Please, if you would, clarify / explicate the non-trivial differences between "intrinsic" and "non-intrinsic" (modes? degrees? types? of) "reality". :...
No doubt. Still, it seems to me, the ethical problem remains: if 'negative affects' are eliminated by "radical hedonic uplift", then disincentives for...
(Oh yeah, it's Friday already, June 18th: Happy 79th, Macca. :victory:?) Btw, I woke up from hearing old "Slow Hand" in a dream :point: https://m.yout...
:up: Ah, okay, so you can use "why" appropriately to address persons. However "why questions" otherwise addressed to nonpersons (e.g. the universe) or...
I've never thought much of "bayesianism" in any form. "QBism" is summarized in the wiki article I linked previously. Like a boss, Gore! :rofl: That on...
Only an idealist can find the results of a "beauty pageant"-like preference poll credible in a physical science context. Have you ever considered (and...
3 I don't find that attribution anywhere previously posted on this thread. For the purposes of our debate, it's a non sequitur, so please focus on rep...
2 Apologies for the delay, 3017, life got in the way. My friend, you admit to have taken that definition from a dictionary and not that we'd agreed to...
:up: (Somehow I forgot to post this about 12 hours ago ...) Their "tosh" is psychologically verified (i.e. "believing is seeing") rather than publicly...
My musical preferences almost exclusively fall on blues & jazz 1940s to 1980s, rhythm & blues (rock'n'roll) 1950s to 1970s, and some soul funk reggae ...
1 Thank you for the invitation, 3017amen, and for working with Hanover to set up this debate. Given the proposition before us is ... state an argument...
Yeah but, anecdotes aside, my reply addressed "mastery of the reward circuitry ..." with which any sort of "experience" happens and motivates seeking ...
Lifeboat (triage) ethics on both continental and global scales just might delay our entry into the fossil record... Some of my rosy outlooks: https://...
I'm not a fan of bannings. If you've gotta do it, guru-talk like Anand's seems fair game. Low quality (content) & poor style (form) certainly don't he...
Though "common sense" isn't really that common (as your trolling shows), I prefer, rarer still, good sense (i.e. freethought + cultural & scientific l...
This is probably, more or less, what one hominid grunt-gestured to the prettier one next to him while watching another group of hominids trek on out o...
Most existing entities are irrelevant to any specific context. I've been clear, but not enough for you apparently, and this conversation is going nowh...
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy." ~Also Sprach Zarathustra More precisely: reason dispenses with God-of-the-gaps "explanations" and (over)interpretat...
@"BitconnectCarlos" In solidarity with the Oppressed everywhere, especially in Gaza, the West Bank & East Jerusalem: DEATH TO OPPRESSORS! DEATH TO OPP...
It's not "the self" that is "immortal" – ageless or unaging – just the substrate upon which mind is instantiated. That substrate would be either organ...
The novelist dramatically explores the folk psychology of characters who take for granted certain ideas or who have to question themselves due to circ...
From Gilgamesh to "The Tower of Babel", "El Dorado" to Frankenstein, "Muad'Dib" to "Lestat" ... what greater quest could there be? Transhumanism is ju...
No. It's a worthwhile aspiration though, perhaps even an eventual by-product of further improving clinical interventions and medical technologies. I t...
Why do you assume (medical progress) is "inherently driven"? As for people per se, we don't want to die – no living thing "wants" to cease living – an...
@"Jack Cummin" @"Tom Storm" @"Amity" @"ssu" From "post-political" to "post-truth" – what we owe the likes of Foucault, Thatcher-Reagan & MAGA: compost...
As an American leftist absurdist, I wholeheartedly agree with your synopsis. "Left-Right", the US is a solipsistic nation in the death-grip of almost ...
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