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Thank you.

AI operates under a totally different set of motivations from real intelligence, and thereby is intelligence separated from particularity. It's like a...

You allude to the corruption problem in general. To that I reply that reason must not just be found, but earned. And not just kept, but preserved.

The key idea is culturally a safe-zone was created where we differentiated wise and innocents, who are innocent of ‘evil’ because they don’t know it. ...

Your description of why you are interested in philosophy matches almost exactly with your definition of love of wisdom that is its etymology. I person...

“us”? I mean it’s great that we want to know: But why? And don’t just give me a vague “because we’re curious!” That’s like asking an alcoholic why the...

And yet you find yourself on a philosophy forum, the word generally means 'love or pursuit of wisdom.' And we will happily watch reruns of Family Matt...

Simultaneously, he or she has found the abstract notion of the self in language and it's essential quality of negation. Need I remind you that it is a...

If you're saying that innocence means, in part, being open to rich and interesting experiences, then we are in full agreement. But certain experiences...

Was just getting a little sentimental with the talk of Fox News and self-decapitation. Not exactly care-bears material. Anyway, where is this oppositi...

It sounds like the point both BC and yourself are making is that when innocence tends to be insular and not ask questions of itself, it becomes plainl...

@"BC" should I jump off the bridge now or later?

Or maybe we can... if you want to, don't mean to be bossy.

That makes sense because there's no way for philosophy to exist without experience and knowledge. But we 'can't go into Kant' (non-intended joke), we ...

Being exposed to the satisfaction of thought archetypes and to constantly reinforce them causes the will to be content in understanding and to go no f...

How did you learn what experience, knowledge and good judgement were, and where did you get the idea that they were better than the absence thereof? A...

What gave you the idea that it was something worth finding to begin with? Would you equate these urges and wishes with wisdom? Almost all ancient phil...

Honestly, this whole quibble over the use of the word 'genocide' is a colossal and immature waste of everyone's time. There are a multitude of differe...

In the sphere of psychoanalysis, it would be characterized as something emerging from the unconscious that cannot be realized. Stuck, as it were, in a...

Could be true if we change one minor parameter: I've used Universal Form (my term, don't think it exists elsewhere) a few times in a couple other thre...

In culture, we sometimes play G-d to some extent. And in that sense, our creation comes to feel more real than ourselves.

I agree that the proper place for the question is religion, but doesn’t religion sort of become philosophy once we begin to place it’s notions in view...

I guess my point, if there is one, is that most of us are a result of imperialist empires such as Roman, Greek, British, German, Ottoman, Byzantine, M...

Consider the death, betrayal, and theft that brought most of the individuals involved this discussion right now into existence. Can it be ignored if i...

What would you do if you had to either save two strangers or your wife or daughter? I'd choose wife or daughter. It's a question of the type of histor...

Not to be too pessimistic, but in all realism the climate denial argument has shifted from a position of skepticism – which is now in the past – to be...

It sounds like you are alluding to the utilitarian theory in your valuation of valid versus invalid self-destruction. If the destruction is considered...

Aren't you sort of generalizing that all self-destructive people are irrational? Most people who choose a path, destructive or not, have some grounds ...

So the choice was between renouncing beliefs -meaning teaching truth, wisdom, and philosophy to Athenian youths - and death. So how was it not self de...

What I'm talking about is a kind of nihilism that is about the reality of choice and agency. But the reality we want means overcoming the little pods ...

How nice to know that I'm successfully tapping into the debased individuals who make up the NIN fanbase. Looks like we're getting somewhere good now. ...

It would be appropriate at this point to ask you for clarifcation on what you mean by 'nurture and tenderness' and 'chaos and suffering.' This assessm...

Yeah, but what was he accused of, and why didn’t he stop?

What about who you’d call the grandfather of Western philosophy, Socrates? Someone who, as the story goes, chose execution over fear and groundless ob...

I agree with your point here, but only with qualification. Did psychoanalysis ever characterize any 'illnesses,' or was it the individual themselves, ...

Your question is, if I understand correctly, 'if self-destruction is the answer, then why bother to foster children at all?' The question I'm posing i...

sort of an analogy for why is like your neighbour has invested in monopolizing the water supply with armed turrets, and you’re supposed to not care.

There is a conflict of personal energy and control that it implies a person taken in their separateness from such a proposition. It sounds like a narr...

In essence, the fundamental tendency of ourselves to look for true freedom. In this case, maybe a type of freedom from the boredom of choosing, boredo...

It seems like fear is the ultimate currency that keeps people apart and separate. Fear of losing, losing control, or being sectioned away from normal ...

What I am talking about is a narrative. As an example, say you are a college student who upon starting your term meet friends with extreme views on in...

I get what you're saying, and I have encountered such type of thinking, but don't see any evidence that it is answerable solely to a liberal mindset. ...

Okay so you’re talking about hypocrites basically. I still don’t see what this has to do with democratic or liberal politics besides some incidental p...

I think you have cheated here. You have used the word ‘Leftist’ to contain an admixture of subject and predicates. It is no longer descriptive word, b...

Who are these leftists, and why is their devotion to one of four two-dimensional directions make them an enemy?

If sea levels rise and catastrophic weather events continue, think of all the money that will be spent repairing infrastructure, relocating climate re...

Why would a being that is characteristically good and strong do something weak and bad? Among the other animals, we have the ability to engage with th...

So you are interested in right. What right we grant such an agent, and what constitutes right to such an agent. We are talking about agreement between...

The problem here is we are utilizing and extending the word 'Consciousness' synchronically to mean more than it means diachronically. It is now an umb...

I am not proposing it, everyone more or less already uses this category. It would be ridiculous to suggest your experience of reality was true and unf...