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I would posit myself as a physicalist emergentist. What type is still up in the air since that's a realm depending on yet unproven scientific theories...

I haven't read all yet, but I try to do just this, but not only for the ones I score on the lower end, but also the higher end because it's equally im...

This entire thread is gold :sweat:

I found this one spectacularly well written. It's vivid and imaginative and it's balancing right on the edge of making no sense until everything click...

It has some vivid imagery and hints at character moments, parts that would define the life of the character, but I would have wanted to read more abou...

Unfortunately I don't see a story here. It feels like the opposite of the old time saying about storytelling: "drama is life with the dull bits cut ou...

This is something I’ve been saying many times. I get that threads on politics generate a lot of animosity, but this is a philosophy forum. That should...

But we do impose the dilemma on others by acknowledging that the suffering of existence exists, putting a spotlight on ideas that in themselves lead t...

Remember that planet earth has different accumulations of mass making it uneven, which means that spacetime is slightly uneven in relation to other pl...

You missed my definition of meaning. I focused on the absolute core meaning that can be objectively argued for, the core universal purpose of entropy;...

The meaning we create in reality is closely linked to making a mark on history. It does not need to be noticeable or make you famous, rather it is abo...

Doesn't non-existence in the first place leave the equation absurd? To not have existed is to never have had a will to not suffer. The relief from suf...

Would a guilty or non-guilty charge become a reality before election gets going? It seems they actually need a proper sentence before they could concl...

That would be hilarious.

Making it illegal is fruitless for most people committing suicide. They give up on life, they give up on everything, making it illegal only put more p...

And writing fiction is also about metaphors and allegories, and in this we turn to archetypes and the exploration of the extreme ends of experience an...

And in our modern times all of society is infected by binary structures of thinking and ideologies.

It may look like that, but if you have the energy to read through my posts in this thread I think you will see that I'm sympathetic to religion in a c...

Because it is part of the human experience. Death by sickness, death by old age, being murdered and committing suicide are constant outcomes in our hu...

I find today's constant trigger warnings about suicide in fiction to be appalling. Made by uneducated people, probably over-protecting parents who kno...

It may be, in times when people lived inside such a bubble and never ventured outside. But how do you apply it in times like these, when the bombardme...

Isn't this ignoring the complexity of manipulation? Not only do we have intentional manipulation by political powers utilizing the gullible nature of ...

And it is this that I speak of. The existential dread, this "Dukkha". However, in Buddhism, it seems that "Samudaya" describes the cause of "Dukkha" a...

I think that's taking it too far. Contemporary philosophy, at least how it appears today, exists right at the edge of science. The difference today is...

I thank you for a well put argument. I see your perspective, yet the core issue I have is that since we can only rely on some kind of evidence for a c...

:up: While I like the anarchistic ideals, I fail to see how any such form ever lasts long enough to be sustainable on a large scale. Not necessarily t...

The problem is that it further pushes away the direct intervention by another being. This is the problematic nature of shifting goal posts by those de...

My point was that there is no such purpose, only the purpose as a function of the universe just as much as the purpose of electromagnetism as a functi...

Your laugh at what I said seem to imply that you feel what I said was nonsense, but now I can't find that response anymore? Anyway, the thing you resp...

Actually, there may be some purpose to life and evolution in that life as a function increases entropy as a function based on the second law of thermo...

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This is also lacking today, especially online. Being curious into other people's perspective before arguing against them would solve many problems in ...

You've just underscored why it's impossible to take anything you say seriously.

In my view, a soft Kantian ethical framework functions best. The categorical imperatives in my opinion are naive in their absolutism and centered arou...

I don't look at the world in a binary way, everything is a form of gradient, statistical, or a matter of probability. You cannot be only honest or onl...

Got damn we need to protest against the mining industry, all those hurt little rocks!!!

I did, I pointed out the fallacies and the biases. I pointed out that you make up some arbitrary speculation based on a wrong interpretation of alread...

No, because you have to present a logical argument first, burden of proof is on you since you have an extraordinary claim that features misunderstandi...

It is quite an interesting time we live in, in which wars are fought on the premise of not killing innocents. In all of history, the only reason more ...

I'm not sure what you're aiming for here? You mean the institution of science? Because the mystery and the urge to decode the universe is still alive ...

That's not how science and philosophy works, and you attempt to do claims in both here. No it doesn't, this is nonsensical logic.

But that isn't materialism in the philosophical sense though, that's capitalism and consumerism. What you are referring to is "materialistic" rather t...

Exactly, especially when it uses a faulty interpretation and then build an entire conclusion around that faulty interpretation as a premise.

No, you are cherry picking concepts together and call it a theory when its not a theory or hypothesis, but wild speculation. Evidence must bind togeth...

Provable axioms of morality are hard to prove as it is, so adding another layer of unproved dimension to the fold does not help humanity achieve any c...

You're speculating and using your own speculation as evidence for your next points. Making your speculations eve more speculative the further the text...

Maybe the deleted thread wasn't holding up to the template for thread posting? While posts can vary in quality without a problem, a new thread needs t...

You have two scenarios, one in which you plan to get a child, in that scenario you simply apply to the education, go through it and gets an ok to move...

This is getting down into the gritty trenches of philosophy. We already have diseases that can be tested for at the very early stage of pregnancy and ...

And keeping this in mind is an absolute tenet for anyone changing the fundamentals of society. For anything related to changing the very structures of...