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Positivist.

Ok.

Not interested enough to watch the video for the summary you've asked for - that's cool. No worries. Others have. And you can't get the gist from what...

"P-zombie" is an incoherent construct because it violates Leibniz's Indentity of Indiscernibles without grounds to do so. To wit: an embodied cognitio...

Did you miss the link to the Berkeley lecture the first time you asked for a summary? Check out the link above for the clearest summary of what I'm tr...

Consider this: Besides, while what makes people happy varies from person to person and from day to day for each of us, what makes people miserable, or...

Yeah, I misread your "basic feature of existence" to mean something like an inherently potential emergent property rather than a fundamental property ...

This 'speculation on mind' called "panpsychism" has always seemed to me nothing but a facile woo-of-the-gaps compositional fallacy proffered as a solu...

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Not even wrong non sequiturs left ... Pathetic. Last grunt's yours.

:roll: :sweat: Whiskey. tRumper. Foxtrot.

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None other than (surprised?) Freddy Zarathustra says, “Christianity is Platonism for the masses." And I agree. Whereas religions traffic in (i.e. answ...

re: knowledge, etc :up: meta (re: "wisdom") :up: meta (re: "dissolving problems") :up: Mostly I agree with this (you & Tegmark :cool: ).

Well, what context other than legal, economic and political contexts (re: 'libertarianism') are you referring to with your objection to my usage?

:smirk: Don't confuse 'em ...

Soooo ... by "magic" you're signifying that you don't understand how emergence works in dynamical complex systems (e.g. inanimate matter --> animate m...

So this sentence, which is not reducible to my/your neurological activity, emerges only by "magic"? And the flavor of steak or salmon or tofu or choco...

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:yawn: Okay. I'll take that as your admission you don't know what you're talking about. Sure, let's just leave it at that.

:roll: Again. Your logorrhea explains nothing, Wayf, certainly not what you've quoted me requesting.

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This reasoning discounts the suffering that would result from frustrating primordial biological drives to procreate - whether self-abstemious or state...

If you're not familiar with Thomas Metzinger's work, check out Being No One (or his abbreviated, non/less-technical summary The Ego Tunnel). Also this...

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november-december readings: • Mythmakers & Lawbreakers, ed. Margaret Killjoy • Peter Watts is An Angry Sentient Tumor, Peter Watts re-reading • Poor E...

both/and, Fella - (But) must be we choose? :smirk: :clap: :down:

How about this: and while you're at it, Wayf, how about this too (unless, of course, you can't because ... y'know ... you're full of __it): "materiali...

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You can't. Besides, without grounds to claim this, or to doubt your own mind (pace Descartes), this question is unwarranted (as well as a performative...

:up: "We invented the blues; Europeans invented psychoanalysis. You invent what you need." ~Albert Murray True. But is that statement "racist"? "preju...

I consider myself a 'fallibilistic epicurean spinozist' (of a quixotic sort) with a strong affinity for Deutsch's QTM, Rovelli's RQM & Tegmark's MUH, ...

If I may ... :chin: Yet since "the hole" can never be filled once and for all (without discarding (i.e. euthanizing, suiciding) "the bucket"), the inf...

:up: :clap: Clearly, what one owns one can sell or bequeath to another, or one could've bought or inherited from another. Thus, it's a category mistak...

That seems like fatalism, not pessimism - futility, not agon-y. The latter says, in effect, no matter what happens, things always can be more difficul...

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4.0 4.1 If there was ever a pseudo-question (see 1.311) it's this one: "What is the ... 4.11 • ... 'meaning' of life" to whom? • ... 'meaning' of life...

Cynical I get. My only point is that you didn't answer the question. 'Ethics' is an urgent need because we are so species-defective.

Sounds rather ... transactional. Manipulative. A narcissistic "dependency". At best, instrumental; not ethical in the least. Motivated "to be liked an...

:cool: I appreciate your interest. After I post a reply to the OP's last ("bonus" :sweat: ) question re: "the meaning of life", I'll come back to your...

See 3.23. I prefer grounded/rooted to "dissolved". Is the difference merely semantic? Explain. Science informs ethics (i.e. all of philosophy) but con...

No; just not necessarily false. (See propositions 2.3, 2.4 & 2.5, especially what I say (not clearly enough) about how we get to doubt). The LNC provi...

Law of Non-Contradiction. :wink: Mostly brevity. Those "other moral dimensions", I think, belong to normative or applied ethics; the questions in the ...

(PSA) Substitute the sociological-anthropological term "out-group" for "race" and use it instead to better rodeo clown all the bulls___ running up & d...

Agreed. Yes abstractions; not states of affairs. ... then it is contingent, that is, it can always change (even if it hasn't yet). 'Necessary - imposs...

:clap: :cool: Moi?! Please elaborate on my 'subconscious', Herr Doktor Wayf. (More sciencey, of course; less to no woo.)

@"Pfhorrest" & @"praxis" Glad for your interest. Thanks for reading. More to come soon. :smirk:

You want everybody, regardless of "racial color" status, to stop back-peddling on racial color-blindness? Translation: I want everybody, regardless of...

Whatever you find harmful, do not do to anyone. 3.0 3.1 At the very least, they are instructions for how and when to avoid, minimize or relieve harm. ...