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Every capability is instrumental. More interesting to ponder is whether or not thinking is merely instrumental or something else besides – more than –...

Peirce.

Nonsense. Whatever happens presupposes that it is possible to happen. Maybe it is 'more than material' (material+) ... Define material. Physical.

"Nothing has any Value" includes, and thereby refutes, itself. Objectively speaking. This conclusion does not follow from the self-refuting "nothing h...

You must be referring to the several "tyrannical slave-states" of (e.g.) very secular Scandanavia ...

No doubt a corollary of William Burrough's "junk equation" (à la Nietzsche's decadence, Adorno's culture industry, Arendt's banality, Deleuze-Guattari...

So, if I correctly comprehend your argument, we ought to chuck-out the unreasonably effective mediocrity principle on the grounds of this – just anoth...

If one seeks to be(come) "a good person", then one ought to do good (via right conduct^ & just practices^^) whenever it's possible to do so effectivel...

Exploitive, licentious, gangster ... predatory.

Mostly those (not only) "in the West" systemically not free (i.e. alienated by exploitation and/or discrimination) "want be free" – free themselves – ...

It seems everything that moves you/us is worth studying.

Nothing but strawmen & sophistry, so the question remains: :sweat:

Assuming it does, explain how an "immaterial mind" interacts with (its) material body.

I'm pretty sure Nelson, Lefty & Charlie passed the audition. :clap:

:up: * https://youtu.be/g4mIAXj0CLM "Under African Skies" (3:37) Graceland, 1986 performed by Paul Simon (writer), with Linda Ronstadt

The Psychology of Stupidity, ed. Jean-François Marmion :rofl: :clap: :fire:

https://youtu.be/Uy5T6s25XK4 Graceland (43:18) Paul Simon, 1986

Isn't that the subject of aesthetics?

"Objective/universal meaning" presupposes existence so I agree existence cannot be meaningful. On the other hand, "meanings" become intelligible in a ...

“Obsession with the harvest and indifference to history are the two extremities of my bow.” ~René Char Somewhere Camus writes "solitaire et solidaire"...

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Go find out, Fool. Interesting stuff.

Yeah. The poem reminds me of my mother who I remember in immaculate hospital white with her youthful figure, who is now a comfortable, still healthy, ...

:up: Their biases long observed in experiments. Daniel Kahneman (Thinking, Fast and Slow) got the Nobel in 2011 for his work with the late Amos Tversk...

You're mistaken. "If X is natural, then X is good" is a naturalistic fallacy. My agency-centered (meta)ethics, which I claim is naturalistic because a...

Let's begin with the fact that "qualia" are distinctions in cognitive neuroscience or philosophy of mind which make no informative difference ... (re:...

:point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimism_bias (scroll down to the section on 'pessimistic bias')

If that's what you gather from my postings all these months, all I can say is you've profoundly misread me. Please show where I've proposed "innate" o...

& Rimbaud too :up:

Music above all else! :up:

"I'll tell you this ... No eternal reward will forgive us now For wasting the dawn" We are natural creatures. Nature lacks meaning. This natural lack ...

I am not convinced that consciousness – self-conscious experience – is what it subjectively seems to each one of us to be (re: Hume, Dennett, Churchla...

Care to clarify?

:smirk: :up:

I had no idea that conscious experience is a "mystery" like g/G.

Yeah, I know what you mean, frank, but ... She had to know what she was getting into and if she really didn't it was willful ignorance on her part. Ki...

The same way I can't say there are no flying elephants either, huh?

Okay. This is where I get off the crazy train. I'm neither utopian enough nor scientistic enough for where you're going, Pfhorrest. 'Normative ethics'...

I'm not sure what you mean. Care to clarify?

No. Biology (i.e. evolution) doesn't have a "purpose". Certainly "thinking & philosophy" are not "part of the survival process" given that modern homo...

Good question. But isn't this just the tension of 'our demand for meaning / to be meaningful' ineluctably confronting 'this indifferent, or meaningles...

:up: https://youtu.be/An2a1_Do_fc "Old Man" (4:08) Live At Massey Hall, 1971 Neil Young NB: Only recently did I realize how this soulful, old song had...

Seems instead only a more self-serving bias.

Perhaps your body does it all without using you.

I bet even y'all "muricans" can guess which man wasn't white. :brow:

The first question is about relevance of good & bad "feeling" to morality, which is wholly subjective; and the second question is about bodily states ...

Apparently, you barely skimmed this :point: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/511367 I've made that point already. You claim answers t...

A3. B1. (or 1C. 2A)

:cool: He's overrated (fuck that Nobel Prize) but "Hurricane" is cool.

I didn't claim or imply that it is. Non sequitur.