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The "-ness" = reification.

Yeeeeesssss! :clap: I was paid the high compliment that this post of mine had reminded @"green flag" of this video interview. :cool:

As long as you reify "consciousness" (into a humuncular folk concept), you will miss the main points of my suggested references.

Following Wayfarer's lead, I'll put my Zener cards on the Ouija board ... ... from an old thread post. And so the eye says to the brain, "I see things...

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I miss riding down B'way in Manhattan and BSing in a taxi like Brutha Cornel with an everyday philosopher who's driving a hack on her third shift... :...

:cool: Thank you. My brutha! A philosopher reflectively practices how to die while living; how to think for oneself; how to cultivate courage; reflect...

Yes, Wayf, my mind is highly allergic to pathogens such as the "religious" (aka the superstitious, the mystifying (stupifying), the anti-naturalist, t...

Only, I think, in this regard: in practice, "faith" is a-rational (i.e. unsound) whereas "fideism" is ir-rational (i.e. invalid).

For blues folk, "fears & hopes" are nothing but shadows on the skull's wall; only courage like Sisyphus' defiance matters to us. :death: :flower:

This statement resonates with my thinking (unlike the rest of your demonstration) as the point of departure of my own speculative (Spinozist sub speci...

Yes. Thomas Metzinger's self-model theory of subjectivity seems to do the trick. Also, an extrapolation from Metzinger's work is R. Scott Bakker's sci...

Only in idealism.

I think you're mistaken, frank. "Indirect realism" is an epistemological view (i.e. representationalism). I don't see how.

Far be it for me to take issue with a Nobel physicist's pseudo-philosophical confusions (e.g. Roger Penrose's X-of-the-gaps) but ... A vague placehold...

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And my point is that Ms Armstrong's critique is misplaced for blaming "modern culture" (i.e. Enlightenment rationality) when the culprit, in fact, is ...

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https://youtu.be/M7nGSBBxdu0 "Can't Outrun The Truth" (3:12) single, 2023 Pete Townsend :death: :flower:

:halo: "God" is so badass "God" doesn't even have to exist. (pace Anselm)

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Contra Karen Armstrong's revisionary insistance that Christianity is not a fundamentally creedal soteriology, consider (Emphasis is mine.) Here's a fu...

I suppose "religion" is the institutionalization of fetish-making/regulating/prohibiting (i.e. enforced dogma) whereas 'faith" is personal fetish-usin...

We have different conceptions of philosophy, it seems; I don't think philosophy is "knowledge" even though it often concerns itself with how we can kn...

"To be a rock and not to roll ..." :smirk:

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The word "God" refers to an anxiety rather than an entity. :up:

Suppose either we do or we do not "deserve to merely exist", what existential difference does that distinction make?

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I think one's commitment to a philosophical position or way of life can be "based on experience" but "truth, reason or understanding", which constitut...

I suspect we humans (e.g. bacteria) will only directly interact with AGI (e.g. guts) and never interact with ASI (e.g. CNS). Maybe ASI might take inte...

I see. The correction still confuses me, though differently. If philisophy is a form of reason (re: reflective), how is "a quest for reason", in this ...

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"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter." :smirk: Well, for starters, I'm numerate ... sophistry & dogma don't confuse me. Please rephrase or reformula...

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IIRC, quite good. :up:

Good thing I didn't say you couldn't use Heidi's text for anything else. I suppose that would be disingenuous.

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:fire: Heidegger was a philosopher, not an ideologue or pampleteer. Being and Time isn't a derivative treatise of Mein Kampf; it is, however, like the...

Non sequitur.

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Only if you read the text out of context. Otherwise, SuZ is anti-modernist, pre/ir-rationalist ("blood"), agrarian ("soil"), totalizing & oracular. Fa...

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Are you familiar with Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation by Roger Ames & David Hall? If so, what do you think of it? I've found it a much more i...

Fundamentally, as a species we keep repeating the same mistakes in many areas of life such as ecology, politics, markets, social justice, religions, h...

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https://youtu.be/GgnClrx8N2k Happy St. Paddy's! :party: :halo:

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