Michael Ossipoff

Of course depends on your beliefs. Our birth in the Land of the Lost is something with which badly messed up previous lives are consistent. Just a sug...

...or maybe not consciously known to you. Michael Ossipoff

For some reason known only to you, you wanted to do one of those things. ... obviously. Michael Ossipoff

Your & my posts like rocks falling? You catch on fast, Wisdom! I used Roomba analogy, but mousetrap or thermostat will do. But no, what you write isn'...

...and those choices are governed, determined, by your predispositions, and your surroundings. And that's your experience. You don't realize that you'...

A lot of philosophers seem to believe in something like a soul, and they call it Mind, a metaphysical substance separate from matter. They're called D...

I've told why that isn't your experience. But a person who is sufficiently committed to their beliefs can convince themselves of a fictitious experien...

You science-hate is dominating you. Make peace with science. You equate science with Nazism and everything evil. Want to try living in the pre-science...

Isn't it obvious that, even from our own point of view, our choices are deterministic? You choose based on your preferences, how you feel, and on the ...

A right to be unhappy?? Shit, some people have an obligation to be unhappy! :D Michael Ossipoff

As others have already pointed out, the notion that that gets you back faster is a fallacy. As has been pointed out, just propel yourself directly bac...

You said: But I thank you for the offer anyway, though I'm not interested. But don't give up on my account. Maybe youwill be able to pimp-out your sis...

No, my time is too valuable to discuss anything with someone who has expressed disinterest in what I say. (It won't mean that you've said something ir...

No, thanks anyway, but that's ok, I don't really need 2 girlfriends.. No thanks, I wouldn't want to marry into your family. She might let you visit th...

Yeah we've already been over this. I don't call myself a Physicalist..I'm not a metaphysical Physicalist. But "Physicalist" is evidently used with two...

Oh, ok, the only good book during the '50s or '60s was porno. Forgive me, but I must admit that I'm not good at, or interested in, the sarcasm game. I...

Noble Dust: Regarding the timelessness at the end of lives, I should add that that stage, with no time, events, body, identity, problems, lack, incomp...

I forgot to answer your initial question. No, I haven't heard of Dante's four levels of meaning--Was that what he's best known for writiting about lev...

I believe it was Martin Gardner who annotated it. Did he do it in order to ruin the humor? What book was it? The Annotated Alice was annotated by Mart...

...And, knowing that, those people in future millennia probably wont revive crionic frozen bodies. ...because they'll know that it accomplishes nothin...

I couldn't find this thread, till I checked the Interesting-Things heading. Hence my late reply. Agreed. They're just the way they they were evolved a...

Yes, the infant, and therefore the fetus s/he was, could be expected, if only by natural-selection, to want life. Michael Ossipoff

Fairness doesn't require that we're all the same one Consciousness. You're the the central, primary and essential component of your life, because your...

You could write if-then facts that are brute-facts, as I myself have said. But what I said was that Skepticism doesn't need or use assumptions, or pos...

That's why I don't think The Annotated Alice was any good. Michael Ossipoff

I'm not quite sure what that means. Regarding metaphysicses that (maybe via elaborate contrivance) explain this physical world: Of course every one of...

I've often wondered why infants cry at birth. Wouldn't that attract predators, and therefore be maladaptive and therefore selected against? Michael Os...

Of course, you existed as a fetus before birth. Ok, that just changes what moment is being talked about. Before birth, you might have wondered what's ...

But of course every metaphysics that is contrived to somehow, in its own elaborate way, explain this physical world, can be simulated by Skepticism. ....

Noble Dust: I take it back. I shouldn't say that there's no such thing as bare, pure Consciousness. There is, for everyone, at the end of lives (or, i...

What I mean was: Will the nightmare end before the shutdown is complete? I can't guarantee that. You might say, "No problem, it's over after shutdown....

But couldn't you have that perception at the beginning of your life? "I don't want to be here. How did this happen?" As a newborn, aren't you forced? ...

It doesn't matter, because tautologies are no less true by being tautologies. A newborn is bewildered, and maybe frightened. All of us find ourselves ...

I've always had the feeling that Schopenhaur1 has about this. I always said, "I never chose to be born." And of course it's true. But, now, my critici...

...but, actually, that was only because all but one of them had had her children long before we met. Michael Ossipoff

You didn't say what you'd be wanting to escape from? Suffering? You won't know what suffering is until you commit suicide (without a good medical reas...

My girlfriends haven't had that need. Michael Ossipoff

I'd said: You replied: I didn't mean that there'd be anything wrong with it. I just meant that there's a very good reason why it isn't surprising that...

Thank you. Yes, it encompasses every self-consistent possibility-story. All of them. An infinity of them. But no, I wouldn't say that it envelopes all...

I'd said: You replied: So someone else's whole existence, whereby instrumentality (doing just to do), forced goal-seeking, and contingent harm is not ...

Good. You've caught on to the fact that Skepticism is about hypothetical "if-then" s. Congratulations. Not quite sure what you mean by "debatable". Th...

Of course if you kill yourself without a good medical reason (disease or injury resulting in unacceptable loss of life-quality), then your act, itself...

For many people, simply because they have an inborn feeling that they want to. What more reason do you expect or ask for? A want, choice or preference...

Maybe, by "IF statement", you're referring to a hypothetical fact that is (at least part of) the "if" clause of an if-then statement. I'll just guess ...

Well, since it's you who say that my metaphysics is full of brute-facts, then I suggest that it is you who need to specify them. Michael Ossipoff

I meant "a version of philosophy-of-mind Physicalism..." Michael Ossipoff

You said: . I’m saying that “Consciousness” and “Mind” are unnecessary fictions or abstractions from the whole that is the animal. From what you say a...

I'm not metaphysically a Materialist or Physicalist. I subscribe to a version of science-of-mind Physicalism (pomp), which I call "Animalness", becaus...

You didn’t say one way or the other, and I was guessing. Of course it isn’t good to guess, because people don’t like being misquoted. . You asked if I...

That sounds awful. Is he an Eliminative Physicalist? (I used to know what he was saying, but I have no reason to read him, or about him, now.) Maybe I...