"Solution" to what? Not the "PoE" because, for Nth time, there isn't any "PoE" to be solved. What are you talking about? Any topic that, "by definitio...
April-May readings: • The Framer's Coup, Michael J. Klarman • The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter, Peter Robin Hiesinger • Ech...
Get's ranty fun sometimes, don't it? :point: Again, there is no "PoE", it's a pseudo-problem because theism is not true. Your "contention", Fool, is s...
Well, okay. What to say about the essay? ... My problem with it upon first read is four-fold: Though there's more, these four criticisms suffice for m...
Bingo! :100: No, I'm not talking about "survivalists" who're not rich and yet prepping for the prospect of a "Cold War"-like apocalypse. I'm talking a...
I suspect the "elites" here there and everywhere have been prepping for decades for decades-to-centuries-long survival in a bunker, etc remote from po...
1. No. That's like trying to translate a baking recipe using The Standard Model 2. You're here and you're asking so in some small way it has. 3. No. I...
I'm waiting. Interjecting my own speculations to spice up this idiot stew. 'Why are you asking me why' instead of making sense of this perennial nonse...
Besides my best, most charitable, guess on p.1, I use the term mostly to refer to the OP which raised it, trying to get it's advocates to tell me/us w...
Maybe the dinos saw the killer comet coming but after c170-odd million years of mostly grazing monotony the "smart ones" didn't tell the others and sa...
"Possibility?" Point me to the post (or thread) where a case in principle is made that is logically sound / non-fallacious or warranted by sufficient ...
I'll stick with my stipulative definition (wiki is a reliable prompt, can't let it become a crutch). "What's the purpose of philosophy?" I answer only...
Ah yeah, the age-old difference between living philosophically and making a living from philosophy (or philosophers and sophists). No doubt many acade...
Spoon-feeding ain't fun, Fool. Try the philosophers I mentioned here as a start: Also, "rationality brought to bear on ethics" goes back at least as f...
I reject this premise for the reason I pointed out to you recently: Señor works better for me, amigo. Gracias. Yes and yes – the latter because, like ...
I'm simple-minded, Fool (my top three objections): • the "PoE" is a pseudo-problem at best because theism is not true • theodicy excuses all evil (re:...
Not so. IIRC, "sin" is an ancient Judaic concept (re: violation of any the Torah's '613 mitzvahs') and not a Greek concept (like "hubris" or "impiety"...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6CMQoYSsQ "Evil" (2:55) Howlin' in the Moonlight, 1959 performed by Howlin' Wolf, 1954 written by Willie Dixon, 1954(?...
Just as a year structurally consists of 364 days unfolding, the universe structurally consists of N branches unfolding. "Multiverse" refers to differe...
Sounds good, enjoy! Though I much prefer Schop's (intrinsic) Will to Bergson's (extrinsic) Élan vital as a self-organizing principle of consciousness ...
Except for the C?rv?ka, the other atomists belong to the Western philosophical tradition albeit not the Platonic-Aristotlean-Stoic mainstream. Given t...
Ancient atomists (i.e. C?rv?ka, Abderites, Epicureans-Lucretians) and daoists clearly thought so. This speaks to a philosophical depth – antiquity – o...
This is the crux of the matter, so it speak, and it's telling that no one has yet proposed a coherent, evidence-based, 'transmigratory (metempsychotic...
Raised and schooled until 18 in a strict Roman Catholic tradition and, though I'm neither a Christian, Muslim nor Jew, I find Rabbi Yeshua's formulati...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QOARhF6yHoo "Love Me or Leave Me" (3:18) performed by Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra, 1941 written by W. D...
"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it." ~Cicero "Studied the subject?" Those old dudes just made some shit up with...
:up: As I point out, there's more than a half-century of data on the adverse outcomes with respect to cognitive functions on hemispherectomy patients....
Yeah, NOS, you must be one of those disingenuous damn Incel-fools running around with MAGA hats & rebel flags on your pick-up trucks and blaming "Anti...
Yes. Continuity of phenomenal self-awareness is personal identity, and with a spectrum of cognitive functions encoded redundantly in each brain hemisp...
Still, seeing how "being re-incarnated" entails a new brain-CNS-body at birth and yet, therefore, without postnatal memories encoded in a neonate (bec...
:smirk: BOOM. Tough titty, fella. Move as far off the grid as you can then (i.e. for consistancy sake, treat society / civilization itself as the egre...
I appreciate this sketch. I must have come across this back in the day and then forgot only for me to recall it here via my "rebirth-waking up again" ...
:up: Complementaries, not oppositions. Pluralistic landscapes – rather than a relativistic plane – where upon, by degrees, some alternative positions ...
Philosophy's sine qua non "purpose" I've found is both (meta-cognitively) hygenic & fitness-maintaining, that is, to unlearn self-immiserating, unwise...
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