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Nonetheless, we are not "special" just animals with different defects and capabilities.

Yeah, and in the grand scheme of things those "issues" seem quite trivial.

I think philosophy consists in questioning choice and the choices one makes in order to understand how and why one chooses. One tends to learn more fr...

As I've pointed out already about so-called "results" ... To my mind science's horizons are explicitly philosophical. Which is why I wrote habitually ...

My point is "the search for the unknown", as you said, is not "new" within or without philosophy.

Nothing "new" in that ... Socrates teaches "Know Thyself" since self – desires, biases, taken-for-granteds, assumptions, limitations – are habitually ...

What "new thinking" are you talking about?

You're still only talking about philosophy without doing it – at most, IMO, that's gossip, not thinking.

Well, "we evaluate our limits", so to speak, by actually doing philosophy instead of just talking about philosophy given that "answers" are merely how...

Yes, there's a difference ... (Btw, I adopt both positions as the latter, I think, is a function of, or entailed by, the former.) As a philosophical n...

:fire: (à la atoms swirling in void ... modes of substance ... the mediocrity principle ... descent with modifications by natural selection ... entrop...

:sweat: Projection (i.e. confession) ... okay.

So do I but I can't learn anything from time-wasting questions like yours which a close, or careful, reading of my posts make unnecessary. Lazy (shall...

I've stated and clarified my position. My apologies if it's still not clear enough. You antinatalists seem to worry yourselves about what you can't ch...

Nonsense.

Choosing (as I inadvertantly have, btw) to defy one's biological drives, or genetic programming, in order not to breed ... In other wods, antinatalism...

Neither. :fire:

Influenced by Ravi Shankar's music and John Coltrane's album Impressions, particularly the piece "India" https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/com...

https://youtu.be/VlIyqiIJ98w?si=__LLkRzGrAXF2Hdr "Shhh/Peaceful" (16:16) In a Silent Way, 1969 composer Miles Davis performers M. Davis, W. Shorter, J...

Gladly. From a previous post ... So of what value is it?

https://youtu.be/tiJI9hBBdS8?si=qdOLxQLYUtrYjwFz "India" (14:10) Impressions, 1963 composer John Coltrane, 1961 performers J. Coltrane, E. Dolphy, M. ...

Could be. :lol:

:roll: If you say so ... I guess you need to feel you're right (which is, at best, dogmatic) much more than you need to learn and understand. Well, go...

Besides our many previous exchanges on the topic in the last few years, schop, this post sums up my outlook: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion...

I did not state or imply that I agree with Ligotti (or Zapffe), only that his book inspired – reinforced – my own conclusion that 'anitnatalism is fut...

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:roll: :rofl: Sorry, mate, but as a p-naturalist (i.e. anti-supernaturalist & atheist) who is also an anti-platonist, I find your ignorant statement a...

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:smirk: I suspect you just lost @"Wayfarer" @"Gnomon" et al. Told ya. :roll:

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If you say so ... Carl Sagan's take on "spirit" (from spiritus (breath), from spiro (to breathe)) makes perfect sense to me given my six years of paro...

Yes please.

For me it's the other way around; maybe because I'd long ago gotten used to familial disinterest in my completed yet unpublished long and short fictio...

https://www.skeptic.com/insight/the-fifth-horseman-the-insights-of-victor-stenger-1935-2014/ ¹

I'm a huge fan of T. Ligotti's horror fiction and love his book The Conspiracy Against the Human Race the arguments and insights of which have convinc...

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I had gf for over a year who was half-Ojibwe and I can't recall now (three decades later) her or her dad (or our friends from Red Lake) telling me abo...

Same here. I agree. Pax.

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Maybe you should consult a 'dictionary of philosophical terms'. :roll:

:up: It is only "dishonest" when one votes without reading a story, which, however, can only be known of others by a 'telepathic mind-reader'. :roll: ...

I don't recall that critter so I can't say I have been "bitten", unless by "snow snake" you mean frostbitten which I definitely have (e.g.) on both ic...

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Hylomorphism? :chin: IIRC paraphrasing Peirce / Wittgenstein, arithmetic (e.g. counting) is a practice, therefore material in effect; numbers, however...

No doubt.

Noooo. As they often say in the Twin Cities (from October to May back when I lived there): "Oh, it's too cold to snow." :smirk:

... ergo a fundamentalist ethnonational delusion; thus, the many generations of secular Jews who were/are conscientious anti-Zionists. https://thephil...

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Michael Brecker's "Syzygy" & Brick's "Dazz" https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/754042