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In: Is consciousness, or the mind, merely an ‘illusion’?  — view comment
:up: Strawman. :roll: Let our 'dialectic' continue :chin: ... (excerpts from old posts, linked by my handle, in the contexts of other threads on consc...
January 10, 2022 at 22:48
In: Are there any western philosophers with same/close concept of No-self of Buddhism?  — view comment
My "no-self" (anatta, anicca) Western thinkers: Thales Democritus-Leucippus Heraclitus Epicurus Pyrrho Lucretius (Ovid) Spinoza Hume Schopenauer Nietz...
January 10, 2022 at 17:45
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
Excruciating as it may be, I vote to extend the poll one more week to Jan. 16th.
January 09, 2022 at 20:51
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
Ditto! :monkey:
January 09, 2022 at 11:27
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
"Icarus Has Fallen" or "Icarus Falls" ...
January 09, 2022 at 09:09
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
Revised: Baden/Mod tallies each submission's scores and the submission/s with highest total score "wins". Then, each entrant reveals which story s/he ...
January 09, 2022 at 08:50
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
:up:
January 09, 2022 at 03:45
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
:100: :chin:
January 09, 2022 at 03:42
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
The trilogy of Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable is, without a doubt IMO, Beckett's masterpiece. :up:
January 09, 2022 at 00:32
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
The mirror has unfolded successfully. Phase 3 begins. :clap: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/08/nasa-engineers-complete-the-unfolding-of-...
January 09, 2022 at 00:18
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg w/ lyrics "Paint It Black" (3:46) A-side single (UK), 1966 The Rolling Stones
January 08, 2022 at 17:53
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
hard bop it! :cool: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_QkGAaYtXA0 "Watermelon Man" 7:09 Takin' Off, 1962 Herbie Hancock yeah – fff-fUNK it up, griot! :fir...
January 08, 2022 at 01:50
In: If Dualism is true, all science is wrong?  — view comment
:up: (like "essences") :up:
January 08, 2022 at 01:12
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
:up: I prefer instead the much more informed, contemporary God and the Atom by the late, eminent, particle physicist and philosopher Victor J. Stenger...
January 07, 2022 at 22:44
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
Ulysses took me a few attempts (years) to get through a first reading but rereading it about a decade later was a (nonetheless still difficult) pleasu...
January 07, 2022 at 22:42
In: If Dualism is true, all science is wrong?  — view comment
My (sketchy) account is this: abstractions (i.e. idealizations) are second-order generalizations from (i.e. maps of) arrangements, or expanses, of fir...
January 07, 2022 at 22:07
In: If Dualism is true, all science is wrong?  — view comment
This is only true of vulgar materialism which is a caricature. :roll: "Platonism", in the main, is founded on a both category mistake (territory in te...
January 07, 2022 at 21:11
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
:up:
January 07, 2022 at 21:07
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
:smirk:
January 07, 2022 at 21:01
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
:meh:
January 07, 2022 at 13:36
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
Same here. :100: :up: I wonder if you've already sussed-out which story is mine.
January 07, 2022 at 13:06
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
If you say so ...
January 07, 2022 at 06:10
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
My own since I'd learned it from Bloom's work almost forty years ago. I'm much less of "fan" in recent decades (prefering G. Steiner, J. Woods A. Murr...
January 07, 2022 at 06:06
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
If you're not fsmiliar with his theory of poetics, consider Harold Bloom's notion of 'anxiety of influence' (re: misreading).
January 07, 2022 at 05:45
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
Pascal's Wager amounts to a forced false dichotomy.
January 07, 2022 at 05:41
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
:cool:
January 07, 2022 at 05:16
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
By this comment do you interpret my last post suggests otherwise?
January 07, 2022 at 05:12
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
Re: wishful thinking (i.e. optimism bias).
January 07, 2022 at 05:09
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
Well, as a scribbler and not just a consumer of others' scribbings, I think 'comprehension' of a narrative requires both divining the authorial purpos...
January 07, 2022 at 04:44
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
:roll: I responded to this where "Moses" is indicated as representative of "Judaism", or the Covenant of Abraham and YHWH which is the promise to Abra...
January 07, 2022 at 04:22
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
:zip: :up:
January 06, 2022 at 22:28
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
:clap: :cool:
January 06, 2022 at 16:38
In: Can digital spaces be sacred?  — view comment
Nothing is sacred (nothing is profane). Map =/= territory. :up:
January 06, 2022 at 16:26
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
"Heaven or Hell" placebo or nocebo boredom or pain junk or withdrawal coma (dreamless sleep) or quadriplegia (buried alive) lobotomy or torture ... Yo...
January 06, 2022 at 15:35
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
Explain.
January 06, 2022 at 09:37
In: Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy?  — view comment
Speaking for myself, not Jack, the common denominator (besides them all being more or less patriarchal males) seems to be that they each promise in hi...
January 05, 2022 at 19:26
In: Ethical Violence  — view comment
"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery" (S. Freud) or a Platonic / Kantian ivory tower. :roll:
January 05, 2022 at 19:16
In: Subject and object  — view comment
:up:
January 05, 2022 at 16:31
In: Ethical Violence  — view comment
:up: Context matters. :point: Context-be-damned huh? :roll:
January 05, 2022 at 16:23
In: Subject and object  — view comment
:roll: Your hand, for instance, can grasp anything except itself; however, that in no way makes your hand's functioning "inexplicable".
January 05, 2022 at 14:16
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
:100: Latest manifestation (re: "neoliberal G7") of the perennial pyramid scheme of the prevailing (hegemonic) dominance hierarchies. Just like anthro...
January 05, 2022 at 13:55
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Same here. I'd already been in the thrall of 2001: A Space Odyssey (replay of the movie every New Year's Eve in the 1970s) for years when I'd first re...
January 05, 2022 at 13:28
In: Ethical Violence  — view comment
No, but they are complementary. Preemptive, proportional violence sufficient to neutralize violent aggression and deter (disincentivizes e.g. punishes...
January 05, 2022 at 13:02
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
:up:
January 05, 2022 at 12:13
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
2022: same shit, different year :brow: World record: 1 million Covid cases reported on Monday Jan. 3rd in U.S. and more half a million Covid cases ave...
January 05, 2022 at 05:58
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Tegmark's a proponent of MUH which indirectly implies MWI, etc, and not as an "explanation of the universe" but for explaining (E. Wigner's) unreasona...
January 05, 2022 at 02:11
In: Ethical Violence  — view comment
:up:
January 05, 2022 at 01:55
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
True. Perhaps that's why Tegmark isn't doing what you mistaken believe he's doing re: .
January 05, 2022 at 01:54
In: A Physical Explanation for Consciousness  — view comment
:roll: Re: as per (e.g.)
January 05, 2022 at 01:45
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
Phase 2 is proceeding without a hitch. So far so good. :nerd: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59873738
January 04, 2022 at 20:18
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