This is part !. There is more to come. I commend it to you. A time before the drones, before, covid, before the shit actually hit the fan (again). Hav...
My reference was to @"NOS4A2" claim elsewhere that anyone could say anything because it was just words. Thus becoming inflamed at someone's words is e...
OK, this is definitely the Woo department, and I'm not sure how far down the rabbit hole I want to fall. But when a chap has to declare some commercia...
Meanwhile, in another part of the catastrophe: This is not a very happy video. But Ukraine is losing more slowly than Russia. Not very consoling, real...
Well I totally wasn't fishing for compliments, but I expect you are, so - the feeling is entirely mutual. Nothing wrong with our mirrors, eh? Like a l...
It wouldn't affect me in the slightest if I didn't exist; but look at all the pearls of wisdom the forum would be lacking! A tragedy to contemplate an...
I'm not sure. Either I have never been in such a superposition, or I have but was not aware. Either way it is not clear to me that it cannot be or tha...
Or, presumably, in a box with a cat. So much for Schroedinger and his diabolical cat experiment - as in The problem with your @"Banno", claim above is...
It is surely only an act* of imagination to suppose one is ever any-when-or-where else. *act as in 'performance'. Here and now is where/when we dream ...
My favourite science reporter, here explains to me what the f is a 'time crystal' and opens some interesting prospects for future tech. https://www.yo...
They are not the dogs, we are, in their eyes. It is a symmetrical understanding of each that the other is the dog. The reason for this is economic. Du...
That stops working when you are dealing with people who are violently opposed to violence. You and I, you have to understand, are the violent extremis...
This is quite long. There's a bit of detail and nuance. It mainly focusses on the UK, but lessons can be drawn for other places. (Trump trigger warnin...
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest at about the same time: 3 kids wounded including the shooter who died, in just another High School shooting. ...
Typical Jesus hyperbole. But when it is exemplified for once it seems an appropriate lament. But I prefer this sentiment, from the American Jesus, add...
Yes, time is a limitation of (our human) consciousness, whereas for God, "Before Abraham was, I am." Or I sometimes like to say, "Being is, whereas No...
No, I certainly didn't intend that reduction, especially the 'just'. Pain is real, and judgements are real, and suffering is real. The point I want to...
OK, this is rather interesting to any philosopher of science, but it is mainly a cautionary tale about the social nature of science and the importance...
@"Constance" @"Truth Seeker" Pain is not the same as suffering. One might say that pain is the alarm system of the body's damage control function. Som...
It stops everything happening at once. Imagine a movie, but every frame projected simultaneously ... the divine white light of god-consciousness. Even...
I can understand your intentionality from the outside as a physical process, as long asI do not try to understand my own. But when I intend to underst...
Really? So what was the answer? Was it satisfying? You are very fortunate, you know; mostly, this being a philosophy forum, nobody just dissolves ques...
That seems not to be quite right to me. It seems reasonable to say "I do prefer not to have existed.", but to claim that in case one had not existed o...
Without me, you would all be fucked. Oh, wait, you're probably all fucked anyway. Which means I've gone to all this trouble for nothing. Well damn you...
No, but it is the necessary first step. One cannot even ask the question as to what it is for something to be good, until someone has called something...
Perhaps I misunderstood. 'Prior' is the usual jargon. Then prior to what? My claim is that the analysis of X cannot be prior to X, where X is somethin...
How can there be? How can ethics be discussed before there are ethics? First the fall into knowledge, and the birth of shame, then the questioning and...
Do good and avoid evil. Wellbeing and harm are, I think, the same thing in other words. I suggest that humans are those that can question their inclin...
Indeed, but does it reduce suffering? My local population of wild goats is controlled by fertility management. But all the goats still die eventually ...
This is not entirely true, Truth Seeker. All life must consume something, and all life must at its end be consumed. If it were not so, life would chok...
Proud to be the first person to dislike this video. My uncle was a troll who lived under the Forth Rail Bridge, so I know whereof I dislike. I have fu...
Wrong. AI does not know that water is wet. It does not know what wet is, and it does not know what water is. All it knows is what words usually go tog...
A truth seeker who begins their search with a quote from fiction might be already on the wrong path. We may disagree about what makes a good meal, but...
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