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From one philosopher to the next you see plain language and pathologically specialized language respectively, so is it any wonder that context and con...

It's been happening since whenever the first two simultaneous philosophers lived.

It's interesting that education goes to such lengths to infect everyone with a compulsion to prove and deny reality simultaneously.

Unless you have a history of mental illness accompanied by severe delusions, or you've been taking some serious drugs, it's pretty safe to say the fri...

There are numerous online resources composed by people who are alleged to know what they're talking about. It's not my place to enlighten anyone, and ...

You appear to have zero understanding in your comments.

There is no reaching you. You are incapable of rational discourse.

They're becoming the most despised aspects of the most pessimistic grievances of a bygone philosophical era while calling themselves "progressive".

In both a narrow and a broader context, he's invariably attacking what stems from religious morality, and if you look at his life and times, there are...

No one can do that, next.

Did you just go watch 2001: A Space Odyssey and think to yourself "now I know everything there is to know about artificial intelligence"?

You're misconstruing what I'm trying to communicate. I haven't classified any experience as coming through or filtered by anything. I've classified ex...

Because theists ask for evidence against gods, when clearly there is none. And on and on it goes, because it's impossible to prove or disprove that so...

"The singularity" is a concept, and concepts don't have their own aims, because they're not sentient. The idea that all human problems will be solved ...

It's ironic, the notion that post-modernism has been influenced by Nietzsche.

So much of philosophy has been about either a) why humans are so fantastic or b) given that humans are so fantastic why do they do things that are not...

"Real intellect" is an avoidance of this human tendency toward bias. If a person can't consider data objectively, then they have no business pretendin...

Nothing is experienced through the mind or by the the mind--it doesn't experience processes. The brain stores and transmits information--everything is...

Morality has as many faces as humanity has. It varies even within a singular sect of a singular religion. There's a set of interpretive and often loos...

No. Mind is an illusion. Take for example one of the many sensations of "mind"--that it can be perceived as vast internal space. Do you believe that v...

They do exist--as physical and energetic processes. They don't exist as ethereal or non-material or whatever other fantasy could be thrown at them. Fa...

Cloning doesn't work that way. Humans will never become gods. There are no gods to become, and you can't just become whatever you imagine. Cloning doe...

The sensation of "mind" is a series of chemical and energetic processes that result in self awareness, felt similarly to how a ghost limb can be felt ...

So from the brain then. That's what I said.

If I come in swinging trying to punch everyone in a room, but I only end up punching myself over and over, I'm not a victim, I'm just ineffective and ...

Correct. All evolutionary tools.

A body made of cells is not "somehow" able to think. It's able to think because it's made of cells. We're not just cells, we rely on water, minerals, ...

I think you might need to look up the definition of "victim".

Philosophy is the disaster which led to science, which is the disaster that led to what some claim is destroying the world while others disagree. Phil...

No it is not. Full stop. The government isn't suppressing it. It's not being conducted secretly. Science fiction movies are fictitious. It's fun to th...

All these god threads go to exactly the same place, especially when people defy reason and expound imaginary proof. Could you imagine how many innocen...

What worsens the pursuit of certainty is faith in the unknown, or even worse--the unknowable.

And in that certainty, he may or may not have been correct. There's no way for him to know for sure that thinking is being or that he is alive separat...

That's false, genius is organic, technology isn't an "extension of genius" any more than dirt is an extension of ants. Will ants never build another h...

It should have been "I think, therefore I might be".

I appreciate good ideas--having a favorite philosopher is pointless.

Which ancient or modern philosopher did I praise or quite as a basis for an argument?

Work that could have come from anyone given the opportunity of education, which was exclusive to children of affluent families. That a guy came up wit...

Aristotle was incompetent.

All Aquinas showed was a bias toward a very particular brand of religion.

"Estimation" isn't synonymous with "imagination".

I use Schick razors, they're obviously better than Occam's. I believe I've said this to you before, butt I'll iterate--I don't ignore things, I ponder...

He might believe he has the last laugh, like William Lane Craig when he thinks he's got an ontological argument for the existence of god and says "I'd...

You don't know what's funny about "surviving death"?

This conversation is a source of laughter not hostility. Also it's "I could have" not "I could of".

You started a troll thread based on percentages you made up in your head and you're pretending it's fortifying claims that have no foundation in reali...

You haven't yet presented a sound argument for or against anything. This thread is a prime example. You presented something you're pretending is math,...

Prejudice isn't an argument, and it has a negative impact on arguments. Atheism has a definition, and most atheists couldn't care less about arguing n...

Unfortunately not even good credentials can support bad arguments.

Technology doesn't philosophize, and technology can't save us from cataclysm indefinitely.