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(2020) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/526452

Addendum to ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/913307 Agreed. Whatever is real can be known, even if only in principle, and therefo...

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:roll: Instantiated, I wrote, not "immanent". Anyway, Wayf, your quarrel regarding the ontology of abstractions (e.g. concepts) begins with Kant(ians)...

Only to the extent "concepts" are instantiable in the material (contra Plato et al) are they "real" and useful for living (i.e. phronesis), otherwise ...

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Searle's tongue was in his cheek: whoever "disproves everybody else's solipsism" presupposes that s/he is not a solipsist. :smirk:

Good. So explain what objective difference this subjective distinction makes. What does "limits of objectivity" mean? Of course "science cannot" inves...

I.e. ecological-embodied metacognition ... :roll:

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– and neither can idealism, subjectivism, spiritualism nor any other woo.

Consider this article concerning findings on (in my words) 'the materiality of thinking' presented by a distinguished MIT researcher at a recent neuro...

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... this speculation is indistinguishable from ancient (Vedic, Greek) atomists' void¹ or quantum vacuum of contemporary fundamental physics (wherein "...

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Nope, afaik the quantum vacuum is the ground state of nature.

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Physicalist (philosophical naturalist).

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Aka Antifa – opposition to pro-"fascist / authoritarian" white grievance paranoia. Yes, we're guilty as charged. :mask: I didn't claim or imply MAGA i...

It's not a "mind" and yet capable of illusions (just as LLMs can hallucinate).

What about mindless facial recognition software that misrecognizes faces? Illusion =/= misrecognition, no?

Define what you mean by "lefty wokeness"? AFAIK that pejorative expression invokes another vacuous, right-wing media boogeyman in order to "own the Li...

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:up: :up: Finally, you agree with us eliminativists and physicalists that, in effect, "consciousness" is not what it "appears" to be (e.g. a homuncula...

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I've no idea what your ramble means.

Everything. Nothing. And why the chronic habit (nearly contagious/mimetic learned idiocy) of not-thinking persists even in this post-Enlightenment "In...

Yes, and we've been speculating in the context of physics (re: the universe). Btw, "philosophical nothing" is more precisely referred to as nothing-ne...

Perhaps 'quantum uncertainty' ... such that "nothing" necessarily fluctuates and (at some threshold) a density of fluctuations – (contingent) not-noth...

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False. They are "transwomen" (typical XY) and "transmen" (typical XX). Period. Usually they suffer from gender dysphoric disorder (GDD). Otoh, men are...

:halo: :up: (2020) my two shekels ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/506435

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Free of spacetime locality (naturata)? No. Free of situational constraints/conflicts? No. Free of ecological-embodied execution? No. Free of involunta...

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I don't recall stating that. In fact, I believe eudaimonia (i.e. flourishing) is objective — acquiring adaptive habits (virtues) and unlearning malada...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/1024189

https://fourphilosophies.com/epicureanism-vs-hedonism/ (re: aponia, ataraxia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering-focused_ethics (re: disutilitari...

None of your examples are the ones I gave: luxuries, excesses, wealth, power or fame (all of which cause fear of pain of losing them somehow) and ther...

I have not read the thread yet but ... I don't know about Plato's mumbo-jumbo, but Epicurus thinks "bad pleasures" are ones which cause or increase pa...

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