meaning is meaningless — OmniscientNihilist
when people talk about meaning its like talking about superman. sure you can talk about it but its not actually real. the smart thing to do would be to break meaning down into what it actually is. explain the processes of the mind and how they work. — OmniscientNihilist
Explain using meaningless mystical meanings, I suppose? — Eee
explain what the mind is in substance and how it works in process — OmniscientNihilist
We're already here doing that. — Eee
if you cant bulid a mind yet, then you still dont really understand it — OmniscientNihilist
That we understand only what we make? — Eee
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche — OmniscientNihilist
ego prevents people from seeing themselves for what they really are. which blocks true knowledge of what the mind is and how it works, which prevents the construction of A.I. — OmniscientNihilist
the above is caused by the below — OmniscientNihilist
forget all that talk of "meaning" — OmniscientNihilist
the word doesnt stand for anything. — OmniscientNihilist
language is nothing but sounds and shapes that get associated to recorded sense data in the mind — OmniscientNihilist
if meaning and language dont exist then im not using them and therefore its not self refuting to say they dont exist. — OmniscientNihilist
what am i using? something else nobody seems to have found yet. because:
"false knowledge is a greater impediment to truth then ignorance" — OmniscientNihilist
Aad aroim fsgomsrgb sdfpmsefvmoksfgbfsv ? — Eee
Politics is just another form of religion
— Harry Hindu
I agree, and I think this should be obvious. But the confused concept of the supernatural obscures how religion organizes group activity in the real world in the same way that a politics based on unquestioned secular concept/ideals does. Transcendence, justice, freedom, fairness, etc. Their force remains, even if one withdraws a traditional religious imagery from them. — Eee
All appeal to authority is fideistic. — Pfhorrest
The supernatural only demands fideism because there is no evidence possible from which to reason about it. — Pfhorrest
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance.
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Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large part of mankind gladly remain minors all their lives, long after nature has freed them from external guidance. They are the reasons why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor. — Kant
appeal to intuition is effective an appeal to one’s own authority and so an appeal to faith. — Pfhorrest
Language is nothing other than the realization of the species; i.e., the “I” is mediated with the “You” in order, by eliminating their individual separateness, to manifest the unity of the species.
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[T]he urge to communicate is a fundamental urge – the urge for truth. We become conscious and certain of truth only through the other, even if not through this or that accidental other. That which is true belongs neither to me nor exclusively to you, but is common to all. — Feuerbach
Shakespeare is wheeled on for this thought experiment rather than, say, Charles Dickens because he’s the supposed apogee of literary creativity. The reductionist probabilitarians are saying: you think Shakespeare’s the greatest – well, he can be reproduced by empty randomness. — Chris Hughes
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