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Nevermind. :roll: The usual non sequiturs. :sweat:

You didn't answer my first question (you must have missed it). Again – in response to your comment about AI – only life can be aware? (How do you know...

Only life can be aware? How do you know this?

Copelston's summary of Spinoza, like most other summaries in his A History of Philosophy, is both outdated and shoe-horned into a permissible, Jesuiti...

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"Naive realism", however, isn't philosophical realism, which is what I read into the OP poll's "non-skeptical realism". Nonetheless, javra, I take you...

"How can you explain ..." https://youtu.be/6B4PZHSTHLE "Shadows in the Rain" (5:04) Zenyatta Mondatta, 1980 The Police

No e.g. Descartes, Hegel, Nietzsche et al.

Like Covid-19, "just stop testing" to get rid of it. :mask:

Isn't antirealism a form of idealism? Are there other forms of idealism which are not antirealist?

:up: :clap: :100: Yep, "white flight" is as baseball & apple pie as "In God We Trust" on Caesar's filthy lucre – old-time "heartland" stuff. I suspect...

Cartesian dualism is more compatible with Christian theology (even Catholic trinitarianism) than Spinozist acosmism which is why Descartes' confusions...

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If only @"Gnomon" & co could (i.e. would make the effort to) understand and appreciate the soundly speculative implications of contemporary sciences s...

Descartes proposes substance dualism and Spinoza a few of decades later countered with, for all intents and purposes, property dualism. Remember: Spin...

Thanks for the reference to T.Z. Lavine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_Z._Lavine – this wiki is fascinating, I'd never heard of her – but the ...

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lq26YClxHOBogwoV-LRHDntDFzeeWOiSk Your Mother Should Know (48:38), 2023 Brad Mehldau

Patience. Persistence. Creativity. Courage. (And not necessarily in that order.) :chin:

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Bernard Gert's moral theory seems quite consiliant, or convergent, with my own musings though our respective approaches (emphases) couldn't be more di...

Just a guess – it might have something to do with 'Gödel's proof of incompleteness from self-referential complexity' (Seth Lloyd, Douglas Hofstadter)....

Guilty as charged. I usually barely skim posts with quotes attributed to or artcles about men or women I've never heard of such as Prof. Gert. The vid...

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I suppose "Dilbert" is now bad for business. 'Bottom-line cancel culture' in full effect is on display. Predictable. Like 'suicide by mod' here on TPF...

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:up: Just like breathing ...

Yeah, P.W. Zapffe is one of my favorites listed on my TPF profile. :death: :flower:

Thanks. I'll check it out.

:clap: :up: :100: :fire: Excellent.

@"schopenhauer1" No doubt we're counterfactual (talking) animals.

No doubt you are, Gnomon, a verifiably expert pseudo-scientist. :lol: If you would be so kind, @"universeness", check these questions (which Gnomon is...

I've no idea what you're talking about.

Post-posthuman (i.e. post-sentient). I didn't think much of either book or film. IMO, the latter is quite dated and superficially derivative. They cer...

:up: This statement is quite incoherent, because the phrase "rational sentient creatures" presupposes – makes sense IFF there is – the universe that b...

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:roll: What "hypothesis"? Metaphysical naturalism consists of categorica, not hypthetical, statements. Clearly, you still don't understand metaphysics...

Yeah, but the fucker hasn't beat me down yet. :wink:

Same here, except I see metaphysical speculations as criteria for eliminating – filtering-out – impossible objects / worlds (i.e. necessary fictions) ...

Every animal is more than just an "animal". Don't be speciesist :smirk:

:death: :flower: I fear death and use that fear to live the best life I can every day so that nightly I can fall asleep at ease without needing any as...

If by "existential" you mean reality-denying, I agree with you.

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You've invoked "Moore's Law"; well, in a similiar vein, the miniaturization of tech, like natural complexity (i.e. life), accelerates ... and I think ...

In his Ethics, Spinoza demonstrates that "substance dualism" is conceptually incoherent. He argues for what I have many times referred to as property ...

:up: "Looking for certainty" —> illusion of control (e.g. conspiracy / magical thinking).

Variations on the god-of-the-gaps theme: deism is "theism minus answering prayers" or theism is "deism plus answering prayers" – theological interpret...

I don't undrrstand the question. It seems you've mixed different points I've made from a number of our exchanges.

I have to disagree. At the very least, "materialism" is a far more useful epistemological paradigm than any version of "immaterialism" for learning ab...