• Insect Consciousness
    Some of the materialists here get all huffy when you ask them if insects are conscious. — RogueAI
    Not "insects" per se, but entities without nervous systems (e.g. stars, rocks, cells, atoms).
  • Masculinity
    ↪T Clark
    I dispute the premise of your.question by countering it with my own.
  • The Argument from Reason
    Shall I paraphrase? — Wayfarer
    Given that I'd addressed your statement, sir, please "paraphrase" what you think, not what others think. You do think for yourself, don't you?

    @Jamal
  • The Argument from Reason
    ↪Wayfarer
    Let's keep things simple and clear, Wayfarer. I'm interested in your dogmatic statement about matter and have questioned you here
    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/817594
    and again in my last post. Either you can answer the question I have asked or you can't. Quoting walls of other people's texts without answering my questions comes across as telling me to "fuck off". :brow:
  • The Argument from Reason
    Say if I suggested 'mind' or 'consciousness' as a hypothetical answer - — Wayfarer
    By "mind or consciousness" you're claiming, in effect, that matter is only acted upon by immateral entities or processes – is that right?
  • Masculinity
    ↪T Clark
    You mean patriarchy doesn't denote 'a disproportionate control of national governments and multi-state/national corporations (re: resource investments, allocations, accumulations, subsidies, etc) by "wealthy" members of the male gender primarily for the benefit (i.e. maintaining "traditions" of hierarchical dominance) of "wealthy & professional" members of the male gender'? :confused:
  • Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)
    ↪NOS4A2
    :clap: :rofl:

    Consider again, lil MAGAt, reality on Earth One ...
    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/816567
  • The Argument from Reason
    ↪Janus
    :up:

    ↪Srap Tasmaner
    :up: :up:

    This is because it is my dogmatic belief that matter does not act, but is only acted upon. — Wayfarer
    If "matter does not act", then "matter" "is only acted upon" by what? Please cite an example.
  • Deep Songs

    "Feeling Good" (2:53)
    I Put A Spell On You, 1965
    writers L. Bricusse & A. Newley, 1964
    Nina Simone

    *


    "Because" (2:24)
    A cappella version (Anthology vol. 3), 1996
    writers Lennon-McCartney, 1969
    The Beatles

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    "Let's Get It On" (4:53)
    Let's Get It On, 1973
    writer M. Gaye & E. Townsend
    Marvin Gaye
  • James Webb Telescope
    It will be interesting to see how they fix these Six Galaxies that appear to be older than the Big Bang allows them to be, in terms of time for formation. — Manuel
    I haven't come across any evidence or learned consensus that the "Six Galaxies" are, in fact, what they appear to be. It seems more likely than not to me that they are images distorted by gravitational lensing or another spacetime phenomenon yet to be discovered in physical cosmology. 'Dark matter' and 'dark energy', respectively, seem to be much more substantiated predictions than this preliminary interpretation of 'anomalous' JWST images. :chin:
  • The Argument from Reason
    Nonreductive materialism is popular among philosophers. Which takes us back to 180 Proof’s early response, which I don’t think you’ve addressed. — Jamal
    @Wayfarer won't because he dogmatically cannot.
  • Masculinity
    Does a man and a woman have total equality under the label human or humanism, in your view? — universeness
    Maybe under the modern label of libertarian socialism there is "total equality" ...
  • Masculinity
    My earnest answer to 'what is a man or what is masculinity,' lies within the answer to 'what is a human or what is humanism.' — universeness
    In this context, terms like "human" and "humanism" seem to me about as useful as "earthling" and "geocenrrism", respectively.
  • Masculinity
    What is a real man? — Moliere
    As opposed to a "fake" man ... :confused:

    Perhaps a more probative inquiry:
    What are the functions, or duties, normatively expected of men at (this) historical moment and by (this) culture / in (this) society? And what does such an expectation 'to be a man' mean to (for) each concretely situated person?
    A socio-psychological topic, however, rather than philosophical aporia, no?
  • Pointlessness of philosophy
    Insofar as philosophy is suppositional and critical, it is not propositional or theoretical (e.g. science, history). So when did the praxis of personal reflection called-into-question by interpersonal dialectic become "pointless"?
  • Does ethics apply to thoughts?
    How you conduct yourself is what matters. There are psychopaths who are very moral people because they choose to live by an ethical code. — RogueAI
    :100:

    Does ethics apply to thoughts? Is a man evil if he has evil thoughts, and good if he has good ones? — NOS4A2
    No.
  • Masculinity
    ↪180 Proof If I'm reading you correctly you're making a hard distinction between the biological and the social in how you treat the two nouns -- a man is biologically defined, and masculinity is defined in this more psychological, spiritual, ontological, or social sense. — Moliere
    :up:
  • Is our civilization critically imbalanced? Could Yin-Yang help? (poll)
    ↪0 thru 9
    All things being equal, we're probably fucked (e.g. anthropic climate change).

    An excerpt from a thread on "The Future"...
    In a century, civilizational collapse on a global scale – population crash to below 2 billion – due mostly to catastrophic climate instability and consisting mostly of failed states and "floating" transnational corporate enclaves. — 180 Proof
  • Is our civilization critically imbalanced? Could Yin-Yang help? (poll)
    ↪0 thru 9
    My question suggests that civilization is inherently unstable; once they reach stability – equilibrium – they tend to (suddenly) collapse. Analogously, IMO (on geological scale), cultures are like ecological niches and civilizations are like pandemics.
  • Is our civilization critically imbalanced? Could Yin-Yang help? (poll)
    ↪0 thru 9
    I think it's more intelligible not to conflate culture with civilization than to conflate them.
  • Masculinity
    ↪T Clark
    :up:
  • Is our civilization critically imbalanced? Could Yin-Yang help? (poll)
    I’d offer the Australian Aborigines.
    65,000 years of continuing existence in the same place is a damn fine record.     — 0 thru 9
    For me, 0 thru 9, this example stretches the notion of 'civilization' into incoherence.
  • James Webb Telescope
    https://www.space.com/universe-expansion-could-be-a-mirage :eyes: :yikes:
  • The Argument from Reason
    Life is short, 180. — Wayfarer
    And denial is long.
  • Is our civilization critically imbalanced? Could Yin-Yang help? (poll)
    ↪0 thru 9
    Other. :chin:

    Cite an example of a "civilization" which was not unbalanced.
  • The Argument from Reason
    ↪Wayfarer
    And yet, besides a disapproving squeak, you cannot point out my error/s. :roll:
  • Masculinity
    So the opening question: What is a man? — Moliere
    An adult human with XY chromosomes.

    And the titular question: What is masculinity?
    Yang (re: taijitu). Unbalanced, tends to break before bending (contrary to / complementary of Yin which tends to bend before breaking). :fire:
  • The Argument from Reason
    So do we blame old Franz for creating all of this confusion? — wonderer1
    Blame millennia of folk psychology (e.g. Scholastic psychologism).

    Next you'll be telling us qualia is nonsense... — Tom Storm
    Not "nonsense", just (adaptive?) phenomenal noise in mammalian cognitive systems.

    So how did this entry become written? By mistake? — Wayfarer
    It was written – as our exchanges are written, Wayf – by deterministic nonlinear dynamic system-agents which reflexively confabulate ex post facto intentions-of-the-gaps. :sparkle: :eyes:
  • UFOs
    If UFOs are "alien spacecraft", I suspect that they are AI-machine probes and that their parent species are either extinct or postbiological. — 180 Proof
    Addendum to the post excerpted above: a SciAm opinion piece by Martin Rees & Mario Livio ...

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-aliens-may-be-artificial-intelligence-not-life-as-we-know-it/?fbclid=IwAR0dyFVyIjr_xqXDklbyBdW3qzSW5WpkWV77t0s6_i-X34_aDlyIzm7qMdg#
  • Juneteenth as national holiday.
    ↪BC
    :up:

    ↪Ciceronianus
    :up:

    In an era of deliberate, wide-spread voter suppression by GOP legistlatures, it would be far less of an empty, symbolic gesture to celebrate Voting Rights Day (August 6, 1965) rather than the folkloric "emancipation" of Juneteenth (1865), which was followed by a century of jim crow segregation – de facto disenfranchisement – which had required a federal statute to establish enforceable liberty for blacks, browns & women (that's been strategically under legistlative and judicial threat for the last two decades). Also, get rid of both "MLK, Jr Day" and "President's Day" too and at least establish a federal Election Day holiday instead.
  • US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
    ↪RogueAI
    :up:
  • US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
    ↪Benkei
    That ain't news, B. For decades now national politricks in the US has been as legitimate as professional wrestling. :mask:
  • US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
    ↪Wayfarer
    :up:
  • Themes in Rock and Roll
    Since the 1920s, uptight religious folks have called Blues (& sometimes Jazz) music "the Devil's music". Decades later, Rock-n-Roll mainstreamed the Blues mixed with teenage rebellion and transgressive irreverance, which shocked suburbanites & tempted rightwing televangelists to the point of equal parts hypocrisy & condemnation. :naughty:






    :fire:
  • The Argument from Reason
    Do the outputs of ChatGPT have intentionality? — wonderer1
    Well, it's not altogether clear even that human thoughts "have intentionality" ... :chin:
  • The Argument from Reason
    ↪wonderer1
    :up:

    ↪I like sushi
    :up:
  • US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
    ↪frank
    :up:
  • The Argument from Reason
    ↪Wayfarer
    Back in the day, I couldn't find a copy of A Materialist Theory of Mind, but I'd eventually learned much from Armstrong's A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility and Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics which, IME, are far more consistent with both formal and natural sciences than any 'immaterialist, antirealist or supernaturalist' speculations on the world, mind, etc I've come across.
  • What is a "Woman"
    IMO, the most equitable solution would be to provide three public, multi-occupant, wheelchair-accessible restrooms designated for Men, Women & Unisex. Someone has probably already pointed out that considerations of 'chromosomal biology' or 'gender self-identification' are too reductive for pragmatically providing disambiguated public accomodations.
  • The Argument from Reason
    ↪Tom Storm
    :up:

    ↪Wayfarer
    At most (being charitable), the "argument from reason" only narrowly applies to reductive physicalism, otherwise a broader conclusion presupposes a false dichtomy (i.e. either "reductive physicalism" or "nonphysicalism") fallacy which invalidates the argument.
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