What are your views on reflex (action)?

There's more to simple reflexes than meets the eye, si señor/señorita?

Isn't there a quote that goes before I'm a Palestenian or an Israeli, I'm human? Run with that and let the magic happen! :cool:

We havta ponder all the negative aspects of life; it's a necessity if we're into selling life tickets (making babies). Explore all angles, every which way life sucks. To not do this is bad for business. @schopenhauer1' Series in Pessimism threads are crucial therfore.

I'll take first bite!

Good call OP! "Carnism & basic human rights just don't go together" ... said the girl to her exasperated boyfriend.

The answer to the OP's query would depend on what kinda a cognitive abilites are required for science and where they're localized in the brain.

Fun fact: Left-handed (right-brain-dominant) folks are going extinct ... slowly ... painfully? Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, all righties (left-brain-dominant peeps).

It doesn't look like merit-based anything is going to work, at all, right @180 Proof? Because we all know ...



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Yes, but vide infra, Tom Storm's comment.

Idealism is true ... to an extent! You really don't want to doubt the external reality of a a 3-ton boulder rolling down the hill, straight at you.
— Agent Smith

But idealism doesn't say there are no risks in what we call the 'physical world'. The physical world is seen as a kid of dashboard of readings which make consciousness apprehensible (al la Donald Hoffman). In this view of idealism, you may still be harmed by things which present as physical to our dashboard system. They just aren't what we think they are. — Tom Storm

Rogue AI? A lion that's (only) a hallucination can't kill you or can it?

Are you suggesting the Earth is a page i.e. flat? — Changeling

Possible ...

Now we're on the same page mon ami!

Locked in? Synced? Not impossible. Therein lies the rub, si señor/señorita?

Arda is flat. :sparkle:

Middle Earth is round (after "The Downfall of Númenor" in the 2nd Age).

"Earth" (today) is actually the 6th Age / 7th Age of Middle Earth.

NB: I prefer Earthsea. :nerd: — 180 Proof

Like you said, in another thread, we have to demonstrate that it's impossible (for the earth to be flat).

Subjective Identity is not the same as Objective Identity. Hence, in my humble opinion, sancta trinitas unus deus. :cool:

Idealism is true ... to an extent! You really don't want to doubt the external reality of a a 3-ton boulder rolling down the hill, straight at you. The great Pyrrho of Elis did but with a horse cart, unlike me though he had friends! :rofl:

Physics, I feel, needs to make existential claims when hypothesizing, the stock-in-trade of the subject, and by doing so strays into philosophical territory, metaphysics (ontology) to be precise.

The same can be said about causation, another science topic which interests metaphysicians.

Nowadays identity vis-à-vis change, a metaphysical concern has also been scienticized e.g. water = H₂O.

Scientific hypotheses are possibilities which along with necessities is another domain of metaphysics.

Space & time are crucial to scientific understanding e.g. Minkowski spacetime; both are alive & kicking in metaphysics as well.

I thought we're just pawns in the game. :chin:

Referring back to the OP: "uncertainty in philosophy" is doubt; "uncertainty in life" is emotional confusion and/or unquantifiable risk. The latter is more urgent yet less profound than the former though. Life seems a game in which we never have enough time to learn enough of its rules in order to make the best moves. So, Jack, angst or amor fati? (i.e. neurosis or psychosis? – or, instead, skepsis?) The Absurd says 'God does not play with loaded dice.' — 180 Proof

Ati sundar (most beautiful) mon ami, ati sundar. Like I once said, @Jack Cummins, human history seems to be about the misses, not the hits.

I don't quite see how it's a science or religion situation?

No they are not, on still exists and the other will not get very far until humans evolve to be able to live on a different type of diet — Sir2u

Ok. We can do better.

Certum est, quia impossibile. — Tertullian

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The "things" worth owning cannot be owned! :rofl:

We (humans) do stand out from the rest of nature! We're not satisfied with how nature works (dukkha) and much of our literature and religions, beginning with the epic of Gilgamesh, is but a long list of complaints against mother nature and how she runs the place. Perhaps if animals could think/speak, they'd add a few of their own thoughts in the suggestion box of reality.

Is p is true IFF p the simplest way of expressing the correspondence theory of truth?

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conceptual confusions — Banno

If (conceptual) confusions could be sorted out, they would've been by now - philosophers have been at it, day in day out, for now 2.5k years - and since they're still around, alive & kicking, in texts, audio, videos, it means we have a wicked problem on our hands. We'll just havta learn to live in this mess of a house, oui mon ami? Some of us will die, others will go cuckoo, still others will suffer, but that's just life! C'est la vie!

I doubt there is really "pre-science".
Science is rather a spectrum from minimal to maximal scientific rigor. — Yohan

You took the words right out of my mouth mon ami!

There really was no pre-scientific epoch in human history unless science isn't really science.

:lol: It's not over until the fat lady sings, oui mon ami?

That's life! — 180 Proof

No fair!

Are these the best of times? Are we all lucky folks? As an example, slavery is in the past and animal rights is in the future. We're at the cusp of a ethical revolution that though it's fragmented and chaotic is full of promise.

The journey is the destination. — 180 Proof

We must imagine Sisyphus happy!

Just curious, is there a poem about poems?

The sun rose for hundreds of thousands of years, it rose yesterday, it'll rise tomorrow too.

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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. — Spock

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Nobody's gonna believe that cock and bull story now, oui mes amies?

Oui, QM does imply, given some necessary logical connections are established, that nothing is real. The seed for the following is ever-present in QM:

Nothing exists.

Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it.

Even if something can be known about it, it cannot be communicated.

Even if it can be communicated, it cannot be understood. — Gorgias

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"BothAnd", no? — 180 Proof

X and not-X, both can be real e.g. Putin is real and so is Zelensky (not-Putin).

To start, the dialectics inherent in any thesis "X is real": not-X is real ad infinitum. — 180 Proof

Apologies, I don't follow.

Most interesting. — Ms. Marple

What precisely is the problem with cataphatic metaphysics (x is real)?

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. — Sherlock Holmes

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Indeed, mon ami, indeed! Without God, everything is sacred!

The future is something we can change; that's the whole point!

Have you read Jack Cummins' thread on uncertainty? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

As far as I can tell @schopenhauer1 is right on the money. Check out his thread on pessimism (we're passive users of our bodies and ... minds).