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['Member', 'Debater']Joined: October 23, 2015 at 23:53Last active: February 25, 2026 at 23:37None discussions16463 comments
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b. 1963, NYC

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"There are no immaterialists in foxholes."

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In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
As Spinoza says: sub specie durationis.
February 25, 2026 at 22:21
In: What's the "right" way to be?  — view comment
Not true. :up:
February 25, 2026 at 22:14
In: What is the Difference Between Dream and Waking Experience in the Perception of 'Reality'?  — view comment
Perhaps "dreaming" is offline experience (of defragging and consolidation of memories (i.e. narrative-fragments, or symbols) during sleep) and "consci...
February 24, 2026 at 23:05
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
No doubt.
February 24, 2026 at 18:21
In: What's the "right" way to be?  — view comment
And yet no one (here) agrees with you. :up:
February 24, 2026 at 17:17
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:fire: As if Spinoza (natura naturans) and ... M. Tegmark (MUH) / D. Deutsch (Constructor Theory) had a.'RQM baby' – Thanks for bringing TLM to my att...
February 24, 2026 at 17:02
In: What's the "right" way to be?  — view comment
:roll:
February 23, 2026 at 03:22
In: What's the "right" way to be?  — view comment
And yet your "love" is "real" (i.e. ineluctable, indigestible ~C. Rosset). What grounds are there for this peculiar"wondering"? If 'nothing matters', ...
February 22, 2026 at 18:27
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/wiI_XxXc31s?si=Z7QsRfXk9EjRao8R "Time" (6:53) Dark Side of the Moon, 1973 lyrics Roger Waters music D. Gilmore, R. Waters, R. Wright,...
February 22, 2026 at 00:16
In: The Biological Roles of Men and Women  — view comment
I disagree that " roles" are equal to, or should be conflated with, supposed "basic biological drives". Afaik, males usually can impregnate females an...
February 21, 2026 at 18:53
In: Say your goodbyes to the old forum!  — view comment
:cool:
February 20, 2026 at 03:20
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
@"boundless" You have my sympathies (re: @"Gnomon"). :smirk:
February 18, 2026 at 18:08
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Agreed, however, as epistemology (re: unknown > known) rather than as ontology (which 'knowing qua knowing' only presupposes).
February 18, 2026 at 18:04
In: Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body  — view comment
:up: https://youtu.be/HbcvFjvFDeI?si=ISfSNu4MOi5DlVD9 "Death is not darkness experienced, it is the total absence of experience." :death: :flower: @"W...
February 18, 2026 at 17:52
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
:up: I can't grok your post. Unpack it for me ... or show where the objection in my initial post goes wrong. :up:
February 18, 2026 at 16:29
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
Read it again: I'm disputing your ontological premise, not merely "swapped terms", in reference to Spinoza et al. :up:
February 17, 2026 at 20:44
In: Existence and Reality  — view comment
This seems to me ontologically backwards – existence (encompassed presence (fluctuating)) presupposes reality (un-encompassed absence (vacuum)), insof...
February 16, 2026 at 18:57
In: Donald Trump (All Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:up: :up:
February 15, 2026 at 19:56
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:fire: :100: @"Gnomon" :eyes: BAD PHYSICS + poor reasoning —> WOO-of-the-gaps (i.e. pseudo-metaphysics) :sparkle:
February 15, 2026 at 17:17
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:zip:
February 14, 2026 at 18:30
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
Not. Even. Wrong. :up: :up: .
February 14, 2026 at 16:31
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:100: :fire: TPF ]]]]]] i.e. (Metaphysics of) unbounded space, deep time and fluctuating void ("God?").
February 11, 2026 at 23:59
In: Donald Trump (All Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:up:
February 11, 2026 at 20:41
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:roll: How do you know this? <rhetorical> Local negative entropy (e.g. stars & life re: waste heat) increases global positive entropy. 'Dis-embodied m...
February 11, 2026 at 20:37
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:zip: :up: :up: :100:
February 09, 2026 at 01:31
In: "My Truth"  — view comment
"My truth" = my faith / my guess / my opinion.
February 09, 2026 at 01:19
In: Comparing religious and scientific worldviews  — view comment
:up: :up: Irrefutable. @"Ecurb" is in denial. (2020) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/347492
February 08, 2026 at 02:16
In: Donald Trump (All Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:100: :up: :up:
February 08, 2026 at 01:56
In: What Are You Watching Right Now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/XU9Ymeovx1U?si=ZnR1BeSMJGhlYeRP
February 06, 2026 at 18:24
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
February 06, 2026 at 07:13
In: Fascista-Nazista creep?  — view comment
< nowhere else to put this post > Addendum to (closed thread) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/944275 Even former Israeli Defense Min...
February 06, 2026 at 00:12
In: The emergence of Intelligence and life in the world  — view comment
I find it even more improbable that a completely nonevident "divine push" got "things started".
February 05, 2026 at 18:51
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:zip: wtf
February 05, 2026 at 18:45
In: Donald Trump (All Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:lol: :up:
February 05, 2026 at 17:06
In: Comparing religious and scientific worldviews  — view comment
:up: :up:
February 04, 2026 at 22:04
In: Why Religions Fail  — view comment
Without circular reasoning, please explain how you (we) "really know" this. Afaik, every person who rescues a child from sexual abuse by clergy is mor...
February 03, 2026 at 17:09
In: Why Religions Fail  — view comment
:up: Different "spiritual" traditions (i.e. religions, cults, superstitions, etc) promote different – often mutually exclusive – "ways of life" – ritu...
February 02, 2026 at 23:00
In: Comparing religious and scientific worldviews  — view comment
:100: :fire: Every theodicy only rationalizes evil / suffering (e.g. "teleological suspension of the ethical").
January 31, 2026 at 00:53
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:victory: :cool:
January 30, 2026 at 21:23
In: Are we alone? The Fermi Paradox...  — view comment
"Fine-tuning"? :roll:
January 29, 2026 at 18:11
In: Donald Trump (All Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:100: :mask:
January 29, 2026 at 02:20
In: Comparing religious and scientific worldviews  — view comment
"Écrasez l'infâme!" ~Voltaire :100: :100: :100: Again, well said! :clap:
January 28, 2026 at 21:10
In: Are we alone? The Fermi Paradox...  — view comment
I'm asking what you meant by "mind" here ... Afaik ...
January 28, 2026 at 21:07
In: Are we alone? The Fermi Paradox...  — view comment
What differentiates "mind" from non-mind (e.g. mathematics or physical reality)? Also this: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/577846
January 28, 2026 at 19:50
In: There is No Secular Basis for Morality  — view comment
What C.S. Lewis "explained" is henotheism, not monotheism. My points stand . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism
January 25, 2026 at 00:23
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:roll: Yeah, well, if you insist (discounting e.g. R. Penrose's hypothetical Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, etc): the Second Law of Thermodynamics (re: "...
January 24, 2026 at 02:37
In: Comparing religious and scientific worldviews  — view comment
Strawman. No argument by me was made, just descriptively summing-up @"Truth Seeker"'s sound argument.
January 22, 2026 at 22:55
In: Comparing religious and scientific worldviews  — view comment
:100: :up: Thanks, Seeker, for your excellent defense of (A) sufficiently corrigible, evidence-constrained, public reasoning (i.e. moral agency + dial...
January 18, 2026 at 18:25
In: Are there any good reasons for manned spaceflight?  — view comment
:100: @"AmadeusD"
January 16, 2026 at 20:48
In: Cosmos Created Mind  — view comment
:up:
January 16, 2026 at 20:33
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