Nono. It are the vaccinators who seek advantage at the expense of those who dont want. A free shot! And I gotta pay! Let them pay themselves!

3mReplyOptions — frank

They get loaded for free.

Three times I use the word I. I am not to be blamed if I use I that many times. Why am I to blame for using I when I want to? Am I an egoist if I use I as many times as I want?

But who are the freeloaders? The people who get their free vaccinations for which I have to pay too?

28mReplyOptions — Joshs

"Unless you’re a Continental philosopher, in which case everything comes down to ‘Will to Power’ or ‘ Dasein’ or ‘difference’ or ‘ transcendental subjectivity’."

In that case only one small part of the total elephant is pointed to. To be thought the blood flowing through the whole elephant, regarding the outside as not- important. But it is still there. That is the all encompassing reality of an kntological pluralist. He can freely change from one reality to another. Which can be an advantage or a disadvantage.

10mReplyOptions — Banno

"freeloaders"

Good one...

3mReplyOptions — Banno

"recalcitrance"

That word sounds already very negative. Honestly I dont care if I got sick by the virus ir sick by the vaccination. I just dont want someone to push a needle in my arm and inject some stuff in it. Even it was for my own or others good. Unless the needle contained nice stuff...

The cilinder with radius 2 and height 4 is circular and square at the same time.

6dReplyOptions — Daniel

Heroin feels nice though. Im not promoting it! I still take methadone. But it makes you get contact with the non-material side of the universe. Isnt that universe proof of god? You can also adapt the view that the universe is the magic. That it is incomprehensible. That there is matter magical stuff inside matter, and that you gotta have resoect for all forms of life that have evolved in this eternal, magical universe. Big bang after big bang. Maybe in every big bang we live again. As ourselves but differently every time.

nowOptions — Prishon

Still there!

1mReplyOptions — James Riley

I just tapped the "quote" button...Strange indeed! Your message should appear. Curious what appears now...

10mReplyOptions — James Riley

Does it still show? Let's look...

9mReplyOptions — James Riley

Nono. Dont be sorry! I kinda like digressions. There are times I think its a good idea to have a gun around too. But then again, I can alsi throw the bullet... Im not sure I agree with the Darwinian view on countries as a whole. I think thats a bit too abstract. On a personal level Im Lamarckian, rather than Darwinian (or Dawkinskian, the selfish gene guy)

4mReplyOptions — Rxspence

"Each measurement of Climate is an evaluation of climate and changes"

Why should a measurement be an evaluation? Because you compare all measurements at tbe same time the measurement is made? What is an evaluatiin of the climate?

6mOptions — DingoJones

Maybe I will. I cant even go visit my family in Italy. Maybe in 10 years...

different — Wayfarer

"Metaphysics never goes away; it simply adopts different disguises in different cultures."

Many disguises? Do you think there is one kind of metaphysics under the disguises in different cultures? And how would that look like? Like your vision of it?

answer — James Riley

Im not sure what happened. I saw your comment above I think. But it's not there. It involved your reaction to suspiciousness to non-vaccinators. Im not sure now...☺

comes — Joshs

Ah yes! That's exactly what I mean. The feet are material, the head the gods. The tail the magic, etc. It seems more humane. For everyone a part that fits. Not one and only part. ☺

" — James Riley

"It's not a matter of "should." It's a function of nature, Darwin, society. "

What do you mean? That it is only Natural to take away individual rights?

4mReplyOptions — bongo fury

Exactly. The brain is a physical system.

are — Joshs

I think I feel what you mean. But I never heard of the blind man and the elephant metaphor. What does it entail?

14mOptions — bongo fury

"Put it this way, is there any information-talk in physics that can't be (shouldn't be) replaced perfectly well with entropy-talk?"

Yes. The (in)formation of the brain in terms of information contained in patterns of particles. Entropy is of no use here.

34mReplyOptions — T Clark

But I dont refuse to get compensation from a corporation or boss. In fact I like it that it is obliged before going to work. I dont have to work for them like that. But why should I stay inside (which I have already done for about a year, quite coincidentally). I cant make the vaccinated ill...

So why should I stay inside? The high percentage is reached by the way because the propaganda wotks well. You can say" oh just shut up and get shot", of course.

31mReplyShareAccept — frank

True. But why they are considered a thread by the non-vaccinated?

"And since Truth cannot manifest on the physical plane of existence"

Why not? Philosophical thoughts like 19th century scientists had did certainly contribute. Physicists back then were philosophers of Nature at the same time. They had more comprehensive views on reality than modern-day ones.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11633/would-the-covid19-vaccine-be-made-obligatory-if-more-than-40-of-the-people-refused-to-take-it

But I dont refuse to get compensation from a corporation or boss. In fact I like it that it is obliged before going to work. I dont have to work for them like that. But why should I stay inside (which I have already done for about a year, quite coincidentally). I cant make the vaccinated ill...

A. Does materialism have a particular handicap compared to other types of metaphysics that do not consider fundamental consciousness, and if so, what is this handicap?


Yes. Materialism doesn't address the content of matter.

B. Are there rational arguments to circumvent the hard problem in other types of metaphysics, or does neutral monism / panprotopsychism

No.

The point is that you already refer to a world. As if there is just one possible one. That is, the material world. That's why I refered to science. But the Dreamtime of the Aboriginals is as real as quarks and leptons for me as a particle physicist.

You can consider the big bang taking place on a cut-open spatially 4D torus. The torus is cut open on the outermost outpart. The down and upler part are extended to infinity to function as the underground for the two 3D universez emerging from the Planck-sized mouth of the torus. Like that there can happen multiple big bangs after one another. Look at them as circlez of matter forming from field fluctuations (virtual particles) around the ultra tiny mouth wbere the space is enormously negativeky curved.

So time is eternal. But from where this whole construction came? From nowhere when it is eternal ir maybe it was created by the gods. But how create time if there is no time in the first place? Maybe with god-like imaginary time as Hawking proposed to address exactly this questiin. But who set that imaginary time in motion?

Indeed! I have seen it on TV here in Holland. There were two people not willing to take the vaccine. They were almost burned down by those in favor. They were even considered a thread to the majority taking the vaccine... How could they? The ones vaccinated can't get ill no more. So they believe (and probably true).

"but it is clear that vast resources are spent trying to eliminate the consequences of reckless behavior, and I wonder the societal effects of that."

Vast resources? Trying to reanimate 7 times? Why do you wonder the societal effects of re-animating a drug addict? It shows me contempt for drug addicts under the comforting guise that you mean them no harm.

The strange thing is that the maximum information of a number of particles inside a volume can be calculated from the information content on a surface corresponding to these particles. When these particles form a black hole then the number of Planck areas on the Schwarzschild radius of this hole corresponds to the maximum information to be present inside that volume. Likewise, if we imagine a spherical surface somewher arbitrary in space, the maximum information matter can aquire inside this surface cirresponds to the number of Planck areas on that surface again. If the matter particles, carrying information, have the mass of a black hole with a Schwarzschild radius and event horizon that is the same as the enclosing imaginary surface, then that matter particles are in a state of maximum informatiin. Invariably. That is a boring state though. It the state of all that matter at one point or, complementary, of all matter evenly spread out on the surface.

Now nice forms of information, INformation, that is, are the ones that correspind to intermediate numbers. Which means not complete, or total order (all particles at one point for example, like in the center of a black hole), nor completd, or total disorder (like on the event horizon of a hole). It corresponds to ordered structures of matter or particles. The black hole is a complementary unit jn that it contains bith forms at once. Matter inside a volume (not having the configuration of a black hole state yet, can be nicely ordered and whirl around in formation. Not too much information and not too little being there.

There is a lot I don't understand in your question I know God is a oerson who created the universe. There is matter in this universe (and in a parallel one therd is antimatter inly). This matter carries energy and can be transformed completeky in energy. The energy is then pure in that it is massless. All matter is endowed with some magical, non explainable stuff that resides inside of it. That is where consciousnous is based on. It can develop only in Natural way. In evolution. God resides outside of this universe and is probably not made out of the same matter as us. Energy is just a atate of matter. So maybe God or the gods are energy matter and magical too, if he made us in his image.

When God or the Gods created the world they couldn't foresee everything. They had the godly power of creation but to asign to them superhuman powers (besides the power to create) makes them inhuman monsters. God(s) is (are) benevolent and human. They don't know everything, like us, and the universe he (they) created can be full of flaws.