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In: What's the biggest lie you were conditioned with?  — view comment
The biggest lie? Candidates ... • caste (i.e. social/class hierarchy) • gender (i.e. sex roles/hierarchy) • race (i.e. color/ethnic hierarchy) • roman...
February 14, 2021 at 21:24
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Happy V-D :broken: https://youtu.be/Y9JiONnrQqI "I Put A Spell On You" (2:34) I Put A Spell On You, 1965 written by Jay Hawkins, 1956 performed by Nin...
February 14, 2021 at 19:01
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
V-D for one ? https://youtu.be/QKEfyXPt91U "My Funny Valentine" Live (12:02) Miles Davis Quintet Miles Davis - trumpet Wayne Shorter - tenor sax Herbi...
February 14, 2021 at 17:58
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
The minority GOP made the majority Dems blink. Déjà vu: No witnesses, therefore no trial (political or otherwise). tr45h 2, USA 0. :shade:
February 14, 2021 at 02:15
In: Thomas Nagel wins Rescher Prize for Philosophy  — view comment
:fire: :clap: Eppur si muove ...
February 12, 2021 at 07:51
In: Quotes from Thomas LIgotti's Conspiracy Against the Human Race  — view comment
Well I find nothing much to quarrel with ...
February 11, 2021 at 23:49
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
In memoriam Chick Corea 1941-2021 music program for the evening: https://youtu.be/FrxoxDt_QPI Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (42:41) Return to Forever, 19...
February 11, 2021 at 23:47
In: Quotes from Thomas LIgotti's Conspiracy Against the Human Race  — view comment
a. Sophistry or philosophy (i.e. satifisfied swine or sad socratics ... flattery or diagnosis ...) b. Thinking that 'nothing matters' also does not ma...
February 11, 2021 at 20:25
In: What is the value of a human life for you?  — view comment
Hillel the Elder expresses it best: "That which is hateful to you do not do to another."
February 11, 2021 at 03:41
In: On Change And Time  — view comment
I suppose so if you don't understand it (or can't answer the question posed) ... At least, it's more coherent (less vague > more relevant) than your O...
February 10, 2021 at 13:29
In: On Change And Time  — view comment
I didn't claim or imply that it is.
February 09, 2021 at 23:45
In: On Change And Time  — view comment
:up:
February 09, 2021 at 17:01
In: On Change And Time  — view comment
Is 'increasing from minimum disorder to maximum disorder of a closed system (e.g. universe)' an illusion?
February 09, 2021 at 12:41
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Here's eleven (kinda all over the place): The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler Nevet...
February 09, 2021 at 03:08
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ZQIMPzqOY "Feelin' Good" (2:53) I Put A Spell On You, 1965 written by A. Newley & L. Bricusse, 1964 performed by Nina ...
February 08, 2021 at 02:55
In: How and Why  — view comment
"Gravity" is merely a term (à la proper name) and not an explanation. "It bends space" is the (descriptive) germ of a mechanistic explanation.
February 07, 2021 at 22:36
In: A Simple P-zombie  — view comment
:roll:
February 07, 2021 at 20:29
In: A Simple P-zombie  — view comment
Don't try to evade the point by fixating on Leibniz, Fool, address my subsequent elaboration re: property-output ... of embodied cognition. Silly. Tha...
February 07, 2021 at 20:23
In: A Simple P-zombie  — view comment
No. No (at least, not on this basis). (Again) I submit myself for correction. :sweat: :up:
February 07, 2021 at 20:10
In: How and Why  — view comment
reason is not an intention but, instead, the sufficient condition, or causal event, indicative of a "method or mechanism". I don't agree because I und...
February 07, 2021 at 19:52
In: Philosophy interview  — view comment
1. "Ultimate" is a (transcendental) illusion. (The) reality "beyond" (every) reality is as nonsensical as ... north of the north pole. 2. Propositiona...
February 07, 2021 at 19:15
In: Dating Intelligent Women  — view comment
I suspect sapiosexuals don't.
February 07, 2021 at 05:53
In: Life: An Experimental Experience and Drama?  — view comment
What (& whose) conjecture – explanatory hypothesis – is being tested by deducing a 'life-experiment'? Or do you mean 'living one's life such that one'...
February 06, 2021 at 05:03
In: Philosophy interview  — view comment
Randomness – not mere chance or unpredictability. (re: void, no-thing, oblivion ...) Neither. Truths are propositional: they are discerned, or inferre...
February 05, 2021 at 16:02
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Brian Sicknick 1978-2021 Capitol Hill Police Officer murdered by a mob of MAGA-QAnon insurrectionists while tr45h enthusiastically watched from the WH...
February 03, 2021 at 23:18
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
S.K. merely means 'that one is' manifests (i.e. embodies, becomes) 'what how who & why one is'. In other words, it's vacuous – fallacious – to reify (...
February 03, 2021 at 09:14
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
:razz:
February 03, 2021 at 01:04
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." ~Daniel Boorstein Ass-backwards again! :rofl: The D-K effect refe...
February 02, 2021 at 23:09
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
What "argument"? STFD, kid. :rofl:
February 01, 2021 at 05:17
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
Of course it follows — you didn't offer an evidentiary or factual or sound inferential basis for knowing that "there is only one".
February 01, 2021 at 02:58
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
So "God" is merely an abstract object (e.g. number, idea, concept, etc)?
February 01, 2021 at 02:43
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
How do you/we know this?
February 01, 2021 at 02:37
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
Yeah, so which one is that? Yours is a descriptive attribution; but which deity (of any religious tradition!) answers to that description (i.e. (your)...
January 31, 2021 at 23:11
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
Yeah, so which one is that? Yours is a descriptive attribution; but which deity (of any religious tradition!) answers to that description (i.e. (your)...
January 31, 2021 at 22:59
In: Can God do anything?  — view comment
Which "God"?
January 31, 2021 at 22:45
In: Can we dispense with necessity?  — view comment
:smirk: Apparently ... ... assertion without a valid argument.
January 31, 2021 at 02:04
In: Can we dispense with necessity?  — view comment
Well, if you can, demonstrate that "there are no necessary truths" is true.
January 30, 2021 at 16:28
In: Can we dispense with necessity?  — view comment
:up: :clap: ... formal (i.e. logic, mathematics), not fictional. Agreed; 'necessary facts' are impossible.
January 30, 2021 at 16:10
In: Philosophical Computer  — view comment
AlphaGoZeno ...
January 29, 2021 at 23:35
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
:clap: :brow:
January 28, 2021 at 04:29
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
More of that oldtime No True Scotsman glossolalia methinks (re: Ben Sasse). Voltaire had it right – succinctly and to the point: To wit: e.g. Evangeli...
January 27, 2021 at 23:33
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
Oh, btw ... fyi: So if, for instance, 20 GOP senators are absent when the vote is taken, 53 (rather than 67) votes will be needed to convict, or 2 GOP...
January 27, 2021 at 22:34
In: Rating American Presidents  — view comment
con't ... https://www.politicususa.com/2021/01/27/joe-scarborough-has-harsh-words-for-trump-terrorists.html
January 27, 2021 at 22:15
In: Is the material world the most absolute form of reality?  — view comment
You raise issues of perennial interest in the OP and the best (as well as easiest) way for me to respond to them is with links (inside links) to old p...
January 27, 2021 at 15:01
In: Is the material world the most absolute form of reality?  — view comment
Absolute? Well, ineluctable (i.e. subject-pov-language-gauge invariant) apparently. Furthermore ... "The future is uncertain But the end is always nea...
January 27, 2021 at 14:18
In: What is the purpose/point of life?  — view comment
:death: :flower: And so we feel "nothing matters, nothing ever done, said, made, or valued matters" ... until experience compels us to reflect, recogn...
January 23, 2021 at 08:55
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
1/20/21 > conservative (rightwing) post mortem on TR45H: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/witless-ape-rides-helicopter/amp/...
January 21, 2021 at 13:02
In: "A cage went in search of a bird."  — view comment
:fire: :clap:
January 21, 2021 at 10:45
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
:up:
January 20, 2021 at 05:25
In: Kamala Harris  — view comment
"... a Black woman, of South Asian descent ..." ~President-elect Biden referring to Vice President-elect Harris, January 19, 2021
January 20, 2021 at 03:27
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