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This confuses me. Please clarify how an "immaterial" Y is "contained in" a material Z. I am an emergentist (re: holism), not "monist" (dualist or plur...

Suppose "representation" is the "thing in itself" (just as the tip of an iceberg is also an iceberg) ...

Using proper brain scans and algorithms one could easily observe your real-time un/conscious-states. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6119...

Numbers are abstract objects (or structures) which are real only in so far as they are physically instantiable. I guess this view makes me more Aristo...

Sure. That mis/use, however, doesn't make atheism itself a theory.

Human babies develop a 'theory of mind' that is strongly correlated to their "publicly confirmable" observations of others' behaviors. As for one's ow...

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Either there is no "free will" or there is no "God" or there is neither; therefore, there is no problem of reconciling "free will" with "God".

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:100: :up: Yes, it seems to me that 'panpsychist' arguments (e.g. analytical idealism) consist of appeal to ignorance / incredulity, hasty generalizat...

Not theories, working assumptions (or principles). Again, atheism itself is not a "theory" because it does not explain anything.

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IME, the only "sin" is learned helplessness that engenders repetitious self-sabotage aka stupidity.

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:up: :up: To my mind, simply put, material corresponds to instantiated (observable); physical corresponds to material system (configurable); and natur...

Atheism, as I understand it, is the epistemic position that there aren't sufficient reasons, or grounds, to believe that the claims of theism are true...

I'm an absurdist bluesman (i.e. cheerful pessimist) – sláinte! Drink up, folks, 'cause its always later than you think. :party: https://m.youtube.com/...

No. I mean intelligence (i.e. adaptivity) without "consciousness" (i.e. awareness of being self-aware), a distinction I suggest in this old post https...

Nagel's argument that 'a philosophical construct like "subjectivity" – itself, at best, a secondary quality (re: Democritus, Galileo, Locke) – be acco...

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Yeah, by next Wednesday the bill we be on Biden's desk or he will have to invoke the 14th Amendment the week after. This ain't silly shit like the Leh...

The Dems will use a parliamentary procedure with the help of several GOP congressmembers to force a vote in the House that will pass and go on to easy...

My reference to Kahneman's work was only mentioned as scientific corroboration, not justification or proof, of my philosophical statement about a 'met...

More an Epicurean than a Stoic? :cool: :up:

Perhaps an aside but, IME as a born, raised and educated ex-Catholic, the distinction between orthodoxy and Ms. Armstrong's emphasis on orthopraxy lac...

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"... voidism (Democritean / Buddhist)." ~180 Proof

Not at all. Atheism is only a critique and rejection of theism.

More (disingenous) word-salad. :lol:

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My guess is that it's much easier to cope with – much more intuitive – than voidism (Democritean / Buddhist).

Nonetheless, your "tv scifi" taste is impeccable, mate! :cool:

Staying with space operas, what do you think of the portrayals of "human dilemmas" in Firefly (and/or the Serenity movie) or The Expanse (s1-3)? (Btw,...

I disagree. I think scarcity is the source of (all) human harm and that "not having children" doesn't solve anything ... ... as I pointed out in this ...

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Well, here's a post in which you use "anti-metaphysical prejudice" ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/781277 ... and elsewhere "opp...

A good time for you to actually study his First Philosophy which has come down to us as metaphysics. :smirk: Well, at least we agree that materialism ...

Too anthropocentric. The universe, my friend, is extremely inimicable to complex organisms outside of their miniscule, watery envelopes of powerful ma...

A request to either of you gentlemen: (A) please explain why you claim that a metaphysics of materialism (e.g. classical atomism) is "anti-metaphysica...

Yes, especially those people who understand that 'one ought to do whatever one expects will eventually benefit one.'

Are you familiar with the existential psychotherapists Viktor Frankl and Irvin Yalom? Have you investigated or undergone cognitive behavioral therapy ...

Well okay, don't answer my question. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/808415

In light of you using the term like an epithet, do you think Spinoza is also a "positivist"?

He doesn't "say" that; rather, as I've pointed out, Spinoza considers all "revealed faiths" and "transcendent beliefs or ideals" to be mere superstiti...

Philosophy is for questioning unquestionable answers. :fire: :100: So do you consider Spinoza with his counter-biased more geometrico, for instance, a...

"That which is hateful to you, do not do to anyone" ~Hillel the Elder :fire: I think of 'flourishing / well-being' as the process of optimizing agency...

Why not select the least problematic elements from each of the major ethical schools and consistently reassemble them into an adaptive moral practice?

I think you should read some actual works of moral philosophy (there's 2,500 years worth), even some contemporary moral psychology, and then compare w...