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Go back to baiting theists, mate. That about exhausts your repertoire.

I might, but I’m carefully drafting an essay on the philosophical implications of the double-slit experiment and it’s very time consuming.

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For the Christian, the fact that we are created 'imago dei' and return to the source of being at the time of death is fundamental to their faith. Life...

Nonsense on stilts. It's like the schoolyard 'yeah prove it!' said to every question, and it doesn't rise to the level of philosophy. Interesting fact...

You have to exist to question it!

:pray: Thanks for noticing!

:100: :clap: Already I like him more.

I think origin of the word 'therapy' was associated with a religious sect in the ancient world called the Therapeutae. According to the Wiki entry, 't...

Interesting that arguments over whether the Universe has an origin in time is one of Kant’s ‘antinomies of reason’ (insoluble questions) and also a qu...

Hey I've just been using the voice-enabled version of ChatGPT4 free tier. Fantastic! All the intonations and responses feel so utterly natural. I'm ge...

I don't know if it's problematic. I think we need to acknowledge the sense in which we are indeed 'a mystery to ourselves.' As I said, we know that we...

May well be! I listened to a long interview/documentary with and about Chris Fuchs a month ago, it made a lot of sense to me. See this interview https...

I've been watching an interview with Sir Roger Penrose on why he thinks quantum theory is wrong. I've included the subsequent exchange I had about it ...

Perhaps a clause could be added: As a matter of practice, users are encouraged to generally acknowledge input from chat engines when appropriate, as a...

Epoch? and emptiness - a note. I haven't studied Husserl's 'phenomenological bracketing' in any depth, but I do know there have been comparisons made ...

Why, thanks. If I see an item about a popular topic that I want to post, I'll generally look for an existing thread rather than start a new one. I'm a...

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However, one would be unable to hate in the presence of love. Holes, shadows, illnesses. I find it a compelling metaphor, at the very least. Something...

Speaking of Heidegger

German has an expression, Geisteswissenschaften, which literally means 'sciences of the spirit', covering subjects other than what English calls 'natu...

Heidegger wrote extensively on metaphysics. Husserl’s method was ‘transcendental phenomenology’. Getting back to rational thinking: animals and humans...

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(Of course, now you say it, I do understand the hostility to Heidegger due to his Nazi associations, which has been discussed a lot here.)

Not really. It is well established that prior to WWI, German idealism was still highly influential in English and American philosophy departments. Tha...

https://youtu.be/67vbA5ZJdKQ?si=eIgJloRhXXyHY23W #1 current movie. Seems apt….it’s blatantly anthropomorphic, but that says something about the public...

We’ve been through all this before e.g. here . According to Ray Monk, the Continental-Anglo divide stems from the period of Gilbert Ryle’s dominance o...

The target of Chalmer’s argument is those who attempt to apply those methods to study of consciousness, such as Dennett. It is more than ‘labels’. The...

Of course that is one of the major sources. Joshs alerted me to Dan Zahavi who is one of them. But that is ‘continental’ as distinct from ‘Anglo-ameri...

As am I, make no mistake! But Nagel, in particular, has the advantage of being dissident inside that mainstream, so at least he is paid attention, eve...

I'm still swayed by Augustine's 'evil as a privation of the good'. To put it another way, evil has the kind of existence that holes, fractures, shadow...

Fair, although note the ambiguity in the use of the term 'substance' in these conversations. In normal speech 'substance' is 'a material with uniform ...

I presume that you're using that rather old-fashioned taxonomy that doesn't count fish and reptiles as 'animals'? (This was quite common when I was gr...

Me too, and I have >500 .pdfs on my hard drive. I read a lot of excerpts, parts and reviews. Oh, and also synoptic overviews. There's far too much con...

Fascinating indeed! So I ran the dialogue by ChatGPT who responded, in part, I was going to delve into a question about whether Schopenhauer's 'will' ...

Maybe Hakicho?

My thoughts exactly. They are ‘instruments of the soul’, as someone once put it. But that soul is something only we can provide.

He doesn’t say it’s insoluble. I quoted it for its succinctness. But that is one paragraph - actually one half of one paragraph - from an entire book....

Again, fascinating. I’ve been running things off ChatGPT on a daily basis and find it invariably useful for fact-checking, summarising and suggesting ...

I wonder if anything matters to it.

That's true, but what if the robotically-enabled systems decide to disable the passive LLM's? Wouldn't be a fair fight, but then, is there an algorith...

I'm with you here. That's what I thought Janus was saying, but apparently not. Interesting that the very idea of 'causation' which seems so intuitivel...

Also known as 'nonsense'.

And I’d concur. ‘Anything but God’. That was part of the firewall built by the Enlightenment. It’s more than just a bias, although it’s also that. Cau...

Well if you'd said that to start off with......

The review it was taken from is here.

Yes. That’s a rather Taoist way of looking at it.

There’s been a clear thread of argument throughout this entire exchange.

however, animals don't have the same capacity to reflect on existence and decide on a course of action, so the question - in fact, a question of any k...