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I don't think so. It's much more than that. "Time" is ... scrambled eggs which cannot ever unscramble (and reshell) themselves. https://thephilosophyf...

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"Relevance for us" (i.e. a natural species.) :100: :up: (e.g. Epicurus, Epictetus ... Spinoza, Nietzsche ... J. Searle, P. Foot, M. Nussbaum, et al) *...

:100: :fire: Stop being a selfish asshole. Help your father with his struggling business in any way you can – help your family, help your brother, con...

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Yep, that's @"Wayfarer". As far as I'm concerned, this approach to discussion is a crutch used in lieu of admitting he isn't clear on, or hasn't thoug...

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And, of course, once again, you project by impugning my motives for requesting clarification in order to deflect from the conspicuous fact that you ha...

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:fire: :pray: Here's more on the learned placebo-narcissism of prayer from a fellow Bronx street sage (wiseass) ... https://youtu.be/MeWZjTMnUAA

FWIW, my two bits – political democracy without economy democracy is, in effect, 'democracy in name only' (DINO). The United States, I think, much mor...

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Human facticity / adaptivity – insofar as misery needs ("loves") company, miserable bastards are homeostatically hardwired to breed more miserable bas...

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What part of 'it's a "hard problem" only for philosophers of mind and not for neuroscientists' don't you understand?

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Yes and no. Yes, Fredkin's "computer universe" proposal/conjecture is, in fact, an unparsimonious hasty generalization. Read Seth Lloyd, David Deutsch...

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Read Seth Lloyd, David Deutsch and Stephen Wolfram – 'computation' has been operationally defined quite rigorously for decades.

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FYI: One of the pioneers of digital philosophy (re: pancomputationalism/digital physics) died a couple of weeks ago, Edward Fredkin. If you are not fa...

What do you think? https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/us/harvard-college-legacy-admissions-lawsuit/index.html As a non-lawyer I suspect that if this lawsu...

Agreed.

IMO, in an egalitarian merit-based – color-blind, race-neutral & gender-neutral – society, (A) legacy preferences for scarce social goods like higher ...

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Recently observed 'time-dilation in the early universe' might account for JWST's anomalous "six galaxies" ... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023...

No doubt.

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Horizons "exist" as properties of facts (not things). They are both ever approachable and unreachable; encompassing, yet never encompassed. It doesnt ...

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More precisely: denials of complexity, uncertainty, contingency ...

Maybe this: right conduct's unintended, or unforeseeable, consequences á la local ordering that increases global disorder.

Obviously, because they can't make it for themselves before hand.

I don't know what you mean, Benj. Cite an unchangeable – impossible to change, or necessary (i.e. unconditional) – extant state of affairs (i.e. fact)...

A parallax (or strange loop) e.g. mine or my corresponds to "self as subject" and yours or his/her corresponds to "self as object", no? https://thephi...

"Self" is a confabulated, continuously sensory-updated, virtual model of this-body-moving-within-its-world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_model...

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Ah, I see. You drank the DNC koolaid. Facts be damned. Gotcha. Have a good one, Rogue.

If Gore had won his home state of Tennessee and Clinton's home state of Arkansas, the Bush machine stealing Florida wouldn't have mattered.

I don't remember this. What I do remember is that an incumbent vice-president during a time of (domestic) 'peace & prosperity' lost both the popular i...

If I had to, I bet that Trump won't be the GOP nominee (though a MAGA shithead will be).

Yeah, in 2024 that "1 way to lose" will be the same as 2016: HRC. The Dems don't learn new tricks often ... though maybe VP Harris :yikes: (if Biden d...