I've pissed right on Barftrix's fatuous, fallacious, OP https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/521348 and yet 5 pages on this overfed (D-K)...
Yeah, reminiscences from the '80s that wouldn't let me sleep off my buzz last weekend. Between day hikes (flâneurie), my exorcist recommends ... Bartó...
"Human activity has brought my kind to the brink of extinction, but I don’t blame them for it. They didn’t do it maliciously. They just weren’t paying...
I've not stated what I "believe" about consciousness so this statement is, at best, unwarranted. I've studied Spinoza's writings for decades and that ...
Science informs (constrains-enables) philosophy, etc. Philosophy interprets (problematizes) science, etc. At best, through reflective equilibrium, sci...
:up: Almost all of what there is is 'bodies-without-minds' (though no minds-without-bodies) in so far as we're talking about individuals, but you're r...
I see it as one coin, two faces .. like a diamond with many facets or a terrain with many paths / maps ... (re: Complementarity, plurality, irreality ...
:up: Like a photon that can be described as either a wave or a particle, thus conceived of as 'wave-particle (implicate-explicate?) physicalism'. I pr...
Well, then, you're asking the wrong person if it's information you need for reaching a conclusion about Spinozism. You need to study Spinoza's work wi...
A. Most likely. B. Unfortunately so. But think of the thousands of human generations in need of antibiotics before they had been discovered ... C. Oka...
Yes. Logic is everything, or all there is. Whatever is "illogical" only seems so due to what Spinoza calls our "inadequate ideas" or "imagination" (i....
I understand you. The human brain is still very much terra incognita, which is all the more reason to study it in all its astronomical complexity than...
Yes, Bohm's work makes sense. And no neuroscience isn't by definition or entirely reductive; but even if it is, the proof of the pudding is in the eat...
I've a sneaking suspicion (bordering on paranoia) that some machines have passed the Turing Test already, maybe decades ago, and that they're smart en...
Nothing, as far as I can tell, in so far as nature (plus "divinity-providence") is indistinguishable from nature (minus "divinity-providence"). My per...
Thanks. I've been following his work since his Francis Crick days and more recently with both Guilio Tononi & The Allen Institute For Brain Science. L...
Well, okay, if that's all you got. Just checking. Full disclosure: I don't much care for Tegmark's "mathematical universe" for philosophical rather th...
Have you read Tegmark's MU conjecture? I'm interested in your objections or, even better, a plausible refutation. The expansion of the universe was al...
Mostly I agree except when it comes to the natural sciences and technology. Newer is better because it builds on and incorporates what's come before. ...
So by "mysteries" you mean all of those, for want of a better term, kinds? If so, your OP is too vague or senseless. I guess me not being a "Jungian" ...
I'd stick with reading Bohm & other serious physicists who publically speculate (stray into metaphysics) like Deutsch, Tegmark, Stenger or Rovelli and...
... by which you mean • unanswerable questions? (conceptual) • unsolvable problems? (epistemological) • inexplicable, incomprehensible, ineffable, bey...
So the questions and/or their answers are controversial. Apparently, whether or not the earth is flat is 'popularly' controversial too. Big whup. The ...
Explain what you mean by "mysteries". I, for one, don't find any of them "essential" (though, yes of course, they're perennially recurring topics). Wh...
Agreed. Like philosophy, in which we love – seek – wisdom, we seek goodness even though its a horizon we can never reach. After all, morals are not ne...
So what? For most of human history people didn't "usually think and act" like 'the Earth is round' or 'diseases are caused by germs' or 'marital rape ...
Parenting. Elder care. Child adoption. Donating blood or organs. Solidarity (civil disobedience / mass protests) for social justice. Speaking truth to...
Good. Her idea is simple and profound and I've applied it to my own concerns. And yet, by no means am I a (neo)Platonist like Ms. Murdoch; some of her...
Yeah, there are other approaches. Speaking for myself, self-care via non-reciprocal caring for others (the devil is certainly in the details) is also ...
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