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In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTJdn2u9vkI "Time" Dark Side of the Moon, 1973 Pink Floyd
August 06, 2022 at 20:50
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZZ2yEZEE7Y Heroin ... because the grass on the other side of the abyss always seems greener ... :yawn: OR One can choos...
August 06, 2022 at 20:27
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:up:
August 06, 2022 at 07:33
In: The unexplainable  — view comment
:up:
August 06, 2022 at 06:10
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
If I outlive every person / activity I love, only then will I long for death. Until then, sleeping well suffices. :death: :flower:
August 06, 2022 at 06:08
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
August 06, 2022 at 05:46
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:point: :up:
August 06, 2022 at 02:19
In: Lemonics  — view comment
:roll: The practical antithesis to "memory-tricks" (enhanced functioning) is lacking memory-tricks (unenhanced functioning) and not "amnesia-tricks" (...
August 06, 2022 at 02:14
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:up:
August 06, 2022 at 02:04
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:smirk: :up: Insofar as "self" is a binary concept: if there are not any others for the solipsist, then there isn't even a/the/"him" self to talk to.
August 06, 2022 at 00:40
In: Aristotelian logic: why do “first principles” not need to be proven?  — view comment
:up: Undecidable (à la problem of the criterion). What matters is (Peirce, Wittgenstein et al might say) "Aristotle's first principles" work ... until...
August 06, 2022 at 00:24
In: Is the mind divisible?  — view comment
1995, University of Minnesota.
August 06, 2022 at 00:00
In: Is the mind divisible?  — view comment
Yeah, you don't see.
August 05, 2022 at 10:04
In: Al-Haqq  — view comment
Both conjectures (like Al-Haqq) are unscientific, so preference here is merely a matter of taste.
August 05, 2022 at 10:03
In: Is the mind divisible?  — view comment
Dumb question. :sweat: A mind (i.e. minding) is what a sufficiently complex brain does. That's how I know (re: cog-sci master's degree). Read D. Kahne...
August 05, 2022 at 09:58
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
August readings: • The Origin of Phenomena, D. B. Kelley • Defending the Axioms: On the Philosophical Foundations of Set Theory, Penelope Maddy • Reco...
August 05, 2022 at 09:24
In: Is the mind divisible?  — view comment
Cognitions, subcognitions and metacognitions.
August 05, 2022 at 09:15
In: Al-Haqq  — view comment
... Another way ... is for the universe to be a hologram in the sense that every quantum event constituting the universe also encodes the entire infor...
August 05, 2022 at 09:10
In: Lemonics  — view comment
Not really. Dementia and Alzheimer's are commonplace among the elderly. Also, amnesia (retrograde or anterograde) due to acute brain injury. And there...
August 05, 2022 at 05:37
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:up:
August 05, 2022 at 05:14
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
Oui.
August 05, 2022 at 05:13
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Gorgeous writing about the moral circus of The TR45H Years ... :mask: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/kevin-mccarthy-lindsey-graham-...
August 05, 2022 at 00:49
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Gorgeous writing about the moral circus of The TR45H Years ... :mask: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/kevin-mccarthy-lindsey-graham-...
August 05, 2022 at 00:46
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
In the last four-plus decades, what I have learned by daily study and from lived experience is this: work everyday towards easy sleep (ergo a good dea...
August 04, 2022 at 23:24
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
And the sociological-pedagogical evidence for the efficacy of these "practical tools" is what exactly? :up: I translate "faith" as making a fetish/ido...
August 04, 2022 at 20:41
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:fire:
August 04, 2022 at 08:23
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
Of course. Besides, even in a linguistic community of p-zombies, there are 'other mindless ones'.
August 04, 2022 at 08:00
In: Some remarks on Wittgenstein's private language argument (PLA)  — view comment
:yawn:
August 04, 2022 at 07:20
In: Some remarks on Wittgenstein's private language argument (PLA)  — view comment
Like babytalk or glossolalia?
August 04, 2022 at 06:13
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:roll:
August 04, 2022 at 06:02
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
All discursive "disagreements", my man, presuppose shared (public) practices (language games). Refute that statement with a counter-example. :smirk:
August 04, 2022 at 05:00
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
Not true. If you read Witty yourself, Smith, you will find various kinds of inquiries & suppositions which occasionally include (reductio) arguments a...
August 04, 2022 at 04:14
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Why?
August 04, 2022 at 04:04
In: Superdeterminism?  — view comment
:ok:
August 04, 2022 at 03:58
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
How do you know there is such a "spark"?
August 04, 2022 at 00:41
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:clap: :fire: Ah yes, Landru Guide Us – Wayfarer's kissing cousin! – I remember his many p0m0, woo-of-the-gaps well. :smirk:
August 04, 2022 at 00:37
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
When challenged by a "true believer" to say what i "believe in", since I reject their "One True God", I often just quote Isaac Asimov: "I believe in e...
August 04, 2022 at 00:27
In: Superdeterminism?  — view comment
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August 04, 2022 at 00:07
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
"Idealism" begins with reifying abstract objects / ideas (i.e. misplaced concreteness / reification fallacies at the level of assumptions) perhaps due...
August 04, 2022 at 00:06
In: Superdeterminism?  — view comment
As an (self-styled) Epicurean-Spinozist, ergo compatibilist, I'm not troubled by "superdeterminism". Maybe this article, TiredThinker, you'll find use...
August 03, 2022 at 23:43
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:grin: :up: :up:
August 03, 2022 at 23:01
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
I stand by this excerpt of an old post, but I'm open to any reasonable defense of Dawkins as 'thinker' (not as scientist).
August 03, 2022 at 05:30
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
Ask the religious. They don't "believe in goober" for the sake of argument / discussion. :roll: I can't speak for Dawkins, only for my own 'godlessnes...
August 03, 2022 at 04:54
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
Yeah, but his notion of "paper doubts" is germaine here (re: Descartes).
August 03, 2022 at 04:51
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:100: :fire: :up: This circles back to Descartes not having grounds to "doubt everything" in the first place (Peirce, Wittgenstein).
August 03, 2022 at 00:58
In: Please help me here....  — view comment
:smirk:
August 02, 2022 at 23:41
In: Whither the Collective?  — view comment
:smirk: :up:
August 02, 2022 at 19:34
In: Future Belief - New Age vs Atheism (wrt Psychedelics, Quantum Theory, Reality, Karma, Consciousness)  — view comment
I used to consider myself a positive (or gnostic) atheist for decades and I don't recall ever having "faith" in either "scientific materialism" or "lo...
August 02, 2022 at 19:24
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
A simplified distillation of Vlad's pizdets debacle on the home front (and implied prospects for his regime): https://youtu.be/_lmROXlSZKU Maybe this ...
August 02, 2022 at 18:48
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h4uUqctbsx4 "Riders on the Storm" (6:13) Need For Speed Underground 2, 2004 writers The Doors, 1971 performers Jim Morri...
August 02, 2022 at 18:04
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