Yukio Mishima was almost too much for me in my early twenties, I owe his sublime works a rereading – renewed encounter – soon in order to discover how...
I'm obviously not as smart as you, Dr. Bartricks, so tell me: (A) Is it the fear of death that harms one? (B) Is it one's actual death that harms one ...
Perhaps traumatizes (i.e. to wound, to disturb, to call-oneself-into-question) is more precise than "terrorizes". Aren't there any e.g. works of art, ...
PSA – fyi folks, the last Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago and the Earth is currently 1/10th of the way through an estimated 100,000 year intergla...
Thus, insofar as "having goals" requires applying "the ABC framework" to goal-formation itself, this infinite regress – problem of the criterion – ten...
Of course not. :roll: Tbus spoke the hoi polloi! :eyes: :lol: Half wits – those who don't know that they don't know – are usually the last to know. No...
This link to an old post is my general treatment of the topics raised here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/344963 A pleasure so ext...
Like the old Academic Skeptic's canard "since knowledge is never certain, there cannot be knowledge", to wit: if existing is not painless, then existi...
Just living itself is always a near-death experience – "nearer to you than your jugular vein." True. To "wish" for an impossibility is not logical. :n...
In the context of my post (& links), what part of 'self-organizing quantum simulation' (à la autopoiesis) is confusing you? Consider: there are only f...
Bostrom's argument has too many ad hoc assumptions for me (like e.g. "The Drake Equation"). Very simply: if e.g. David Deutsch's work on the quantum t...
Anti-"antinatalism" does not entail pro-natalism. The "moral" arguments in favor of "antinatalism" proffered thus far have been neither valid nor pers...
In other words: 'what there is is grounded in what I/we know', which amounts to nothiing but idealism (or solipsism) window-dressed in 'pseudo-(inform...
Of course it was, and still is, maladaptive. They were mistaken and consequently acted on that mistake. Short-term efficacy – scapegoating, genocide –...
Maps of the territory (i.e. "intellect") cannot encompass the territory (i.e. "everything"), right? ... I can't think of any greater, more endemic, ab...
Do authors have a moral obligation to write only 'characters who cannot suffer'? Do video game (simulation) programmers have a moral obligation to cod...
Okay, G. Put down the damn Spinoza for Dummies and actually read / study Spinoza's Ethics. :roll: "Relatively" to what? The initial state of the unive...
Your objection has been noted, schop1, and it's still moot because (1) "inexistent others" is incoherent & (2) most human primates will never voluntar...
:smirk: Your refusal to waste your vote on the P-O-S who was 'highly favored' to win your state was as patriotic a statement as it was prudential. A g...
The math may speak for itself but antinatalists are not obliged to listen while they are (fallaciously) moralizing on a moot point. Good luck with tha...
I didn't say the sheep were lying. It's the Shepherd who is lying and using the Holy Lie to get "true believer" sheep to slaughter one another like wo...
And I'm referring to those religious believers who murder each other for "spiritual", not material, gain. They're usually called "holy warriors" & "ma...
No. The debate is interminable as long there isn't consensus on the premises of the argument. And besides, the point is moot. We're a species organism...
:point: FYI: I've read enough of the books you have referenced in our exchanges to long since have confidently concluded that (1) you've flagrantly mi...
:up: Even if that's true, given just a little thought, MU, the religious kill each other in the name of Holy Lies which command "thou shalt not kill" ...
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