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In: Can you lie but at the same time tell the truth?  — view comment
To be, or not to be? That is the question -- Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms ag...
September 13, 2019 at 07:41
In: The Difference Between Future and Past  — view comment
Doesn't 'knowledge' itself presuppose "a difference between past and future"? Also, more precisely, the empirical / computational concept of Entropy ....
September 12, 2019 at 09:40
In: Metaphysical Attitudes Survey  — view comment
:yum: • Other - Absurdist. (vide Zapffe, Beckett, et al) • Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI > qubits!) • Eternalism. (Re: MWI of QM à la modal realism(...
September 12, 2019 at 09:03
In: Metaphysics - what is it?  — view comment
I understand 'naturalism' as epistemologically - methodologically - assuming that 'the natural world' can be intelligibly explained without recourse t...
September 12, 2019 at 07:57
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
'sup, B. :smirk:
September 11, 2019 at 15:37
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Well - long time no dialectic! Your lists, man, are still as monstrously inspiring as I remember ... :wink:
September 11, 2019 at 15:27
In: Metaphysics - what is it?  — view comment
How does one (categorically) predicate that which necessarily precedes, and thereby exceeds, all predicates? Scholatics (or neo-platonists) defined G ...
September 09, 2019 at 01:14
In: Why do some members leave while others stay?  — view comment
Breathe out, breathe in. The bad habit which brought me back now is the same one that drove me away then: breathing ...
September 08, 2019 at 04:23
In: Homo suicidus  — view comment
"Homo suicidus"? I think our species' uniquely distinctive characteristic - functional defect - is Stupidity, that is, the path-of-least-cognitive-eff...
September 07, 2019 at 21:12
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
september readings: • Incontinence of the Void, Slavoj Žižek • Strange Economics, eds. David F. Schultz et al • Realm of Lesser Evil, Jean-Claude Mich...
September 07, 2019 at 07:32
In: The Existence of God  — view comment
You are atoms & void (what) configured as an emergent, ecology-constrained, complex system (how).
January 16, 2016 at 01:31
In: The Existence of God  — view comment
But you are not "conscious" just because you're "a bunch of atoms" ...
January 16, 2016 at 01:22
In: The Existence of God  — view comment
I don't have any idea what "atoms are obviously capable of consciousness" means. Care to elaborate or reformulate?
January 16, 2016 at 01:19
In: The Existence of God  — view comment
Whether or not "g/G exists", theistic - which includes deistic - claims are patently incoherent (à la via negativa) and/or demonstrably false. My phil...
January 16, 2016 at 00:53
In: Metaphysical Ground vs. Metaphysical Nihilism  — view comment
To my mind 'the aimless, self-devouring, World Will' à la Schopenhauer (re: noumenon) is tragic - the epitome of pessimism because "life, nature, crea...
November 26, 2015 at 11:27
In: The Future of the Human Race  — view comment
@ BC -- (Y) As far as I'm concerned, only future intelligence matters.
November 04, 2015 at 05:35
In: AI as a partner  — view comment
@ BC -- 8-)
October 24, 2015 at 21:50
In: Welcome PF members!  — view comment
just wanna say that you folks are amazing! our village washed away in a flood and overnight it's been rebuilt on higher ground (or on a huge raft of f...
October 24, 2015 at 08:02
In: Welcome PF members!  — view comment
8-)
October 24, 2015 at 00:28
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