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by dmfdmf 8y ago
> Because human behavior boils down to Plato vs Aristotle. This is correct and the fundamental that distinguishes these two thinkers is the Primacy of Consciousness versus the Primacy of Existence, i.e., subjectivity versus objectivity.
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Short GPU OEMs.
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How's that novel coming? Almost done, I'll bet. https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/12/how_to_create_motiva...
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Changing password won't help. This IBM guestimate is probably an extrapolation of recent advances but still a long way to go. It reminds me of the old adage that fusion power is only 10 years away and has been for 50 years. More import
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Yes, but do you feel guilty going on vacation? If so then how do you rationalize it? If not then doesn't that make you a psychopath? Serious questions all.
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> Maybe reality isn't fundamentally particle-like, but field-like. But then we get into metaphysical and epistemological questions which are obviously unavoidable once you start making claims about what is or is not "fundamenta
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I agree. I think people miss your point that within their respective contexts Newton and Einstein were rejecting a form of an acausal theory. However, there is a significant philosophic difference in Newton's era vs Einstein's.
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Purpose is a teleological term and life is the ultimate end, an end in itself. So, as the saying goes, asking what is the purpose of life is tantamount to asking what is North of the North pole, i.e. it is an invalid question. In your ter
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
The implication of your position (i.e., that my argument is Ad Hom) is that the validity or merit of someone's opinion of Ayn Rand's work is independent of whether they have read her work or not is absurd on the face of it. It imp
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Before we move on to your new Straw Man accusation, let's close out your old accusation that my argument is Ad Hom. Do you concede that point, if not why?
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My logical and rhetorical integrity is intact, you don't really know what ad hominem means. It means to raise some irrelevant fact about the person making the argument as a reason to dismiss what the person is claiming. E.g. don't
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The truth or falsehood of the content is independent of Binswanger's income source and can be verified apart from that fact. This is the meaning of Ad Hominem fallacy, to get people to dismiss an argument not because it is false but be
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Time is an illusion, freewill is an illusion, etc. are all attacks on and denials of consciousness. The fact is that consciousness exists and has identity. In the past consciousness was treated as supernatural but the "modern" att
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You have plenty of company.
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Have you read Philosophy Who Needs It? , Have you read the Virtue of Selfishness? Have you read Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal? Have you read The New Left:The Anti-Industrial Revolution? Have you read The Voice of Reason? Have you r
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
The vast majority of people who have opinions on Ayn Rand or her philosophy of Objectivism haven't read a word of what she wrote and are repeating what they heard or have read it and failed to comprehend her ideas. Whether such failure
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by dmfdmf 9y ago
Oppose. This is a call for government regulation of speech and association, i.e. the end of Free Speech and Freedom of Assembly in America.
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The courts need to reign in the use of Executive Orders.
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Questions from another conscious being that understands meaning and isn't just processing symbols, of course.
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> A global body that oversees internet domain names is preparing a significant tightening of its privacy standards in response to new European Union policies. >The U.S. government and some major American tech businesses warn the move,
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by dmfdmf 9y ago
Thanks for rebutting Chathamization's gross misrepresentation of Searle's argument. > It's all theoretical as long as you stick to simple tests (like multiple-choice exams), but becomes relevant when you suddenly expand th
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by dmfdmf 9y ago
I don't think there is any secret answer other than you choose to do it, modern philosophers notwithstanding, you have free will. Translating your ideas and theories in into practical action is part of being human but I suppose that it
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by dmfdmf 9y ago
>Modern Monetary Theory’s basic principle seems blindingly obvious: Under a fiat currency system, a government can print as much money as it likes. There is nothing "radical" nor modern about it, the idea has been around for
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"Next up was former armed robber Frank Prosper, now an actor, who said he purposefully avoided thinking about the rights and wrongs of what he was doing while he was an active criminal." This is the mental process, in various fo
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Utter non-sense for two reasons. First, he is reversing cause and effect in that AI is a philosophic problem (more specifically an epistemological problem). The philosophy departments have been doubting the efficacy of reason for over a cen
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Should be "Anatomy of Compromise", sorry for the error.
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To understand what is going on here please read Rand's article "Anatomy of Comprise" in her anthology "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" and her article "The Establishing of an Establishment" in her anthology
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Rand addressed your comment about "selfish" being a pejorative (and "altruism" being a positive) in detail in the introduction to her work "The Virtue of Selfishness". ================================== The ti
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It’s worth noting that many prominent libertarian thinkers were still more suspicious of business than Rand was. From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, they worried that organized commercial interests would use their political influence to un
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by dmfdmf 9y ago
Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson is a good place to start. https://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Underst...

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