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One data point is not determinate. It's a hasty generalization to call an isolated event – an anomaly – a pattern.

A in/famous Slovenian philosopher weighs in – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/23/we-must-stop-letting-russia-define-the-terms-of-th...

Well, it's astronomically unlikely such an "incredibly unlikely" machine would pass the Turing Test a second time, thus it would be found out that's i...

The modifer "true" doesn't function, or add anything meaningful, in your sentence. By definition if an entity passes the Turing Test, then that entity...

:cool: Thanks. edit: It's an old thread from last summer to which I've posted once. I read your OP again and if I find something which interests me I'...

From an old thread on a related topic:

:lol: Pathetic. I exposed and refuted your incorrigible ignorance and the thanks I get from you, Mr "I am no beginner", is tissue paper thin-skinned w...

Addendum to Positive dialectics (Hegel / Marx) —> sublating equilibrium (e.g. totality / communism) Negative dialectics (Adorno / Bakunin) —> ablating...

Nothing I've written contains a claim or an implication that "animals (are) non-sentient machines".

1. (yin) Has too much stuff at the moment & (yang) Doesn't have enough stuff at the moment. 2. Stuff (i.e. enabling facts). :smirk: De nada ...

2022 spring / summer addendum • Brian Aldiss, Greybeard • Justin Cronin, The Passage • Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things • Hanna Jameson, T...

Children of Men (2006) – a film adapted from the novel of (nearly) the same title by P.D. James (1992) re: "sterility apocalypse" (anti-natalist wet d...

:100: Thanks. :smirk: Showing flies the ways of matryoshka fly-bottles. :up:

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"The hard problem" is a pseudo-problem due to assuming an unwarranted confusion / conflation of an ontological duality with semantic duality compounde...

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"Philosophical naturalism" – a speculative principle – is not a hypothetical explanation whereas Intelligent Design purports to be a "theory", so they...

I'm referring to other people's (e.g. Chalmer's, Nagel's, McGinn's) dualism. @"Banno" is spot on; the subjective-objective distinction and the subsequ...

No, my friend, for the reason that "subjective experiences" are not objective; to require that subjectivity be described objectively is a category mis...

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Here you go, Mr "I am no beginner" :sweat: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/mean08.htm

You can read, cant you? Start with the SEP link ...

Your statement that "Hegel is not an idealist" is incorrect and that Marx had "defined" him as such – Hegel defines himself as an idealist (read The P...

If you have to say so ... :lol: Well, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) ain't for beginners, Mr. "No Beginner" ... https://plato.stanford.edu/...

:100: :up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_idealism

Thanks, but not really similiar. Linden's book is a bioethical examination of 'anti-aging' whereas Sinclair's concerns the cell biology of 'life exten...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aa6gNwpt5sY Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard (36:31), 1962 A1. Spiritual 00:00 A2. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise...

I understand that I don't want to be "celebrating ignorance" like this: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/698236 and https://thephilos...

Like Banno, I'm not sure what your point is, Marvin, but my own thoughts on "The Good Life" are sketched here (with embedded links to older posts of m...

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@"Biden" @"Caldwell" Summer Solstice is rapidly approaching: June 21st – deadline for new submissions for TPF Short Story Contest??? Yay or nay? :nerd...

... inquisition and inquiry.

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I don't know what you mean (apparently because you don't know what you mean either).

Cite a single unique, repeatable, prediction "ID" makes.

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The world-historical disease (i.e. plague) I diagnose as Classism here https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/543213 of which, I agree, Smi...

IIRC, Tertullian is the first Church Father to single-out epicureanism (as representative of "Greek wisdom") as heresy which was foundational in early...

I don't know what that means. No (but then my post wasn't a reply to yours).

:up: ... or advanced neural nets (post von Neumann systems). :clap:

Well, the enduring strength and prodigeous achievements of modern natural sciences are the result of the interminable search for better explanations w...

Parody whatever you can't understand, lil troll-stain.

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Amor fati. :fire: p.s.

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I don't know how long you've had the pleasure of 'interacting' with @"Wayfarer", but you've nailed his M.O. to a tee (and after more than a dozen year...

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:sweat: Not really ... Classical materislists (i.e. atomists) like Epicurus & Lucretius reasoned that "the gods" were material (i.e. constituted of at...