Janus

I think fear of death is two-pronged: we fear the the suffering; the pain and humiliation that we imagine might precede death, and we fear annihilatio...

Just in case you are interested in more detail, and since MU has given what I think is a somewhat confusing/ confused and/ or incorrect account of the...

This sounds more like the kind of approach I am imagining.

I was not thinking of hunter/gatherers but predominately of the ancient Greeks and Hebrews. I'm no scholar of those cultures, so of course I am open t...

I did not have contemporary philosophical debates about the understanding of justice so much in mind, though, but rather what would be considered to b...

This has to do specifically with eliminating the "Pythagorean comma" in tuning keyboard instruments to enable transposition to all keys, because the t...

'Consciousness Explained Away" is better.

What are you doing on the moon with that fuckwit?

I've already heard that racially condescending pun.

Yes, it is too bad, but you could wake yourself up if you wanted to. :wink:

I agree with you that the libertarian notion: 'free will' in its fullest expression as 'absolutely unconditioned will' is absurd. What I was looking f...

I'd prefer to hear what you have to say about it. I think the only possible inter-subjectively testable investigation of consciousness would be, just ...

Firstly it is analytically self-evident that unpredictable behavior cannot be exhaustively explained or modeled in mechanistic terms, because the idea...

Do we need an alternative account of freedom and moral responsibility which is easily comprehensible to the philosophically uneducated? I have said th...

Prosperity leads to declining reproduction rates, not the other way around. Our prosperity is supported by exploiting workers and even slave labour, i...

I agree with what I think you are saying here. I don't think the idea of completely unconditioned freedom, whether to say "I will" or "I won't" is int...

Do you have any evidence to support the claim that hunter/gatherers were running out of food resources? Given the sustainable practices of hunter/gath...

Do you really think that we have any good reason to believe that we will find solutions to the massive, rapidly intensifying convergence of problems w...

If you are younger than about 50 I doubt you will if things go the way they seem to be. You might have superannuation, but it is likely invested in th...

I don't agree. The goal is workability. If everyone routinely lied, stole, murdered, raped and so on, society would be unsustainable. That is the basi...

No, it's not. Where will the workers come from? What you're failing to see is that that situation could only last for about half the average working l...

So, you're happy not to be supported when you retire?

If you believe that global warming will cause great suffering, and you believe it is wrong to cause, or even contribute to, greater suffering, then wh...

No, but it's ethical for you to rely on other people's kids to support you, right?

The situation may well be so dire that no "provision can be made for it", not to mention that there might not be anything like "enough time". We may h...

So, what happens when everyone wants to retire and there are not enough young people to fill the vacancies? No, I'm not focusing on that at all. The p...

Recognizing derailment is the only way to return to being on-track. OK, but I don't see what that has to do with the issue of having or not having chi...

Where will the upcoming workers be found? We could have better immigration and child adoption policies, I suppose, but I don't see that as being very ...

I agree that empty speculation can be fun, imaginative, even creative, but not generally as much fun, as imaginative or creative as informed speculati...

Now this is also off-topic.

But I haven't "gone on and on about it", I have just responded a few times to your unreasonable assertions that you were on topic, when you obviously ...

I don't disagree with that simplistic point per se at all, as boring as it might be. Of course you also have to allow that some people are, rightly or...

No, the reason I don't want to engage with your arguments in this thread is that the topic is whether the obviously desirable goal of slowing/ halting...

Why would I address off-topic arguments, when that would just lead to derailing the thread further?

The point is that science cannot currently deal with the first person perspective, and that is what you refer to as its "blind spot". But what you hav...

If we want an account, which is falsifiable, of how consciousness arose, then what choice would we have but to try for a physicalist or naturalistic a...

You were off-topic, just man (or woman) up and admit it. I've been of-topic too for several posts now, but at least they were leaning towards fun, not...

Jesus, you made that shit up!!! You did give birth to something odious then...

A free lunch then?

Yes, but if you read the OP you would find the question is unequivocally placed in the context of global warming.

Ah, so he's one behind his hero in the procreation stakes. I've warmed to the Grateful Dead a little as I've gotten older. Back in the 60s I didn't li...

OMG, we can't have that! You might give birth to something.....odious.

You mean "gives a shit"? Or understands.....what? Why can't people respond to the topic as specifically framed: not antinatalism per se, but whether i...

Nah, it's just your comprehension skills are shite.

Who gives a shit about Jerry Garcia's procreative proclivities, though?

Ever heard of "Crying "wolf""?

I don't recall this topic being discussed from just this angle before. As presented here by @"Matias" it's not antinatalism per se

First there is the issue of what each child will contribute towards global warming. Then there is the issue of what a child born today will suffer on ...

A position which says what? I have read the whole conversation; what part do you think I have missed? And which is about consciousness insofar as it i...

That's a complete misrepresentation of physicalism. It does not deny the existence of emotion and creativity. The physicalist philosophers are not as ...