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In: Why not AI?  — view comment
:up: Yes, AI/LLMs do not have concrete, phenomenal bodies in the world, ergo no 'common sense'.
August 30, 2025 at 20:18
In: What is right and what is wrong and how do we know?  — view comment
Yes (see below). Legality (institutional) =/= morality (interpersonal). Probably for the same reason carnivorism isn't "legal mandatory in all countri...
August 30, 2025 at 19:38
In: Strong Natural Theism: An Alternative to Mainstream Religion  — view comment
Yes.
August 30, 2025 at 04:20
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
I just came across this video ("synchronicity?") https://youtu.be/wAhuQF293Lw?si=CDBhFLYzcNMO5v3m (27½ mins)
August 30, 2025 at 04:19
In: What is a system?  — view comment
:up:
August 29, 2025 at 01:43
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
I think probabilities (epistemic), not just "possibilities" (speculative), are existential modalities which matter more for flourishing.
August 28, 2025 at 20:59
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
David Bohm's conjecture is, I think, much closer to Spinoza's 'substance & modes' than to Plato's 'forms & appearances' because "the explicate order" ...
August 28, 2025 at 20:34
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
Square this circle for me – "non-dualism" + "the Platonic sense".
August 28, 2025 at 03:54
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
Again, I say: Explain why "nature" requires a "source" (that is, why isn't the "source" itself also "nature"?) Why assume "something" is not uncaused?...
August 27, 2025 at 19:14
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
I agree with Feuerbach: projections. More plausibly than not, a "transcendent realm" is an example of a "mere projection". :sparkle: If "nature" has a...
August 27, 2025 at 06:05
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
August 27, 2025 at 05:24
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
:meh: (argumentum ad populum)
August 27, 2025 at 04:36
In: Philosophy in everyday life  — view comment
:cool: :up:
August 27, 2025 at 04:24
In: Idealism in Context  — view comment
Uh oh :smirk:
August 27, 2025 at 03:00
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
:confused: :monkey: :100: :100:
August 27, 2025 at 02:50
In: The Concept of 'God': What Does it Mean and, Does it Matter?  — view comment
These conceptions are independent; neither are necessary properties of or entailed by atheism. To my mind "shallow atheism" denotes a lack of belief i...
August 27, 2025 at 01:36
In: Strong Natural Theism: An Alternative to Mainstream Religion  — view comment
Novalis' "god-intoxicated man" is an acosmist (as I've pointed out ), not "an atheist".
August 27, 2025 at 01:15
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
@"Sam26" :100:
August 25, 2025 at 20:23
In: Philosophy in everyday life  — view comment
:fire:
August 25, 2025 at 20:08
In: Wisdom: Cultivation, Context, and Challenges  — view comment
... as well as, maybe especially, how not to and when not to apply what one (thinks one) knows.
August 25, 2025 at 20:02
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
:up: :up: :100: :up: :up: :up:
August 25, 2025 at 18:24
In: Philosophy in everyday life  — view comment
Yes – e.g. Epicurus and/or Spinoza.
August 25, 2025 at 18:00
In: Wisdom: Cultivation, Context, and Challenges  — view comment
My two bits from a 2021 thread ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/548880 :roll: :up: :up:
August 25, 2025 at 02:24
In: Philosophy in everyday life  — view comment
"Ethical contradictions" have yet to "arise" in (my) everyday life. However, when faced with a dilemma / tradeoff, I try to discern (mostly by habit) ...
August 25, 2025 at 01:43
In: Wisdom: Cultivation, Context, and Challenges  — view comment
:up: :up:
August 25, 2025 at 01:07
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
:up: :up:
August 25, 2025 at 00:57
In: Why not AI?  — view comment
except for slaves, indentureds, girls and women ... However, it's not a sufficient condition for robust liberty. .
August 24, 2025 at 20:12
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
:ok: In other words, like @"Sam", you don't know.
August 24, 2025 at 20:03
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
How do you/we know NDE-subjects "experience" anything while there is zero brain activity? Btw, "materialism" is not a theoretical explanation but an o...
August 23, 2025 at 22:22
In: Why not AI?  — view comment
:smirk: :up: I.e. dogmatism (or superstition). :clap: :lol: Welcome to the Matrix! Funny thing about "liberal education" is those few with the most of...
August 23, 2025 at 18:27
In: What is a system?  — view comment
:up: Works for me.
August 23, 2025 at 18:10
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
:sweat: C'mon ... :up:
August 23, 2025 at 18:07
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
:roll: Yeah, and if "reincarnations", "alien abductions" or "astral projections" are veridical, then ... :sparkle: Addendum to https://thephilosophyfo...
August 23, 2025 at 03:14
In: Faith  — view comment
:up: :up: (from 2022) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/774731 https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/774753
August 23, 2025 at 02:48
In: Strong Natural Theism: An Alternative to Mainstream Religion  — view comment
The 'god of deism' is transcendent – ontologically separate – from the universe in contrast to Spinoza's immanent substance that is not ontologically ...
August 22, 2025 at 01:34
In: Strong Natural Theism: An Alternative to Mainstream Religion  — view comment
:smirk:
August 21, 2025 at 00:48
In: Why not AI?  — view comment
No. My "cognitive abilities" (seem to) benefit mostly from exercising them unaided (as much as possible) here and elsewhere.
August 20, 2025 at 21:52
In: Why not AI?  — view comment
I don't use GPS while driving or LLMs for my TPF postings either. Call me a luddite ... I'm secure in my own cognitive abilities.
August 20, 2025 at 19:25
In: Strong Natural Theism: An Alternative to Mainstream Religion  — view comment
:up: :up:
August 20, 2025 at 07:09
In: Strong Natural Theism: An Alternative to Mainstream Religion  — view comment
Read his Ethics - Part 1 "Of God" pp. 1-31 (iirc) I agree.
August 20, 2025 at 04:08
In: Strong Natural Theism: An Alternative to Mainstream Religion  — view comment
Afaik, the "God" of Western "classical theism" (JCI & pagan) is a belated, unparsimonious, and in some ways conceptually incoherent form of – derivati...
August 20, 2025 at 01:03
In: To What Extent is Panpsychism an Illusion?  — view comment
If so, what's the "explanation" for this "mind at large"? or evidence for each "mind being a filter"? or is Bergson's idea only a speculative analogy ...
August 19, 2025 at 20:32
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
You asked what would convince me and I've told you. In contrast to the above: laboratory-solid, hypothetico-deductively (i.e. experimentally)-solid. O...
August 19, 2025 at 06:17
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
:smirk: :up:
August 19, 2025 at 00:43
In: To What Extent is Panpsychism an Illusion?  — view comment
Some (non-abstract) "objects" are also "conscious beings" and the vast majority are not. Neither type is "more real" than the other as far as I can te...
August 19, 2025 at 00:40
In: To What Extent is Panpsychism an Illusion?  — view comment
I don't understand the question. Imo, it's a (poor) "analogy". https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/1006207
August 18, 2025 at 20:33
In: To What Extent is Panpsychism an Illusion?  — view comment
IIRC, neither thinker argues for "reincarnation and resurrection" symbolically or otherwise. And "consciousness" is not "fundamental" in either philos...
August 18, 2025 at 19:35
In: To What Extent is Panpsychism an Illusion?  — view comment
Well, as I've said elsewhere, I read Spinoza's conception of dual-property parallelism as a logical implication of 'non-transcendent (or monist), eter...
August 18, 2025 at 18:56
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
As I wrote in my previous post: at least objective corroboration – not just ad hoc circumstantial coincidences – testable-controlled, experimental evi...
August 17, 2025 at 04:34
In: Dream of Me by 180 Proof  — view comment
Thank you. Yeah ... I couldn't write this story today after two years of atrocities which the world has collectively stood by and watched impotently. ...
August 17, 2025 at 01:30
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