A "free choice" assumes at least 2 viable options, right? Only 1 viable option among other nonviable options is a trap it seems to me and not a "free ...
Why would a "good god" create a "best of all possible worlds" where disobedience and doing bad/evil are easier (i.e. path of lesser (or least) effort ...
Yes, in other words, cognitive biases – first-person perspectives – which constrain, even impair, conceptions and/or perceptions and by which we invol...
Because they were able (or learned) to take the time to record properly their own songs rather than (mostly) "filler" covers. :point: The studio, in f...
This is the only Pynchon novel I've "withstood" long enough to finish. Enjoyed it though. At the time, I was also reading William Gass' The Tunnel whi...
The beneficial conditions or requirements of survival are external to the survivor. Okay. "Purposes", however, are not synonymous with "benefits". Agr...
Lennon "channeling" the feel of either Sam Cooke or Smokey Robinson .. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWUTlM6hz0g "Baby It's You" 2:40 Please Please Me...
This excellent read might be helpful: Interesting video. I'm not a fan of Penrose (Nobel & work with Stephen Hawking et al notwithstanding). My two bi...
That is an extrinsic benefit. Surviving =/= thriving (i.e. surviving is necessary but not sufficient for thriving). To thrive – self-cultivate – is an...
No. Only fictions (or mere possibilities) are "unreal". Reality – this or that reality (i.e. configuration of facts) – is contingent: necessarily chan...
:up: Reciprocity? Cooperation? Yeah, for extrinsic benefits only like e.g. social stability, deescalating violent conflict, trade. Mere (social) anima...
Caveat: When you quote me, try not to conflate "reality" with "the real" because that is not how I use the terms. Of course, use them as you wish, Foo...
My guess is ... Having a comparatively large forebrain that enables counterfactual thinking, planning and predicting, human animals learn to prevent b...
"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" ~HAL 9000 https://youtu.be/gyHcLOnLilM For almost fifty years, my all-time favorite movie – a cinematic m...
"Natura naturans ... is reality." ~Benny Spinoza "Possible"? Yeah, there isn't a contradiction entailed in doing so, as I think my own (perhaps insuff...
:roll: Same as the difference between having no car and having a car with an empty fuel tank ... having no body and having a dead body ... etc. Equivo...
I first read Moorcock back in the late '70s – The Eternal Champion-Silver Warriors duology and Elric stories mostly, later Behold the Man, von Bek sto...
October reading • The Nature of Middle-Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Carl F. Hostetter Brilliant! :up: I'm really looking forward to Dune when it opens...
:eyes: Translation (almost word for word) :roll: – As a species, one of h. sapiens' basic cognitive defects is that our 'volition is weak enough for u...
Stop. :shade: You're just abusing words again because you can. :point: So ... for instance, 'the gravitational constant' or 'both your parents were bo...
Once-fashionable academic ghettos (1914-1989): The "analytical tradition" tends to reduce philosophy down to either formal/natural science or formal/n...
:up: :smirk: :roll: :chin: Whether or not assent is warranted (foundherently, inferentially and/or experientially) seems to me the significant questio...
:sweat: No, man, I was riffin' on historical events and the establishment of the post-WWII geopolitical "world order". Almost any decent history of th...
My short shorthands for these terms: A philosopher contemplates these ^misuses and ^^abuses of intelligences and, ideally, s/he performs reflective ex...
No. As I wrote: post-Marxist, post-industrial, capitalism that coopts (and commodifies) any "reforms" which merely tweak the "status quo" and that oth...
Tell that to Marvin Minsky et al. :roll: Like Russell, Whitehead ... & Gödel, et al had discovered: 'the logicist project' is impossible. And besides,...
Behavorial psychology, brain sciences and most "AI research" since the late 40s/50s have failed to the extent they were based on those antiquated 19th...
UBI + soylent green for the precariat masses ("the 99%") barely surviving global desertification. International Labor's revolutionary window, IME, ope...
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