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I've already stated more than a few times on the thread what I think Israel must do to end the status quo of oppression: :point: :point: :point: :poin...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C434Ud4DVu0 "This Is Always" / "Open The Door" (6:21) Inside Betty Carter, 1964 writers M. Gordon & H. Warren / B. Carte...

This jam kicked off my last (brief) stint running a night club in the East Village, NYC ("Coney Island High" defunk*d). Actually, on a night off, I th...

I am "pro-Israel" as well and, therefore, in solidarity with the Palestinian people (US/NATO client-state) that Israel oppresses, I'm also anti-post-1...

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I wouldn't put it that way. Assuming you're referring to philosophical materialism, all "observers" are material-dependent. To be real denotes "not de...

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What do you mean by "argument"? I posted a link to a notification by the third international Human Rights organization – Amnesty International – claim...

Yes, as classical atomists and methodological (scientific) materialists conceive of "mind".

I'm sure you did ... :clap: Insofar as "mind" is material-dependent (had you learned anything from De Rerum Natura, ... :roll:), your claim, sir, is i...

:shade: C'mon, tim. Have, for example, American Indians (on the reservations) "made any substantive efforts to live peacefully with" dispossessing, "O...

You say that (?), not I. :roll: Your uninformed statement, as they say, speaks for itself, Wayf. Anyone familiar with Democritean-Epicurean-Lucretian ...

It's serviceable and has nothing to do with the your statement which is, again, patently false. Now you switch to ontology but I'd responded to your p...

@"BitconnectCarlos" @"Joshs" @"Encharmion" @"tim wood" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/ ...

... which, in fact, we do not need in order to survive and thrive in the world, so why does that matter?

Patently false. Again. :sweat: :smirk:

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"It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, whic...

Cite ONE instance (not taken out of context!) in several thousand posts where I have based a conclusion or objection on "sciences says" and leave it a...

"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills." ~Arthur Schopenhauer At the level of the political, compatibilism is operable such that "...

:clap: :up: No. I'm implying that your either "material" or "immaterial" formulation is fallacious because "immaterial" is neither an intelligible nor...

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"We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain aliv...

Scientific and philosophical illiteracy on full display. Of course, woo-woo is "The Answer". :up:

Wtf is "Kindy"? Before you answer, sir, address (if you're up to it) this .

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The jury is still out. Maybe both.

:100: :smirk: That's because when you believe you are "explaining", Wayf, you're actually just barking at shadows in your platonic cave. :sweat:

Like e.g. 'the Earth being flat and not moving and at the center of "Creation"'. Human intuitions (e.g. "sense of separateness") are usually naive, pa...

What you describe is (a kind of) reductionism, and that's never been my position. In the philosophy of mind, my position is non-reductive physicalism,...

Speculatively, I prefer pandeism ... to either term.

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:eyes: :roll: :sweat: G'nite, Woofarer.

I'm not a reductionist, so why do you ask? I've already disputed your premise, sir, which is why your question is again a non sequitur. Make the case ...

Non sequitur. I've exposed your "reductive materialism" for the strawman it is. And sorry, Wayf, no "equivocation" on my part between a denotation and...

The latter is reductive (categorical) and the former is not. "Based on matter" does not entail nothing-but-matter. A step further: "matter" – material...

@"TiredThinker" – In light of reading the thread discussion thus far, I'll elaborate on my initial post ... The benefits to the Ethical Self are intri...

Another false dichotomy – occupational hazard of dualism ("BothAnd" :roll:), no doubt. Your narrow usage, G; I prefer Berkeley's much broader concept ...

:up: 'Qualia' are adaptive, cognitive outputs peculiar to the kind of CNS-brains with which natural selection has endowed us. :up:

"Boredom" has to be experienced less intensely, or negatively, by an "immortal" without existential urgency than by a mortal with existential urgency....

My "favorite" book on the philosophy of mind (or neurophilosophy) is still, after 15+ years, Being No One by Thomas Metzinger (followed by his non-tec...

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In my understanding, (as a rule-of-thumb) I distinguish between philosophical materialism and methodological materialism. The latter denotes that 'des...

"Often misread" willfully by some. :mask:

:roll: "Immaterialism" as in e.g. dis-embodied minds? :eyes: Res ipsa loquitur.

"What have I got in my pocket?" :wink:

Is this because of death's finality? or its inevitability? or your (current) inability to significantly postpone it by artificially extending your lif...