When and where in the last half millenium did most, or many, human beings get such an education? And why did such an education fall out of favor with ...
You may be "confused", mate, but not by my speculative 'scenario'. My position concerns the steps from today to AGI to the full blown "Singularity" to...
It seems to me David is only guilty of using Goliath's tactics against him. "Morally tenable"? No. War, as Levinas reminds us, never is "morally tenab...
Yes, I do; however, my guess is, if it ever happens, your "suggestion" will only apply to less than a few percent of the human population, mate (the o...
We're a biological species – biomorphs, mortals – so of course "I'm 100% convinced we're doomed to extinction" (self-inflicted or otherwise). As I've ...
Whose "despair"? Those who are most frightened of "despair" cling to happy-ever-after daydreams in denial of ubiquitous evidence to the contrary (e.g....
Eye for an eye, war crime for a war crime. Sometimes prisoners murder jailors. Sometimes slaves lynch masters. Snakes in the ashes swallowing their ow...
"When I use a word… it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less." ~Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass How patently psychocera...
This must be one of the most oxymoronic, incoherent, word combos in common (sophistical) usage. I've no idea what "your reality" – like that other bit...
Apparently, you did not profit from our discussion on your old thread Spinoza's Philosophy, Ali ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/...
One can't "disagree" with another's (your) misconceptions, which are based on demonstrably insufficient study (e.g. Father Copelston's Thomistic misre...
Sorry, I don't see the connection. Spinoza is talking about reflective reasoning from (parallax-like) both the perspective of eternity and the perspec...
So what does that have to do with your phrase which I took issue with in my previous post? "Cognitive apparatus" and "reality" are completely differen...
Don't confuse the nation-states with their populations as official Western media regurgitate ad nauseam. This persistent conflict is like an abandoned...
Unfortunately, the Israelis (i.e. post-'67 Zion-über-alles Likudniks) expect continued military & economic support and absolute security guarantees fr...
What I wrote should suffice ... Apparently you intend to quarrel with a strawman or English is not your first language as evidenced here: You ask what...
:up: :up: Yes, we are self-reflexive (i.e. strange looping phenomenal-self-modeling) objects in which this self-reflexivity is completely transparent ...
And "the goal" of virtue ethics is flourishing (re last paragraph of my post ). I stated "the goal" is flourishing and that reason provides "grounding...
If Shoemaker-Levy 9 had hit Earth in '94 instead of Jupiter, no doubt, like the dinos, we would not be here – wherever we are – having this discussion...
Human flourishing (i.e. optimization of common agency via reduction of individual harms¹). Reason (i.e. performative self-consistency of reducing risk...
True, in other historical situations with oppressors more incentivized to eventually cease oppressing subject populations (though very rarely without ...
They existed (flourished profusely) for "between 165 and 177 million years"! That's quite an achievement compared to h. sapiens (quasi-eusocial self-d...
More human meat for the insatiable "God of Abraham/Ibrahim" ... David attacks Goliath. What other viable choice does David have but from time to time ...
How do you know there is "beyond" (especially since it is "beyond" knowing)? On what grounds do you assume "reality" has a boundary and therefore an e...
What makes a statement "truth-apt" that does not refer, even if only in principle, to at least one truth-maker? C'mon, Bob. Without indicating possibl...
:up: Yes, they are non sequiturs. I don't share this view. To transcend a fact isn't remotely "similar" to a property or process supervening on/over a...
In the summer of 2022 I had speculated that the NYS civil fraud case would be Loser-1's Achilles Heel and at the top of a list of reasons he'll likely...
Yeah, especially when you butcher the quote. And @"Janus" got it (with a :up:) so the entire post – context and all – is clear enough. Besides, I aske...
Okay, from your vague usage of terms "objectively exist" and "objectivity" what you are saying, Wayf, is too unclear for me to respond further. And si...
You've completely misread what I wrote. The argument does not refer to "transcendent T" or "transcendent F". You're objecting to a strawman, ucarr, ra...
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