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Idk, I've only taken "the blue pill" and suspect that "the red pill" only shows that all pills are "blue".
May 21, 2024 at 08:55
The opposite of "trolling".
May 21, 2024 at 07:44
So it's the "blue pill" for you. :cool: :smirk:
May 21, 2024 at 07:42
:lol: stfu & gfy.
May 21, 2024 at 07:38
:clap: :up: More or less this summarizes how I also read Witty's later thinking (re: recursively generated plurality of non-discrete discourses) which...
May 21, 2024 at 07:36
:shade: You're a fatuous liar, BitCunt! Here's some more "antisemitic propaganda" ... The Jerusalem Post 26March23 "32% of all racist incidents in 202...
May 21, 2024 at 05:56
It happens occasionally with the current lottery setups.
May 21, 2024 at 05:38
No. TPF suffices. When that's no longer the case, who knows – maybe.
May 21, 2024 at 04:56
In other words, @"Philosophim" wants you to pretend, along with him, that the OP's argument presented on his other thread (link to it in this OP) has ...
May 21, 2024 at 04:48
AFAIK, that's the "official line" only in many (not most or all) contemporary, developed nations.
May 21, 2024 at 02:26
I suspect that, especially duuring peak childbearing life-stages, human males are "naturally polygamous" and human females are "naturally monogamous",...
May 20, 2024 at 22:05
:up: A corollary to my Ligotti post above from @"Philosophim's" other "existence should be" thread... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/commen...
May 20, 2024 at 20:29
Yw. :cool: Yes (and as a conceptual analogue for Democritus-Epicurus' void), though I interpret the concept as temporal only and not, like Spinoza, al...
May 20, 2024 at 20:15
War criminals Bibi & Hamas together at last: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/reactions-icc-decision-israeli-hamas-leaders-2024-05-20/
May 20, 2024 at 20:04
:100: :zip:
May 20, 2024 at 07:57
An alternative that would be easier to implement, it seems to me (here in the US), is to generate more than 1 set of numbers for each drawing so that ...
May 20, 2024 at 07:51
A quasi-scientistic interpretation of the Spinozist natura naturans (substance). Interesting (despite the physics-mystical gloss) but, IMO, philosophi...
May 20, 2024 at 07:24
No. Except where a philosopher proposes, in the e.g. Hellenic sense, 'philosophy as a way of life' (P. Hadot), I think a philosophy ought to be judged...
May 20, 2024 at 07:00
:smirk::up:
May 19, 2024 at 22:12
Maybe because no one understands (or accepts)
May 19, 2024 at 21:37
"Trolling?" Nah, just rodeo clowning bulls*** :smirk:
May 19, 2024 at 19:20
(Sorry if my counter-argument requires more thought than you gave your argument in the OP.) Once again ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/c...
May 19, 2024 at 19:11
:clap: :rofl: So what will the GOP (gang of pigshits)-MAGA (morons and grifter asswipes) party-line be when Orange Turd-1 is found guilty in NYC (agai...
May 19, 2024 at 18:54
:roll: Like some others already have (which you incorrigibly don't get, Phil), been there, done that: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/commen...
May 19, 2024 at 18:51
Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/904275
May 19, 2024 at 18:27
I don't assume it necessarily would. For my scenario to work, AGI wouldn't have "care" about anything but philanthropically optimizing the infrastruct...
May 19, 2024 at 18:17
Assuming this political-economic 'diagnosis' https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/820342 the most feasible(?) prospects for 'treating the...
May 19, 2024 at 17:39
:roll: What about Sheol? https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13563-sheol
May 19, 2024 at 00:58
:smirk: :up:
May 18, 2024 at 21:07
Since when has it become illogical to disbelieve illogical claims (e.g. theism)? :chin: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/902043
May 18, 2024 at 21:05
:roll: Well, this is like saying 'If some observation corresponds to some Star Wars-specific proposition, then it is evidence that Jediism is true.' h...
May 18, 2024 at 20:34
:up: :up:
May 18, 2024 at 11:17
I think "empathy and compassion" may preceed, rather than follow from, philosophy (which consists of reflecting on, among many other aspects of human ...
May 18, 2024 at 11:11
More projection = confession :lol:
May 18, 2024 at 06:00
Addendum to the 2012 documentary The Gatekeepers linked in my previous post https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/900701 :scream: THE CALL...
May 18, 2024 at 03:45
Probably the same way/s it can (or cannot) be determined whether you or I have agency. I don't think so. Besides, if an "AI" is actually intelligent, ...
May 17, 2024 at 20:28
Are we human (fully/mostly) "conscious"? The jury is still out. And, other than anthropocentrically, why does it matter either way? Only if (and when)...
May 17, 2024 at 18:42
I did not ask for a comment and yet I thanked you for it anyway.
May 17, 2024 at 09:57
Thanks for making my point. :smirk:
May 17, 2024 at 08:36
:up: :up:
May 17, 2024 at 07:15
@"Constance" @"Wayfarer"
May 17, 2024 at 07:13
:100: :fire: Given his "fundamental question", maybe @"Constance" has not considered (e.g.) Spinoza's conatus.
May 16, 2024 at 21:18
:fire: :up: The next round (or three) is on me, mate.
May 16, 2024 at 20:42
(or) immanent to – encompassed by – the seas are its waves
May 16, 2024 at 20:34
. I.e. "existence is" is a sentence fragment. :roll:
May 16, 2024 at 07:09
Yes, but those "expressions" come well after Husserl and his immediate followers. And, more philosophically, whether or not X is undecidable (if so, t...
May 16, 2024 at 00:39
The question-begging (Platonic / Cartesian / transcendent) assumption in (Kantian, Husserlian) transcendental arguments is that "in there" (mind) is s...
May 16, 2024 at 00:15