180 Proof

That statement doesn't make any sense. Consider this ... https://youtu.be/fl9oDJzfg58 Your thoughts?

I've described my understanding of the methodology this way ...

For those who find the facticity of life – Zapffe's or Camus' absurd – so abhorrent, there's absolutely nothing to keep them living on. Why bother wit...

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Non sequitur. I'll take that as a concession to the points I made in my previous post. You're welcome, sir. :victory:

I'll grant you that intoxication "seems more optimistic" than sobriety – if some "religious narrative of redemption" is your placebo of choice and it ...

Action = energy = matter. Wtf, sir. :sweat: Newtonian laws & conservation laws – typical 'dualist', I guess you've never heard of those. :roll:

:up: Heideggerian phenomenology – in other words, privileging secondary qualities over primary qualities by conflating epistemology with ontology. Ant...

Well, apparently, these a*holes are going to drag this nonsense out until the 11th hour and 59th minute before they slam on the brakes to stop this tr...

"The problem of evil" is only a problem for those theists who claim that there is an "all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving g/G that created the world...

in other words, secondary and primary qualities, respectively. :up:

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Tina Turner (1936-2023) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0lfT9TWAaMY "Proud Mary" (4:57) Workin' Together, 1970 writer John Fogerty, 1969 performers Ike ...

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:clap: :smirk: Putin's Bitch goes on trial in NYC for 34 felonies (so far) on 25 March 2024 during the middle of the GOP primaries. By then the NYS At...

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Your silly projections aside, Gnomon: given that X is "immaterial" (i.e. not instantiable), what (non-trivial) difference does this X make (i.e. how i...

:up: For the religious, IME, philosophy is a rope around their necks more often than a way to pull themselves out of themselves. Thinking for oneself,...

A scarcity-driven society? No. A post-scarcity society? N/A

The Dems + 5 or more Repubs will force a vote in the US House and they will pass a bill to raise the Debt Ceiling. The US Senate will pass that bill w...

What are you talking about?

"Cosmic purpose?" If there is one, I think it's an inexorable and ubiquitous process like gravity: whether or not we "know" it, we cannot not fulfill ...

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Good luck with reading Metzinger when you get around to it. My point of mentioning his work is that it disproves your assertion that "there is no scie...

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On the contrary, sir – for example, (my preferred "scientific account") Being No One (or its non-technical synopsis The Ego Tunnel) by the neuroscient...

Your silly projections aside, Gnomon: given that X is "immaterial" (i.e. not instantiable), what (non-trivial) difference does this X make (i.e. how i...

Maybe not, but we can refuse to be worse by doing nothing to stop those a*holes from harming anyone. Watch out for that pacifistic false equivalence, ...

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I don't respect misogynists or those who defend them.

:up: Yeah, big fat tongue in my cheek ... but I am intolerant of the intolerant (even antisocial with regard to the antisocial), what I call 'responsi...

In 180 Proof's utopia, we'd castrate and/or lobotomize incels. Or maybe, less invasively, heavily medicate the shits with opiods & sedatives. I suppos...

Yes, property dualism (or reflexive monism) but not unparsimonious substance dualism. :fire:

What? But suppose there is both "free will" and "God"? Then "God" allows time to branch-off human time (i.e. futurity) from "His" eternity whenever we...

Well, Bob, this is how I see it: This is just like pixels in a hologram each of which containing all of the information that constitutes the hologram ...

:fire: @"Gnomon" "Im-material" = not instantiable (i.e. un-observable), ergo in-consequential.

Thus, we cannot know whether or not this "transcendental" (subject / mind) is anything more than a convenient fiction (i.e. confabulation)? :roll:

:roll: Words used in a theory doesn't mean that those words are theories.

So is this "transcendental" conception of 'mind-dependence' also mind-dependent? :chin:

So star light, for example, from distant galaxies (or the CMB) that predates by millions (or billions) of years the human species – it's capability of...

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And your point is –?

I see. You're advocating immaterialism (which entails solipsism), not (just) panpsychism.

Only in (primitive) 'creationist'-based cultures; however, not so according to Brahmins or Daoists (or, for that matter, either classical atomists or ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RQv5CVELG3U

Explain why you have not just contradicted yourself, Bob. Thanks.

Okay, a step away from talk of the "immaterial" to the "imaginary" is progress. But how do you "hold an imaginary" X? A map of Middle Earth, for examp...