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  • Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body
    ↪180 Proof .... Don't you have any arguments? — Sam26
    :roll: You know I do ...

    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/776786 (criticism posted above which still stands)

    from 2022 ...
    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/762279 (an argument from a recent "NDE" which you could not counter)
  • Emergence
    180's terms seem to be those proposed by the Vienna Circle — Gnomon
    :lol:
  • Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body
    The title of this thread is "Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body" and you go on cherry picking "evidence" that are testimonial and you ignore all the scientific body of evidence.This is dishonest. Then you declare testimonial evidence to be "academic" when Science rejects subjective opinions by default!
    Ignoring credible epistemology makes your claims pseudo philosophical
    — Nickolasgaspar
    :clap: :100:
    This summary observation is very much worth repeating.
  • External world: skepticism, non-skeptical realism, or idealism? Poll
    Is there an external world? Yes.

    Do we experience it as it is [not experienced by us]? No.

    Is our knowledge of it an accurate representation of it? We try
    — Fooloso4
    :up: :up: :up:
  • Emergence
    Human ability to manifest intent, purpose and intelligent design is being combined and enhanced by memorialised information which has resulted in an ever increasing pace of human invention of new tech and discovery of new knowledge.
    This IS evidence that we are moving towards 'points of pivotal change,' at a faster pace. Movement towards advanced AI for example ... observable emergence ...
    — universeness
    True. However, the jury's still out whether or not emergence like this is (or will attain) substantial 'progress'.

    Since he won't listen to me
    — Gnomon

    You're not the only one he doesn't listen to, but nor is he the only one that doesn't listen to you. I struggle with your posts, and I suspect others ignore your stuff too.
    — bert1
    :clap: :100: Claiming I don't "listen to him" is just disingenuous whining coming from someone who over the last several months repeatedly won't answer (or refute as invalid) a handful of my straightforward questions about his "worldview" ...
    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/775453 (and the posts which follow on that page are telling).
  • Are we alive/real?
    ↪Darkneos
    Others understood what I wrote. I'm sure their replies are not "unintelligible". Also, an online thesaurus doesn't bite.
  • New Atheism
    The only self-described "new atheist" who impresses me with his approach and arguments is the late particle physicist & philosopher Victor J Stenger. Also, the philosopher-novelist Rebecca Goldstein's anti-god writings are worthwhile for being much more philosophical than polemical.
  • External world: skepticism, non-skeptical realism, or idealism? Poll
    I voted for "non-skeptical realism" because I lack compelling grounds to doubt that the "external world" is real (i.e. ineluctable, subject-invariant, fatal).
  • Bannings
    ↪Jamal
    :up: I'll miss him.
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    ↪Agent Smith
    Universal is not synonymous with conceivable.
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    ↪Agent Smith
    My position is that philosophy concerns intelligible-explicable concepts and "god of religion" is neither an intelligible nor explicable concept.
  • Are we alive/real?
    ↪Agent Smith
    Amor fati.
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    ↪Agent Smith
    Theology, I admit, belongs to classical metaphysics; but the "god of the philosophers" is not worshipped or what religious / mystical seekers seek.
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    ↪Agent Smith
    No. Religious faith is the focus of the philosophy of religion. "God" is the focus of theology.
  • Top Ten Favorite Films
    The Godfather had a decent cast… — Mikie
    That's an understatement ... :smirk:
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    180 Proof claims philosophy and god are incompatible. I beg to differ. — Agent Smith
    Make the argument, señor.
  • Are we alive/real?
    ↪Janus
    :sweat:
  • Carlo Rovelli against Mathematical Platonism
    I think chess is a good analogy. Once the concept of chess exists all possible chess games are given potential. Once a chess game is played (even in one's mind) that chess game becomes real. — EnPassant
    I think 'chess is the possibility-space (i.e. actuality) of all chess games and players are the potential realizers of all chess games' is clearer.
  • Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body
    ↪Nickolasgaspar
    :up:
  • Are we alive/real?
    ↪Janus
    Your question assumes that when we eat carcasses (and over-processed foodstuffs) we're not, in effect, eating shit ... how curious.
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    My argument is that you need to stop believing in yourself in order to believe in God. — unenlightened
    And yet in the mouth of (most?) believers these days, "God" is just a three-letter epithet (or crutch) for ego ("why").
  • Are we alive/real?
    ↪Darkneos
    It's my first language. Yours?

    ↪BC
    Danke.

    ↪Nickolasgaspar
    :up:
  • Emergence
    @universeness @Agent Smith

    ↪Gnomon
    Ad hominems, strawmen & non sequiturs-riddled rationalizations of your "enformer"-of-the-gaps poor reasoning are empty and boring.

    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/775528
  • Emergence
    :zip:
  • Top Ten Favorite Films
    ↪Mww
    The overall best cast? :yikes:
    Just barely ... The Lion in Winter
    -Peter O'Toole
    -Katherine Hepburn
    -Anthony Hopkins
    -Timothy Dalton
    -Nigel Terry
    -John Castle
    -Jane Marrow
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    ↪Agent Smith
    Non sequitur. i agree with Nickolasgaspar and disagree with your reply to him.
  • Are we alive/real?
    "Life" might be nothing more than an ongoing, self-esteeming story certain ephemeral, coprophagic arrangements of matter are telling themselves. :flower:
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    [T]here's a place for god in philosophy. — Agent Smith
    "There's a place for" unintelligibility-inexplicability (i.e. "divine mysteries") "in phlosophy" (i.e. the love – pursuit – of 'masterful intellection-explication')? :roll:
  • My problem with atheism
    Pandeism has residual elements of religion while pantheism doesn't. — Agent Smith
    This is confused, you've got it backwards, mon ami. :smirk:
  • TPF Quote Cabinet
    Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about this world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    ↪Nickolasgaspar
    :up:
  • Emergence
    ↪Gnomon
    :rofl:
  • The Philosopher will not find God
    ↪Benj96
    :up:
  • Are there more plausible dogmas for a "God" than those posited by major religions?
    Is it innate to us to consider such an entity when given no prior exposure to the concept? — Benj96
    Yeah, we're congenital magical thinkers. Up to about a third of us are quite susceptible to the placebo / nocebo effect.

    And if so, does that itself have any implications on the argument for or against such an entity?
    I don't think so.
  • US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
    ↪Benkei
    Well, my track record is pretty good. I predicted HRC would find a way to throw the 2016 election, that Individual-1 would be impeached by the end of 2019 (because of Mueller's Report, I thought, which I was wrong about), in the summer of 2019 that Individual-1 would lose reelection in 2020 and that there would be no "red tsumani" in 2022. I'm on a roll, Benkei. :wink:
  • Normativity of Morality as Cooperation Strategies
    ↪Banno
    :up:
  • New Atheism
    ↪Moliere
    In America, anything that's presented as "a more philosophical version" of some public issue will be ignored by most media and the general public. Almost all of the "New Atheism" advocates are really just old-time irreligious, pro-secular polemicists in a new social media age.
  • Are there more plausible dogmas for a "God" than those posited by major religions?
    So what ought be the dogma of an" acceptable God?" One that everyone could get behind. — Benj96
    "Everyone" can't "get behind" the fact that the Earth is round so any prospect less concrete – rorschach signifier – is a non-started for "everyone" to agree on.
  • US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
    ↪Maw
    Good chance of that.

    ↪frank
    Maybe a Republican woman President, before Sarah Palin helped sink McCain's candidacy, had a good chance but in this post-Tea Party & MAGA-insurrectionist era I expect it will be two or three more Presidential elections before "Republican primary voters" throw up a nominee – man or woman – who will have an even chance to win enough of Independents and former-GOP voters to get back into the WH. My guess is that the fallout from Individual-1 & co's indictments, convictions and consequent civil unrest / political terrorism will have catastrophic electoral consequences for the GOP that will last for at least a generation.
  • US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
    Watch California governor Gavin Newsom for President (with Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer for VP). Now that's a MAGA-killing ticket! — 180 Proof
    Whitmer for President with running-mate Newsom for Veep works just as well for me too – maybe even better!
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