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The difference is that I interpret "karma" without the non-pragmatic bits.

I assume philosophizing is more engaged than just 'politely exchanging opinions'. Anyway, likewise, be well. :flower:

Well, you're not a 6 year old ...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/604354

:up: :up Origami-folded paper? Fluctuating vacuum? Knotted string? :chin:

A lot of fantasy "what ifs" ... which don't persuade me we have any more significance to interstellar spacefaring ETI than pond scum has to us.

No I don't think so. Don't believe the hype. Individual-1 is dead man trundling. Desantis is loathsome even in Florida. Maybe Tucker Carlson will run ...

You're farting, not thinking. I'll come back when you recognize the difference. :mask:

'Seeking simple solutions to complex problems' is a psychological bias as old as language, religion & politics, not just a product of a "mechanistic w...

Addendum to "Republicans are America's Problem" by Charles M. Blow https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/opinion/republicans-cheney-trump-democracy.html

:100: :nerd: LLAP.

IMHO, there is nothing Earth has that an interstellar spacefaring ETI cannot acquire – without conflict with "the natives" – in exponentially greater ...

Examples would help clarify exactly what you mean by this.

Well, from a naturalisric perspective, "the more" is woo-woo ... :sparkle:

Quit your whinging ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8fem_aVbgI Valar dohaeris, dude. :smirk:

:clap: :100: Also, Descartes doesn't prove he exists by attempting global skepticism since the attempt itself presuppose he (the attempter) exists on ...

:smirk: Yeah well also "a man's got to know his limitations."

"Karma" means action-reaction (i.e. cause-effect) and, as Yohan points out, the more pleasure gained the more pleasure needed – hedonic treadmill – le...

As Plato might say: "opinions" (doxa) are the currency of sophists that, like Monopoly money, doesn't cash out at the supermarket or in philosophy. Ap...

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Quite Epicurean. Consider the tetrapharmakos ... or cognitive behavioral therapy.

IME, meditation is irreflective attention to any internal process of inattention in order to reduce inattention to nothing-but-attention (or attention...

I've read the OP but it's not clear to me how the "mechanistic worldview" is distinct from science (or scientific worldview).

:cool: :up: Welcome to TPF.

Yeah, we're ready for "extraterrestrial life". We may never be "ready" for (the tender mercies of spacefaring) extraterrestrial intelligence, however,...

:clap: :fire: IMO, fuck 'em.

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:clap: :100: :up: Mea culpa too.

You said I was referring to an individual. I was not. Re:

I wasn't referringvto Lucretius; 'recorded' disbelief in state or hearth gods predate him by centuries, if not a millenium or more, in ancient India, ...

In a religious milieu, "atheism" has a sanitary function as cognitive hygiene (practice) or an intellectual prophylactic (theory) ~ anti-magical / ant...

Well, at least I know what I don't know. :sweat:

'Monogamy' (re: prohibitions / stigma of prostitution) is a very recent cultural development of our species and 'denial of mortality' (e.g. religion) ...

This is, in fact, how science works (e.g. peer review, experimental testing and repeatability, defeasibility, etc).

Sorry, that woo is above my pay grade. :smirk:

Modern science does not "rely on verification" insofar verificationism is itself unverifiable. Empirical knowledge is fallibilistic, not justified. Re...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/577241 :mask:

What are you calling for?

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Yeah, I know "flat earthers" are violently allergic to all contrary evidence; still, I have to scratch this WTF itch: i. Assuming "Earth is flat", exp...

Religious faith (noun, concept), traditional or doctrinal belief in the unbelievable in order to defend the indefensible and excuse (rationalizes) ine...

I interpret "karma" in a pragmaticist's way (re: Peirce, Dewey): actions-reactions where the reactions are – become – good/bad habits, or virtues/vice...

Maybe this: • Intuition concerns mere thatness (haecceity, e.g. that X is) and not whatness (quiddity e.g. what X is). • Mysticism concerns attention ...

So what justifies the epistemic standard of justification? (re: verificationism)

Insofar as "faith" is, in practice, suspension of disbelief, objects of "faith" are merely fictions. (Re: scriptural contents of religions)

Whatever is real does not require "faith".

If anyone shows up for my funeral, these pieces crystalize how I'd like those people to remember to me and so I probably won't change my mind. :grin:

"Some theists" also hold it is "common sense" that the Earth is" flat, only 6,000 years old & the center of crearion". :mask:

Sure, but science "a thousand years from now" will not be inconsistent with, or refute, science today (which, btw, will never be comparable to "alchem...

I'd say, if my use of "adaptive" is circular (it's not), then it's virtuously circular.