I simply quoted you back to yourself, apo. Actually, I mean metaphysics as such – "ancient" "classical" "modern" or what have you – cannot explain phy...
The Abrahamic apologists on this thread have shown themselves to lack intellectual honesty and integrity on par with Holocaust, (US) systemic racism, ...
Since "classical metaphysics" isn't theoretical – doesn't produce testable explanatory models – I don't see how "methodological naturalism just risks ...
Yes. Humans are natural creatures, sentient aspects of nature, which implies that "human experiences" are natural – figments of our meta-cognitive fun...
I'm using "chaos" in the context of an exchange with Yohan. Read in context the meaning is clear: not conforming to the laws of nature. Do laws of nat...
Yeah, but without the ancient verities (or certainties) of life, what is there to "wonder" at today? (Philosophically speaking,) we can't step into th...
And "the laws of nature" – they came to be without "conforming to laws of nature", they continue to be "without conforming to laws of nature" and when...
I get there, my friend, but by a less therapeutic, more strenuous, path. My exemplars are philosophical surgeons, not homeopaths – blues folks, not sa...
One individual is insecure, vulnerable, weak. A population of individuals pursuing one goal is more secure, less vulnerable, strong. Like almost all o...
The notion of "all possible" anything makes no sense. There is no "all" insofar as "possible" entails unpredictable, even random, novelties. Like this...
It seems to me that 'intelligence' is an adaptive error-correcting / problem solving optimizer and, as such, following its natural or synthetic 'progr...
Property dualism accounts for mental and physical properties of any phenomenal X in order to describe / explain it exhaustively. Spinozism, however, w...
Who are you to impose – on what grounds should another accept – a standard against (your subjective appraisal of) "things that are empty and aren't ac...
My bias against Plato (in particular) begins with interpreting Classical (Orphic?) Platonism in the naturalistic-experiential this-worldly context of ...
Order doesn't "come from chaos". Order is a contingent, repeating pattern within chaos (e.g. whirlpool in a tempest ... 'law of large numbers' effect,...
:up: :flower: :100: "We were talking about the space between us all" "We were talking about the love we all could share" "And to see you're really onl...
:up: Hence GIGO. Machines programmed or operated by cretins – automated (not "artificial") or manual stupidity by degrees. Isn't intelligence just a s...
A clever bit of woo that makes no sense. Materialist, of course, or otherwise. And yet "materialism" (I prefer naturalism) works much better than any ...
Context matters. 'How you say' much more so than 'what you say' matters. Confidence is attractive; resentment jock-strapped by arrogant presumption is...
:smirk: "Experience" is the interpretive content of (spotlighted by) "consciousness" which is the output of "subconscious processes" interacting with ...
Also, Hofstadter's I Am a Strange Loop is quite good on these issues too. Recommend Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem, ed. Jonathan Shear (26...
And if he has to "tell me my place", then he's not the boss. A boss is a boss precisely because he doesn't have to say, directly or otherwise, "I'm th...
I don't think so. For Kant, IIRC, noumenon corresponds to the limit of phenomenon rather than something "beyond"; it is immanent, not transcendent (no...
"Plato's Cave" is only a metaphor, y'know, playing like a shadow on your inner skull wall. "The prisoner" will shed his flesh soon enough; what's the ...
For philosophy of mind, my better reads since 2019: • The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene • Understanding Consciousness, Max Velmans For philosophy of...
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