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Is it 'trolling' to troll pseudo-questions, nonsense, bigotry or trolls? Re: neurosis of a meta-troll.

By "too reductive" do you mean philosophical analyses which conceptualize 'mind' as emergent (e.g. embodied cognition, functionalism) from non-mental ...

No. One devotes one's death to life. At birth we are old enough to die, delivered from the womb in free-fall towards that event horizon. Each breath, ...

Your point is taken. Maybe, however, I wasn't clear: by "high stakes" I mean risks to life, livehood and/or love , and not what passes for ego-aggrand...

:up: https://youtu.be/jdEAuvqfKXU "Two of Us" (3:20) Let It Be ... Naked, 2003 writers "The British Everly Brothers", 1969 The Beatles

I guess traffic lights & child-proof caps on medicine bottles make you "ewwww :vomit:" too. :mask:

:up: "Used as directed", like ciggies, booze & military-industrial-complexes, filthy lucre fundamentalism is hazardous to your health and well being (...

Cataphatic metaphysics (i.e. deductively positing categories/universals), I completely agree, is obsolete but not apophatic metaphysics (i.e. deductiv...

Uh huh. That says it all. :lol:

Nice fairytale but, as usual, wrong on the facts. The epistemic preeminence of science is not because "science assumed the cloak of authority" but rat...

:cool: But you can still answer some of the questions I raised without referencing the debate (which only elaborates more on my previous post). I know...

"Give the drummer some ..." :cool: – Thx, Charlie! Charlie Watts 1941-2021 (some of my favorite CW's moments) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RdhENdBYqd...

Okay, you're agnostic; but do you believe in g/G or not? (e.g. @"Possibility" – You don't know whether or not it will rain tomorrow; but, though it's ...

The MBP was dis-solved in the 17th century by Spinoza (re: property dualism). Furthermore, given that mind is an activity or process (i.e. minding) an...

Yes, I recall your suggestion. Seventeen months or so of quarantine alone has me thoroughly uninterested in myself as a subject to write about. I've n...

Not "romanticized" but, IMO, aspirational. There are no stakes for TPF members which is why bitchy acrimony seems the rule and not the exception. My t...

In English "babble" means making incoherent noises, like babytalk.

I've been telling him that – less well said – for over a decade. Some woo-folks just seem to "feel" objectivity is a bug rather than a feature of mode...

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Some folks confuse 'reductionism' with 'eliminativism'; however, as you no doubt know, the latter denotes identifying and excluding objects or concept...

Whatever formula or rule we come up with, the context seems to be something like this:

US FDA GRANTS PFIZER COVID-19 VACCINE FULL REGULATORY APPROVAL. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-grants-full-approva...

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I am not a "believer" just because I discuss a believer's deity in order to consider and then reject her ontic claims as untrue or incoherent; it does...

In my understanding, explaining some physical transformation manifested as a testable mathematical model is indispensible for doing science whereas in...

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To paraphrase Confucius' / Hillel the Elder's formulation: (Corollary: Whenever you lack 'skin in the game', do not play that game or advise others to...

Perhaps the OP overthinks :point: death. The living devour the dead until their carcasses in turn, ouroboros-like, are devoured by the living. Death i...

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:up: In my mind, another (more descriptive) word for "humanist" is anthropocentrist.

Your "logic" is merely semantics. Mention is not affirmation. And I notice you completely avoid how one can address another's claim (e.g. "God exists"...

So this shit again? Another old thread reincarnated ... :confused:

If one abuses oneself via an activity which involves ab/using another sentient (e.g. sex with a sheep) or ab/using a nonsentient (e.g. sex with a robo...

Nonsense. You "know about" Sauron, don't you? And "about" Klingons too? Also "about" Zeus? (vide Meinong.) Every (mono)theist "knows about" at least o...

:smirk: Why? "Robots" (e.g. electric can-openers, department store escalators, clocks, vaccines, seeds) are not sentient in any functional, or recogni...

Death is the only god. Re: (every) event horizon.

I can tell you are a tool-user and X is a tool. The only question is whether X is natural born or not; and that will tell something more about you.

You don't. So don't.

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Again, besides repeating what I've said countless times (re: distinction between methodological & philosophical, which you often conflate), wtf are yo...

Fyi – State-run "social healthcare" was first instituted by Bismarck in 1883. England, Russia, New Zealand ... before WWII. A little info can't hurt. ...

I can't think of a significant methodological materialist who is a mere (Skinnerian) behaviorist. Witty has little to nothing to do with my stated pos...

It suggests you're asking the wrong question.

"The Lost Cause". Too many nonwhite citizens & immigrants scares White 'Murica. Also, antebellum nostalgia is still the religion, or ideology, of +40%...

:up: I Agree. I don't think so. Maybe for philosophical materialists the 'problem of consciousness' is intractably "hard" but not for methodological m...

Don Everly 1937-2021 "Sister Suzie, brother John Martin Luther, Phil and DON Uncle Ernie, auntie Gin Open the door and let 'em in, yeah" ~Macca, 1976 ...

On the same page of the hymnal ... :100: :clap: An age-old cautionary folktale. Thanks for reading!

See my reply to Amity (above).