It's meaningless because the caucus had the lowest turn out since 2000 due in part to brutally frigid weather and yet about two-thirds of the voters a...
:smirk: According to the context in which the phrase was used, "aesthetic response" should be clear. Prima facie. No need to overthink, Amity, my mean...
I think a more significant question (or challenge) is Do you have the courage to live – thrive – despite Life having no discernible or agreed upon mea...
A plea to remember the slaughtering of innocents and witnesses which media (at least in the US) is already forgetting under an avalanche of new, daily...
And this 'idea' is incoherent because it implies either (A) a Matryoshka doll-like infinite regress of minds-which-exist within minds-which-exist with...
No, I have no idea what you meant, which is why I asked. As for me, your first crack at defining "story" works, especially if "interesting" means more...
I like the 'Turing Test' prospect here: whether or not a purported "piece of prose" generated by a 'machine' can elicit an aesthetic response from – c...
I actually wrote "soundly reasonable to conclude" referring to us here and now which is a posteriori. Misquoting – partially quoting – only gets you s...
If you haven't read him yet, you might find interesting the writings of the naturalist philosopher of mind Owen Flanagan who has studied and appreciat...
By "solipsism" I understand – ontologically, not epistemologically – that only one mind exists and that all else are merely thoughts, ideas or dreams ...
It's soundly reasonable to conclude that there is no "reason for the existence of mankind" but mankind's reasons. Likewise, it's also soundly reasonab...
Mostly for whom? To the extent "capitalism" has "increased standards of living", this has happened – "trickled down" – unevenly, cyclically, and at th...
Perhaps, just as fundamentalism (e.g. theocracy) is an antimodernist reaction to failed secularism (e.g. imperialism), autocracy (e.g. fascism) is a p...
FWIW, I walk 3-5 miles every day (weather permitting) as the entirety of my exercise regimen; other than water, daily I drink a pot of strong black te...
No. All living things are responsive, some – relatively very few – are "conscious" (and only intermittenly). For me "the cutoff of "consciousness" wou...
And again, your contention has nothing to do with what I've writeen. To wit: i.e. examining one's own 'unexamined life' (e.g. one's 'unexamined' assum...
My guess (wishful thinking?): the oligarchic-corporatist "neoliberal" establishment (i.e. bankers-military industrialists) is hellbent on keeping a "n...
Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped c225. On the other hand, in retaliation, Israel has so far killed 23,000+ Palestinians and displaced c2 mill...
I have not stated or implied this. The unexamined life is not worth living. ~Socrates Your dogma, sir, flies in the face of the demonstrable fact (thr...
Just the opposite as my previous references to 'evolutionary psychology', 'cognitive neuroscience' & 'critical/dialectical/existential self-corrective...
Yes, as is confirmed in large part by many decades of cross-cultural reseaches in e.g. evolutionary psychology (we are primates, not "cartesian subjec...
A more than just "symbolic" appeal for justice by ICJ indicting the apartheid, settler-colonial State of Israel of deliberately committing Crimes Agai...
My guess (wishful thinking?): the oligarchic-corporatist "neoliberal" establishment (i.e. bankers-military industrialists) is hellbent on keeping a "n...
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