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So long as h. sapiens are mortal and scarcity-anxious, I agree our species will remain congentially religious.
June 24, 2024 at 18:39
Implicit in Zionism is an ethnic-religious hierarchy. Caveat: History shows that sooner or later every ethno-state that systemically oppresses – murde...
June 24, 2024 at 17:26
:up: Piggy-backing on your suggestion, Philo, here's one of my old posts listing dozens of "god proofs" ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/...
June 24, 2024 at 17:10
24June24 A reminder on the 2nd anniversary of SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/895573 :fire: :mask:...
June 24, 2024 at 16:56
Nazism is German (Aryan) self-determination. The Third Reich is the manifestation of that idea.
June 24, 2024 at 16:45
:roll: By "faith" I mean worship of supernatural mysteries e.g. "a god" (re: OP), not mere (un/warranted) trust in a usage or practice. Context matter...
June 24, 2024 at 16:20
Whatever is real does not require faith and only a god can "prove a god".
June 24, 2024 at 08:27
FWIW, I'm a ... pandeist. Thus, my "god" (pandeus) is the encompassing absence concealed by "all gods".
June 24, 2024 at 06:25
Why do you assume there is any relation between "sentience" and "morality"? Does (e.g.) computating, protein folding, translating or regulating homeos...
June 24, 2024 at 05:03
Insofar as one reflectively reasons in order to critique and interpret norms (i.e. rules, criteria, methods, conventions, customs, givens), philosophy...
June 24, 2024 at 04:24
It's a pseudo-problem ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/611954
June 23, 2024 at 19:17
What question is not begged (is not fallaciously answered) by "a mystery"? None. How is anything explained by or justified with "a mystery"? They are ...
June 23, 2024 at 18:41
Guess #3: "The Big Bang" (i.e. planck-radius universe). So you think every entity, including mind, is mind-dependent? (Btw, Spinoza dissolved the MBP ...
June 23, 2024 at 18:07
I do not equate, or confuse, "awareness" with being "conscious" (e.g. blindsight¹). Also, I do not expect AGI, whether embodied or not, will be develo...
June 23, 2024 at 17:59
Guess #1: A vacuum fluctuation. Guess #2: To make measurements with – interacting via – (massless) quanta.
June 23, 2024 at 10:53
:point: fighting nonsense with nonsense ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/910736 Context matters. :eyes: :roll: :sweat: https://en...
June 23, 2024 at 10:31
Explain what you mean by "moral truth". If not habit-forming (i.e. flourishing / languishing) responses to "moral facts"¹, then in what does "moral tr...
June 23, 2024 at 07:14
My point is that there is moral truth (i.e. either an agent prevents / reduces net harm to – dysfunction of – any agent or an agent fails to do so) an...
June 22, 2024 at 17:14
:lol:
June 22, 2024 at 16:39
Fact: zionists are antisemites (re: Palestinians), ergo anti-zionists are anti-antisemities. However, antisemites (re: Jews), like rightwing evangelic...
June 22, 2024 at 16:36
:up: :up: @"NOS4A2" Sentencing on 11July24 ... (Adults who can "handle the truth", click username link for my argument.) :victory: :mask:
June 22, 2024 at 15:58
???
June 22, 2024 at 04:14
:up: None of the lawyers who frequent these fora have claimed the Campaign Violation Cover-Up trial in NYC was a "kangaroo court" proceeding. (I'm sur...
June 22, 2024 at 01:14
I assume neither the first nor the last, only AGI's metacognitive "independence". The rest of your post, therefore, does not follow from my speculatio...
June 21, 2024 at 22:41
An excellent reminder that we must vote and struggle against the neofascist, jim crow candidate(s) whom grifted, confederate / insurrection flag-wavin...
June 21, 2024 at 20:52
I don't think we can "program" AGI so much as train it like we do children and adolescents, mostly, learning from stories and by example ( :yikes: ) ....
June 21, 2024 at 19:25
On the first day of summer 2024 in the US, a FOX Noise poll shows that POTUS is pulling ahead of Fraudster-Ra(p)ist-Convict-1... https://www.forbes.co...
June 21, 2024 at 09:49
:up:
June 21, 2024 at 08:24
In other words, 'signs of the holy sacred divine ...' are just, at minimum, expressions of human ignorance. Lord forgive me but again I agree with the...
June 21, 2024 at 06:11
No. FWIW, from an old post ... ... or, in other words, "beauty" gives pleasure more memorably than not-beauty whereas "goodness" gives purpose less ar...
June 21, 2024 at 05:53
I think so. I often experience joy listening to music, reading, creating, orgasming, helping someone in non-trivial ways and from long vigor walks/hik...
June 21, 2024 at 04:37
"The One" is unbounded nature (or existence) and materialism is one way of talking about, or describing, nature that explicitly excludes "immaterial" ...
June 20, 2024 at 20:28
'Happiness', I think (ime), corresponds to freedom from fear and pain. Sometimes I'm happy; most of the time, however, I'm striving to be (briefly) ha...
June 20, 2024 at 18:18
True.
June 20, 2024 at 18:09
:cool: Your affinity for daoism speaks to me as well. I also agree our close but differing insights in metaphysics are helpful.
June 20, 2024 at 15:55
There are compelling grounds to doubt "solipsism" (e.g. disembodiment, immaterialism, brain-in-vat, etc) which suffice for dismissing it. By your own ...
June 20, 2024 at 06:05
:up: :up:
June 20, 2024 at 04:05
It seems "narratives and models" are "useful" in the broadest scope only, in fact, when they are approximately true. Maybe not but I can't think of an...
June 19, 2024 at 05:46
:100: :smirk:
June 18, 2024 at 20:48
Well done. I especially appreciate the distinction between being 'materialistic' and being a 'materialist'. :up: As for 'the fundamental unity', Einst...
June 18, 2024 at 20:46
Retrospectively, not prospectively or "instinctively".
June 18, 2024 at 19:21
Nonsense. For instance, we seek "territory and food" in order to sustain ourselves biologically (like all other non-human animals do) and not because ...
June 18, 2024 at 19:05
DD's been an antisemite for decades long before the latest protests (by many Jews too) against Israeli apartheid and war crimes. Unlike the majority o...
June 18, 2024 at 18:53
Head up arse :point:
June 17, 2024 at 22:07
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June 17, 2024 at 22:04
:100: :fire:
June 17, 2024 at 04:15
"Survival" of the many (re: clean water scarcity like accelerating climate change) isn't "as important" structurally to the few as ... "transportation...
June 17, 2024 at 02:28
Apparently, the problems aren't bad enough yet for enough of the people or the elites. And there are more seemingly immediate and pressing problems im...
June 16, 2024 at 21:50
For the third time I'm posting this link in response to your nonsense. Read it for comprehension and stop playing stupid. :shade: https://en.m.wikiped...
June 16, 2024 at 21:05