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The 'I' in AI, as others in this thread have noted, is disputable. What is this quality we are calling 'intelligence' ? After all, each time we say it...

What is it about space and time that makes them inherently 'for themselves?' It seems necessary to think of living one's life as simple passing throug...

Isn't the underlying argument not societal but individual, that really pain and conflict are prerequisites to our taking life seriously? Labels like '...

...A sign you have been on the forums long enough.

Many are asking 'What is this Kool-Aid?' right now. For those wondering: Kool Aid is a powder based fruit drink occasionally used for homicidal purpos...

Beauty is normally divided between something produced versus something appreciated. One can enact beauty and feel no pleasure but the pleasure of anot...

Do you really want that ? A world that abhors pain. The lamb hates the eagle that hunts it, but at the same time loves it, because it is through the E...

Well said. If it is in our nature to do bad, how can it at the same time not be in our nature to do good? What you say is that we should expect moral ...

I also disagree that it disables the main thesis. It didn’t strike me as an attempt to position morality in something inhuman, external, and certainly...

Moral life is itself a problem even for itself. Which is ironic, but also kind of sad…

I really like this aphorism. I feel like moral life is a difficult beast. It entangles us in words, representations, and ideas. But none of it makes s...

I consider the belief to be in a strange kind of way the activity of faith. Belief – even blind belief – can assert a greater religious freedom in som...

I know you are going to find my response to this mundane, predictable, and eighteenth century, but I’m going to try to put it in a way that is as litt...

I think this sort of self is a superstructure, a persona, to go back to Freud. I can lose my persona and yet still experience that loss; so it can’t b...

I prefer hyperbolae.

It must be discussed. Your post uses Being to describe this universe, so Being is already there acting as it would anywhere else.

I don’t fully agree that the self is an illusion. It’s practically the most authentic thing there is. That is to say, not that it is more authentic, b...

But so do you. Everything about you devolves into linguistics, including your innermost thoughts and ideology. That’s exactly what makes it possible t...

No analysis required. Self and being are objective insofar as the self calls the death instinct characteristic. Is your point that Being is unspeakabl...

OK cutting corners usually doesn't pay. However. it is sort of ambitious to suggest that one has shed oneself completely of the mediated categorizatio...

Although I often feel refreshed at the use of formal logic for philosophical purposes, doing this mechanically runs the risk of risk of losing sight o...

And yet, something like visible light can 'travel' several hundreds of thousands of miles through a vacuum as a potential, never touching matter as we...

I think it's a deeply human trait to be attracted to crisis. Somewhere deep within I take enjoyment out of analyzing, imagining, and even sometimes pr...

I think psychoanalysis focuses on childhood for good reason. This is the point in life where our outer reality and inner being are most undifferentiat...

I imagine inspiration of a drug like a confrontation between mammals. One mammal destroys the other and gets hurt in the process. Nothing can be made ...

Was there ever a call out directly for radical change? Besides, what’s so radical about the working class controlling their path in collective will po...

By this you mean the slowly evaporating working class will more and more make their values the subject of social exclusion and stigma? I’m not totally...

Insofar as society has changed since Marx, there are no real ‘Marxists’ as far as people who build on his work exactly as it was. We are interpreting ...

How is it possible that life itself could have a goal, when it has no interests, desires, or appetites of its own? Tests are all about making definiti...

Though I'm no Schopenhauer expert, he seemed to philosophize without reference to rational spirit. I hold this as key to Schopenhauer's idea of boredo...

Well not to be semantic, but in what sense do you use the word ‘question’? Part of the inner soul searching of religion is questioning oneself and one...

Sure maybe, but don't you find this impulse to question everything stems from a desire to know truth in your individuality? Is that so different from ...

What about the interior self, emphasized by theologians and philosophers throughout history, what was the basis for that? Doesn't the word philosophy ...

LOL, seriously though. Something massive leaving creates a void that creates a vaccuum.

All hail the mighty examination, the true judger of all... Doesn't this super-materialism just look like Christianity with the crust cut off?

The elephant in the room is what exactly you mean by 'dogma.' Looking at the definition online this came up: a principle or set of principles laid dow...

Is ordinary life not also a type of true inquiry? Not to sound offensive, but your zeal for true inquiry sounds a lot like a form of dogma. Why do you...

Ideas and concepts lead to actions, beliefs, notions. Don't you think so?

As much as we hate to admit it, I think we in philosophy rely on dogmatism to the same extent that any religions we can name do. Even the idea that th...

Why could mean 'for what...' and it can mean 'what is the reason for...' It's like the movements of a mechanism; the parts don't solely have to have a...

There seems to be another factor implicit in your two questions. What are you referring to by 'meaning'? This could be a reference to personal signifi...

While what you say may be true, is all we concern ourselves with in life mere sustenance? What about the quality of life and stability of the solution...

Words and mathematical symbols often form separate spheres of meaning despite their basis on comparable activities of the mind. Symbols in mathematics...

It is interesting, but it would be all the more interesting if it weren't soaked in the whole Oedipus Complex of removing the artist (father) in subst...

Well imagine an instance where you are in a restaurant job, say a dishwasher. Your manager judges your performance based on the dishes you can wash in...

A performance is in some ways like a story, a telling of narrative or a viewpoint on a system of space and time. The structure of evaluation – or the ...

There is a meaning in which the performance merely states whether or not someone's action met with what they were expected to do by another individual...

I might ask what are the expectations based upon? I imagine you mean that the answer to the question lies is in the following line, We optimize, but t...

So in your view, it is only a matter of quantities of reflecting certain qualities. Individuals fall in line with these qualities to varying degrees, ...

I think there are two overlooked qualities of greatness: First it is preceded by equal greatness of criticism and culture. Second, it is ever willing ...