I'm skeptical of your assumption that 'being skeptical of X' makes one a skeptic in a philosophical sense. Neither Freddy (perspectival-fictionalist?)...
Why assume "the simulation" had a "creator"? Why not assume this simulation" is a fractal of an infinite continuum of other fractal simulations that i...
Yes, of course it's a one-party state – "the establishment" – with the two wings colluding to protect America's fundamentally rigged poltical-economic...
What existential difference does it make whether or not the universe is a simulation? If I am a simulation, then the simulation of the universe I inha...
This is a scientific problem and not a question philosophers alone can answer, or even pose adequately, insofar as philosophy's domain is conceptual-i...
Very good response. I think it's best to pause here, not because we're at an impasse but due to us both looking through different ends of the tele / m...
A "person's identity" is the precondition of "all that matters" to her. IMO, "life" isn't "about" anything "more" than living-as-an-end-in-itself (lik...
:fire: Watching the breakers slide back into the eternally recurring surf I have no doubt what ultimately happens to ocean waves. :death: :flower: Thi...
I think that model is too linear to be analogous. Are you familiar with Douglas Hofstadter's writings on 'tangled hierarchies' model of cognition (e.g...
To my mind: a "memory" is a map and "phenomenon" is the territory. A "rememberance" isn't an appearance to the senses (i.e. phenomenon). The periphera...
Yes. Yes. More or less Witty's thesis in Philosophical Investigations. Also, Peirce's semiotics (sort of). Check out plane of immanence, a brief wiki ...
Sub specie aeternitatus ... Deus, sive natura ... ~Spinoza People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and f...
Instead of learning from his errors or, at least, thanking me (& others) for making them explicit, just more grievance-whining for his wounded pride a...
What is law outside of the political? Mythology, utopia. (ahistorical) What is politics outside of the legal? Tyranny, piracy. (historical) I'm not aw...
By 'philosophy of X' I understand conceptual analysis, discursive interpretation and/or methodology of X; my 'plumbing-fortress' metaphor (à la "priso...
I suppose "the purpose" of any one's life is whatever task or exercise or practice one is committed to that provides an end (in one's own mind) which ...
If it's only the recall of being conscious that is either "lost" or "altered" and not "consciousness" itself, then "consciousness" is like embodiment ...
:cool: In gratitude for your generous recommendation, Manuel, I reciprocate in kind: the 'metaphysically haunting' duology The Passenger & Stella Mari...
My guess is that the most progressively egalitarian and inclusive political-economic arrangement of a modern nation-state that is "realistic/feasible"...
:clap: :up: A stoic (no doubt, an "elitist") might have said "I don't pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people." :fi...
Not for scarcity-exploiting nation-states. As you say "communism doesn't scale well". Why? I think because, simply put, material scarcity amplified by...
Am I? I wrote "one", not you or him/her or people or them. Also, I took your comment about "rational intuition" to be philosophical, not sociological,...
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