

Yes I noticed that, which is why I mentioned the mid term elections. If the Republicans lose control of Congress (or the Senate), it will weaken Trump...

Yes, but that’s not what I’m talking about, I’m talking about orientation. It’s more of a negation of the rational interpretation of insights. The ins...

Yes, Europe is now under a pincer movement, or piggy in the middle in terms of rhetoric. We will see if Zelenskyy agrees to anything with Trump, or if...

Some scientists have lightbulb (eureka) moments too. Or what was Einstein up to when he came to his realisation about the speed of light and relativit...

Karma in so much as there is a causal thread of some kind. Karma is bound up in reincarnation and requires an entire transcendent cosmogony. We can go...