I complete agree. :100: NB: Fwiw, I've been away from TPF involuntarily (due to a severe medical emergency) since early May, about 6 weeks, and as I r...
Maybe, but certainly not physically necessary for modeling the universe (i.e. physus) and its development (re: cosmogeny). Also, how does "some unknow...
A Tolkienesque 'theodicy' (re: mission of the Istari). :sparkle: For me, an even more "sophisticated" conception is the natura naturans of Spinoza's u...
I didn't claim an "absolute ... "unfree choices". In effect, IME, our "notions" are enabled – instantiated – by our practices (e.g. "choices', habits,...
No. One's "choices" can be – often are – "free from" one's awareness or volition (or awareness / volition of others). The more one is unaware of the c...
This might be so for "philosophers" ignorant of Conservation Laws¹ (modern physics > Noether's theorem²). You're right, Gnomon, not hang your tinfoil ...
Like animist / mystical "true names", it seems to me that Platonic Forms – essences, universals – are merely reified abstractions (and therefore a mis...
Welcome to TPF. Nayef Al-Rodhan is new to me but his proposal of "Neuro-Techno-Philosophy" very much reminds me of transhumanism. For context, here's ...
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Like Trump, your fatuous accusations are confessions, Gnomon – I must've struck a raw nerve (i.e. truth hurts! :sweat:) with my l...
Except that your interpretations consist in appeals to ignorance fallacies, as quite a few members have exhaustively pointed out over the years, and m...
As a libertarian leftist and negative consequentialist, I find reductionist – simplistic – statements like yours, Brendan, meaningless (ahistorical). ...
Even if "the universe is a quantum computer", this does not necessitate it was programmed (or is programmable) or that it has a Babbage-Lovelace/Von N...
What does "real" even mean with respect to a "wave in quantum physics"? Also, more significantly, what existential or epistemological difference do th...
@"Carlo Roosen" @"Wayfarer" @"noAxioms" @"punos" @"ssu" @"Christoffer" et al Consider this summary of a prospective "step beyond" LLMs & other human k...
Many, if not most, maga voters just weren't paying attention, and now – https://youtu.be/ZEqGes1bRq4?si=jIAN3gFN4ULx_fHn "Instant karma's gonna get yo...
Like much of the NYC establishment "movers and shakers" of 40s-70s, Robert Moses' "work" (in his specific case – inadvertantly?) accelerated urban dec...
I agree with this legal ruling and its implications as it's consistent with my own stated position here ... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7pqzk...
Why do you ask? (I was) a New Yorker, I'd lived in their ruins ... I think it's primarily our actions, practices, commitments & habits which 'define' ...
Thanks for the topic and the Adorno & Linus quotes. :smirk: I'm a child of the South Bronx (NYC) in the post-Civil Rights seventies in a union househo...
You're right, it's "not a counterargument" but exposure of the fallacies in your "argument". A thesis riddled with fallacies such as your OP should be...
Funny thing, though, Einstein didn't see a reason for "an update of Spinoza's Deus, sive nature, perhaps because he actually studied Spinoza, unlike y...
Fundamental physical regularities are not legistlated "laws" that need to be "enforced" but are mathematically derived from countless, extraordinarily...
@"Bob Ross" An incisive précis on literature in Pax Americana ... https://lithub.com/viet-thanh-nguyen-most-american-literature-is-the-literature-of-e...
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