If anything, it's Kant's deontology that is "robotic, non-humanistic, and formal" and therefore, IME, doesn't work well (i.e. requires totalitarian/th...
I don't know what "good" (value) means but minimally bad (reducing disvalue) makes pragmatic sense to me. Ambiguities, complementarities & degrees of ...
Most atheists and theists are not metaphysicians. Besides, what difference can "finding a deeper reality" make to one's everyday existence or ethical ...
Yes, I read it as I always do for a laugh. My reply to you also indirectly comments on Gnomon's quantum-woo. The video I've linked briefly discusses t...
For what it's worth, Smith, my layman's story: First, it's not offered as a testable model but an interpretation that simplifies the model. Second, Da...
That's only an interpretation (i.e. speculation) about QM and not a feature or prediction of QM. The latter would be scientific and the former not. An...
:smirk: Janus, of course, will answer for himself; as far as I'm concerned, to the degree an expression of 'idealism' is the result of conflating epis...
Bernado Kastrup's panpsychist-fantasy more resembles to me Berkeley's metaphysics than Schopenhauer's but I agree with the gist of your summary. I'm p...
:groan: edit after sleeping: The point is (if, like me, functionalism-enactivism is your jam) psychological self-continuity, which is encoded in the p...
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Read what I wrote, Smith. Slowly. Carefuully. And the other links in that post too. Consider the contexts of those thread discussions. I'll answer any...
Your "recall" is mistaken as your quote of me shows. As I've speculated on a number of threads, in principle(?) the mind-substrate can be extended – t...
That kind of poor reasoning is known as "sympathetic magic" thinking, Smith. G's "BothAnd" has nothing to do with yin-yang (or wave-particle) compleme...
I was born the day after four little girls were killed in a church bombed by the KKK in Birmingham, Alabama. This happened on Sunday morning, 15 Septe...
As usual, more assertions without arguments, but with strawmen & ad hominrms instead. And, for all your self-flattering "higher" knowledge or understa...
I suppose "I really enjoyed it" / "I like it" might be more explicit for some than (a more subdued) "I like it" / "It's okay". However, I don't see th...
Whatever "source of energy" you choose must be itself energetic (i.e. causes effects / changes), which precipates an infinite regress that tells us no...
I'm not a fan of the (monstrously unparsimonious) "multiverse", though as a non-physicist, I am quite in favor of the many worlds interpretation of QM...
Complementarity (e.g. yin-yang) does not "defy logic", though "X = -X" does (re: principle of explosion). If @"Gnomon"'s "BothAnd" implies the former,...
I might try even harder to never die. I prefer to exist in a finitely intelligible universe than in some "realm" we probably cannot understand. My own...
As I've said a number of times here and elsewhere, "Enformationism" is neither a soundly logical speculation nor a testable conjecture as @"Gnomon" ha...
https://youtu.be/yoHDrzw-RPg "Hound Dog" (2:52) A-side single, 1953 writers J. Leiber & M. Stoller, 1952 performer Big Mama Thorton * https://youtu.be...
I believe this micro fiction thing is not a "competition" so much as a creative (maybe philosophy-adjacent) outlet or showcase. Positive and/or constr...
If I may suggest a change: I think the poll should be positive and encouraging with only these options • I like it • It's okay and leave out "I don't ...
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