"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospe...
I don't claim "we cannot figure things out for ourselves" but rather The classical humanism of "The Enlightenment" you're espousing, Athena, reminds m...
I'm not posthuman and the reason the emergence of AGI is called "the singularity" is because human history beyond that point is completely unpredictab...
For as long as I can remember I believe my feelings of "happiness" have fluctuated daily, even weekly, from -2 to +2 (at most), but always only in hin...
A press release isn't a peer-reviewed scientific study of repeatable experiments or observations. Isaac Newton was also an alchemist, y'know. :sparkle...
Well, I've never subscribed to the early twenthieth century "tradition of strident materialism" and my criticisms of the "NDE & OBE" craze isn't a rea...
:smirk: This ad hominem must mean my criticism has struck a raw nerve in you wishful (magical) thinkers. So what kind of "fundie" am I / are we suppos...
'Political democracy' without effective economic democracy is democracy-in-name-only (DINO). In the last few centuries, however, "the Enlightenment" h...
:up: If "humanity under one government" run by humans, then I completely agree with you in both cases, BC. The inmates are congenitally too defective ...
At least ten millennia of grinding out of our lives together in a spectrum of dominance hierarchies of our own contrivance is "faith in each other" ma...
:100: I suspect, if we aren't extinct before or by then, h. sapiens won't be doing science in "10,000 years" – – our last invention will do that much ...
No. Given we only have one data point – ourselves – that's an extremely premature, or hasty generalization at best ... It's like collecting specimens ...
On multiple-guess affiliation surveys I check the "None" box. If, however, when given a fill-in-the-blanks survey, I usually answer the affiliation qu...
For all his "clarity", the old guy doesn't appreciate that some things can only be seen properly – as they 'truly' are – in the dark, contrived or not...
:up: "Eyes are the window of the soul," it's said, right? (Proverbs?) Two women, well over three centuries old, one suddenly rapidly aging and all tha...
Why is there anything at all? :smirk: @"Gnomon" calls this intention, selection, purpose the "Enformer" (i.e. intelligent designer / cosmic programmer...
Mirror-faces of folly: love of wisdom / wisdom of love ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/459900 "Everybody's?" :chin: Well, my lis...
Never interrupt your opponent while he's fucking himsrlf over – said: Sunzi? Julius Caesar? Napoleon? Bismarck? Nancy Pelosi? :smirk: My 2 bit(coin)s ...
:brow: How does reducing, or overcoming, "irrationality" "invariably blows up in our faces"? Explain how "working with" alchemy, for instance, makes c...
The rules of the US Constitution House of Representatives requires the Speaker to win the majority of votes of all members-elect present. When all 435...
"Chance" what? It's only a property, a descriptor, a modifier in need of a referent that contextualizes the question "Is chance a cause?" My answer (a...
"Loving" re/enchants the world. Sleepy "I-It" becomes "I-Thou" in hindsight. And materiality itself – ding an sich? – a (potentially) meaning-saturate...
Thanks for the drink, Cicero! I miss my cognac nightcaps after a long, circuitous, midtown Manhattan debauch with or without accomplices. Memento vive...
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