So the opening question: What is a man? — Moliere

And the titular question: What is masculinity?

So do we blame old Franz for creating all of this confusion? — wonderer1

Next you'll be telling us qualia is nonsense... — Tom Storm

So how did this entry become written? By mistake? — Wayfarer

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

Do the outputs of ChatGPT have intentionality? — wonderer1

What is the reason for Juneteenth to be a national holiday? — TiredThinker

All decent families are alike; each corrupt family is corrupt in its own way.

[ ... ] Dion
Julie Andrews
Bob Dylan
Frankie Valli
Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Van Morrison [ ... ] — Mikie

I can think of no examples of metaphysics becoming science. — Janus

... we may need to specify whether we are talking about Physics (science ; energy [experimental transformations]) or about Meta-Physics (philosophy; enformation [reflective interpretations]). — Gnomon

Maybe a new animated B5 movie will be better than no new B5?
— 180 Proof
I do think Mr Straczynski is trying to protect his 'baby' from the corporate profiteers, but I suppose it's hard to know who are the true good, bad and ugly characters in that world. — universeness

[Trump's] scared shitless. This is the way he compensates for that. He gives people the appearance he doesn’t care by doing this...For the first time in his life, it looks like he’s being held accountable...Up until this point in his life, it’s like, ‘I’m not going to pay you. Take me to court.’ He’s never been held accountable before. — John Kelly, retired US Marine General and fmr WH Chief of Staff (R)

[Trump's] scared shitless. This is the way he compensates for that. He gives people the appearance he doesn’t care by doing this...For the first time in his life, it looks like he’s being held accountable...Up until this point in his life, it’s like, ‘I’m not going to pay you. Take me to court.’ He’s never been held accountable before. — John Kelly, retired US Marine General and fmr WH Chief of Staff (R)

Biosemiosis is based on the physics of dissipative structure. And dissipative structure is also the basis of cosmology. The Big Bang theory describes the Universe as a cooling-expanding structure of dissipation - a system falling into the very heat sink it is making.

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So reality as a whole - the entire shebang from cosmology to consciousness - can be modelled in the fundamental coin of thermodynamic theory. That is why information-entropy has become the basic metric employed by physical and mental theories. It is used in quantum theory. It is also used in Bayesian Brain theory. — apokrisis

Apparently, something about my information-based worldview is discomfiting for you.
— @Gnomon

It’s the crackpottery. Simple enough — apokrisis

The significance is clear.

"Conventional physics deals only with closed systems, i.e. systems which are considered to be isolated from their environment."
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy, General system Theory (1968) — Metaphysician Undercover

Isn't climate change ultimately coming to liberate us from the cycle of death and rebrith? Why act to prevent it? — Tom Storm

Such is the bane of all speculative metaphysics: there’s no empirical proofs, but only internal logical consistency and strict adherence to the LNC, the only form of certainty we have to guide our contemplations. — Mww

Literally all of good metaphysics tries to extrapolate based off of the real world their best explanations of it and only bad metaphysics ventures so far beyond reality with merely LNC. — Bob Ross