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In: Ontology of Time  — view comment
Can you prove temperature exists? or color exists? or charge exists? etc ...
February 06, 2025 at 10:34
In: Thus Spoke Zarathustra  — view comment
I read through much of Klossowski's Nietzsche book decades ago and didn't finish it. Nothing "new" for me then (after more than two decades of studyin...
February 05, 2025 at 21:37
In: Thus Spoke Zarathustra  — view comment
Freddy seems to me 'an absurdist skeptic of European modernity' (both heir to Epicurus, Spinoza & Voltaire and predecessor of Zapffe, Camus & Rosset)....
February 05, 2025 at 20:41
In: Arguments for and against the identification of Jesus with God  — view comment
Afaik, philosophy of religion examines concepts of religion (re: worship) in contrast to theology which speculates on the nature of god (re: transcend...
February 04, 2025 at 18:31
In: Arguments for and against the identification of Jesus with God  — view comment
:up: :up:
February 04, 2025 at 17:23
In: Arguments for and against the identification of Jesus with God  — view comment
Nope. I didn't make it past your "Is Jesus God?"
February 04, 2025 at 16:53
In: Arguments for and against the identification of Jesus with God  — view comment
Given that both "God" and "Jesus" are fictions, yes / no depending on each e.g. Biblical, Quranic or Vedic author (make-believer) I suppose. :strong: ...
February 04, 2025 at 16:36
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
Shouldn't AGI participate in 'developing ethics' for itself (which humans might learn from) or do you mean, prior to AGI, humans should apply ethics t...
February 04, 2025 at 08:28
In: Nietzsche's fundamental objection against Christianity (Socrates/plato)  — view comment
You seem more pedantic than thoughtful. "Beware lest a statue slay you." :smirk:
February 04, 2025 at 04:28
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
:smirk: :up: :up: As I see it, this is why ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/963559
February 04, 2025 at 04:21
In: Nietzsche's fundamental objection against Christianity (Socrates/plato)  — view comment
:up: :up:
February 03, 2025 at 18:59
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
No doubt this is true of "AI" (such as LLMs, AlphaGo series neural nets, etc) but only will be the case if exponentially self-improving Artificial Gen...
February 03, 2025 at 18:24
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
Interesting. Thanks.
February 03, 2025 at 08:53
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
Insofar as one wishes to avoid an anthropomorphic fallacy, I'm suggesting that "aspects of folk wisdom" are unwarranted and irrelevant to the topic of...
February 03, 2025 at 07:10
In: Nietzsche's fundamental objection against Christianity (Socrates/plato)  — view comment
Nietsche did not exempt himself from the decadence of his era any more than Socrates denied he too was an ignorant Athenian. :wink:
February 03, 2025 at 04:46
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
:death: :flower: https://youtu.be/39a-qK75osc?si=hz5R87mD28LLa7V- "Goin' Down Slow" (4:04) A-side single, 1961 writer James B. Oden, 1942 performer Ho...
February 03, 2025 at 04:42
In: Nietzsche's fundamental objection against Christianity (Socrates/plato)  — view comment
:up: :up:
February 03, 2025 at 02:36
In: Nietzsche's fundamental objection against Christianity (Socrates/plato)  — view comment
"Freddy" makes the point (or suggestion) that eternity is here & now (concrete, embodied nature), therefore the only viable source of value (i.e. ^bec...
February 03, 2025 at 01:39
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
I don't understand your question.
February 02, 2025 at 23:56
In: Nietzsche's fundamental objection against Christianity (Socrates/plato)  — view comment
Yes, iirc, as N sees it Christianity, like Platonism, supremely(!) values some 'other world' (dis-embodied life, or "spirit") at the expense of absolu...
February 02, 2025 at 21:40
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
No doubt (western) civilization is already dependent on IT and smart automated systems; this dependence grows exponentially year to year (soon month t...
February 02, 2025 at 21:11
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
@"Jack Cummins" DON'T BELIEVE THE CLICK-BAIT HYPE. :sweat:
February 01, 2025 at 23:35
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
From a 2023/4 thread Heading into darkness https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/849802 https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/...
February 01, 2025 at 19:56
In: Brother Jake's - By 180 Proof  — view comment
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/952532 Feeding fat pedophiles at the hungry's expense ... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f...
February 01, 2025 at 17:24
In: US Election 2024 (All general discussion)  — view comment
United States of Kakistan 31January25 https://youtu.be/mQwJuayXJ18?si=HlMBK_cgjMAxYbIn Re: Dunning-Kruger populism ... update: https://thephilosophyfo...
February 01, 2025 at 07:30
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
:100:
January 31, 2025 at 20:57
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
"And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree ...
January 31, 2025 at 20:50
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/9oEfzk7kToI?si=Y5J8H8ILRr1Kwxez "Devil in His Heart" (2:40) A-side single, 1962 writer R. Drapkin performers The Donays https://youtu...
January 31, 2025 at 04:10
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
d. 2025 https://youtu.be/Ozg3iRoBDkg?si=CAryhRXKQ5Kocc_6 https://youtu.be/FkLQrED71dU?si=1psh-oWXzG90THY6
January 31, 2025 at 03:27
In: Necessity for Longevity in Metaphysical Knowledge  — view comment
:fire:
January 30, 2025 at 20:59
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
:yawn: Yeah well there's no scientific EVIDENCE to support this anachronistic (crypto-creationist, woo-of-the-gaps :sparkle:) claim about the planck e...
January 30, 2025 at 02:03
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
A number of the topics you raise I've addressed in the post^^ I previously linked (and the other imbedded links). Any thoughts on what I wrote about t...
January 30, 2025 at 01:48
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Thanks, comrade. :fire: :mask: I hope all is well with you, Tobias, and that your corner of the world is not yet an oligarchic shitshow.
January 29, 2025 at 07:08
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
The "Omega Point theory" (Tipler or Deutsch – not Chardin) makes sense to me iff the entire universe (or multiverse) is either an unbounded simulation...
January 29, 2025 at 07:01
In: What Are You Watching Right Now?  — view comment
:cool: Congrats!
January 29, 2025 at 01:55
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
Wtf :roll:
January 28, 2025 at 21:49
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
I don't think so. Conceivability –/–> possibility. Suppose "reflective self" (ego) is nothing but a metacognitive illusion¹ – hallucination – that per...
January 28, 2025 at 19:20
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
:fire: :up:
January 28, 2025 at 05:09
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
@"Jack Cummins" re: AI, Consciousness, Universe, etc ... https://youtu.be/vxux1OkHBIw?si=W3ujp6LVmegef8RY
January 28, 2025 at 04:16
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
:smirk:
January 28, 2025 at 01:25
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
Dunning-Krugers are in full effect. :zip:
January 27, 2025 at 19:11
In: Fascism in The US: Unlikely? Possible? Probable? How soon?  — view comment
No doubt. To wit:
January 27, 2025 at 14:32
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
:sparkle: :lol: Direction¹ (entropy) =/= purpose (telos). dissipative systems e.g. cosmogenesis, nucleogenesis, black hole evaporation, natural select...
January 26, 2025 at 18:36
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
This sort of bourgeois-feel good ahistoricism is always futile. In order to "emphasize commonality and common goals","future-oriented" whites should s...
January 26, 2025 at 18:19
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
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January 26, 2025 at 03:43
In: US Election 2024 (All general discussion)  — view comment
United States of Kakistan 25January25 https://youtu.be/7hcOTmyQWFQ?si=BkxwSlXFYEWIfPqF :death: :fire: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/commen...
January 26, 2025 at 00:56
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
IMHO, by reductive conceptual conflation of (e.g.) Heraclitean flux + Democritean ceaselessly swirling atoms in void + Spinozist conative infinite & f...
January 25, 2025 at 16:58
In: A Thomistic Argument For God's Existence From Composition  — view comment
:up: :up:
January 25, 2025 at 15:24
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
United States of Kakistan 24January25 :rofl:
January 25, 2025 at 04:17
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_illusion
January 25, 2025 at 02:26
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