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:up: :up: Yes, and therefore disembodied ("immaterial") consciousness doesn't make any sense – is just wishful / magical thinking. It means 'the map(m...

:100: Yes ... Merry Xmas.

'Tis the season ... https://youtu.be/c33cW44EVc4?si=QkZfa_Za6YJiIPws "Within You Without You" (5:05) Sergeant Pepper's ..., 1967 writer George Harriso...

"You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop." ~Rumi :roll: Advaita vedanta contemplates nonduality (atman = brahman). Spinoza...

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:up: :up: An emotional – arbitrary – "justification" for e.g. betrayal or cruelty or rape. Lazy. :mask:

:up: Your appeal to popularity here seems quite lazy. Given that everyone is (all sentient creatures are) vulnerable to "harming" (i.e. involuntary pa...

Amen! :fire:

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:eyes: Incorrigibly wrong as always.

https://youtu.be/zpngjPNXnAM?si=gNdiDG1F9_unx2Iy "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." :nerd: (2022) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussio...

So you didn't read (or understand) the articles on self-organizing machines I provided in my previous post ...

:up: So in what sense is your "moral thinking" moral?

:up: :up: Really? :chin: Consider these articles: https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/a-self-organizing-thousand-robot-swarm/ https://direct.mit.edu/books/m...

False. I've neither claimed nor implied such nonsense. No, that's sophistry¹ (e.g. "enformer"-woo-of-the-gaps) from sophos ("wisdom"). Rather philosop...

This is not a position I hold or have ever proposed; I agree that any form of innatism "is not tenable". My response to @"Tom Storm"'s OP is found her...

... logic, mathematics, computation are mind-independent – subject/pov/language/gauge-invariant – algorithmic constraints on nature (i.e. the intellig...

:mask: E.g. a "transwoman" (typical XY) is a gender dysmorphic, modified (mutilated) adult male in drag and not a woman (typical XX). Afaik, "she" is ...

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:roll: ... which is, in fact, science and not philosoohy.

False. Bivalence, or law of the excluded middle, is an axiom of classical logic (indispensable for determining many formal and informal fallacies) as ...

"To know" is a cognitive function of "a living body" which all evidence suggests one is (nondualism ~Spinoza, Epicurus) and not "in"(side of) like a s...

How does "quantum physics" – the most precise description of 'matter' (i.e. physicality / nature) – do this? Well, the aspects of "reality" which are ...

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Having an affinity for "modern Aristotleanism" (e.g. hylomorphism), as you have said you do, Wayf, I'm sure, for consistency's sake, you agree with th...

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Yes, that's the gist. .

Exactly. .

Do you believe that "materialism" entails "nihilism" or vice verse? If not, why group them together? :up: :up: As a moral naturalist: insofar as needl...

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Apologies if I've given the impression of "substance dualism" in mentions of Spinoza. In the Ethics he adamantly opposes "substance dualism" (such as ...

Gracias, homie. :cool: I've listened to several, including his most acclaimed records: "That Nigger's Crazy" "...Is It Something I said?" "Bicentennia...

Well, you had claimed "atheism opposes spirituality" and the examples I've provided show that your claim is not true. I also don't see what quantum ph...

. So what do you make of The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality by André Comte-Sponville or nontheistic religions such as Advaita Vedantism, Jainism,...

Resist every temptation to not think.

The original sin: creating a being self-aware of having been created ... https://youtu.be/HU70rxvJFRE?si=03u5vQ97KO168Aka

No. "Sapience" seems quite rare (i.e. an evolutionary fluke), probably much more so than it is on Earth, if only because it is a feature of life that ...

My "Fermi Paradox" (why I think we are not alone) speculations from a 2019 thread ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/380306 :nerd:

... just because you can doesn't mean you should ... :vomit: https://youtu.be/Nge12IFdqjM?si=aTgSNq2o3gk7_V2y "Free As A Bird, 1968" AI version (wtf) ...

Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/1024764 https://youtu.be/wi_DoCC1XC4?si=V0tZup_58Ze3fhoO Welcome to Zarathustra's 'Motle...

https://youtu.be/J36z7AnhvOM?si=TnzmXc5Pm8q208Px "Can Take My Eyes Off You" (3:34) A-side single, 1967 writers B. Crewe & B. Gaudio performer Frankie ...

:fire: (Ammonius Saccas / Plotinus ... 3rd century CE)

By which you mean exactly what? (I ask because you've unjustifably opposed 'mind-independence' (ontology) which you've conflating with a caricature of...

:100: :up: ... and as if 'mind' itself is not physical (i.e. not a mind-independent property). .

Well, I was responding to this ...