addendum: ... then you're taking issue only with a falied metaphor. "Free" of what? To "will" what? Is volition separate from behavior? (Witty, Spinoz...
Especially Lennon's rendition. :vomit: I don't know about you but I can 'hear' a version performed with a similiar Sam Cooke arrangement by John (lead...
True; the lack of clarity of the g/G-concept makes these discussions a Monty Pythonesque exercise in nailing jello to a ceiling fan. :smirk: Excerpt f...
I can always delete them ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugj5fCBBfQU John Lennon (1974) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5oZI6z-VkvQ Paul McCartney (19...
I think they both in their respective contexts (and decades) tried too hard to do something 'different' with Sam Cooke's version (rather than slavishl...
Incidentally, if you don't know already, both John and Paul, separately on solo albums, cover "Bring It On Home To Me" but neither manages (given thei...
:up: I try not to cop-out and lean explicitly on my old (long unused) graduate degree in cognitive psychology when discussing philosophical topics. Co...
If "synchronicity" is "theoretical" (i.e. explanatory) as you claim, Jack, what unique predictions can be deduced from such a "theory" and thereby tes...
Define what you mean by "intelligence". Great apes, elephants, cetaceans and even cephalopods exhibit both, at least, complex purposeful behaviors (e....
"Synchronicity" denotes correlating otherwise contextually disparate, coincidental, events by an "apparent" symbolic or empirical resemblance. The sub...
I say "so what"? Scientists speculate and fantasize like everyone else because, belonging to the same species, all of us – Einstein & Pauli too – are ...
No doubt, but biases =/= "underlying theories ... metaphysics" which you conflate. Peer review, though not without implicit biases itself, and rigorou...
Whenever they say "god", we hear "magic". In other words, let's be honest with ourselves, "otherworldly" assumptions or purposes amount to philosophic...
Careful, however, not to fall forward into a 'transcendental illusion' (no matter how "rational" it is). Well-tested 'scientific explanations' work, J...
"... on matters related to race, the Racial Contract prescribes for its signatories an inverted epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance, a particul...
@"Maw" I'd meant to meet him on one of my next visits to NYC through a friend who happened to have been Mill's student decades ago – the pandemic has ...
Well, that's what threw me, Ennui: I didn't claim or even imply – "pejoratively" or otherwise – that "faith" is "the point of religion". On page 1 of ...
I suppose it's "loopy antagonizing bullshit" to swat your uninformed and incoherent spitballs back at you with scientifically literate replies (which ...
Best circumstantial guesstimate? A planck-scale vacuum fluctuation generated a runaway entropic system we call "universe" that's still big banging tow...
I think you're mistaken. That seems to me the equivalent of saying the whole number 3 itself "gives rise" to e.g. "3 apples". :roll: Consider: What is...
Well, chaotic =/= contradictory ... "Manifest reality" is "disorderly" (e.g. second law of thermodynamics, etc). That clarifies things a bit. In all y...
Turing machine. (computer) Von Neumann architecture. (computer with, IIRC, removable (editable) programs) I think the optimal (and therefore less like...
"All possible" makes as little sense as "all numbers" (i.e. actual infinity?) ... As far as the human brain goes, I'm not suggesting anything about it...
In the context of this thread discussion, when I refer to "Abrahamic apologists" I mean defenders of the institutions of JCI religions and their sangu...
I wrote "adaptive error-correcting / problem-solving optimizer" not just "error-correcting". It's only a stipulative description. Anyway, I fail to se...
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