High level philosophy

[Amarok]

I'm a Multiclass wizard 

 

Stamped with composite furniture? You should be ashamed.

[bennyboy]

I'm level 0, with suspicions that I might actually be even less than that.

[DLJ]

[bennyboy]

1. "Je n’avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là" -- Laplace.  Gods and goddesses are not required in this or any hypothesis.

My French isn't great, but I can say what this sentence means:
"I don't need this hypothesis." It doesn't mention what hypothesis he's talking about.

[robvalue]

[Minimalist]

[DLJ]

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Awesome, thanks! This all looks sensible to me. I’ll have to do some research into some terminology I’m not familiar with, and then I’ll do a proper response
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Looking forward to it.

Bear in mind my autistic traits... I'm not great at ToM (theory of mind) in that I assume that everyone else knows what I know or rather, I forget that not everyone knows what I know.  Feel free to ask if there are terms you can't find on google... it's entirely possible that I've made them up (what's good enough for Heidegger...)

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As another baseline subject, I was thinking of summarising my thoughts on what it means for things to be "real", and my analysis of solopsism-style problems.

Excellent idea.   'Reality' needs to be pinned down if we are to progress.  
It strikes me that reality is dependent on the lens (or lenses) we look through... everything is emergent if you're a quark.  

And who knows, maybe there is a school of sub-sub-sub-particles who think that quarks are hilariously illusional.    

I'm OK with using 'internal' and 'external' reality, for purposes of conversation.  Although even that might be a bit dodgy without a definition of 'self'.  I am quietly convinced that my parents have formed one self after 60 years of marriage (... telegram from the queen etc.).

Did you know that there was actually a philosopher named "Fries?"
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I didn't.  

And that shirt might explain my difficulty with filosoffy... I have a tomato allergy.

[Dr H]

9. Morality is:
An evolved, human governance / continuity management system.
This system is an evolved extension (in the cognitive domain) of the pre-human immune system, endocrine and limbic system architecture and requires an ethical baseline (requiring memory), emotion-based thresholds, event-detection (e.g. deception detectors; a conscience) and reasoning (hence consciousness). It is enabled / influenced by chemical inhibitors and inducers and social constraints and drivers.

Y'know ... existentialists really hate hanging labels on things.

Just sayin'.
Since this is High Level Philosophy, and all . . .  

[DLJ]

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Y'know ... existentialists really hate hanging labels on things.

Just sayin'.
Since this is High Level Philosophy, and all . . .  

Thus, the moral of the tale...  

... never hire an existentialist as a librarian.  

[vulcanlogician]