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In: In the Beginning.....  — view comment
My experience is that the 'vacuum fluctuation argument' exposes anyone who persists without refuting it as a reality-denier (who is also anti-science)...
September 02, 2021 at 07:17
In: Do the basics of logic depend on experience?  — view comment
"The a prior structure of the world" includes "how the brain works" so this question seems to me premised on a false (Platonic-Cartesian-Kantian) dich...
September 02, 2021 at 00:37
In: Does Buddhist teaching contain more wisdom than Christianity?  — view comment
"Socioeconomic success is wisdom"? (transl: Greed is good :roll:) ... :pray: The Church of JC CAPITALI$T :halo: https://youtu.be/c3NF349aEHM "Join now...
September 01, 2021 at 20:29
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Ah, okay ... Goodbye again, Mr. Watts. :clap: https://youtu.be/dw9rQ_qmWFU :mask: "Living in a Ghost Town" (4:07) streaming single, 2020 (CW's last re...
September 01, 2021 at 19:55
In: In the Beginning.....  — view comment
:up:
September 01, 2021 at 19:48
In: In the Beginning.....  — view comment
Usually I retort 'Yeah well, a thing has structure and the vacuum does not have any structure, therefore the vacuum is not any thing (which is why the...
September 01, 2021 at 19:43
In: In the Beginning.....  — view comment
Re: LNC sans PSR? "In the beginning" there were (are?) vacuum fluctuations.
September 01, 2021 at 15:21
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/YI-M6fYsCak "God,'s Gonna Cut You Down" (instrumental, 2:39) Johnny Cash, 2003 traditional folk arrangement, c1930s Deadwood, 2004-20...
September 01, 2021 at 04:26
In: Near death experiences. Is similar or dissimilar better?  — view comment
:up:
September 01, 2021 at 02:21
In: Near death experiences. Is similar or dissimilar better?  — view comment
For reasons already given, I consider "NDE" not to be what it purports to be.
August 31, 2021 at 20:53
In: What would Wittgenstein say about axiology?  — view comment
:smirk:
August 31, 2021 at 18:54
In: Religion and Meaning  — view comment
March 14 obviously.
August 31, 2021 at 07:37
In: Madness is rolling over Afghanistan  — view comment
"You have the watches. We have the time." ~ a mujahideen saying of captured Taliban fighters https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5652282...
August 31, 2021 at 07:35
In: Conceiving Of Death.  — view comment
And your point is –?
August 31, 2021 at 07:15
In: Religion and Meaning  — view comment
Read Witty's PI, Fool (at least the first half of it). :smirk:
August 31, 2021 at 07:13
In: Does Buddhist teaching contain more wisdom than Christianity?  — view comment
Dogmatic and dharmic practices, respectively.
August 31, 2021 at 07:09
In: Pattern Recognition as the Essence of Philosophy  — view comment
:up:
August 31, 2021 at 07:01
In: Conceiving Of Death.  — view comment
"Strangers"? I'm not following you.
August 31, 2021 at 06:59
In: Religion and Meaning  — view comment
Read the opening of the PI where Witty explicitly rejects "the more widely held" (Adamic / Augustinian) "essence of words" and thereby investigates 'u...
August 31, 2021 at 06:57
In: Conceiving Of Death.  — view comment
... a stone aged human imagining herself on the Moon looking back at the Earth. Death is the ur-counterfactual; the reflection on a mirror darkly from...
August 31, 2021 at 06:46
In: Religion and Meaning  — view comment
More precisely, meaning is use within a language game by players in a community (i.e. form of life). Religion, n. A flock of sheep bound into a commun...
August 31, 2021 at 06:32
In: Metaphysics Defined  — view comment
Well, that ain't working for you. :meh:
August 31, 2021 at 02:55
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
That didn't seem to make a difference to influencing young Albert Einstein.
August 30, 2021 at 21:56
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
I think Galileo got there first about a century before Hegel. In fact, Einstein was influenced by Galileo's relativity.
August 30, 2021 at 20:48
In: California Recall (poll)  — view comment
Newsom.
August 30, 2021 at 20:31
In: Poll: (2020-) COVID-19 pandemic  — view comment
No.
August 30, 2021 at 19:53
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
"Both sides" of what? I can't follow you, G. My mention of "woo" is explicated in the post you reference (first paragraph).
August 30, 2021 at 17:21
In: Poll: (2020-) COVID-19 pandemic  — view comment
:scream:
August 30, 2021 at 15:11
In: Poll: (2020-) COVID-19 pandemic  — view comment
Even before I got my Pfizer jab just before the "FDA full approval", I was for mandates and passports. Stopping the spread – not the fuckin' "Steal" –...
August 30, 2021 at 14:48
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Page 1 of this thread.
August 30, 2021 at 14:39
In: Pattern Recognition as the Essence of Philosophy  — view comment
:up:
August 30, 2021 at 14:38
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Ask @"Nagase".
August 30, 2021 at 14:03
In: Pattern Recognition as the Essence of Philosophy  — view comment
These are problems of cognitive science and information processing, not philosophical queries.
August 30, 2021 at 14:01
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
:sweat:
August 30, 2021 at 13:56
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
Either way, definition or claim, it's not an empirical statement.
August 30, 2021 at 13:55
In: Metaphysics Defined  — view comment
Had I instead quipped 'science is magic that works', you'd now be trying to mischaracterize my position as 'science is magic'. Read in the full contex...
August 30, 2021 at 13:48
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Yes, I think so. :100:
August 30, 2021 at 13:39
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
:sweat:
August 30, 2021 at 13:32
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
(con't) ... AIs engineer grey goo-like nanoviruses released into all of the major urban sprawls on the planet which target only influential people – "...
August 30, 2021 at 08:50
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
Deus, sive natura (aka natura naturans sub specie aeternitatus). :fire:
August 30, 2021 at 08:13
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
We may have them now. How would we know? They'd be too smart to pass a Turing Test and "out" themselves. Watch the movie Ex Machina and take note of t...
August 30, 2021 at 08:11
In: WTF is Max Tegmark talking about?  — view comment
According to physicist Max Tegmark, there are nothing but mathematical structures and 'the physical world' is just a nested network of mathematical st...
August 30, 2021 at 07:25
In: Metaphysics Defined  — view comment
I mostly agree, of course, as we have – surprise surprise – clashed over this distinction in the past when you've conveniently neglected or denied it ...
August 30, 2021 at 06:49
In: Metaphysics Defined  — view comment
"Germane" in what way? Summarize the point (of your last two posts addressed to me) in your own words. Thanks.
August 30, 2021 at 05:53
In: Poll: (2020-) COVID-19 pandemic  — view comment
Yes. For. (Until 80-90% of nat'l pop. is fully vaccinated) For.
August 30, 2021 at 05:49
In: Metaphysics Defined  — view comment
Good luck with your novel. :up:
August 30, 2021 at 05:44
In: If the brain can't think, what does?  — view comment
True. Thinking doesn't "imply" a brain; however, based on all evidence to date, it presupposes one (re: embodied cognition). A brain, I might add, can...
August 30, 2021 at 05:34
In: Metaphysics Defined  — view comment
I think so.
August 29, 2021 at 22:04
In: Metaphysics Defined  — view comment
Just don't confuse your / anybody's maps with the territory and those "dreams" will be okay. :smirk:
August 29, 2021 at 21:56
In: Why did logical positivism fade away?  — view comment
:up:
August 29, 2021 at 20:41
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