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In my previous post I did not claim you did. I said it seems you've been taken-in by pop-science hype about "materialism". What "prejudice"? I've prop...

Understood. (I also prefer Brahms. Btw, N did outgrow and then repudiate both Wagner and his music ... as not Dionysian enough!)

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Maybe requires a more felicitious translation than Helen Zimmern's (read below) to ease his apprehension of "Frantic Freddy's" style of thinking in or...

It seems it tends to ... :point: I'd say, in this context, "power" and "knowledge" are synonymous: the capability of effortlessly "changing anything" ...

Interesting. More clarity. :up: I think you're mistaken and have bought into the pop-science hype often promulgated by philosophically illiterate / ne...

:up: This habit is wisdom. Enlightenment, Fool, is (the shock? of) recognizing the significance of – need, beginning with oneself, for cultivating – w...

:up: :up: :up: (I've recommended TMF do so but he seems incorrigibly stubborn when it comes to Witty.) Martin Rees is wrong (or just joking). "We make...

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Yes, so please stop spouting uninformed nonsense about science and scientists. Thanks.

Ahem, Brian Cox is not "scientific culture". Paul Davies, for instance, wouldn't attribute "creator" to nature. Pro tip: All swans ain't white, sir. :...

Thanks for the notion of the fractal relation of a day a year a lifetime. :cool: Sisyphus' amor fati.

Yes yes, the Nature of nature (Spinoza). What are you talking about? I'm not proposing or discussing 'scientific theories'; interpretations, however, ...

Read Kant, Peirce-Dewey, Popper, Zapffe-Camus, et al ... I've nothing to say about the content of any woo-of-the-gaps (i.e. 'making up shit without gr...

This 'Platonist conception of metaphysics' proposes nothing but idle speculation aka "pure reason" (i.e. pseudo-science, woo-of-the-gaps). Caveat: Whe...

In other words, the Absurd (re: Zapffe, Camus, Rosset). "Metaphysics isn't theoretical." ~180 Proof :up:

The latter is an analogic translation of the former, it seems to me, with the same speculative (chthonic) throughline going all the way back to, at le...

"Eternal life" is now-here – "giving all to the present" as Camus says ("blessedness" ~Spinoza, "beatitude" ~C. Rosset, "unselfing" ~I. Murdoch) A 'mo...

:up: Slaveholders —> pro shareholders —> contra stakeholders <- -> contra (the slave/automata system) plutocratic kleptocracy? or pro (divided & conqu...

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Ditto! :up: While more than one map depicts the territory, fact-free, or merely conceptual / imaginary maps, such as "metaphysics" do not. The map of ...

Quite surprisingly, Holt phones-in a nearly low-brow review of Damasio's latest reflections on his own scientific work. Amazon reviews are more inform...

Whatever else the phrase augurs, to adopt the stance of amor fati is to rebel – Das Ja-sagen "Nein!"@ :strong: :sweat: And because Christianity is, ac...

Yes, it's aret? I'm alluding to with the parenthetical reflective exercises, but more broadly as (adaptive) habits / skills / capabilities than more n...

To do so we must find an inescapable, or deniable only on pain of self-contradiction, position from which to proceed; if so, then I propose the Princi...

:cool: :up: :100: anti-woo! "Enlightened" because they were martyrs? I don't think so. In philosophy 'immanence and ecstatic habits' (i.e. reflective ...

December readings • Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious, Antonio Damasio • A History of the Goddess: From the Ice Age to the Bible, Edward Dodge...

Thanks. Likewise, I recommend The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger (or I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter). :point: :point:

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Insofar as one can, I think it's more reasonable to prefer being a sad Socrates to being a satisfied swine than the other way around.

Why ditto me? What point are you making that I've not made already?

In part that is why I use "self-reference" (cognition) instead of "reflection" (meta-cognition) to describe how the brain generates – confabulates – "...

Nevermind. I now see I've misread your post.

Intolerance of espoused^^ intolerance? Fuck yeah. 'Pissing on the floor or furniture' (though not on any other guest in particular – well, in any 'civ...

So the qualitative differences between singers like e.g. Madonna & Ella Fitzgerald or bassists like e.g. Bill Wyman & Jaco Pastorius or songwriters li...

Yeah, 'making a rule' isn't the same as 'trying to justify making (that) rule'.

Hasty generalizations (at least). :point:

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If you'd read "the single most important line" in my post you wouldn't need to ask. :roll:

A brain does not perceive itself to be a brain. This is due to it lacking internal sensory inputs (re: medial neglect ... e.g. viewed only from one en...

Man, I've come across quite a few oblique, or casually, racist comments across several threads but I stay critically engaged anyway to expose and ridi...

:flower: :fire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8UkXTLjD2OQ "Rising Sun" (5:27) Brainwashed, 2002 George Harrison, d. 2001 (30Nov21)

"Consciousness" is phenomenal awareness of mind. Mind(ing) tracks and resolves 'discontinuities' between memories & expections or expections & predict...

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