You don't believe transcendental numbers or signal-less noise were "designed by an intelligent designer", do you? :brow: Design does not presuppose a ...
This is why Socrates (philosophy) was called a "gadfly" who stings (awakens with a fright!) those whom 'custom, prejudice, dogma-ideology' keeps sleep...
The only "issue", mr / ms, is your uncharitable reading of what I wrote. Stipulating a(n arguably) better, more relevant – probative – definition is n...
:up: Recovering from foolery is like recovering from drug or alcohol addiction: an endless, life-long, reflective task (à la martial arts, or "spiritu...
:up: Good move. Yes, in fact, since none are truly wise, we can only talk about degrees of foolishness (foolery) instead. This is my usual approach to...
Ah, that "disembodied consciousness" chimera again. I'm afraid my observation lacks that unwarranted, anachronistic, and conceptually incoherent, assu...
I can conceive of a synthetic mind-substrate extension of the organic mind-substrate whereby the continuity of self-aware personal identity (i.e. "con...
:up: Good topic. I've mentioned BBT, etc a few times recently but so far have had no takers. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/520927 ...
Congenitally unwise, I seek what 'the wise' (whom I imagine) seek: to make fewer immiserating judgments AND master one more maladaptive habit than I (...
It's always seemed to me that the question What is the real? persists unavoidably because it frames all other questions insofar as they (absolutely) p...
I see your point, though I characterize them as existential stances rather "worldviews", such as in Buber's terms of I-Thou and I-It, respectively, or...
What a dream (of 'human fulfillment') this woman was fortunate enough to have lived, and apparently to the fullest in every respect – vita activa, the...
Sin of omission – "not having done anything to stop the Holocaust" – is the role played by the Catholic Church in most, predominantly right-wing Catho...
This must be why in Anno Domini 1998 His Holiness the fucking the Pope issued an official apology for the role Catholics had played in and during the ...
Follow the link in my previous post if you're interested. Faith sans (or over above) reason as the ground for knowledge is fideism (vide Tertullian, L...
Au contraire. He can speak for himself, of course, but @"Banno" doesn't need his own "one true philosophy" anymore than he needs a "one true god" to d...
As a moral naturalist (subset of moral realism), I reason that one humanizes another insofar as one helps to reduce another's harm and/or misery, whic...
:up: Okay. We differ on well-documented facts so there's nothing more to discuss. In the main you've conceded my point that it is, in fact, imaginable...
Nonsense. Propositions are truth-bearers, so explain to me how any species without discursive language produces, assents to or communicates truths. C'...
But the murder of millions of e.g. non-JCI Africans, Indigenous Americans & Austrialians, Indians, and Chinese by "traditional JCI" conquistadors, sla...
Go to the beach with bucket. Walk out into the ocean till the water is waste high. Plunge the bucket down to your feet and drag it along for some sand...
How the brain functions and outputs "consciousness" is a scientific problem, it seems to me, and not "a valid philosophical query" as it might have on...
I think not. Our brains are adapted for making trial & error correlations (i.e. shallow information domains from which to derive heuristics for paroch...
Not all lobotomy victims are incapacitated; some have managed to function even with greater inhibitions and impairments. And since most will never att...
"Myth" is integral to the symbolic-semiotic approach. It's not "more important", just occasionally accessible content (i.e. "bowel movements") of the ...
This totality stuff again? The "one complete" map of the territory is the territory itself, which is useless as a map and therefore why we make and us...
I understand philosophy as a performative and noncognitive exercise. Neither "truth" nor "relativism" obtain with respect to it as creating criteria o...
I can't see how you can still ask this (mysterian) pseudo-question if, as you claim, you're more than superficially acquainted with contemporary neuro...
Reminds me of "If you're going through hell, keep going." ~Winston Churchill ... yet left like a bride waiting at the altar. And sure, JC is the origi...
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