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You're right, I should have thought of Japan. We can go to Mishima's grave in Tokyo and then eat sushi off Hello Kitty plates. Later, we can go to McD...

Or, worse yet, Trump is reelected president.

And speaking of meatballs: No, I didn't read the article. The headline tells me all I want to know.

Let's have a meet up in the radioactive ruins of Kiev. Or Madrid. @"javi2541997" can take us all to that macarena store to by tofu paste. Or Athens. W...

Yes, I agree. The idea of @"Hanover" being in control is truly disturbing.

Yes, welcome @"Davidtechtrader". As to train or ship - I think of philosophy as a river, which would make the forum a rickety raft.

Where I used to work we had a saying - Competence makes up for anything. Seems like your dentist fails to meet that standard. Also - note I have rever...

Not philosophy so much as current events, although this subject does come up pretty often in various hell in a handbasket threads. This is something I...

The prediction in the paragraph I previously posted has been around for a long time and I've seen it quoted many times. If you look under world popula...

From the study:

I posted this in a discussion three months ago: Today I read this:

Perhaps more prejudice than hypothesis.

Yes. Too late for us to die young.

I posted this graph from the web a month or so ago: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/3071/Fear%20of%20death.png Here is the source i...

Good response to @"180 Proof"'s snotty comment.

Thanks.

The English translation is called "Physics and Beyond." I requested a copy from my library. Thanks for the reference.

Isn't this fun.

Your conversation with Chat GPT about my conversation with it's less advanced alter-ego was really interesting. I think it's description of Heisenberg...

I asked the program what version it was and it said I don't know if you saw my first post in this thread where I discussed a quote that might or might...

I think my biggest criticism is how often it is wrong. I tried asking it some physics questions about issues I had been confused about. I found myself...

I haven't been paying attention to this thread, so I apologize is this is a distraction. The following exchange represents something that has happened...

I think this quote fully demonstrates that our machine overlords are already capable of doing the "work" that philosophers currently do. I think I'll ...

Yes. Our machine overlords will be woke.

This reminded me of a discussion that @"apokrisis" participated in. Here is his discussion about downward constraint. It's long:

I already discussed how I think reason is involved in knowledge and decision making. I never claimed it had no role. We've gotten a little off target ...

I think "reason" has almost nothing to do with it. Most of it is non-verbal, unconscious. It happens while we're not trying to do anything. Children d...

My brother and I have really different tastes in music. Over the years that I've given him music as a gift, the only one he has really liked is Chris ...

Maybe you're making too much out of someone saying "fuck this." It's a guy kind of thing. Don't complain. Don't make excuses. Just fuck it. It's one o...

That's because you spend all your time responding to us here.

@"Jamal", @"Noble Dust", and I have determined that the proper way of writing this is "I hate when I lose my train of..."

I've been told he meant what he said and he said what he meant. It's my understanding he was faithful 100 percent.

Faxes were a big deal back in the 90s, but few people use them anymore. Their big advantage is that they don't leave an electronic trail that can be u...

Judge Parker was a racist judge from Georgia (USA) who sentenced innocent black people to long jail terms and laughed as their families begged and cri...

No, that's not what I'm saying.

You've ignored the substance of my comment and focused on a language disagreement.

Good post and thanks for the link. I don't think anything you described contradicts what I wrote about in my previous post.

I don't think that's true. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how we know things recently. I've gotten in several discussions here on the...

This is certainly not true. I know a lot of religious people who are not afraid. For many, belief in God in the company of others who feel the same is...

This looks like a good place to stop.

For me, metaphysics, which is the study of worldviews, is, along with epistemology, the most substantial aspect of philosophy - the most central to th...

I asked ChatGPT to write a poem similar in style and tone to this one: @"Hanover" is a friend of mine He resembles Frankenstein When he does an Irish ...

Well, I am neither wicked nor anguished. I guess I'm just opinionated and stubborn. Welcome to the forum.

I don't know if you've read any of my posts on metaphysics, which are universally rarely acclaimed as brilliant. If you had, you would know that, as b...

This would make sense if real people making real decisions argued about things like this, but it's only philosophers. Philosophers have lots of time t...

Yes, I agree, but in my time here on the forum, a feeling has grown that it doesn't make sense to talk about reality, or the world, or meaning without...

I think all the values we think of on a daily basis - the value of money, status, expensive toys, etc. have their source in those basic values. The ma...

Thank you.

I see values related to God as less basic, although I know a lot of people disagree with that. This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: Sounds li...

You're welcome.