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Why would one adopt any truth if every truth is "subjective"?

I don't care much for third-hand accounts (the book) which are second hand recollections (witnesses) of other persons' "psychodynamic" interactions. I...

So it's wholly arbitrary – "subjective" as you say – whether or not one adopts "relativism as an approach" to truth? :eyes: An exemplary self-refuting...

I read Wittgenstein's Poker about two decades ago and came away disagreeing with both men. Philosophy, as I understand it in modern terms, concerns cl...

Is what relativism says "about truth" true or not? Is it an "approach" which matches truth-makers to truth-bearers or not? Is relativism a "relative a...

I never saw that movie, the trailer looked juvenile. My speculations are inspired in part by various fictions e.g. Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), The Pos...

In the (post-Crimea annexation) context of the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine, and thereby imminent threat to former Eastern Bloc nations, Isaac, ...

Clones develop through childhood, so yes immortals will (have to) be parents of their own genetic offspring. You seem stuck on this point due to a lac...

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Looooow blow. :sweat:

A few of your assumptions there seem arbitrary to me. My assumptions differ, O. For me, I imagine that immortality (if it even became a bio-technologi...

re: Bullshit and Time :sparkle:

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Stop whining. Your synopsis is spot-on, it's just that H's "thesis" is unoriginal and uninteresting – Laozi, Buddha ... Schopenhauer, Bergson, Dewey e...

Day 5 ... The rat cornered in the Kremlin with an economy collapsing will crater Kviv soon (and maybe damage one or more of Ukraine's active nuclear p...

:shade: Big whup. :up: :smirk:

Why do you assume there would be an "excess population"? Why do you assume immortals are going to be "having children"?

Why no more children? "Slow death" over millennia ...

Memento mori, memento vivere. :death: :fire:

Addendum. :sweat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_realism#Speculative_materialism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism ...

I'm not a romantic or nearly as nostalgic as you seem to be, Olivier. Besides, we have photos, videos and other mementos (e.g. diaries, tattoos/scars,...

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The time to fireproof your house, my man, is either before or after, not during, a house fire. Your position obtusely misses the 'collective security'...

I don't see the relevance of your question to this topic. If you say so. That's not my interpretation. We lose memories, like dead cells, daily throug...

I'm not aware of any evidence of anything about "dishbrain" that suggests it's "conscious" in any recognizable sense.

Why would an immortal bother with becoming "a master of everything"?

I imagine the fail safe for being bored to death could be this .

I have no idea what RogueAI or you are talking about when you talk about "consciousness" and therefore I've also no way of telling if you are talking ...

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I have no idea what the OP wants to discuss. It contains a variable ("something greater") and I proposed a value (knowledge). Joe rejected it. Okay; s...

:smirk: Karl Marx —> statist; critical socioeconomist; not a philosopher Immanuel Kant —> noumena (plurality) is self-contradictory by his own definit...

If your prayer book says so. :roll:

And therefore that is not a definition in any discursive sense. On the contrary, however, "consciousness" is defined both by philosophy (for example )...

I don't get why you think I've claimed "the OP is about knowledge".

"Subversive attack?"

Clarify: what's "correct" about @"Daemon"'s statement?

Ignoring me? Okay. It safe to assume (you know as well) that the OP is nothing but vacuous twaddle which answering these questions will expose. :shade...

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Welcome to the "subversive" dark side. :up:

Light sensors, for example, "point to green" (or other EM frequencies); the capability "to point" does not itself indicate (define) "consciousness".

No. Fear is the affective default (and stupidity the behavioral default). IMO "dukkha" is the derivative effect (pace Siddh?rtha Gautama). :up:

I didn't "bring up" anything, Smith. I recommended a book which expounds in great depth on my answer to the OP: knowledge. Clearly, as his subsequent ...

https://youtu.be/s6kqFXDL8RQ "Johnny B Goode" (2:39) :fire: A-side single, 1958 Chuck Berry

I don't read a definition in that quote.

Where? (Link, please.)

Ketanji Brown Jackson. #116.

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Vlad's just another aged, tin-foil hatted, megalomaniac with more cash (yes-men & nukes on hand) than sense. :eyes: Nonetheless, he's much more "ratio...

Not addressed to me, consider the post below from an old thread concerning Thomistic sophistry: And this excerpt from an old post objecting to the sou...