C'mon, you keep trying to pin me down to the scripture you've repeatedly cited throughout this thread discussion. That's dogmatic. My "reading compreh...
AI / AGI does not need to be "conscious" (whatever that means) to function, and probably will be more controllable by us / themselves as well as bette...
Insofar as "God" is a three-letter swear word for ego, I believe my own "loss of God" made me less ego-centric rather than more, though not nearly as ...
:up: To my mind, in sum, each one of us is a heteronomous¹ (e.g. natal-embodied, socialized, historicized ...) being who, at best, strives for integri...
Death is the cause, IMO, rather than the effect of aging, regardless of how long the organism lasts. The difference in species longevity it seems is p...
"Do this in rememberance of Me." ~Luke 22:19, 1 Corinthians 11:24 :point: Remember Jesus by living like Jesus (i.e. @every moment "WWJD?" :halo:) I ha...
:roll: IIRC, Freddy teaches we ought to strive – repurpose (cultivate) the "will to power" drive – to dominate ourselves first and foremost (e.g. via ...
Here is my rule of thumb for how logic functions (how we use it) in the grand, perpetual project of making sense of our experiences (and their limitat...
For (our) peace of mind's sake, no doubt. My guess is that's very unlikely; it seems more likely they (ETI) have discovered, even rediscovered, us (Ea...
In a word, entropy 'kills' all complex organisms eventually. And lacking a well-understood theory of the cell (and, therefore, e.g. the human body as ...
IME, one feature of most modern sciences and philosophies that is distinctly modern is the focus "acknowledging their boundaries". That they are often...
Do you consider the combination of philosophical realism (e.g. immanentism, actualism, disutilitarianism) + methodological naturalism (e.g. physicalis...
Old Uncle Albert is correct and yet it's physically possible (not yet demonstrated to be technically possible) to travel at – not accelerate to – the ...
The OP doesn't equate "the mechanistic worldview" with "scientism" (at least, not explicitly as far as I can tell) and the OP frames this thread discu...
I see. You're concerned with scriptural dogma and I'm concern with conceptual analysis. My mistake for attempting to draw you (& others) out of a myth...
In a non-teleological sense, I tend to agree with the gist of the OP and have written about the topic on more than a few threads ... ... specifically ...
No doubt. Nonetheless, there's an abundance of scientific circumstantial evidence in support of conjecturing 'the non-uniqueness of terrestrial biolog...
Science seeks testable, good explanations for formal structures or natural phenomena. Philosophy seeks to unlearn self-immiserating habits (e.g. illus...
"Encourage"? I don't know. Do they challenge – oppose – philosophical suicide? Defijitely not. Here in Absurdistan "religion & (mass) media" are, pard...
Well then it's an unfalsifiable "hypothesis" – at most, (perennialist) poetry. And the "appeal to aesthetics" with respect to ontology, however, makes...
:fire: Welcome to the Anthropocene! :fire: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/20/world/rivers-lakes-drying-up-drought-climate-cmd-intl/index.html :eyes: :mas...
Isn't it quite apparent that inferring "the universe is conscious" from the universe is inhabited by at least one species of "conscious" beings is a c...
Reread my first post . Whatever you find missing from my conception answers your question. Btw, I wasn't proposing an exegesis of any particular sacre...
"Cosmic consciousness" seems to me an incoherent concept at best – category error? ad hoc anthropomorphism? Feuerbachian projection? – especially give...
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