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So the atheism of e.g. materialist Marx and idealist Schopenhauer "entails" the same "worldview"? :sweat: :up: :up:

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This reminds me of Laozi's Dao and Plotinus' One and N?g?rjuna's ??nyat? ... even Schopenhauer's Will. Okay, but, in fact, even energy is "emergent" (...

I'm afraid not. Regardless of "energy density", like "solid and gas", energy is a physical phenomenon. "Invisible and intangible" are irrelevant; besi...

Are you a Kantian? If not, then why do say "time, space, certain forms of energy ... and informarion" are "non-physical"?

No idea what you're talking about or what your ramble, Andrew, has to do with mine.

Sounds about right to me. :up: :smirk:

If not 1, then, yeah, it's 7. :sweat: You can post answers to these several questions either in reply to me directly or in reply to @"Agent Smith" or ...

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What do you think @"Gnomon" is so afraid of that he persistently ignores 's inconvenient questions?

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It makes sense to me to think of agnosticism as uncertainty concerning god (i.e. epoche)... which makes the religious and irreligious, fundies and sec...

I'm not very pessimistic mostly because of precautionary efforts like these suggested here excerpt which have been seriously underway since the early ...

I'm saying ASI without evolutionary survival-biases hasn't any reasons to perceive, or interpret, humans as an existential threat or treat us as a riv...

... which nonetheless does not either provide cogent and succinct answers to or critically dispute the relevance of (old) straitforward questions like...

I cannot see why AGI / ASI sans fifty-plus million years of hardwired primate baggage (that is, without e.g. limbic-endochrine systems, metabolic-repr...

Aka intelligence. :clap: :100:

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Yeah, and we are an extension of "mindless evolution" that has adapted – programmed – itself to tell itself the story "I have a mind, therefore we are...

Thanks for the video link. :up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zpRM25pUD8w Interesting stuff. Consistent with some of own my recent (less hysterical) s...

You should try using emojis because your so-called "thinking" is :roll: tonight.

No. The overall decline in the music industry predates digital formats, auto-tune, low bitrate streaming services, ubiquitious high quality ease-of-us...

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Here on the S.S. Climate Change, porn isn't any more "problematic" than masturbatory video games, online gambling, social media, 24/7/365 consumerism,...

Though there's overlap at the margins (e.g. naturalism, secularism), one ought to observe the distinction between "New Atheism" (i.e. polemical irreli...

Nice. I'm an antitheistic atheist. Antitheist in terms of knowledge, atheist in terms of practice (aka "freethinker" :cool:).

:smirk: And the other two possibilities? :up: :ok: This formulation is inconsistent, Banno: both 'negative atheism' (~BG) and 'negative theism' (~B~G)...

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Again, is theism true or not true? What are the truth-values of its claims? If any or all of them are not true or undecidable, then isn't theism as a ...

Reads to me like a college undergrad's essay plagiarized in parts from a few different wiki articles. Shows what the Turing Test is actually worth, do...

:up: But when a Bible/Quran/Occult-thumper begs for it, I say pandeist instead just to tilt the fuck out of their "god/woo-of-the-gaps" mindgames ...

I think we make mistakes because (1) they are easier to make than not and (2) they are a consequence of not learning from previous mistakes which we o...

I try not to reward even the slightest bad treatment ever, especially by friends (the closer they are, the less I tolerate) because they know me intim...

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O empty glass – another round, barkeep. :pray: :sweat: :party:

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Pardon my simplistic (Therav?din?) interpretation – I think Buddha teaches that attachment to impermanent 'relationships and things' as if they were n...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fk5lfjNH4cE "Friends" (3:55) Led Zeppelin III, 1970 writers J. Page & R. Plant Led Zeppelin * https://m.youtube.com/watc...

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Yeah, but why would "they" bother? The universe is so vast that millions, even billions, of civilizations could come into existence and go extinct wit...

Sounds perfectly relaxing. :cool:

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I don't see what that question has to do with AGI —> ASI ... :up:

Well, since the crux of the issue is theism's truth-value and not god's non/existence, your "moot point" is also moot, Smith. One can believe or disbe...

In the abstract, it seems to me that a "good action" prevents or reduces net harm and reinforces itself as a habit in the actor as well as providing a...