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Afaik,"God" is an empty name that "exists" only in the heads of religious believers (i.e. superstitious, magical thinkers).

I can't follow any of this ...

"So scornful?" Why do you ask? Read the links I provided (the articles are simplified, non-technical summaries).

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"GUT" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory "TOE" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything

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I guess I'm a broken record ...

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:100: And probably, imo, "they" are not even – are no longer – "species" but instead spacefaring AI probes (operationally independent of their long ag...

G.U.T. =/= "T.O.E." (both in physics and anatomy :smirk:) because the latter is pop-sci / metaphysical hype and the former is a scientific research pr...

In that case it wouldn't matter one wit that you'd lived here. :mask: :victory: Yes, the next POTUS sure did. https://youtu.be/QYCWIEJLmx8?si=qwJIoKYG...

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How about a (commonplace) synonym for "cons"... ?

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Clarify this phrase (in context, of course). Thanks.

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Are you asking whether or not the world lacks subjects? or lacks subjective aspects? Insofar as subjects are self-reflexive, adaptive objects (which a...

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Yes. Or maybe we have received their signals but our systems lack the sensitivity and/or bandwidth to distinguish those signals from the cosmic backgr...

Whether or not it is (I don't think it is), the OP clearly doesn't use "truth" that way.

Your "physics of nature" is redundant (unless you believe there is "physics of" something other than "nature", which doesn't make sense).

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The claim of "pseudo-science" is not just someone "expressing their opinion"; the claim can be shown to be true or not true – to wit: if an explanatio...

From a 2020 thread Aliens!

Of course; but I didn't claim or imply otherwise. There are virtuous circles and vicious circles, and the latter are self-refuting ones (e.g. OP's def...

I just can't grok this gobbledygook, mate. Sorry. Reads like trumpian word salad to me. :mask: :up:

Yeah, that's ancient neoplatonism ... subjective idealism (Berkeley), monadology (Leibniz) or absolute idealism (Hegel). This anti-realist thesis is c...

I'm pretty sure I've directly or indirectly answered these already .

No, it is inferred (read Hume ...) It could not be anything else (read Epicurus or Spinoza ...)

Your willful ignorance is stunning, BC. :sweat:

And therefore if relativism is true for some and not others, then it is self-refuting as a claim (i.e. relativism is relative ... "truth is subjective...

Of course. "Consciousness", such as it is, at least is an effect – output – of neurologically complex body-environment interactions. In other words, i...

No doubt, as a post filled with strawmen & non sequiturs show, you're a willfully ignorant apologist for zionfascism. :shade: :up:

Bibi's regime + settler movement = Hamas, etc. IMO, "both oppressors" have forfeited their "right to exist". Secular Jews & secular Arabs have been ef...

Lovely. :flower: Familiarity breeds ... "bizarre and beautiful spider" bites. Or mistaken identity – shock of recognition – (like "seeing a ghost"). B...

The latter (truism) doesn't justify, or imply, the former (disbelief). Why? Suppose what we call "observer" is only an aspect of "the environment" tha...

To the degree they are interesting (i.e. unfamiliar), I agree.

Given that human facticity is classical and nonrelativistic, I don't see the philosophical relevance – existential import – of either relativistic phy...

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As I've pointed out already ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/926546 In this sense, I think so: a map is an abstraction from aspec...

:up: Okay, sounds to me like compatibilism.

Blah blah blah ... but what do YOU think, Jack, about the topic at issue?

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No doubt, rhetorical non sequiturs. :confused:

Well, imo, that's because both are pseudo-problems generated (mostly) by 'philosophical grammar' and not themselves scientific, or empirical, problems...