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Yeah, "empty space" does not refer to nothing-ness.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.huffpost.com/entry/blake-lemoine-lamda-sentient-artificial-intelligence-google_n_62a5613ee4b06169ca8c0a2e/amp "Dave, ...

IIRC, natural regularities are observed (i.e. "discovered") and then mathematically described-encoded (i.e. "invented") as invariant features of physi...

As i've pointed out here .

One problem with this lil limrick is that it begins with a false dichotomy. But anyway, both something and nothing exist (e.g. 99.9% of each atom is e...

Life is tripping me up, though I have a bunch of half-baked stuff to play with. I'm just so damned distracted lately settling down in my new place in ...

"Why is there anything at all?" Because nothing prevents anything from coming-to-be. :smirk: .

Just my 2 shekels: "Folk theology" says the bible is true because the bible says it's true. The folks hope for "Heaven" (re: reunion with deceased fam...

I guess so. :smirk: :victory: :ok: :lol:

Why would anyone care what a Nazi believes defines "human being"? :shade:

I suspect most philosophical discourses in the last twenty-four centuries since Pyrrho of Elis refute themselves either partially or, in the case of s...

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The article I linked is not to Plato's dialogue but to a broad summary of what intellectual history records about sophists including Gorgias. The refe...

Check out the link on Gorgias, that might help you grok my take on Derrida et al.

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A human being is, at minimum, 'a person with H. sapiens DNA'. As far as I understand the developmental biology, personhood begins in utero around the ...

Derrida's goal/s with "deconstruction" is one thing, the implications and applicability of what he proposes are quite another thing; and it's the self...

Ergo, "cinema".

Push the pause button. Rewind or fast forward "the reel". Watch it again and again and again ...

Perhaps "the inherent haziness of reality" is time, specifically futurity (à la Bergson's la durée).

What does what look like?

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Cinema.

Categorically.

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Not at all. I just don't understand your "preference" re: Derrida. That's not my "preference" versus yours, only intellectual honesty on my part. Appl...

IME, you / we are the kind of What which deludes itself that it's also a Who in order to deny to itself that it's nothing but a (strange looping) What...

I "keep coming back" to challenge, as I've said, Derrida's apologists & expositors. His "texts" seem to me no less facetiously incoherent now than the...

I remember it well. :up:

"Materialism" is not a truth-claim – does not consist of truth-claims. It's a speculative criterion or methodological commitment which works better th...

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@"Streetlight", @"Joshs", @"igjugarjuk", @"Moliere" A lifelong student of the likes of Freddy & Witty, Peirce & Chomsky, I still find 'p0m0 post/struc...

Semantically speaking ... This question still doesn't make sense to me after two thread pages.

In what way? Aka "The Shit on the Bed" ...

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Maybe 'billiard-ball materialism' was "rejected" in England by Newtonians but not by e.g. French scientists and the philosophes or German scientists a...

So you use "suffering" and "pain" interchangeably yet the latter is involuntary and the former is voluntary. Are the Stoics, for example, mistaken tha...

I find Dada more insightful, intelligible and fun than derivative high-brow wankery like "differánce", so, yeah, I "prefer" what works to what refutes...

Speculative, non-fallacious inferences – philosophical or scientific – are not what I mean by "woo", Woofarer; such speculations are either valid/soun...

– and what do "preferences" have to do with either 'what is the case' or 'what can be said/written intelligibly (about what is the case)'?

Nothing woo-ful about "dark matter" and "dark energy". They are just yet-to-be-explained and not inexplicable as such (or worse). :smirk:

:clap: :yikes: (Not bad for an "immaterialist".) :fire: Yes. And didn't classical atomists (dis)solve "Zeno's paradox" by disputing 'unbounded divisib...

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You asked for me to "reconfigure" my previous description of "a question" into a "paradox" – thus, the question-mark. Paradoxical, no?

"Deconstruction" irrationalizes (i.e. fideistically accuses 'all discursive reasoning' of (transcendentally) being fideistic). :zip:

"Deconstruction" doesn't actually analyze.