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Silly dodge. Again. I'll take that as a sign you can't answer my question from, which it's reasonable for me to surmise that "possible for X to exist"...

Are you?

My question is about your use of the modal term "possible" as "the only known quality of god". Without knowing any other quality, it makes no sense to...

Really? If we know nothing about any of g/G's other "qualities", how do we then know it's even possible (yet not necessary) for it to exist? Which "Go...

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You propose precisely what?

IIRC, Dennett is simply saying that if nature produces – evolves via natural selection – "conscious systems", then there is no reason in principle wit...

Read Schopenhauer's work. My sketches oversimplify his thought greatly.

See (reread) third paragraph in previous post.

Thanks for the link.

This does not follow. Besides, you're begging the question – the creator of the consciousness creator's consciousness, etc ... :up:

There is no telos, no metaphysical why. (re #2) Go to the source instead: WWR, vol 1. Analogously (re #2), how can rain not be related to the impact o...

:up: or riding a beam of light ... * @"Jack", isn't this the heart of philosophy: concept(ual) fantasy? (re: the real)

"Don’t play what’s there; play what’s not there." ~Miles Davis "Fantasy" (in contrast to wishful/magical/group thought or delusions or psychosis) is i...

You're right, I misread what you called "strange". I read it backwards, in fact, as 'processing can exist independent of its processor'. Yeah, there a...

https://youtu.be/KZGleNoOUO8 "Mack The Knife" (3:22) performed by Louis Armstrong & His All Stars, 1955 written by Kurt Weill & Bertrolt Brecht, 1928 ...

d e a t h _ g i v e s _ l i f e _ u r g e n c y _ w i t h o u t _ m e a n i n g, _ p e r s p e c t i v e _ w i t h o u t _ p u r p o s e, _ e c s t a ...

Shitz-n-giggles, right?

Ah yeah, the old "Religion doesn't infantilize, persecute & kill people; people infantilize, persecute & kill people" problem ... to which, reason dic...

IIRC my readings of Schop's WWR: 1. The Will, other than being self-devouring (with "appearances" (i.e. maya) nothing more than "the 10,000" skins she...

I do? Cite where I've given you that impression.

Just an observation, not a "hypothesis". A counter example would be informative. This – "exist" : "real" :: contingent : necessary :: path : horizon :...

Only Socrates knows. (IIRC it's a daimon, not a theos ... and, therefore, not an epicurean concern.) As Pascal noted: this suggests "the god of philos...

My 2 bit(coin)s – Is there any possible version of the actual world that is 'the negation of the actual world' (i.e. nothingness)? Is there any possib...

I've no idea what point you're making ... Self-deification, or gnosis? That heresy, I'm afraid, leads to "The Dark Side". :eyes: So this is not the th...

I'm irreligious too; for me, however, that (political) concern is separate and distinct from my (philosophical) antitheist-atheism.

Not a contradiction? Or, at least, a reification fallacy? :up: Your patience is much appreciated.

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In so far as "nothing" denotes not-exist, your statement is doubly self-contradictory.

Successful people seem to cultivate a skillset for 'getting' lucky (i.e. being always ready to seize opportunities when they happen upon them at the r...

:up: I'm definitely an antitheist but without the frothy animus or angst.

:up: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/pink-floyd-the-making-of-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/

I had no idea you're a mysterian too ... :sweat: "brain minding" :yikes:

Well, sir, we actualist hobbits surely don't (and certainly not before second breakfast & a full pipe). :yum:

I very much agree. :up: I think (just a sketch) in so far as one has agency, it is performatively self-contradictory to disable or allow one's agency ...

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As a (hardcore) actualist rather than possibilist, or modal realist, by "a possible world" I understand a possible version of actuality (i.e. a possib...

The latter makes sense and the former does not. "Mind" is predicate (processing), "brain" is subject (processor) like e.g. walk and legs, respiration ...

And your point is ...?

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"God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue God exists is to deny Him. It is as atheistic to affirm God a...

The symmetrical "something" is the (void) itself.

And I'm suggesting that these pursuits are not necessarily mutually exclusive and that truth/wisdom-seeking is, for some, the highest, most rarefied, ...

Noether's Theorem concerns symmetries of (voids) from which conservation laws are derived and that entail structural descriptions constituting (voids)...

"Empty" of separable things or quantifiable facts but not structure (re Noether's Theorem) ...

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Philosophy is "the love of wisdom", not wisdom itself; and love, at its most pleasurable, or ecstatic, is often erotic. (vide Plato ... Spinoza ... Ni...