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What would be the point of us "to stand back from beliefs critically?" How are we to live an examined life (Socrates) if we "stand back from beliefs c...
October 21, 2021 at 05:56
Specifically to which (whose) "idealism" are you referring?
October 21, 2021 at 01:15
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pPZRgb7uc8 "I've Got a Feeling" (3:37) Let It Be, 1970 writers Lennon-McCartney, 1968-1969 remixed by Giles Martin & Sa...
October 20, 2021 at 22:41
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October 20, 2021 at 17:46
:roll: :down:
October 20, 2021 at 16:15
:100: :smirk: Amen, comrade!
October 20, 2021 at 16:13
How is it even possible for mind to be "nonphysical" and yet causally interact with physical systems (i.e. brain-body-environment)? It's not, therefor...
October 20, 2021 at 06:46
:up:
October 20, 2021 at 05:20
:up: One has nothing to do with the other, so of course not for me either. And there's the fly in the ointment: the knowledge of color was not complet...
October 20, 2021 at 00:52
Last week's Let It Be selections :point: Today (19.10.21) I've been listening to new re-mixed version so I'll post some of the de-Spector-ized tracks....
October 20, 2021 at 00:39
The thought-experiment does not imply anything about physicalism per se but does imply that before she ventured "outside", Mary's "knowledge" was, in ...
October 19, 2021 at 23:04
:100: :up: :up: :flower:
October 19, 2021 at 22:13
(Re: belief that) If one has a propositional attitude with respect to "God" or "life after death", then one has corroborable (public) evidence which a...
October 19, 2021 at 22:07
I'm sure this is why I've never put much stock in his 'philosophical' jingles.
October 19, 2021 at 20:19
The USA began as a Roman patrician-like slave republic that almost a century later forcibly surrendered slavery in order to remain a republic. Afterwa...
October 18, 2021 at 07:34
This post should do. And this post too. Lastly, Fool, this post on mysticism to aufheben (i.e. sublimate) the other two.
October 18, 2021 at 05:53
Great scene, great cast, great movie. My little brother and I had nightmares all summer long after seeing Jaws at a Long Island, NY drive-in with my (...
October 18, 2021 at 05:06
:point:
October 18, 2021 at 01:59
Your quibble, G, not mine. The rest is non sequitur.
October 18, 2021 at 00:40
I didn't say that. I disagree with this. (3) "Non-self" would be whatever AI "observed" that it could not control or it would have to use its executiv...
October 18, 2021 at 00:11
:ok: ... very Hegel and Bergson, Whitehead and Heidegger, and perhaps David Bohm too, which seems, IMO, an idealist analogue for the epicurean-spinozi...
October 17, 2021 at 21:09
https://youtu.be/3keSnZt9GNc
October 17, 2021 at 02:55
Somehow I've not heard (or do not remembering hearing) Dinah Washington's version of this song. Aretha Franklin's version (below) I've loved for decad...
October 16, 2021 at 19:24
:up: To the degree we thrive (i.e. flourish – optimize agency), not only in spite of but because of suffering (i.e. by pro-actively reducing suffering...
October 16, 2021 at 18:52
There are epistemic distinctions which, more often than not, are confused, conflated, or elided: • dispositions (subjective, private) • avowals (subje...
October 16, 2021 at 18:37
(pace G. Santayana)
October 16, 2021 at 09:48
No shit. What color isn't? :mask:
October 16, 2021 at 09:38
???
October 16, 2021 at 09:06
:fire: :flower:
October 16, 2021 at 09:02
It's all good (as the kids say). :up: I read God's Debris about twenty years ago and enjoyed the speculations. Not an influence really. My outlook is ...
October 16, 2021 at 02:01
:clap: :cool: Anticipating my receipt next week of the Giles Martin-remixed Let It Be Super Deluxe CD set released today, here's a mini-suite from the...
October 15, 2021 at 21:45
???
October 15, 2021 at 09:31
I said nothing about "God". The word isn't even mentioned.
October 15, 2021 at 09:31
I don't understand what you're asking, Fool. You've quoted my take on pandeism and a wiki too. I can't spoon-feed this metaphysical paradox any better...
October 15, 2021 at 08:58
???
October 15, 2021 at 07:00
Call me silly, stupid or just paranoid but I expect Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to leave the Dems soon and either register Independent or join the GOP ...
October 15, 2021 at 03:50
Not the tradition itself "specifically" but it seems a number of philosophies fall under the umbrella of a "nonduality" concept of dialectical monism....
October 15, 2021 at 01:32
The link in my previous post sketches where my conception of pandeism (xaos redux) deviates from Chardin / Tipler's omega point (cosmic telos).
October 15, 2021 at 00:28
:100: :strong: Glad you made it, man! Automatically (e.g. dao, tát tvam ási ... or Tipler's "Omega Point") or through life-long cultivation (e.g. mok?...
October 15, 2021 at 00:21
Pandeism is "my omega point".
October 14, 2021 at 23:51
:death: :flower:
October 14, 2021 at 23:44
If those computers are not intelligent enough to autonomously teach / govern the human survivors, then global civilization is done, and probably human...
October 14, 2021 at 23:42
Sad but true. :sweat: * (Recorded 1998) https://youtu.be/qX6NztnPU-4 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Fingarette
October 14, 2021 at 22:56
The writings of existential psychotherapist Irwin Yalom, I think, would suit many philosophy-inclined patients in recovery. :smirk: :up:
October 14, 2021 at 21:33
Exactly.
October 14, 2021 at 04:59
:up:
October 13, 2021 at 23:49
No. But "mental" is clearly not non-physical; it's just a way of (i.e. "folk psychology") talking about an aspect of the physical. "Consciousness" (mi...
October 13, 2021 at 21:11
Oooooookay, man. Good luck with all that. :eyes:
October 13, 2021 at 20:58
Missing the forest for the trees again. It really helps to read what's written in context before you reply; but okay, if you say so, b. :roll:
October 13, 2021 at 20:04
Clever pseudo-scientific speculation. The fact is brains are 'too hot' for quantum effects to produce classical metacognitions. (Btw, the human brain ...
October 13, 2021 at 20:03