Yeah, maybe; but at which "birth"... And "good" – for what? to whom? Ms. Zhao's (congrats, btw! :clap:) statement is just as ambiguous (as most versio...
Your quibbles don't counter my point in response to NOS4A2 in the least: individualistic populist led-countries have performed much worse in response ...
Who said anything about the particular origin of life? Not I. You've confused my post on disorder with someone else's, Wayf. As for you "not buying it...
Irrelevant. Comparative infection & death rates from Covid-19 are relevant. Also, I said Scandanavia, which is a region that includes more states than...
:up: I don't see the issue. The territory can be mapped countless ways, many of which are incommensurable and some antithetical. Therein lies the conc...
What? It's a sketch of the 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy) – you must've heard of it. :roll: "If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstr...
In nations where the public health responses so far have been efficient and effective (e.g. Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Iceland, G...
I interepreted "reincarnation" as a metaphor for something any reasonable mind could accept. Played by the rules just not, I guess, the way the OP exp...
Yes. No. I'd bet my last .02 cents on this quasi-Aristotlean scheme: 1.0 metaphysics (trad.) ~ why logic? • how to derive from logic? • how to derive ...
:cool: Like a number of folks loitering on these fora, I've been "working on" a (novel) for some years too. A 'near-future, about-to-happen-singularit...
N's prescription for nihilism was not ascetic withdrawal as in Schop's case. N was constantly ill (aggravated by unstable weather & direct sunlight) t...
"Divide and conquor." This strategy always conquors the divided, the separated, the privatized, the atomized, the depoliticized, the disconnected, the...
Perfect sense. A psychotic, a psychopath, a poet, a philosopher, a physicist, a persecuted migrant, a POW, a trafficked slave – in extremis, how can t...
Have you ever read the wonderfully speculative historical fiction by Gore Vidal titled Creation or the more grounded but no less speculative novel Jul...
Addendum: Yeah, culture, no doubt, began with burying the dead – all the speculative import that that took initially and manifest subsequently in fune...
The overwhelming evidence shows that most "human belief systems" are a jambalaya of (irreflective) cognitive biases, in/formal fallacies & placeholder...
"It's like déjà vu all over again." ~Yogi Berra "Reincarnation" represents merely waking up again each day – but religiously(?) generalized into a met...
Whatever your so-called "philosophy of physics" says, it's not physics and what I wrote, though dumbed-down considerably for mass consumption, is corr...
@"tim wood" & I are never "at each other's throats". Ever. And I just rodeo clown 3017's bull**** for shitz-n-gigglz (comic relief aka "taking the pis...
:up: :up: "Bad physics" also follows from doing and/or subscribing to bad philosophy (i.e. unsound, indefeasible, reasoning with/towards 'reified abst...
:flower: You quoted Goethe, who was perhaps Nietzsche's favorite German poet and exemplar, so Nietzsche's music (esp.contra the Wagnerian style – e.g....
:flower: :death: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3WFvfmqGX8 "Hungry For You (J'aurais toujours faim de toi)" (2:52) Ghost in the Machine, 1981 The Poli...
:fire: No choice. That's how entropy works. "Assembly" increases global entropy by decreasing local entropy with energy added from the environnent (i....
To which I add: without good books and bad grrls, life wouldn't be short enough! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z584nas_pGw The Music of Friedrich Niet...
:up: Seems like a worthy follow-up to Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States which I'd read (clandestinely) ...
First, "meaning-making" simply distracts us from our deaths, which is also our primary motive for it. Second, one doesn't experience one's own death, ...
Giving the OP too much credit? I've fallen into that trap with him/her before. You may be right. 3017 only seems to post on TPF when s/he's off of his...
As I pointed out already, "awareness" (like "self-awareness") is not "consciousness"; so yeah, I agree, "awareness" is gained, but "consciousness" is ...
And "meaning" is so ephemeral, so very soon swallowed whole and irretrievably by oblivion ... In the geological (let alone "stellar" or "cosmic") sche...
"Meaning-making" isn't any more objectively meaningful than not "meaning-making", thus its arbitrary (merely subjective), or as you say "an individual...
This confuses "consciousness" with experience (or form with content); like an empty balloon, "consciousness" stretches as one grows from childhood to ...
Satisfied swine rather than sad Socrates – I get it. Camus calls that stance "philosophical suicide." After all, the blue pill always goes down so eas...
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