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:100: A related post from 2019 ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/336888

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:100: I don't bother reading or responding to any post that I even suspect is chatbot/LLM chatter.

Hitch's avatar speaketh: https://youtu.be/3JVUfCPeErI?si=WC4lecupb4plMOzk :fire:

Objectively 'sex' is masturbation by means of another body; beyond that we interpret the process of opening-closing this desiring circuit with any num...

:100: More or less the 'non-reductionist physicalist, embodied functionalism' story I tell myself too. :up: :up:

:up: :up: Wet is not the same as liquid, yet they are physically inseparable. Likewise, existents (i.e. things, facts) are discrete properties (i.e. e...

If "atheism" denotes rejection of theism, then nothing seems wrong to me; however, "disbelief in God(s)" is cognitively indistinguishable from "disbel...

'Consciousness' is spatiotemporal (i.e. embodied, causal) and therefore physical (i.e. a very rare kind of physical process). Also, whether or not 'we...

Yeah, 500 years of White out-migration (i.e. colonization, resource extraction) has generated the last century or so of "Colored" in-migration (i.e. "...

< PSA > A simulacrum curb-stomps the fat(uous) orange avatar of American imbeciliity ... https://youtu.be/RX-Ub6ofaYc?si=hK80zX0yinJbkJsr :mask:

On the contrary, I think desire does "play a role in behaviour"(e.g. Spinoza's conatus).

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What kind of answer to "what is reality?" are you looking for?

:up: The older I get the more comfortable I am with the latter (which entails the former); however, I prefer philosophical naturalist instead. (2022) ...

Yeah, just like physicists "can't agree on" the ontology of quantum physics, and yet ... :mask:

Philosophy's "purpose" is flourishing – to understand and practice aligning expectations (i.e. judgments) with reality.

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:up: That'd be an idle question – the existential fact remains: we're (stranded) on a storm-tossed ship indefinitely

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Love of life. Ja sagen! (F.N.) Listening to music. Dancing. Wu wei. Platonic love. Lasting friendship. Gardening ...

My guess is that such people do not pursue philosophy as a way of life.

If so, then what else matters most?

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:fire: From satisfied swine to sad Socrates ...

We're passengers and crew on a great, ancient ship tossed about in an endless storm. What matters most, it seems to me, is deciding how we choose to s...

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The latter does not explain anything in a testable – predictive – manner unlike the former which (even if only in principle) tends to be very testable...

I think you overstate the case ... though I agree with the gist of your comments but for a different reason: Even if there is an ultimate "purpose", w...

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Spinoza's 'conception of substance' refutes this Cartesian (Aristotlean) error; instead, we attribute "mind" only to entities which exhibit 'purposefu...

Nothing except it's an incoherent idea that lacks any natural referent. More or less. Agreed. I don't understand what you mean by "too reductive". Are...

:up: Yes, Horst Wessel is comparable. I think the US DoJ is collecting a database of "persons of interest" expressing "far-left" opinions. Public and ...

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Spinoza says Deus, sive natura (i.e. call reality "God or Nature"). NB: 'Quantum foam' works for me (an antisupernatural pandeist :wink:)

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One reliable trick I've found for "living in the here and now" is taking care for another.

And yet each drop in the ocean (of spacetime) is just like every other one: "unique".

Feel the Bern! :fire: https://youtu.be/HlIvH6ozvv4?si=A0qAPCcCIZJjLvOu

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:100: https://youtu.be/cSka9YIRBzw?si=HqUWBaO_gIUqhjie empathy (uninfected) vs stupidity (MAGA-virus) https://youtu.be/LyPdCw5Hcr0?si=XJrdub1tccijJ2q_...

I.e. Suppose we exist in a Growing Block Universe... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_block_universe "Imagine a film reel. As you watch the mov...

"Pantheism" seems to me a providential form of panpsychism (or animism).

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"Desires" seem, at least, biologically indispensible. If by "overcome" you mean controlled, then, to the degree "desires" are not pathological, then I...

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