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As expected, you cannot answer direct succinct replies to your derivative babble and so, of course, you find "incomprehensible" what you disagree with...

Three-valued logic accounts for "undecidability" and Pyrrhonians (et al) have practiced epoch? for nearly two and a half millennia. Btw, "paradoxes" a...

North of the north pole. :meh:

:up: :cool: Your 'dualistic' caricature of my monism demonstrates a profound misunderstanding (or dogmatic misrepresentation) which says more about yo...

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The equations of e.g. linear algebra and functional analysis used for describing phenomena in superposition are founded on symbolic logic with axioms ...

Chasing Homer, László Krasznahorkai

That's the "low blow"! :sweat: :up:

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In other (more succinct) words, what said. :up: Low blow.

Yeah same: during the late 80s to early 90s I read almost all of Vidal's nonfiction and much of his best fiction. In hindsight, it even seems like I'd...

:up: Raised in Washington, D.C. the son of a high-ranking official during FDR's first two administrations, the favorite grandson of a U.S. Senator and...

On Capitalism, etc: https://youtu.be/6dvtCySE8X0 "Our moment permits interest in one question only – Will we of Deadwood be more than targets for assf...

You've missed my point (): sentient synthetics will survive us – to carry 'human intelligence' beyond the extinction of human life. This is what Kafka...

:cool: Ordered a copy.

Whatever is real does not require suspending disbelief (i.e. "faith"), only fantasies, fairytales, lies do.

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Only your own words define you here. This ain't for the prickly thin-skinned because 'dialectics' ain't beanbag.

No ad hominems on my part, just apt observations readily corroborated by your often incongruous and cynical posts.

This question makes no sense to me. What a stupid thing to say, baker. So fucking what? Millennia of 'devout Christians' didn't think marital rape was...

:up: As an Epicurean-Spinozist, I agree with you, sir, that they are different discourses, but in this way: "the study of what exists" (re: atoms; nat...

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Perhaps, instead, Aristotle would deplore automation (à la Heidi's 'ontological ludditism') as even more dehumanizing – contra the "telos" of the "zoo...

No one and no one.

Why am I not surprised? Likewise, @"Wayfarer" also reflexively cites articles on and quotes speculations from the most tested and precise physical the...

Human obsolescence? :chin: Perhaps the advent of automatopia will look something like this:

:sweat: Uh oh ...

You are running away from, rather running towards, my usage of "dysfunctional" to which you're referring and thereby misreading my previous post. I ca...

"Je souffre d'être." ~Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1657-1757

We're not "evil aspiring to be good" or "weak struggling to be strong" or "sick cultivating wellness" ... Rather, Fool, we (philosophers) are simply f...

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Yeah. Sunning in the Garden, then watching the rain from the Porch till our skies clear again.

:lol: "Just like the Old man in the book by Nabokov" :smirk:

On this century anniversary of Remembrance Day poppies :flower: ... a requiem for "the post-war dream". https://youtu.be/4C9TOqGTMyw The Final Cut (Vi...

Cliophobia even more so.

Well, no surprise that I prefer the doom of "Sisyphus" (defiance) to that of "Tantalus" (dissatisfaction) ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g60mD0x1Lz...

I've perused too much of his pre-1940s writings and thankfully have spent barely any time wallowing in his later stuff.

To the extent I've warmed to phenomenology, I've been fascinated by various works of (those who come to mind) E. Levinas, M. Merleau-Ponty, J-L. Mario...

Hey @"Baden" :party: "Put on your red shoes And dance the blues ... Let's sway!"

Yeah, best we agree to disagree on the philosophical significance of M.H. :up: Well, maybe I'm just as ignorant as Ciceronianus. – Das Man sneezes– "G...

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Maybe you'll find the following speculation a plausible path from our current Type 0.6 to a Type II civilization on the Kardashev scale: :nerd: https:...

Perhaps. In modern (western) context, "the Buddhist solution" is like weaning-off of a heroin addiction with physician-assisted methadone treatment (&...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TWNgzbgrDe0&feature=youtu.be "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had" (2:55) B-side single, 1964 writer McKinley Morgan...

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.” ~Franz Kafka

Right. Not "goals"; rather "eusociality, health, etc ..." are functional defects of our species which when neglected or adversely stressed render huma...

:100: Quine says "to be is the value of a bounded variable", no? Makes pragmatic sense. Besides, "what is" is a sentence fragment, a cipher (or koan),...

:roll: :up: Like eusociality, health, fitness, integrity, peace of mind ... which are ends-in-themselves, intrinsic to well being (i.e. flourishing), ...