It seems to me you both make valid points. I don't bother engaging directly with NOS4A2, I just ridicule his nonsense by linking him to posts wherein ...
No. I have strong affinities for Spinoza's dual-aspect ontology (though pragmatically I prefer property dualism) and so l'm neither a neutral monist n...
For some, I think it's a proxy for grief in their personal lives, just like it can be easier to talk to strangers about personal troubles. I don't kno...
"Stand back and standby!" :point: 22 years for Seditious Conspiracy, etc. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/05/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-se...
In a similar sense as @"FrancisRay"'s question: how can we know that what we "experience as God" is in fact "God" (especially if "God" is not one disc...
Dual-aspect monism is ontological whereas property dualism is epistemological; I prefer the latter but I think it's more precise to characterize Spino...
Yes, more or less ... In any group of sufferers, suffering engenders an implicit promise to reduce each other's suffering as much as possible; this im...
Well, your quote cherry-picks its emphasis (indicative of uncharitably reading me out of context again) by missing / ignoring the following... In this...
From my study of Spinoza, by "dual-aspect" I understand there to be (at least) two complementary ways to attribute predicates – physical & mental – to...
I prefer more descriptive terms like e.g. immaterial or disembodied or nonphysical or spiritual or magical ... to the umbrella term "supernatural". Bt...
You take my usage of promise out of context and then object rather than engaging with what I've actually written. For example, there's nothing about s...
I do not see how Spinozism (i.e. dual-aspect monism + modal-ontological determinism) is consistent with panpsychism / idealism. I've no idea to what y...
No. "Automatons" are machines programmed by intentional agents (e.g. h. sapiens). Self-organizing complex systems are dissipative processes (e.g. cell...
"Colliding galaxies" are, in fact, merging macro objects (i.e. astronomically complex systems of event-patterns) – a process, IMO, not just a single, ...
For you it's "always wrong", so don't do it. For others, it's not "always wrong". Live and let live, because "it's not complicated" except for a*holes...
You switched-up from "macro objects" to "future events" which I should have explicitly taken issue with. To clarify: I think "events" are micro phenom...
Yes, it seems you believe that minds are dis-embodied (i.e. dis-encephalized), Bob, whereas we know that minds are embodied (i.e. encephalized). Also,...
Insofar as atheism means theism is not true and therefore theistic deities are fictions, I am "an atheist through and through", which I've stated alre...
:100: :up: Also, he didn't balance the federal budget in four years but instead increased the federal debt by over $6 trillion dollars; he didn't brin...
re: AGI, etc ... At my most speculative, I'm attracted to pandeism because it is more consistent with my philosophical (& methodological) naturalism –...
I don't think the issue is as abstrusely "complex" as you suggest above. From an old thread "Abortion" ... I elaborate further ... https://thephilosop...
Strawman. I've made no such posit. Strawman again. I've made no identity claims. 'X indistinguishable from ~X' merely implies a distinction without a ...
:up: A glossary is both more and less than a dictionary, no? Yeah, well ... :smirk: I prefer I use the term ... to denote (i) a possible object, (ii) ...
– of what? 'Of only itself' is indistinguishable from non-sentience. If it's "cosmic", then what else is there for it to experience other than 'the co...
More specific to "Trumpers", are you familiar with the late American philosopher Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit? (e.g. Rupert Murdoch media properties ...
In 1989 I was living in Washington, DC when I'd found Peter Sloterdijk's ominous Critique of Cynical Reason (with an effing orange cover to boot, whic...
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