"Legitimate" for whom? (If only "personal", how does it differ from mere "faith" or more quixotic "solipsism"?) By what standard is this "legitimacy" ...
No, life has gotten in the way lately. Glad it's done well enough for the studio to greenlight "Part Two". Reviews by critics, and mostly friends, hav...
I've always found that character art, like detailed maps and miniatures, are distractions which tend not to help suspend my disbelief. I prefer Theatr...
But talking about the "neural binding problem" does not shift to an inapproprate empirical frame of reference (i.e. what your guru Chalmers calls "an ...
:up: "Panpsychism" isn't woo? "Substance dualism"? :roll: And again, you prove my point by incoherently (in this case) invoking philosophical criteria...
Check out Descartes' Error by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio for a better account for the role emotion plays in human intelligence than you will get h...
In other words, a narrative form of Prozac: just making up self-flattering shit to stupify ourselves into a lifelong stupor. Yeah, that's religious wo...
Yes. I think there has been progress in recent decades explaining the emergence of "phenomenal consciousness" by the likes of neuroscientist-philosoph...
The "framework" (or paradigm) is not what you asked about. Change the goalposts all you like, but the answer remains: it is incorrect to describe scie...
"The explanatory gap" is misinterpreted by many philosophers as an "unsolvable problem" (by philosophical means alone, of course) for which they there...
However benign, even enjoyable, religions' worship rituals can be, they also have well-documented malignant (i.e. self-abnegating) tendencies and effe...
:up: I was with you, Fool, up to this sentence. I think religion does not explain anything, only pacifies existential anxieties with self-serving, tri...
The Expanse saga is hard-ish space opera but not very hard. (I've only read the first five books though.) Still, I applaud the authors for delivering ...
Yeah, I love the first three books and the show, despite casting issues (mine i guess), is a very good adaptation (with the close consultation with th...
Both Star Wars and Star Trek – the latter for Grups and the former for Ewoks – are "stuck" in late-Victorian to early Cold War swashbuckling "space op...
:100: :up: What "consciousness"? If it is "immaterial" "nonphysical" or "super-natural", then, not only is it inexplicable, it's also non-evident in a...
More prejudiced? Why so defensive? I ask because it suddenly struck me earlier that your questions regarding religion & philosophy are either (A) naiv...
I've pointed out a few times already what I think philosophy has to do with religion. And I disagree that those "religious questions" which you mentio...
This is why I wrote "via defeasible reasoning" instead. We're capable of discerning what normative conduct doesn't work because Even though it is a de...
My view is that Spinoza's thought (plural-aspect holism / dialectical monism) is more consistent with acosmism than any other conception of divinity (...
Like Chalmer's "hard problem of consciousness" (re: the "p-zombie"), I've always found Nagel's intuition pump (Dennett) "what is it like to be a bat" ...
An appeal to popularity deflects from this issue of the historicity / genealogy of "religiousity" and the subsequent contrast of philosophical practic...
All I can say is I bounced off of it hard, so to speak, a couple of years ago. For remote play (which lacks the social dynamics in gaming which I requ...
If you say so. :roll: We're an eusocial species and our functional defects – physical & psychological vulnerabilities which makes us dysfunctional whe...
Stories based on mysteries do not explain anything – responding to unknowns with greater unknowns begs questions rather than answers them – they only ...
I was raised and educated Roman Catholic and became (came out of the closet, so to speak) apostate at 16 and weak atheist at 17/18. Forty years on, I'...
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