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Well you've set a field of strawmen ablaze ... so I leave you to it, firebug. There's nothing to be gained from us flat and round earthers, respective...
January 14, 2023 at 07:39
e.g. Social contract theory ... Well, it surely ain't right to reject a non-trivial argument without countering it with a non-trivial argument. Unless...
January 14, 2023 at 05:55
:100: :fire:
January 14, 2023 at 03:39
You've torched that strawman pretty good! :sweat: That's like asking how jurisprudence is "morally commensurate with our human history of" crimes. Any...
January 14, 2023 at 02:07
I'm not surprised. They've no idea what he's talking because @"Gnomon" apparently doesn't know what he's talking about either even while he'a trying t...
January 14, 2023 at 00:17
No, I don't think so. Read the post I linked re "ethical naturalisn" and tell me what "linguistic game utilising technicalities" I'm playing.
January 14, 2023 at 00:07
AB & C have "metaphysical presuppositions", so your "D" is redundant as far I can tell. I think (B) works best with metaphysics as the dependent-varia...
January 14, 2023 at 00:04
:fire: :cool:
January 13, 2023 at 21:23
@"Vera Mont" & @"punos" – :cool: :up:
January 13, 2023 at 21:16
I more or less agree with you here (and disagree with @"Joshs"' position) if only because Western philosophy, by most accounts, began in the 6th c. BC...
January 13, 2023 at 21:10
I've never taken issue with the significant scientists he cites; I usually take issue only with @"Gnomon"'s poorly reasoned interpretations of the wor...
January 13, 2023 at 17:32
I don't know if you are wrong, but I disagree as I don't see "philosophy as a way of life" as a persecuted cauae (i e. political ideology or religious...
January 13, 2023 at 17:17
In: Emergence  — view comment
Monism is an ancient concept and I'll stick with that as more recent reformulations only complicate things unnecessarily. Also, I think it makes more ...
January 13, 2023 at 17:14
Silly me. I'm using 'information' in terms of contemporary information science and computer science (e.g. David Deutsch, Stephhen Wolfram) and the phy...
January 13, 2023 at 17:07
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January 13, 2023 at 16:43
I don't see how "philosophy as a way of life" was a persecuted "cause". Besides, Socretes chose death rather than exile: assuming Plato's account is f...
January 13, 2023 at 07:53
What "cause"?
January 13, 2023 at 05:42
Wise man. :death: :flower:
January 13, 2023 at 05:40
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January 13, 2023 at 05:37
You mean She's not?! :yikes:
January 13, 2023 at 05:36
Why does it matter whether or not Socrates is a martyr? :chin:
January 13, 2023 at 05:10
Hey, you were evasively rhetorical and then, when I requested you cut to the chase, you made it "personal" with this response Feel free to clearly sta...
January 13, 2023 at 05:03
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January 13, 2023 at 04:52
From my post the "ethical naturalism" link ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/695307 (Of course the devil's in the details, etc ......
January 13, 2023 at 04:25
January 13, 2023 at 02:53
In: Bannings  — view comment
@"Olivier5" – Au revoir, mon ami.
January 13, 2023 at 02:50
I'm neither a theist nor idealist and yet I subscribe to "objective morality" (i.e. a form of ethical naturalism), so is that – am I – irrational or c...
January 13, 2023 at 02:26
No question was begged by me, Wayf.
January 13, 2023 at 01:49
:yawn: All's fair in love of wisdom and war. And besides that, I'm an asshole (i.e. dialectical rodeo clown). :clap: :up:
January 13, 2023 at 01:48
DNA is not an "artefact" Information (i.e. pattern) is not conserved as a fundamental law in physics because information (i.e. pattern) consists in di...
January 13, 2023 at 01:18
I'm here to give and take reasons and not just opinions. Why are you on a philisophy site merely opining?
January 13, 2023 at 00:01
To clarify, Fr. Sandström wasn't making a pronouncement of Catholic theology or Papal doctrine, just passing on his personal (existential) insight to ...
January 12, 2023 at 23:40
In: Emergence  — view comment
I don't think monism entails anything about "origins" (e.g. BBT) and seems to me more consistent with pertaining to a timeless entity or property.
January 12, 2023 at 23:18
Complexity is information. Less complex, less informational (i.e. lower entropy). :fire:
January 12, 2023 at 10:18
No. A stone sculpture is informational. It's not merely a stone. DNA self-replicates because it is informational. It's not just organic compounds. An ...
January 12, 2023 at 10:02
???
January 12, 2023 at 09:48
Information is physical e.g. DNA, circuit-switches, computer programs, heat, etc. Every physical transformation is information; translating (i.e. comp...
January 12, 2023 at 08:23
:smirk: :up:
January 12, 2023 at 07:39
I provided a wiki link highlit over the words "conserved by physics?" Your google-fu is weak, padawan. :joke: Btw, I K.I.S.S. to avoid the fundamental...
January 12, 2023 at 07:30
:up: Ergo my enactivist outlook.
January 12, 2023 at 07:26
:death: :flower:
January 12, 2023 at 07:24
Does 'unmediated experience' make sense to you?
January 12, 2023 at 07:16
:roll: Models + data = information (i.e. conjectures tested by deductions of experimental predictions); e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computati...
January 12, 2023 at 04:53
This is among the reasons why enactivism makes more sense to me than any other account of 'experience'. :up:
January 12, 2023 at 04:46
@"Agent Smith" Given that "essence" denotes that which non-impermanently makes something what is and not something else (to paraphase Plato/Aristotle(...
January 12, 2023 at 03:25
If the so-called "hard problem ..." is not a scientific problem for neuroscience, as you admit, then your point about a "blindspot" is merely a tenden...
January 12, 2023 at 02:38
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l2qSODdEZks Blow by Blow (44:35), 1975 Jeff Beck https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9nusv6nLWxU Wired (36:51), 1976 Jeff Beck...
January 12, 2023 at 02:29
Jeff Beck 1944-2023 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FWiPTEWg-sQ "Come Dancing" (5:54) Wired, 1976 Jeff Beck * https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lw8fBR_XiPs ...
January 12, 2023 at 02:20
So it's not that the neuroscientist has a "blindspot" as you stated here https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/771468 and actually that it...
January 12, 2023 at 01:46
Once upon a time, when I was a high school junior, a priest had told me "Reason is for living in this world and faith is living for the world-to-come"...
January 12, 2023 at 00:33