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A creator is merely a personification of "a fluke", no? And Occan's Razor reminds us that we can do without the added personification (à la Laplace). ...

Brilliant. On order from Amazon, my first book / new author of the new year! The Sheltering Sky had moved me quite a bit back in my university days (I...

Like old scousers "Lennon & McCartney" riffing on a surreal bit of Vladimir & Estragon. :sweat: Well here's another clue for a rhyme / The walrus was ...

To my mind "the hard problem of consciousness" is only "hard" for (Cartesian) philosophers because their aporia is actually still only an underdetermi...

Merci beaucoup. Btw, what about my tale reminds you of Choukri's? Your comment piques my interest so I might read him. Fifty-seven years a ghost. :up:...

Happy New Year! :death: :flower: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xy_fxxj1mMY Giant Steps, 1960 (37:03) John Coltrane & co.

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Masterful. :cool:

"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it." ~Ernest Hemingway Thanks. :hearts: I read it as Delores left Earth in order to, as sh...

Ten days shy of the song's release four decades ago, it's still great! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SlDi4hpJsaY "New Year's Day" (5:36) War, 1983 U2 ...

"As if" ... :halo:

:sweat: Thanks for reading. Does it really? I'm sure you've slammed on the brakes to avoid smushing a cat, Mr. Catlover. :smirk:

Thanks for giving me a new way of listening to that old tune. :cool: :fire: Thus, the contagion spreads by mutating, no? Wow. I had no idea. I just pu...

:grin::up: Thanks. Neither do I. :smirk: This comment is so much better praise than the poll. Thank you for reading. :clap:

By sheer coincidence (or shenanigans of 'the Holy Ghost') I wrote this tale just days before the long overdue death of one Joseph Ratzinger the despic...

Thank you, thank you! All the best to you in 2023, my friend. :sparkle: :blush:

:clap: Given the suddenness of the scenario, I'd prefer to hold up in my apartment listening (mostly) to jazz with enough bottled water, canned food s...

:up: And what if "the one" is an illusion, merely a simplifying abstraction from "the many", just an indexical of "this one" or "not that one"? :chin:

:pray: Fuck yes!

Understood. I disbelieve in "God" because it's nothing but "a beautiful idea" (like utopia ... paradise ... heaven ...) :death: :flower: Contrary to t...

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I'm confident you won't agree but, IME, as a passion, or existential commitment, "hope" (i.e. magical / wishful / group thinking ~ make believe) is so...

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I'm partial to the proposals of orbital skyhook or launch loop. Both seem to me more feasible than a space elevator.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento aka "Pelé" 1940-2022 https://www.dw.com/en/pele-a-hero-in-brazil-and-footballs-greatest-legend/a-64243115

"A reason" for what? I don't see a connection to what I wrote in reponse to the OP.

"HAL 9000's" just an example of AI, don't geek down that rabbit hole. :sweat:

Minimum disorder to maximum disorder. That's how we roll, amigo.

Maximum entropy (omega) is the terminus of all sequences. Or chasing your own tail... "Progress" is a parochial illusion like the apparent flatness of...

Kinda. :up: I wasn't looking at the dilemma you posed from a human perspective but from the perspective of the AI (e.g. HAL 9000).

Whatever. :roll:

1. The AI (assuming a droid of some kind) could choose to sacrifice (disassemble / repurpose or jettison) itself in order to protect both humans. 2. M...

"And thus spoke the little old woman: You go to women? Do not forget the whip" (for her to use!) ~Freddy Zarathustra I was "joking seriously". :smirk:

How so?

And yet my critique still stands https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/644062 especially given ststements like these: The Woo-lady doth pr...

:up: Appeal to popularity / tradition fallacy —> magical thinking (i.e. make believe) :fire: :eyes: :pray: A more likely "source" ... https://m.youtub...

Noooo! :sweat:

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This preamble contradicts the title of your thread which otherwise doesn't make much sense to me. And the discussion so far doesn't help. Homo sapiens...

@"Gregory" :fire:

:eyes: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/767084

The first "positive characteristic of females" that comes to mind is they are not males.

Read the links in my last post. Read Spinoza's Ethics. Then read them again, sir.

There's no problem to solve that I can see. :roll: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acosmism

My favorite speculation – https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/607424 :smirk:

As a rule, scifi / fantasy depictions of "the multiverse", like "time-travel", never make sense as they are only plot devices which don't need to.

:roll: "Life —> Consciousness" —> Extinction aka "matter". A sequence (e.g. Möbius loop) =/= "progress". Spinoza is an acosmist who rejects theistic /...

It seems to me (à la Spinoza) that everything is "one with God" sub specie aeternitatis whether or not we are aware of this. We belong to Nature (or G...