Tyre Nichols 1993?-2023 I can't remember the last time when police officers anywhere in the US were both fired and indicted in less than a month for k...
I've referred many times to 'preventing / reducing NET harm' in my formulations of an ethics. Your strawmanning only leads to non sequiturs, thus your...
Not knowing whether or not there is a g/G does not entail believing in g/G or disbelieving in g/G. Being agnostic is irrelevant. Observing the foresee...
I agree, punos, except I subsritute change for "time". And my answer is consistent, I think, with the Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek's quip e.g. Noethe...
It's clear from this thread that @"Zettel" disagrees with this because s/he's incorrigibly dogmatic. Another Dunning-Kruger troll; thus, s/he cannot r...
Due to their intrinsically meta-discursive uses, philosophical (i.e. reflective) statements are suppositional, not propositional (i.e. truth-apt). If ...
Why do you assume that? I've claimed the opposite with respect to morality more than once (links below) which you have either ignored or given vague m...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6YoVJJmP_60 "All Along the Watchtower" (4:01) Electric Ladyland, 1968 writer R. Zimmerman, 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experie...
I posted a link to a wiki article that summarizes the relevant physics. There's "the reason" – our current best theoretical explanation – for vacuum f...
Well, in that case, let's hope it's a sex goddess with a bawdy sense of humor that will forgive us fools for not believing (i.e. thinking). :death: :f...
No surprise there – I've never heard that one. :lol: ... because "that key" is only a symbolic artifact of one or more of our cognitive biases and thu...
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca This fact demonstrates ...
Mama Nature is an extravangtly wasteful (re: evolution e.g. supernovae, mass extinctions) and dangerous (re: absurdity e.g. "Medea") bitch, Smith, tha...
It doesn't follow from feeling haunted by ghosts that, in fact, "ghosts are real", does it? :meh: Hint: At least at the classical scale of everyday ex...
No doubt, if there is such a thing, "a common root" of thinking is Change. :fire: Philosophy, IMO, begins (again and again) wherever the question "How...
There is no Why (which does not beg this Why question further); and as for the How, theoretical symmetry-breaking (i.e. vacuum fluctuations, etc) suff...
"Spiritual" means to me haunted by ghosts (and "religious" belonging to a spiritual community). This may be proof of feeling haunted, not "proof of gh...
Well my barber's name is Occam... A Matryoshka doll universe-simulation seems to me as silly as "geocentric epicycles" and "turtles all the way down"....
:up: Yeah, the universe-as-"computer" notion is like interpreting evolution as caused or directed by an "Evolver". Re: vestigial anthropomorphic bias ...
Your argument is misguided, at best, Andrew. Nihilism is conventional, or common sense, 'god-of-the-gaps theism' and, therefore, a significant reason ...
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