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Maybe I misunderstood you when you claimed to disagree with what you quoted of me. Clarify, please.

Schop proposed ascetic living to cope with the ravages of "the will to live", which amounts to passivity (in N's sense) in the form of, in effect, wit...

I guess, actually, I always have: people in the main are selfish, amoral, thoughtless shits (i.e. fuckin' chimps!)

Yeah, most just delude themselves with self-serving, facile, ideologies. No mystery there. This sort of craveness is proof we're, as Hitchens never ti...

Nonsense. If that were the case in metaphysics, then there'd be wide consensus, or agreement, of long standing on those "results", which there never h...

You've admitted you have no experience, thereby no understanding, of "meditation" which is performative and not cognitive. I understand well enough fr...

I've no idea who has "reviled" Schop and who, other than mendacious nazis and academic p0m0s, has "praised" Freddy. They're both mostly misunderstood ...

Yes, but only when "metaphysical analysis" is inadequate (i.e. Woo-of-the-Gaps via the principle of explosion). From the incoherent to the unintelligi...

Agreed, metaphysics and ethics too. Spinoza and Epicurus are two of my touchstones. Apparently, though, you've not listened deeply to much of Miles if...

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:100: :fire: :clap: :strong: :cool: Amor fati. Live dangerously! ~F.N. :100: :up:

Your words, not mine. Just a suggestion so you'd not ask irrelevant questions next time the topic of 'meditation' comes up. Though maybe not.

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Too much Herbert Spencer in that "competitors" slip-of-the-mind. On average individuals in groups survive much better against natural hazards like fam...

Well, the 'scientific attitude' is not to accept what you don't understand until you understand it iff what you have come to understand is (probably, ...

@"Jack Cummins" :up: Yeah, like chess, all the moves and matches are completely obvious and yet "hidden" only by the players from themselves. That's a...

Go find a sensei or guru and learn to meditate.

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All I can recommend is An Introduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe by Leonard Susskind & Ja...

I've always failed to understand why so many otherwise intelligent, even scientifically & historically literate, people still fail to understand that ...

Not lucky, just been a bachelor and at it for decades.

A question is ignorance made visible. An answer is ignorance concealed. That the OP questions which has priority shows what, on pain of vicious circul...

Okay, thanks. I'll investigate but my filter for the extraordinary claims all too often made by misusing quantum phenomena outside of fundamental phys...

Maybe meditation is clearer than "mystical exercise". Relaxing the learned fixations on thinking / speaking / believing via dualities (i.e. binary opp...

A 'consensus reality' would never evolve or emerge from pre-consensus so ... such a "universe" would have to be a simulation (perhaps within a higher ...

Advaita "nondualism" is a mystical exercise (like Zen or daojia) but not a cognitive practice. The latter (traditionally) is framed by and subordinate...

From this remark, I suspect for you "a study of philosophy" entails seeking something that transcends the human condition (i.e. a rational – reliably ...

One more back at the OP and all of you haters-in-denial: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/25/minneapolis-police-race-violence-justice-depa...

How so?

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As stipulations, for the sake of discussion, this question derived from them definitely works for me. :up: re: e.g. Autopoiesis

Interesting. Any experiments you can cite? Or thought-experiments currently entertained in scientific papers or books by physicists?

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Sorry but none of what you wrote above makes the least bit of sense to me. As far as I can tell, "panpsychism" posits an ad hoc appeal to ignorance (i...

Strawman. Bunghole's for shitting not talking, sir, try to desist. I've no "faith" position at all and have only said that I reject "supernatural enti...

Stephen J. Gould had a great influence on me, though dialectically, so did E.O. Wilson, and both more than Richard Dawkin and Daniel Dennett (although...

I don't care for Stross's genre mashups either. "Depressing?" I've no idea what you're talking about. In any case, my preferences wear their philosoph...

I still don't buy Nagel's argument and never have. I've been a nonbeliever since I was 15, came out of the closet, against the real and ever-present t...

You have great musical taste – "The White Album" and Head Hunters are on my list of favorites. My cut-off is 1980 though, but I'm not sure if I have a...

Yes, you're right. And by the time I had become acquainted with 'Buddhism as a philosophy', I had committed myself to studying contemporary philosophy...

Max Tegmark is doing metaphysics – proposing a new conceptual paradigm through which to make and explore physical conjectures – in response to physici...

I don't ignore biology, I just don't deflate the role of culture and socialization in Human cognition & behavior on that account as, for instance, soc...

Giordano Bruno's speculation of "thousands of other suns with other earths" (which got him burned at the stake in 1600 CE), it took nearly four centur...

Btw, a fellow working-class, Catholic-raised Bronx, wiseass who called common sense "bullshit" on the religious outlook (not a word about "science"): ...

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Yes, that's what I was trying to suggest by "perhaps due to the traditional straitjackets of gender-socialization" followed by "built" and then "need"...

Because I didn't get the point of your post being linked to mine.

:100: :up: I'm a bit of a neat freak, try to dust weekly, always put things back immediately when I'm done and broad alphabetizing – DVDs by sections ...

Illiterate too, huh?

Gravity waves were unfalsifiable for a century or more yet not "woo woo", you know why? Because in principle they were always testable, but the techno...