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You've quoted @"Arne", not me.

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Okay, so (as far as you/we know) our 'theories' are incomplete and data insufficient – but no "magic" involved or assumed as you've suggested. We lear...

How do you know that "how matter becomes conscious ... just is" and cannot be explained (even, if only, in principle)? Describe which laws of nature b...

Welcome to TPF! You might find my contrarian view useful – from a 2022 thread Question regarding panpsychism ... IMO, 'panpsychism' is metaphysically ...

Natural beings cannot be separated from nature.

Nature.

For me, in psychology "intentionality" corresponds to attention¹ and in philosophy corresponds to aboutness². https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentio...

So then decide whether 'mind is either natural or supernatural' and consistently follow the implications of that decision as far as it goes.

We produce 'testable empirical theories' (i.e. explanations of how transformations of specified states-of-affairs happen) using sciences, not philosop...

Maybe not, you just don't bother with making – pinning yourself down with – "good arguments".

Valid inferences, contextual relevance, clearly defined / precisely used terms, etc. ... such as Socratically provoked by this post: https://thephilos...

:sweat: As Witty says (and many others back to antiquity point out): "Philosophy is not a theory but an activity." –TLP, 4.112 (i.e. NOT SCIENCE) Inst...

No doubt.

Yes. I usually reread only the first book (or, alternately, just one other book) in a series. I'll probably reread Peace War too. Overall Vinge's nove...

Only a Singularity can save us? :eyes: Globally, we are roughly ten millennia on from living as hunter-gatherers outside of scarcity-driven/reproducin...

Works for me. :up: In science, this quality is a feature not a bug and therefore piques my philosophical interest. :cool: :up: If you've read Being No...

Same with us, no? There also is "no empirical way of knowing" (yet / ever) whether any person is "conscious or faking". Which seems more reasonable, o...

How about Freddy's eternal return – an "afterlife" of This Life lived over again and again and again ... ad infinitum: https://philosophynow.org/issue...

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Same as every other member of TPF, Jack, I expect from you what I expect from myself: good reasoning and valid arguments rather than unwarranted opini...

"Appear" to whom? Like aether, phlogiston, qi ... elan vital has been debunked as a "force" or "energy", so are you speaking metaphorically? The philo...

And you are entitled to your conspicuously uninformed, spectator's opinion, sir/mam. :victory:

The only "commonalities" I can discern in the many prevailing "afterlife" scenarios is that they are completely unwarranted substance dualities and an...

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I agree but for a contrary reason: I think body is "at the core of human existence" and that "mind" is a description, in part, for what our bodies – b...

If determinism is true, then we are determined to assign moral culpability to whomever we think is "actually" morally culpable. There cannot be a vant...

On the contrary: if determinism is true, then we are determined to assign moral culpability to everyone (i.e. beings like ourselves at least).

I read it. You make statements but not a valid argument for your assertion that As far as I can tell, there's no more reason "we should expect" this t...

You want an argument for the proposition 'there is an afterlife?'

Why is it not relevant? Your OP is speculating on fantasy, isn't it? Not sarcasm either.

It seems more reasonable to me than the inverse that mathematics was/is invented and that applications for it were/are discovered.

update – For coherence sake, maybe this "afterlife" only happens to those who have outlived at least one parent and have died childless.

Clarify what are you asking about – I don't see the relevance.

... except whenever they are instantiated.

I think pandeus is unimaginable. No (à la: Spinoza's substance or Epicurus' void or Laozi's dao). A metaphysical entity. :up:

"Fantasy" is what we make out of the "reality" we find, no?

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Don't sulk ...

Speculatively, as a pandeist ... I suppose it means "to be without being" a being. I suppose one wouldn"t be "human" any longer ... like a butterfly i...

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Just as the Covid-19 exposed the failings of the US for-profit public health-HMO-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, every delay bought & paid for by C...

:roll: Wrong again. Andronikos titled the collection Metaphysics 300 years after Aristotle's death, not "100 years".

Wrong. Apparently you didn't read (or understand) the links I've provided ... Aristotle (d. 4th century BCE) never used the title "metaphysics" which ...

In memory of Vernor Vinge, d. 2024 I'm rereading • A Fire Upon The Deep • "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era"...

:up: Cite a 'supernatural-Y' that (testably) explains some natural-X. Also, do you dispute that questions which are 'answered by mysteries' (e.g. supe...

:eyes: :roll: :smirk: Okay, whatever. update: https://youtu.be/DTXS2ut-xcI?si=sL0aLdvbOYOjJa98 (Rick Wilson posted on Youtube 19 March 24) addendum: h...

You're quite mistaken, Abhiram. 'Metaphysics' literally is tà metà tà physikà (transl. the books after the books on nature)^^ After the Physics ~Andro...