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I agree with Wayfarer ( :yikes: ), it's binary not "a matter of degree" like a dimmer. Why think this? I understand things this way: • pre-awareness =...

(Emphasis is mine.) :death: :flower:

WTF :lol: I don't read the OP as claiming that "religion IS a natural/physical science"; 3017amen's awkward grammar aside, I read the sentence in ques...

Must already be time again for new meds.

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When I lived on W 23rd & 8th in Chelsea for almost 18 months back in the late '90s, I'd shared a spacious three bedroom duplex with 2 roommates and ba...

"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive." ~F.N. For what it's worth, folly or not, I've always i...

Yeah, I'm familiar with all kinds of complexity / systems theories. What Wolfram set out to do, however, is truly radical and much more fundamental th...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwMrBb2x1Q "Hey Joe" (3:30) written by Billy Roberts et al?, 1962 performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1966 * http...

:up: Same. Maybe we'll chat again.

I appreciate your effort to meet half way and apologies if I was less than charitable myself. (No excuse but not sleeping much lately and poorly when ...

I'm not taking issue with your succinct descriptions, I'll just state my own in order for us to be clearer as to how much or little understanding we s...

Take it anyway you can.

Trivially obvious. And yet since you don't care to understand you forgo the principle of charity to score cheap points in your own mind. We've been he...

Special pleading in favor of mystifying (cryptic) intuitions, in effect, contra the mediocrity principle, natural selection, cognitive neuroscience, e...

Okay. I'm not interested your semantic word salad. Have a good one.

Yep, thereby transforming that new energy into waste and contributing to the net increase in entropy. Neat how we (the entire biosphere, in fact) is e...

See to your mum, get her well soon, mate. Btw, not that it's any of my business, but you ought to draft out a reading plan organized around topics or ...

We agree again. So stop making them. I never asserted or implied "the ancients must have it wrong on account of their being ancient". Please stop asse...

I agree. Especially about the uninspiring – passively nihilistic – effect of p0m0 sophists (I choke on calling them "philosophers"). Since Schopenhaue...

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Racism, I think, can be justified IFF (A) the concept of "race" is factually warranted by biological sciences, (B) comparative "superiority" of one "r...

I'd rob the guy with the briefcase and untie the man on the tracks. As Admiral Kirk once said "I don't believe in the no-win scenario." Or his even wi...

Whatever, man. :sweat:

No, my friend, it's inescapably clear what "racism" means to anyone who has the courage or the scars to be honest enough to apply the ancient Roman di...

And, as with very much else about nature, many ancients who believed that man was "different" had no idea what they were talking about – what some of ...

Well, he does not "identify God with the whole of nature" and those scholars who repeat that are just patently wrong as any brief acquaintance with Et...

On what corroborable grounds have you (Eleatics, Platonists & woo-ologists) determined "objects ... constantly arise and pass away and are ephemeral" ...

So which "model of truth" do you use in order to decide that an Eastern "model of truth" "is ... more accurate than" a Western "model of truth"?

:up: Experientially, I agree. Spinoza's substance (natura naturans), though, even more so rationally. Pedantic point of priviledge: Spinozism is neith...

How do you differentiate "having theories" from "having wisdom"? Describe your conception of each and why you believe the latter is "opposed" by "emph...

Okay, here are two albums from before and the follow-up to Head Hunters: A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Miles Davis (1971) Return to Forever, Chick Corea ...

Are you familiar with Stephen Wolfram's computational-complexity theses and book exploring them A New Kind of Science? In what ways do they "represent...

I've only read them in English, not in Latin & German, respectively. Both probably use "joy" & "happiness". Why that matters to you I can't fathom. Do...

I don't think it's merely that. Spinoza & Nietzsche, whom I mentioned, did not write or think (as far as we call tell) in English or in each other's r...

Okay.

I agree. 'Logical necessity' belongs to the mathematical syntax out of which scientific models are constructed (with a good be narrative-discursive sc...

This has been my view for years, which I think of in a Spinozist sense as 'active & passive affects' corresponding, IIRC, somewhat to Nietzsche's 'act...

"Scientific laws" pertain to scientific models which are mathematical abstractions of salient regularities and not to be confused with them or the phe...

Okay. Apparently what you understand by "experience" "corroborated" "observation" "science" etc differs enough from my understanding that we're talkin...

Yeah, the eye "must be" in order to look and see; but a brain-CNS in a body that's imbedded in an environment must be prior to – independent of – the ...

Power.

And what corroborates these "experiential grounds"? Uncorroborated they're merely subjective assumptions or dispositions. So what? What about the astr...

That's okay. We all do that from time to time. I thought you were 'on to something' and so I kinda ran with it bull-by-the-horns and all.

:shade: I wish (in-group & out-group) people would not confuse – would stop conflating – bias & prejudice with racism.

What grounds are there for assuming that "consciousness" is (something) "fundamental"? "Fundamental nature of reality" seems redundant like 'gigantic ...

:up: Never mind.

You must have missed this link I provided in my previous post – Autopoiesis. It's a physical topic and not metaphysical except, maybe, analogously. Th...