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Addendum to :victory: :mask: "The Coming Biden Blowout" by David Frum https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/gop-republicans-2024-election-...

https://youtu.be/ApthDWoPMFQ?si=6qlpyTEZb_JJl4e9 "What's Going On" (3:53) What's Going On, 1971 writers A. Cleveland, R. Benson & M. Gaye, 1970 perfor...

(Some) Mathematical structures.

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I'm a p-naturalist¹ and thereby speculatively assume that aspects of nature are only explained within – immanently to – nature itself by using other a...

When I'd seen 2010 in theatrical release back in the 80s I thought it was okay too but rewatching it again several years ago I really didn't like it. ...

No. 'Empirical' is also a philosophical term (e.g. Kant) so it's not synonymous with "scientific". No. :roll:

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:up: This is why I say 'aspects of nature' and not 'everything'. Epistemological pluralism (e.g. N. Goodman's irrealism) makes the most sense to me.

Too reliant on folk psychology and seemingly not informed enough by contemporary cognitive neuroscience. "Consciousness" is an empirical problem yet t...

What do you mean by "idealism – which flavor of it?" Why does this "consistency" with "advances in science" matter? "Science doesn't do" poetry or spo...

Certainly, in the Platonic-Aristotlean tradition, politics & ethics are complementary faces of the philosophical coin. Not all participants in politic...

:Same for me, haunted in good company. :fire: :eyes:

Great legal (& political) minds think alike! Truth hurts MAGAts, doesn't it? :victory: :mask:

re: Criminal Defendent/Fraudster/Loser-1: 2023 was the Year of Felony Indictments. :cool: 2024 is the Year of Convictions (& Bankruptcy). :fire: *Happ...

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It's not too late to give it a try ...

I've been told I have a sexy voice and that I usually speak to people like they are five year olds. :smirk:

Apologies for this delayed response. Repeating your definition doesn't make it more substantive than just a definition. Again, an arbitrary posit. Cir...

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Just under six hours to go to 2024 on the US Pacific coast and we're about to sit down to dinner. Later I will watch 2001: A Space Odyssey again as I'...

I'm a methological physicalist – I exclude 'non-physical' (i.e. stop-gap / fudge factor) concepts and entities from models, or explanations, of aspect...

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Banned ... another "Israeli war crimes" apologist.

Cite where I "sympathize with Hamas" or retract your slander.

Apparently, you've not been paying attention ...

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Please, sir, STFU. Much appreciated.

And Bibi's regime took the bait, so fuck 'em too. :mask: :up:

"The question itself is" simple minded (e.g. ahistorical). :brow:

:roll: :shade: For decades Bibi has supplied matches & gasoline to Hamas and now firebombs Gaza in retaliation for Hamas setting one of Bibi's houses ...

White hole (instead of "Big Bang"): https://youtu.be/p_QXsWgLI3E?si=2jL5QIeXVpekC2sr

White hole (instead of "Big Bang"): https://youtu.be/p_QXsWgLI3E?si=2jL5QIeXVpekC2sr

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I guess you don't like my answer so you deny I've given it a few times already. How about this, tim: I would not have supported the jihadist Hamas par...

Habituation to stimuli (e.g. dopamine-on-demand) sets in and eventually it's all "dull, undifferentiated pleasure" (just ask any (rich) junkie ... the...

No. No. A "fully-immersive simulation" prosthesis (with no off-switch / exit) = a lobotomy plus continuous 24/7 morphine drip.

Asked and answered over two years ago ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/650650

Reason's Greetings (bye-bye 2023!) https://youtu.be/CWE6LPCs4ns?si=9AF9gn_W0v12RtBB "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (7:15) Sticky Fingers, 1971 writers J...

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Not at all; just my anti-settler-colonizer/anti-zionism that I share with and Israeli conscientious objectors like Tal Mitnick. Clearly, it's apologis...

Obviously you are correct. You're being generous, ucarr. @"Gnomon" spouts his own warlock's brew of woo-woo nonsense which he rationalizes with pseudo...

Why include me in your reply to Gnomon?

Maybe: propertylessness.

Not even "a point" – nothingness.

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:100: :up: Maybe a time machine that leads back to 1967 ... or 1948. :mask:

Yes, and the (foreseeable) consequence of every action (or inaction) either • helps more than harns, • harms more than helps, • harms and helps more o...