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It's conceivable, but there would need to be some big evolutionary changes. Wouldn't it be better to be developing successor-robots now? They'd last b...

For my money, the species has done for itself. Let's hope it's quick. Do people think it matters much?

It seems to me, on a very basic point, that an economic/political system based entirely on immediate profit simply can't suddenly remake itself to tak...

Isn't death only a problem for those who accept the heavy promptings of language to believe intermittent and shifting consciousness 'is' 'an individua...

Everything, surely, depends on who owns the robots? Will it be those who currently do the work or those who profit by it. I think we know the answer t...

Meaning of life? At some point that 'we' can't remember a sort of consciousness aparently began and after a while 'we' were trained in a language whic...

They can get rid of me when they please. I've been here a long time, and it's getting worse by the day.

We'll have to make it up as we go along, doubtless. I'm no utopian bossman.

If you keep capitalism there is no point in bothering with a 'society' at all, surely? It is just a looting-machine, and we shall only get shot of it ...

Fair enough. I once taught English and I'm relaxing! :)

I'm afraid that is total rubbish. The main thing is to stop believing such arrant nonsense and learn to co-operate with all the other people.

We haven't got many more days or nights if we keep your rulers and their system, have we? 100 years' worth, if we are VERY lucky.

The point is that all forms of government stink. That's why anarchism exists. Do vote for whomever you please, if that's the way you like to pass the ...

Anarchy is an attempt to get bullying clowns off our backs. Governments are systems for allowing bullying and exploitation. There are further - econom...

If we have the sense to create robots that carry forward enough of our characteristics to count, perhaps, but they better get on with it. Asbestos rob...

The point about Anarchy is that it is hard to achieve, and people are too easily persuaded into striking prematurely.. Compete disbelief in the bosses...

If I agree then I'm not obeying anything - I'm doing what I choose. What society are you talking about? Capitalism? The English occupiers here? It is ...

'Obey' is what you do when you allow someone to treat you as a trained dog. I'm not one of those. If they want me to obey, they'll need someone standi...

I don't 'obey' anything - I observe rules I think sensible.

No - capitalism never solves problems except incidentally, surely? It exists to make money NOW, not to worry whether the planet is here tomorrow.

I'm baffled. Why should I obey anyone?

Never ever volunteer, never rush to obey the bosses, always express extreme scepticism, make fun of the mugs who believe in the system - stuff like th...

It doesn't need much philosophy, surely? We are going to destroy our species quite soon by altering the climate to keep capitalism. The majority of pe...

Experience, especially in the Ukraine and in Spain, seems to show that anarchy is impossible to achieve without an organised political party to hold p...

It is a linguistic problem, I suppose. The language s we inherit from our distant forebears require an 'I', and we assume it must stand for something....

I took it to mean 'perceptions and conclusions'. People can clearly see and hear things that aren't, for the rest of us, there at all. We must assume ...

Surely the only way we can, or ever could. live is by provisional hypotheses and habit? If our minds aren't in reasonably reliable contact with the wo...

If only the issue hadn't got mixed up with American imperialism. It's more and more like the Cold War, alas!

Why? If they'd given a personal pledge, they shouldn't have put the tories in power to do something else, surely? They were backing them because they ...

Remember the Liberals' 'personal pledge' to save student grants? Reactionary 'honesty' can 'prove successful' only if backed by total lies, surely?

If we look at what capitalism presents us with as 'reality' and ask, 'is that IT?' we will inevitably feel the huge urge to find something other, I th...

Exactly. 'Superior' at what, by whose standards?

I'm agnostic about everything myself, and can't see why that implies that one accepts anything as particularly 'reasonable'. All things are possible, ...

I think the problem is systemic in a wider sense: it is the economic system we live under that often makes abortion the kinder choice.

If you condemn a child to a life of unwanted unhappiness in this dreadful society, you are surely evil beyond serious belief, at least to those who kn...

It seems to me that the question is about women's rights. Without the possibility of abortion you condemn a woman to a kind of slavery in order to pro...

I've read the various theories about language-development, and I think we'll never know. What I think is unarguable is that the various languages entr...

Most things are, I suppose!

Humans are an animal species, and animals tend to produce young. Since evolution gifted them with consciousness, which proved an effective if dicey ev...

'A change is as good as a rest'. Best wishes in your new project.

Anything that leads us to think carefully about what we do and why we are doing it is bound to help, I suppose.

Why does someone have to be 'to blame' for anything? Don't you think it might be an idea to relax into a little humility? Here we are, so we might as ...

It seems to me that everyone is wasting time on this nonsense. How can you base any policy on a vote three years ago on a woolly question, which close...

Cymro dw'i. My Wife always tells me English isn't my native language, which is sort of right, because I was brought up in a bit of a mixture. I always...

I don't think we are in disagreement.

It is an extremely minor one - an evolutionary development to suit particular climates.

I mean stuff like skin colour. 'Race' has very little indeed to do with actual genetic differences between people, surely?

The 'racial' distinctions, of course, are very superficial indeed.

Marx helps: we know who is lying to us. and why, and we know we won't have a cat's chance in hell of making sensible evaluations till we get the leech...

Why don't we divide people up by their gloop? If we believe strongly enough, we can quite easily impose gloopal divisions on humanity - then, if we re...