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In other words "The beings are the frames and Being is the reel" :smirk: (and "frames moving" corresponds to (Einstein's) "persistent illusion" of (Ne...
November 10, 2021 at 16:34
In: Death  — view comment
"Pain" itself does not indicate reality (e.g. nocebos, phantom limb, angst, phobias, etc). That there is resistance to our efforts, resistances to act...
November 10, 2021 at 16:11
In: Death  — view comment
And a masochist's preference-list to boot. Here are some thorns. :flower:
November 10, 2021 at 06:52
Nothing but an empty name. A transcendental, or categorical, placeholder. The shadowing of shadows ... "Being of beings"? Void of (swirling, swerving)...
November 10, 2021 at 06:47
In: Death  — view comment
Check out the link with their names to an old post where I reply to you about "pain".
November 10, 2021 at 06:01
In: Death  — view comment
Remember (the minor gods) Thanatos & Hypnos are twins. :fire:
November 10, 2021 at 05:29
Dunning-Kruger is in full effect. :zip:
November 09, 2021 at 23:48
I can't answer your questions; they are mostly besides the point and make no sense to me. I also can't see what "transhumanism" in particular has to d...
November 09, 2021 at 23:40
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November 09, 2021 at 22:15
No. Therapists or physicians are not "sourgraping" when they treat, and teach others how to treat, illnesses. (Besides music, what could be more life-...
November 09, 2021 at 21:56
My guess is that we "talking animals" will, if we ever do, encounter only extraterrestrial intelligent machines, and our species probably won't be the...
November 09, 2021 at 21:40
In: Death  — view comment
We Epicureans very much agree. :up:
November 09, 2021 at 19:34
The point I try to make with link (quoting from an older post wherein I elaborate further) in my previous post is that any alien intelligence develope...
November 09, 2021 at 19:22
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=naAd9DGNyLc "Roadhouse Blues" (4:04) Morrison Hotel, 1970 The Doors
November 09, 2021 at 19:09
In: Death  — view comment
:up: The Great Disappearing. Forgetting, being a stream of disappeared memories, the disappearing of self-continuity ... Horizon of the autobiographic...
November 09, 2021 at 18:52
Thus my allusion to the absurd. The question immediately goes wrong so any answer at best just begs it. And then hitching it to the pragmatically inap...
November 09, 2021 at 18:20
A "technological ascendant" xeno-civilization is, much more likely than not, undetectable by our comparatively primitive technologies. We're observing...
November 09, 2021 at 18:07
:death: :flower: "The purpose" for whom? (Otherwise, Sisyphus' amor fati.)
November 09, 2021 at 17:45
Yes. I don't think they are mutually exclusive possibilities; however, the latter seems, by far, more probable than the former.
November 09, 2021 at 17:20
:point:
November 09, 2021 at 08:44
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"Life after life?" :eyes: :pray: :chin:
November 09, 2021 at 08:35
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November 09, 2021 at 07:46
We cannot walk through brick walls, yet we exercise "free will". Explain why we could not exercise "free will" if we also could not commit evil acts.
November 09, 2021 at 06:37
I'm more Nietzschean (i.e. 'Dionysian' in approbation of the daily Sisyphusean grind) whereas Schopenhauer relies on music in a decidedly 'Apollonian'...
November 09, 2021 at 06:21
If "deus vult", then he intends the "unfortunate consequences" too.
November 09, 2021 at 06:15
???
November 09, 2021 at 06:03
Schopenhauer's therapy, IIRC, includes practicing compassion and cultivating musical jubilation. Philosophical pessimism expresses – probably in some ...
November 09, 2021 at 06:03
:100: :fire: ... Man might be to blame for his evil acts, but "God" is responsible for making it possible to commit evil acts; ergo, "God" is not omni...
November 09, 2021 at 05:45
No. That's like saying modern medicine can dispense with the notion of "morbidity" because it's getting better at treating it.
November 09, 2021 at 04:39
I can tell it's a corpse left to rot in the open. Probably a suicide. :mask:
November 09, 2021 at 04:32
Thanks, but no thanks.
November 09, 2021 at 04:28
I didn't "describe" "human nature ... as painful of full of boredom".
November 09, 2021 at 03:26
In so far as "philosophical pessimism" denotes 'pain is the rule of existence, and boredom the exception' (or vice versa), "human nature" consists in ...
November 09, 2021 at 02:01
Your scientific illiteracy seems too thorough. I explain and you can't recognize any explanation as such – like I've repeatedly said – as your incoher...
November 08, 2021 at 13:47
You must be an idealist, Philosophim, because you seem to believe that physics accounts for the ideal (i.e. non-physicality or logical priority) rathe...
November 08, 2021 at 13:36
Like the PoE, the PoH is only a "problem" for the notion of an omnibenevolent deity. "Hell", btw, is just imaginary revenge-porn sadism, nothing more....
November 08, 2021 at 13:22
Conceptually, causality presupposes spacetime, therefore spacetime cannot be an effect of causality; spacetime "allows for" causality. Einstein more o...
November 08, 2021 at 13:11
Ask anything you like. It helps though when the questions aren't begged (or category mistakes) and their premises make sense.
November 08, 2021 at 13:02
:up: :100: It's either #2 (e.g. Rovelli / Deutsch) or #4 (e.g. Smolin) make sense to me. However, I/we/they don't know enough yet to determine which m...
November 08, 2021 at 12:57
Why read what so many others (including me) writes about Witty and not you just read Witty's work instead ?
November 08, 2021 at 09:31
What's unclear about this statement:
November 08, 2021 at 07:47
You haven't read the TLP in full. You've no idea (sense) of what Witty means by 'nonsense'. Hint: Witty does not refute himself, rather he reorients p...
November 08, 2021 at 07:44
"(He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder AFTER he has climbed up it.)" ~L.W. Anything taken out of context, especially by one ignorant of the con...
November 08, 2021 at 06:54
It's an implication of QG and not a metaphysical speculation. The classical (macro) concept of "causality" has no physical meaning at or below the pla...
November 08, 2021 at 06:48
Husserl was indeed the catalyst for the "movement" but the precursors from which he derived much of his work on phenomenology are thinkers such as F. ...
November 08, 2021 at 06:31
:smirk:
November 08, 2021 at 06:10
https://youtu.be/wJeaoHe3Bus Just another "up and coming" band ... :victory: :cool:
November 08, 2021 at 06:09
Disingenuious selective reading. Let's not waste anymore of each other's time. Our respective posts might be read and evaluated by interested third-pa...
November 08, 2021 at 00:34
IMO these were simply US government plots. Under the aegis of "official secrecy" they do not constitute conspiracies, or a grand conspiracy as such, b...
November 07, 2021 at 23:14