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Is it your position – extrapolating from Pinker's objection to Lakoff & Johnson's thesis ("metaphor") – that mind is disembodied?

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I don't understand the question.

And you make the OP's point.

Kyiv, Day 11 ... :death: :fire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_iW9b-0gCM "Break On Through (to the Other Side)" (2:26) The Doors, 1967 The Doors * ht...

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Just saying "boredom" is not an "ultimate insight". As I point out (click on the link above), it's fear that is fundamental to existing. And yeah, man...

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"Boredom" is analogous to an over-full belly; we're born hungry and always in homeostatic thrall to the prospect of starving until we die, and s/he wh...

Pragmatic, not-"Ivory Tower" applications: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Thinking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_thera...

Is "existentialism" still a viable philosophical position (or commitment) any longer in these post-postmodern times?

No worries, my friend.

Doubt requires grounds. "Last (whichever)dayism" is doubt of deep time. Given that there aren't any compelling grounds to doubt deep time cosmology, "...

Thanks ... Btw, that part's not autobiographical. :smirk:

Your's is the first suchcomplaint, gmba. I'll keep that in mind (especially in our) future discussions. :wink:

It's well-known to the scientifically literate as the link provided shows. Stop whining, man; I'm not here to spoon-fed that much.

IMO, Kierkegaard is far more influential than "important" as a philosopher. His thought, at least as I've understood it, amounts to an overly-prolix a...

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I fail to see what difference "Last Thursdayism" makes.

:100: I think these texts (excerpts) would suffice for an ethical education (in predominantly Euro-American societies at least): • elementary school –...

Give the context of this discussion, why are some folks too "lazy" to google a well-known science acronym? :roll: ... CMB

Well, call the Nobel committee asap. :clap: :sparkle:

We know two facts: (1) the observable 4-d universe (i.e. hubble volume) is expanding and that (2) the 4-d universe is larger than the hubble volume. T...

Proof of what?

I guess.

No, man, a surface of a sphere is the sphere's boundary. :roll:

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220302-how-mindfulness-can-make-you-a-darker-person Context matters, no?

Higher dimensional Z is constituted by lower dimensional Y, X ... A; the latter are not separable, discrete entities with respect to the former. 0-d p...

I don't see how that implies anything different or corrects what I've said. 'Spatial' and 'temporal' predicates presuppose spacetime and therefore are...

day nine in ukraine ... :death: :fire: "When the music's over When the music's over, yeah When the music's over Turn out the lights Turn out the light...

Yes. Just as spacetime is (located) neither where nor when, (i.e. (has) neither 'inside-outside' nor 'before-after').

Day 9 ... https://m.dw.com/en/ukraine-fire-breaks-out-at-europes-largest-nuclear-power-plant-live-updates/a-61007081 :death:

Replace "radical hedonic uplift" with "mindfulness" in order to see my point. Re: ethical implications (e.g. like kamikazi pilots via Zen/Bushido) ...

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The article seems to me to suggest that "mindfulness" practice also tends to help people ignore the consequences (i.e. as you've said "coping with str...

I think we can be certain about what necessarily cannot be real: impossible objects, impossible worlds; anything else, no matter how improbable, is a ...

At planck radius, "the universe" was a runaway – inflationary – cosmic-thermal entropic effect of an acausal (spontaneous symmetry-breaking) vacuum fl...

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220302-how-mindfulness-can-make-you-a-darker-person Caveat that's "mindfulness"-adjacent .

So many heads up so many asses talking so much shit. The whataboutism by some on this thread is as intellectually masturbatory as it is morally delinq...

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:up: DITTO. :100: Likewise, I'm also not ashamed to acknowledge that "I love my country" ... enough to live as much as I'm able to in critical opposit...

"Narnia".

:clap: Yeah, not only has Eurigena been long "underrated", I also think his fourfold conception of nature might have influenced Spinoza (re: natura na...

The Dunning-Kruger kids are always the last to know.

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False dichotomy, G. The uncoerced end-user that executes the, or which does not interrupt an automated, program is responsible.

Of course it is ... :lol: :up: :up:

Objectivity denotes subjectivity / point-of-view/ language / gauge–invarant statements (e.g. "2+2=4" or "At sea-level, water boils @ 212° F (100° C)" ...

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