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Well, to be even more precise, scientific theories cannot explain everything and whatever they explain they can only do so approximately.

My candidate for the "fundamental level of existence" – the constitutive, dynamic ground state – is planck events (i.e. vacuum fluctuations / field ex...

I'd only add 'to the degree "the meta-framework" is rational' (i.e. soundly inferential, coherent & self-consistent). :up:

A post from an old thread Ethics in four words ... Ethical & political, respecticely.

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Like breathing or a beating heart, defiance – striving – is involuntary. Conatus, will to power / amor fati, revolt. A 'happy warrior' does not succum...

This is neither a charitable nor close reading of what I actually wrote, Bob. I'm an Epicurean-Spinozist, after all, very much concerned with ontology...

'Happy warriors' prepare for the worst, strive for the best, and gladly take whatever comes. :death: :flower: Of course I do. 'Histories are ghost sto...

:up: "The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests ... So we see...

If knowledge didn't have limits, then any knowledge would be all (infinite) knowledge. Besides, asking the question – any question – presupposes limit...

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You and I are using the word "faith" very differently. Given the context of my exchange with simplyG, Joshs, your response doesn't add anything releva...

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I've no idea what you're talkimg about (possibly because you don't either).

:rofl: Mate, that proletarian ship has sailed (and sank) a long while ago. (vide T. Veblen et al). The carcass of :victory: :flower: was ripe by Sprin...

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Science does not "try to supplant God" because science itself is not an agent. You seem incorrigible on this point, Simpleg. Btw, knowledge does not "...

"Science did it" is meaningless since science is only 'a way of (toolkit-library of correctable algorithms for) naturalistic problem-solving' and not ...

Ergo, AGI–>ASI is needed to produce the post-scarcity civilization that we scarcity-addled hyperglandular primates apparently cannot produce for ourse...

Yes – the late poet and critic (and friend in my bohemian 20s) Hayden Carruth had once described jazz that way. My daily habit of four-plus decades ha...

:roll: Reality does not require "faith" ... insofar as whatever there is constrains – encompasses – "whatever else" we believe or do not believe "is t...

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As I wrote last year (click on my handle for context), another jackboot has dropped today: https://youtu.be/dOhxBCOMtWU?si=We7y3-pvOADosoh1 :clap: :gr...

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No. This question doesn't make sense. I think a subset of mathematics usefully describes subsets, or aspects, of reality and the rest (most) of mathem...

:100: e.g. atoms & void / natura naturata & natura naturans. :fire:

:lol: Wrong. Read the book (and the article closely).

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https://youtu.be/iPqv_N2mOGE?si=2G-6FtvtbtIoGiVt "Harvest Moon" (5:03) Harvest Moon, 1992 Neil Young

https://youtu.be/rbe5mpI16KA?si=AMBQ26xL5114i_9k Fab gear! :sparkle: :up:

Strawman. If not, then cite an atheist who is also a scientist (i.e. astrophysicist / cosmologist) who makes this claim.

:up: Okay, but back on Earth One, how will the well-organized/resourced "nefarious few" (most of whom are anonymous, even secretive) be "removed" – no...

“It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.” ~Mark Twain "It is difficult to get a man to understand something...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/839851 :smirk:

Freedom is optimal agency (i.e. antifragility) via solidarity against structural exploitation of stakeholders (them, many) by shareholders (us, few) t...

How is this explanation tested? Do any unique predicttions follow from this explanation? Please elaborate. Thanks.

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He was a candle who burned at both ends, lit by an older, fluttering flame ...

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IIRC, this idea (re: Bakker's Neuropath) goes back about two decades earlier (at least) to George Alec Effinger's notion of cybernetic augments (re: "...

Two apt quotes I came across this morning:

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:100: :up: The dogma "not yet means never will" (i.e. unknown = unknowable :roll:) has always been mysterian / idealist – pseudo-philosophical (i.e. r...

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Well I do. No. Free acts are necessarily constrained by consequences. Liberty. Morality. Freethought. Agency Ecstacy. Individuals, not (sub)groups are...

And you have proven me (us) wrong, sir, that you can reason cogently and honestly.

I don't doubt that I have them (i.e. cognitive functions) but instead question what they are and how they work. Clearly, "thoughts" (or experiences) a...