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Strawman. Stop your onanistic bs, G. :lol: Minding is what highly adaptive, fully-functional, and sufficiently complex CNS-brains do.

Your previous post implies this.

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If "it's all noise" and "all" includes "minds" and it is "mind" that "attaches meaning to a bit of noise and calls it a signal", then, in effect what ...

:up: I think of this "something more", which encompasses – enables and constrains – "reason", as the real .

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Instrumental rationality (i.e. algorithmic, means-to-ends optimization) is definitely alpha hetero-male. :strong: :eyes:

Well, to build on what you've written previously, 'the history of philosophy' is indispensable as an archive of examples of 'making explicit the limit...

Your flavor of idealism, G, like the others, conflates ontology and epistemology – what is real = what i/we know ... what i/we know = what is real – f...

You've misread my post and I do not agree with the premises of the questions you raise in your misreading. To philosophize is to pose (big? small? unb...

:roll: Category mistake (truth-maker (informational form) in terms of truth-claim (propositional content)) —> moving the goal posts. How do you/we kno...

:roll: My post was not hand written and the type is legible so anyone who's literate enough, TC, can read that I've only written y'all are "working on...

No.

Other than via physical instantiation (re: Boltzmann, Turing, Shannon, Von Neumann et al), how can we differentiate signals from noise? :chin:

The fundamental difference, I think, between "philosophers" and "sophists" is that the latter tend to reason from one's position (i.e. rationalize (e....

Whether "classical" or "personalist", IME, theism is not true :point: .

No. Yes. No. Maybe.

At minimum, the courage to dialectically examine one's own assumptions and to reason towards better, more probative questions of reason's limits. Btw,...

I suppose when one e.g. can ask that question.

(Emphases are mine.) https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=15&page=transcript

If "the observer" is real, then "the observer" is "observer"-independent; if "the observer" is not real, however, then the question is moot.

JWST has parked @L2 :strong: :nerd: :up: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/world/james-webb-space-telescope-orbit-scn/index.html Phase 4 this summers.

:fire: :mask: Idi?t?s ask the darnedest questions ...

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At the summer solstice (June), I hope.

Same reason we express truths: ceteris paribus, it's more adaptive to do so than not to do so.

I'm not a physicist. There are a few around though ...

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:up: In a cosmopolitan milieu, I suspect it's more of a bug than not (an ever-present, atavistic anxiety in spite of the cultural and material benefit...

:point: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j_sVFcyjbKA is the :fire: in which we burn

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I've been an Epicurean since I'd begun reading philosophy for my own sake in high school (which may have hastened my apostasy). Then during my years o...

'Global skepticism' is incoherent and self-refuting. Read the skeptics mentioned in my last post. Avoid unviable Academic Skepticism (or paper doubter...

Don't blame the messenger, Tiff :zip: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle%27s_views_on_women :eyes:

:clap: :cool: Excellent! Well, it's not for me, or anyone else, to say what you should do with your newly acquired wealth. I think I can say what I mi...

IME, "time" is much more of an existential (G. Marcel) "mystery" than a (meta)physical one ...

IIRC, nirvana amounts to recognizing daily that the distinction of nirvana / samsara is maya.

:point: ... What you find harmful, do not do to anyone. :fire:

Peirce says 'by abduction'. Hume says 'by custom & habit'. Pascal says 'by faith'. Pyrrho say 'by epoche' of undecideable (e.g. philosophic, theologic...

Aristotle's worldview contains – requires? – misogyny and slavery which coincides with the Biblical, especially Christian, worldview. The Church didn'...

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I endeavor not to blame authors for the misuses (or abuses) of their works by politicians and theologians, unless said authors in their own rights are...

That 'loaded' phrase only is intended to add emphasis to – put a finer point on – the rest of the paragraph preceeding it.

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:up: Similiarly, in Spinozist terms, I think of modes as "existing" and substance as "being" (or, in Epicurean terms, atoms "exist" and void "is"). It...