Paraphrasing old Ben Franklin(?), "American Democracy" amounts to two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. The sheep (whether armed o...
:up: 'Eliminating' the fear of death (however that's done) is a fundamental aspect of Epicurean hedonism (aponia –> ataraxia); basically, transhumanis...
I think the "principle" is, though agreeable, only a truism which cannot survive contact with any enemy who's declared war (on reason? on science? on ...
"The goal" of religion (i.e. to bind (them) together) is to (A) mytho-psychologically groom the naive to sadomasochistically obey and (B) to theo-poli...
Sure, when you have the luxury which is often up to monster. Some dangers are zerosum, bordering on lose-lose (pyrrhic), where it takes a monster to d...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvixuf05_hM "If I mistreat you gal, I sure don't mean you no harm If I mistreat you gal, I sure don't mean you no harm I...
That may be (the) "objective" of politics. The "objective" of objective morality is, on the other hand, 'to intrinsically reduce the miseries of self ...
Other. As proposed in the main, Transhumanism is (still) a philosophically naive project which is too scientistic and more technocratic than libertari...
Certainly there is no universally agree-upon morality, just like it's not universally agreed-upon that the Earth is not flat and yet the Earth is obje...
@"Cheshire" @"baker" @"Srap Tasmaner" ... If we disagree and you are wrong –> demonstrably wrong –> demonstrably dangerously wrong, then is it "fascis...
It'll probably take many many billions (trillions?) of dollar$ (or euro€) of discretionary spending to hoover up all the best, world-class, researcher...
The religious and non-religious, or faith-based believers and evidence-based naturalists, are playing different yet barely overlapping language-games ...
Well, as Freddy says ... To my mind, as I've said before elsewhere, philosophy is not theoretical, does not produce knowledge but instead reasons towa...
:up: :smirk: Stoicism is a practice for optimizing agency / reducing misery which (very basically) rationally cultivates virtues of "wisdom, justice, ...
This one is for the Allende family and the people of Chile on the 48th anniversary of "9-11" :fire: :death: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwNhwwcQ4Ow ...
Not "more". We just refrain from ... taking / seeking these paths of least cognitive effort (i.e. sophistry). Misery (e.g. frustration, harm, illness,...
I'm very much an admiring student of Witty but I don't philosophize as treatment in order to be rid of "the need" to philosophize. That's what I belie...
"Therapy"? Unlearn self-immiserating habits. Study and practice philosophizing like yoga or a martial art – what Pierre Hadot calls a "spiritual exerc...
QM constitutes a theory. 'Many-worlds' or 'hidden variables' or 'collapse of the wavefunction by observation' are interpretations of QM. In other word...
Obviously you're more interested in tit-for-tat point scoring than comprehension or an exchange of ideas, so I suggest you go play with yourself elsew...
A link which I referred to in my last post (from a previous post) further elaborates on the position I take on information. https://www.quantamagazine...
Kant proposed that our minds impose empirical limits a priori on our concepts and therefore that non-empirical speculations (i.e. metaphysical ideas) ...
:up: :100: MAGA-hats are so far up their own sagging fat asses that those who believe TR45H won the last election will vote for him in 2024 even thoug...
Once "ideas" are encoded onto a physical system by being changed accordingly by another physical system (e.g. recording music) they then can be proces...
By information I understand "ideas" (signs, heuristics, algorithms) encoded in – processed by – a physical system. Unencoded "ideas" cannot affect phy...
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