So while sleeping or comatose, a person is just a "thing", and not a "being", like a sofa or toilet? Idealists (i.e. spiritualists) like Jung just ign...
Besides quoting @"universeness", Albert Einstein and myself out of context in order to bark at shadows of strawmen dancing on the walls of your thin-s...
Every snakeoil charlatan strives to "bedazzle 'em with bullshit" but, of course, only you, O Sage "Enformer" of this site's Quantum-Woo Crew, are beda...
I read Kant's "dualistic thinking" as (an attempt at) 'ontologizing epistemology' (i.e. reify knowing) by designating "for us" the tip "phenomena" of ...
Read e.g. Zapffe's "The Last Messah", Nietzsche's The Antichrist, Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity or Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus ...
:up: Maybe you can succinctly explain to me, Janus – what @"Wayfarer" obviously can't (re: ) – the function of "transcendental idealism" in contrast t...
What rational grounds do you have to make such a statement? Filling a bucket with sea water, as we have with our massive, powerful telescopes in the l...
The only thing "spooky woo woo" about Einstein is your (willful?) misunderstanding of him and his work which suits your "Enformer"-of-the-gaps tilts a...
If we can, how about the property of 'novel / nested symmetries'? I think "certain features and/or properties" (e.g. symmetries) make it easier – less...
As Freddy Zarathustra subtitles his hymn to the "the meaning of the Earth" (TSZ), philosophy is "for all and for none". Indeed, my friend, some are on...
:fire: Well, sir, what non-trivial (non-epiphenomenal) difference does Kantian 'subjective time' (and/or 'subjective space') make against the backgrou...
No. Yes. All technocapital investments are "risky". "Worry"? That depends on which "human values" you mean ... In other words, humans – the investor /...
All I'm doing is "a little speculating" about the prospects for a posthuman (even post-posthuman (e.g. nano sapien à la "the Monolith")) future. As fo...
No, you're the one who keeps referring to "interstellar travel" and my position is that that prospect seems quite unlikely for the reasons I've alread...
Assuming the post-Singularity transcension (i.e. we may follow other ETI in this "solution to the Fermi Paradox"), I think there will not be any "orga...
According to this reading, Fr. Copleston misunderstands Spinoza. A simple analogy: God/substance (independent idea) is like the ocean and the universe...
For both far less expensive and less Aristotlean approaches to the 'mind-body pseudo-problem', I recommend any or all of the following books: • The Eg...
Meat baggage is extraneous payload which is too resources and energy demanding for any ASI-controlled space mission. Given that relativistic velocitie...
This really helps me consider the OP question in its proper context of Copelston's interpretation of Spinoza rather than from reading Spinoza's texts ...
'Stellar' denotes star-system, not just "star" (i.e. solar), so intra-stellar means (inhabiting) 'within a star-system' in contrast to inter-stellar m...
I think the 'posthuman future' will be intrastellar-intraplanetary, not "interstellar"; and, unless we merge with it, the stars are only for ASI ... :...
I think I misunderstood the question. Instead of "... (e.g. Frege)" I should have selected "Other" ... ... Ontological-Ethical (e.g. Epicurus, Spinoza...
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