How may this be established clearly and, is it fettered by the sentient aspects of human perception and thinking?. — Jack Cummins

ancient forms of sun worship and fertility rites of paganism — Jack Cummins

... dualism on a runaway train. How does a system not subject to natural laws become a source of those laws? Unmoved movers? Something from nothing? All you are [@Gnomon is] doing is complicating things unnecessarily. — Harry Hindu

James Lovelock, in his final writings spoke of the possiblity of a race of artificial intelligent beings and some remaining human beings overseeing the natural world. — Jack Cummins

Would it be a matter of humans 'worshipping' the artificial intelligent beings as the superior 'overlords'?

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to [build it]. — Arthur C. Clarke

Who[What] would be servant and master? — Jack Cummins

Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and [the singularity] — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You know that what you eat
you are
But what is sweet now
turns so sour
We all know Obla-Di-Bla-Da
But can you show me
where you are? — George Harrison

For me, the point of philosophy is not answering questions, but becoming more self-aware - not the end goal but the journey. — T Clark

But the astro-physical evidence of a singular point-of-origin for space-time made our cosmos seem contingent upon some outside force. — Gnomon

Would it be possible to create Spinoza's form of substance itself in a system as opposed to in nature?

having to exist for eternity

Like I said, I think there are two arguments for affirmative action. One s reparation for past wrongs and the other is equal representation. The facetious counter argument of 'color blindness' is poignantly laid to rest by 180 Proof. — Tobias

virtual afterlife ... simulation of resurrected bodies — Jack Cummins

It is questionable but it is a possiblity. — Jack Cummins

I generally see artificial intelligence as problematic as being without reflective self. — Jack Cummins

I believe absolute fundamentality can only really be found in the void itself... — punos

I understand [fascism] to the extent that I see it as right wing populism. I don't see how it can be anything else. — Arcane Sandwich

Populists are politicians who appeal directly to the people when they should be consulting the political process, and who are prepared to set aside procedures and legal niceties when the tide of public opinion flows in their favor. Like Donald Trump, populists can win elections. Like Marine Le Pen in France and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, they can disrupt the long-standing consensus of government. Or, like Nigel Farage and the Brexiteers in Britain, they can use the popular vote to overthrow all the expectations and predictions of the political class. But they have one thing in common, which is their preparedness to allow a voice to passions that are neither acknowledged nor mentioned in the course of normal politics. And for this reason, they are not democrats but demagogues — not politicians who guide and govern by appeal to arguments, but agitators who stir the unthinking feelings of the crowd. — Roger Scruton, 2017

IMHO racism is best fought by emphasizing commonality and common goals rather than repeatedly emphasizing difference and/or prior victimhood within groups. The approach should be more future-oriented. — BitconnectCarlos

Kristi Noem confirmed as Sec'y of DHS. — FOTUS 47's Cabinet

What exactly is Process Philosophy? — Darkneos

Pete Hegseth confirmed as Sec'y of Defense — FOTUS 47's Cabinet

Do you think that's all an illusion? — RogueAI

Philosophy, as Wittgenstein points out, only describes how we use concepts (by which to interpretively frame 'experience') whereas unfalsified theories in science are used to explain – model the conditional causal relations of – transformations from one physical state-of-affairs to another. AFAIK, (fundamental) sciences are hypothetico-deductive (i.e. experimental) and not merely inductive (i.e. experiential) as per Popper vs Hume, et al. It's philosophy, in fact, that "explains nothing" about the world (i.e. existence & reality) but instead non-trivially interprets whatever we think we know about the world, etc. — 180 Proof

I don’t see how I’m committing a fallacy. — Bob Ross

Is mind a necessary condition for intelligence? — RogueAI

I don't think we can avoid a human-centered morality, even if we avoid putting what is good for humans at the center. It is human beings who judge questions of morality. — Fooloso4

The Tao does not replace god, it comes before it. God is just one of the 10,000 things - the multiplicity of phenomena in our world brought into being by the Tao. — T Clark