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In: Poll: Evolution of consciousness by natural selection  — view comment
My position is not "eliminationist" as the two embedded links indicate. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/847760
October 23, 2023 at 20:43
In: Poll: Evolution of consciousness by natural selection  — view comment
"Talk of consciousness is nonsense" (mostly) – folk psychology. "First-person subjective experience" is an intermittent, metacognitive illusion of suf...
October 23, 2023 at 09:50
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
IMO, the (macro) ideological spectrum in the US from "1960" to "1990" ... • Progressive/Reform liberalism (center-left/right) • Laissez-faire liberali...
October 23, 2023 at 05:04
In: Southern pride?  — view comment
:smirk:
October 23, 2023 at 02:12
In: Speculation: Eternalism and the Problem of Evil  — view comment
:sparkle: If you say so ...
October 23, 2023 at 01:32
In: Israel killing civilians in Gaza and the West Bank  — view comment
'Antisemitic Zionism' (especially since 1967) brutally oppresses both Palestinians & Israelis ... https://youtu.be/j8pwQ4uUxoQ?si=kb1FvDGEza40q4P_
October 22, 2023 at 23:13
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
Remember: over seventy million dittoheads & "deplorables" voted for Criminal Defendant-1 (aka "Putin's Bitch" "Agent Orange" "Grifter-in-Chief" "The B...
October 22, 2023 at 19:23
In: What if the big bang singularity is not the "beginning" of existence?  — view comment
Consider this equation-free gloss on the Hartle-Hawking No-Boundary proposal (alternative to BB cosmology) ... https://science.howstuffworks.com/dicti...
October 22, 2023 at 18:41
In: What is real?  — view comment
:up: :up:
October 22, 2023 at 18:20
In: Order from Disorder  — view comment
@"Pantagruel" – Just as I suspected, you're just making up shit (i.e pseudo-science aka "alternative facts"). :shade:
October 22, 2023 at 17:54
In: Israel killing civilians in Gaza and the West Bank  — view comment
An American-Israeli Jew tells it like it is on the ground (re: ethnic cleansing, occupation, apartheid & US supported-collective punishment / atrociti...
October 22, 2023 at 17:51
In: Order from Disorder  — view comment
So is it or is it not an "open question"? If it is, cite some sources.
October 22, 2023 at 10:41
In: Order from Disorder  — view comment
An "open question" for whom?
October 22, 2023 at 10:23
In: Israel killing civilians in Gaza and the West Bank  — view comment
... messianic Jewish settlers & Hamas. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZlReY-mI6w
October 22, 2023 at 06:47
In: Speculation: Eternalism and the Problem of Evil  — view comment
Well, the ancient dharmic bias for moksha ("oblivion") is obvious, no? I ain't scared of Bodhisattva sages' just-so "horror" stories of bardo – I shou...
October 22, 2023 at 05:14
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Yeah, I voted her in 2020 while I still lived in Atlanta. I was quite impressed (and bored enough from the quarantine to watch a tv local program on) ...
October 22, 2023 at 04:58
In: Speculation: Eternalism and the Problem of Evil  — view comment
Maybe the only 'free' choice one ever makes is made at death (bardo?) either to relive one's life – travel again along one's worldline – or oblivion. ...
October 22, 2023 at 04:41
In: Order from Disorder  — view comment
Decreases in local disorder (aka "negentropy") accelerate increasing global disorder.
October 22, 2023 at 01:55
In: God, as Experienced, and as Metaphysical Speculation  — view comment
Suppose eternity is the ocean and time (i.e. our spacetime) is a wave on the ocean's surface ... Not "the absence of time" but rather eternity is the ...
October 22, 2023 at 01:48
In: Metaphysics as an Illegitimate Source of Knowledge  — view comment
"In principle" there is not any fact of the matter that can make the statement true. At most, it's a supposition expressed (confusedly) in a declarati...
October 22, 2023 at 01:29
In: Israel killing civilians in Gaza and the West Bank  — view comment
:100: :fire: Way too many folks "can't handle the truth!"
October 21, 2023 at 20:48
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
A succinctly apt diagnosis of "American Carnage" https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/847417
October 21, 2023 at 20:37
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
:100: :fire: For decades now, I suppose, north of the US border must feel like living above a freaking noisy meth lab. :mask:
October 21, 2023 at 20:33
In: God, as Experienced, and as Metaphysical Speculation  — view comment
So "god" is nothing but a primal euphemism for ego – in other words, a self-serving/flattering delusion (L. Feuerbach)? No wonder it feels "real" to m...
October 21, 2023 at 20:15
In: Metaphysics as an Illegitimate Source of Knowledge  — view comment
:roll: You've conjured up a distinction without a difference, Bob My point about the confused OP stands: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/com...
October 21, 2023 at 19:02
In: Science is not "The Pursuit of Truth"  — view comment
Knowledge is fallibilistic, not platonic.
October 20, 2023 at 19:32
In: The Book of Imperfect Knowledge  — view comment
I already have "imperfect knowledge" so I'd lose much more than I'd gain from the deal. And my memory is limited enough, I don't need to further handi...
October 20, 2023 at 18:47
In: Israel killing civilians in Gaza and the West Bank  — view comment
Neither. Both rationalize murdering each other's children. Neither. Both states are run by religious extremists.
October 20, 2023 at 18:33
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:up:
October 20, 2023 at 18:24
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
That's almost always how RICO prosecutions happen, about half plead guilty and some flip getting lesser charges in exchange for turning state's eviden...
October 20, 2023 at 18:23
In: Are you against the formation of a techno-optimistic religion?  — view comment
:roll: IMO, nothing could be more hedonistically anti-Gnostic (contrary to the OP ) than "universal animism" of "technopagan" raves/festivals. :party:...
October 20, 2023 at 18:09
In: Science is not "The Pursuit of Truth"  — view comment
:up:
October 20, 2023 at 17:54
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Well, that didn't take long – 3 out of 18 dominoes have fallen so far. They're doing the MAGA flip, Donny! :clap: :sweat: https://www.bbc.com/news/wor...
October 20, 2023 at 16:58
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
Does Murakami mean "basement 2" is, more or less, where one is broken (one's breaking points) or one's blindspots (denials-in-order-to-cope) or one's ...
October 20, 2023 at 06:45
In: Israel killing civilians in Gaza and the West Bank  — view comment
:up:
October 20, 2023 at 06:35
In: Science is not "The Pursuit of Truth"  — view comment
"Science pursues" testable, provisional knowledge (e.g. abduction). Only sentences are truthbearers.
October 20, 2023 at 05:17
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
:lol:
October 19, 2023 at 16:49
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
:up:
October 19, 2023 at 16:20
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Hey, MAGA Morons ... The "Kraken Lady" has just flipped on your cult leader, Criminal Defendant-1, down in Fulton Co., Georgia. :lol: :up: https://www...
October 19, 2023 at 15:36
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
Such as who? :roll:
October 19, 2023 at 15:24
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
Very improbable, not "immutable". Speculations derived from probabilities may be insightful (e.g. diagnostics, forecasting); however, derived from imp...
October 19, 2023 at 13:22
In: Dualism and Interactionism  — view comment
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/846860 Amen! :halo:
October 19, 2023 at 05:11
In: Infinite infinities  — view comment
:up:
October 19, 2023 at 05:08
In: Are you against the formation of a techno-optimistic religion?  — view comment
The second quote attempts to explain the first.
October 19, 2023 at 02:59
In: Infinite infinities  — view comment
:smirk:
October 19, 2023 at 02:35
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
Rhetoric (imagined pov of AGI). 'Them is us' humans.
October 19, 2023 at 02:02
In: Dualism and Interactionism  — view comment
:up: Occasionally, that's my motivation as well.
October 18, 2023 at 18:11
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
What "mirror" ... :smirk:
October 18, 2023 at 18:09
In: Culture is critical  — view comment
... but mostly, friend, they willingly live like dogs and sheep. :mask: :100: I'm convinced @"Athena" is completely incorrigible on this topic, but I ...
October 18, 2023 at 17:57
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Apparently lacking the courage of a 'deliberate loser', I'd missed by calling ... https://psyche.co/ideas/learning-to-be-a-loser-a-philosophers-case-f...
October 18, 2023 at 06:55
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