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In: Deserving. What does it mean?  — view comment
:chin: :lol:
December 16, 2021 at 02:17
In: Should we try to establish a colony on Mars?  — view comment
Addendum: my lil geek-heart is about to burst with the news https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2021/12/denis-villeneuve-to-adapt-arthur-c.html?m=1 :nerd...
December 15, 2021 at 21:43
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
December 15, 2021 at 20:00
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Classical Indian Philosophy vol. 5, P. Adamson & J. Ganeri
December 15, 2021 at 08:03
In: Free Will and Other Popular Delusions, or not?  — view comment
Volition is, like every other nonlinear dynamic system, deterministic. (Btw, introspection is illusory, and I am a compatibilist.) So what question/s ...
December 15, 2021 at 07:53
In: What are thoughts?  — view comment
:up:
December 15, 2021 at 01:23
In: What are thoughts?  — view comment
December 14, 2021 at 21:47
In: Holiday Short Story Competition Discussion and Poll  — view comment
:cool: :up:
December 14, 2021 at 11:44
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
:smirk:
December 14, 2021 at 11:43
In: Reasons not to see Reality  — view comment
I nominate changeability as that "something unchangeable" of reality. Physical laws (i.e. "a set of rules") are invariant structures of our best teste...
December 14, 2021 at 03:00
In: Deserving. What does it mean?  — view comment
:up: Yeah, but the fact of the matter is that "the red pill" simply shows that choosing is illusory. "There is no spoon." :wink: This doesn't follow. ...
December 14, 2021 at 02:36
In: Will solving death change philosophy?  — view comment
:death: :flower: A philosophy (ethics) of boredom follows. And probably the technoscientific pursuit of transcension... Furthermore :nerd: :point: & &
December 14, 2021 at 02:32
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/upaqXW3qS-g "Concrete Jungle" 4:13 Catch a Fire, 1973 writer Bob Marley performers Bob Marley & The Wailers Robbie Shakespeare d. 202...
December 14, 2021 at 02:00
In: How Useful is the Concept of 'Qualia'?  — view comment
Can't help you with that, Harry. Unlike you (seem to be), I'm neither a subjectivist nor a introspection illusionist.
December 14, 2021 at 01:03
In: What is metaphysics? Yet again.  — view comment
Reason's Greetings. Happy Winter Solstice! :sparkle:
December 14, 2021 at 00:55
In: What Are You Watching Right Now?  — view comment
:rofl:
December 13, 2021 at 21:38
In: Assange  — view comment
Careful, my Aussie comrade, your Pax Americana-envy is showing again. :smirk:
December 13, 2021 at 19:53
In: How Useful is the Concept of 'Qualia'?  — view comment
Ah, yes, another tabula raza know-nothing. Lazy is as lazy does, Harry. You prove my point. :yawn:
December 13, 2021 at 19:45
In: Enforcement of Morality  — view comment
Tell that to @"L'éléphant" ...
December 13, 2021 at 19:39
In: What is metaphysics? Yet again.  — view comment
Ah, I get it now: making no sense whatsoever is your superpower.
December 13, 2021 at 19:37
In: Enforcement of Morality  — view comment
Morality (reinforceable eusocial habits) and Law (enforceable contracts / regulations) are independent of one another because they are divergent as of...
December 13, 2021 at 09:56
In: Deserving. What does it mean?  — view comment
The "they" you referred to in the post to which I'd replied. :fire: :cool:
December 13, 2021 at 07:50
In: Deserving. What does it mean?  — view comment
Only if they can't avoid it.
December 13, 2021 at 03:05
In: Aether and Modern Physics  — view comment
:monkey: Nope.
December 13, 2021 at 03:04
In: Deserving. What does it mean?  — view comment
Nobody. We get what we take or cannot avoid.
December 13, 2021 at 03:02
In: What is metaphysics? Yet again.  — view comment
:up:
December 13, 2021 at 02:08
In: What is metaphysics? Yet again.  — view comment
"Sherlock's eliminative method"? I guess you're grasping onto only what you can, or you're willing to, understand. Well, I'm keeping my word, I've mad...
December 13, 2021 at 01:33
In: How Useful is the Concept of 'Qualia'?  — view comment
I said "reading", not "watching videos". I come here to discuss with fellow well-read members, Harry, not to teach anyone what they can learn themselv...
December 13, 2021 at 01:27
In: Aether and Modern Physics  — view comment
Why not leave the gaps as gaps (i.e. we don't know yet)? That's what honesty and intellectual integrity require.
December 13, 2021 at 01:22
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
:clap: :cool: Good Ol' Lefty Wilbury! Have you listened to the 2018 remix of "Blackbird"? Impossibly improved to my limited ears. https://m.youtube.co...
December 12, 2021 at 13:37
In: Assange  — view comment
Educate yourself.
December 12, 2021 at 13:33
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
A question of empirical data (i.e. science) and not of e.g. formal construction or conceptual description or speculative interpretation (i.e. philosop...
December 12, 2021 at 13:32
In: Assange  — view comment
What "argument"? I've only stated the obvious. Google "wikileaks" and the "2016 US elections". The facts are not in dispute.
December 12, 2021 at 13:23
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
A question for cognitive psychology, not philosophy.
December 12, 2021 at 13:18
In: What is metaphysics? Yet again.  — view comment
Coming from you that convinces me otherwise.
December 12, 2021 at 13:17
In: What Are You Watching Right Now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/09zYzvKkCOA A review.
December 12, 2021 at 13:12
In: What is metaphysics? Yet again.  — view comment
I have no idea what you are talking about, MU, even though you've taken a leap of whatever off of the raggedy edge of my post.
December 12, 2021 at 12:39
In: The Right to Die  — view comment
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59577162 (re: Swiss suicide pod) Except in cases of unbearable debilitating pain and loss of basic dignity – What'...
December 12, 2021 at 12:36
In: Aether and Modern Physics  — view comment
"Aether"? Old sko0l woo-of-the-gaps ...
December 12, 2021 at 12:24
In: Deserving. What does it mean?  — view comment
Nobody deserves anything. :mask: "Imagine Sisyphus happy – amor fati!"
December 12, 2021 at 12:15
In: Assange  — view comment
Helping gulag autocrats further subvert corrupt, even failing, faux-democracies is "noble"? :brow:
December 12, 2021 at 12:11
In: How Useful is the Concept of 'Qualia'?  — view comment
Matter isn't "dead", it's undead (i.e. in motion via decomposition) :up:
December 12, 2021 at 11:58
In: What is metaphysics? Yet again.  — view comment
No. Shit. I've only pointed out that difference between my use of apophatics and the theological usage (which is also different from the ancient rheto...
December 12, 2021 at 11:44
In: James Webb Telescope  — view comment
Not a "conspiracy", IMO, just our own existential complexity (i.e. perspective) occluding fundamental simplicity (à la quantum uncertainty). Also, we ...
December 12, 2021 at 11:34
In: Assange  — view comment
Peasant. :sweat:
December 12, 2021 at 04:20
In: Should we try to establish a colony on Mars?  — view comment
Eventually, IMO, many billionaires (trillionaires) with their help/thralls will fuck off to asteroid terreria. :100: :up:
December 12, 2021 at 04:18
In: Assange  — view comment
... you ahistorically babble again from the cheap cheap seats. :up:
December 12, 2021 at 04:09
In: What is metaphysics? Yet again.  — view comment
"Certum est, quia impossibile" ~Tertullian I'm not smart enough to dumb down my 'philosophical via negativa' any further especially for someone who wo...
December 12, 2021 at 04:02
In: What is wise?  — view comment
:up:
December 12, 2021 at 02:24
In: How Useful is the Concept of 'Qualia'?  — view comment
Not according to frank, frank. :lol:
December 11, 2021 at 23:10
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