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Fool, you're going have to ask a primatologist. :monkey:

Re: favorite albums (looking back to my favorite quarter-century of music 1955-1980*) – "I can't go on, I'll go on." :sweat: 1950s Afro, Dizzy Gillesp...

:up: Like ripples on a pond or a candle's flame ...

I don't understand the question.

'Order' is in the eye of the beholder, that is, an aspect of disorder (chaos) we happen to be 'mapping' – like 'seeing' faces in clouds – just as a 'w...

Thermodynamic equilibrium. (Is that "distant" enough in the future for you?) Yes. Yes, if it does, then it will be carried-out via fleets of self-repl...

My only guesses: "Untitled" - Benkei (darthbarracuda) "Ghost in My Hands" - Jack Cummins * My favorite is "Dead Baby Shoes" by ??? (Hanover) Another f...

No.

Glad mine wasn't for pity's sake but because the story at issue for me, however derivative, deserved some acknowledgement that it is nonetheless a fin...

As long as "the first world" keeps interfering with and maldeveloping and resource + labor extracting from "the third world", they – the southern hemi...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W8uZjeeOcQo "You Never Give Me Your Money" (4:02) Abbey Road, 1969 (2019 remix) writers Lennon-McCartney performers The ...

No doubt a 'first world problem'. How sublimating and bourgeois ... (vide Zapffe)

"Either win or learn." I've learned there are some good writers on the site and I'll have to step up my game for the next contest. Maybe I'll learn mo...

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Plutocracy (or idiotocracy) is a helluva drug.

What's your point?

When you say "ultimate reality" is mental or ideal or consciousness you are saying, in effect, that its concept is LIKE a (concrete or abstract) objec...

I didn't say the distinction is personally insignificant.

Or maybe the 'animate/inanimate distinction' does not really matter – is not physically fundamental or metaphysically significant?

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Obsessed? I just replied to the OP in terms, mostly metaphorical in this case, which I found were appropriate.

A "cold UNDEAD universe" is more like it. Nature is a zombie and h. sapiens is the kind of zombie inhabitant which deludes itself that it is fundament...

They are "suppressed and hidden" by whom and why?

https://youtu.be/cXWHpbpNdHE "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (3:16) In The Groove, 1968 writers N. Whitfield & B. Strong, 1966 performer Marvin Gay...

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Yes, quite right. The OP refers to a particular manifestation of the general project of economic democracy, or stakeholder socioeconomics as an altern...

No. But "as we know it" is not remotely the same as the "everything" you stated the BB was "the start of". No. On the contrary, they were philosophers...

Map-making is making ... maps (or models). Optimally they are coherent (i.e. all of their properties and functions work together).

Not enough votes for me yet. Where are all of the/my discerning readers? :sweat:

I don't understand the questions.

A hasty generalization, no? We do not know for a fact that the BB is "the start of everything". No doubt, a speculative shorthand or placeholder (e.g....

Forgive me, O sage, for not being 'initated' in the Platonic mysteries of transcendental woo & reification fallacies. :yawn:

Mathematics, it seems, is a constellation of formal syntaxes which, in part, is useful for consistently map-making (re: coherence) and thereby mapping...

Cosmogenesis is not comparable to a/biogenesis. Universes are not organismistic. Category mistake, my friend. "Life" – homeostasis-reflexive metabolic...

addendum Moment to moment 'who I am' transcends the oblivion of 'what we are' by creating, or choosing for, oneself. (existentialism) To live defiantl...

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Your question makes sense only if humans are individual organisms that can act unconstrained (though not wholly detrrmined by) by their species biolog...

I've made the señor's acquaintance (via wiki) on another thread to which I replied ...

Well this is news to population geneticists and actuaries! Explain why we still exist after two hundred-odd millennia if, as a species, h. sapiens in ...

Species breed – reproduce (biology 101). Natality, in that sentence, means a viable birth.

Truism. The already born live despite "existing at all" so the point is moot. How to live with each other with as little gratuitous harm or misery is ...

:up: Both Mark Johnston books are excellent. May reread them again soon. Thanks for the reminder.

"Justification" is besides the point for 'a priori biological programming'. Ethical concern begins with natality which, therefore, perpetually raises ...

So, since we're beasts rather than angels, "structurally it's messed up to just to exist" because most of us can't act like, or will not pretend to be...

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:chin: Thus, the ancient, as well as Indigeous peoples', prohibitions against making graven images: oral traditions, which had enacted ritual practice...

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So did I for a while but that was one encounter amid three to four hospital visits in the span of a few weeks so the odds are I didn't contract it fro...

:fire: addenda: Whether one lives or dies does not matter. (nihilism) Only death matters; that the living necessarily feed on the dead and will in tur...