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...
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...
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...
: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...
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....
The thought-experiment does not imply anything about physicalism per se but does imply that before she ventured "outside", Mary's "knowledge" was, in ...
(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...
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...
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 (...
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...
:ok: ... very Hegel and Bergson, Whitehead and Heidegger, and perhaps David Bohm too, which seems, IMO, an idealist analogue for the epicurean-spinozi...
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...
: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...
There are epistemic distinctions which, more often than not, are confused, conflated, or elided: • dispositions (subjective, private) • avowals (subje...
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 ...
: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...
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...
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 ...
Not the tradition itself "specifically" but it seems a number of philosophies fall under the umbrella of a "nonduality" concept of dialectical monism....
: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?...
If those computers are not intelligent enough to autonomously teach / govern the human survivors, then global civilization is done, and probably human...
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...
Clever pseudo-scientific speculation. The fact is brains are 'too hot' for quantum effects to produce classical metacognitions. (Btw, the human brain ...
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