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Rationality Quotes April - June 2017
Laoch8y00

No you won't... ...because the configuration of life that refers to itself as you will be gone.

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Physicalism: consciousness as the last sense
Laoch8y00

Whenever I come across a conversation concerning the mind and it's relation to physics I think of what a Cognitive science lecturer of mine had to say on the subject.

Physicalism is a form of insistence that there is some mind-independent description of the world. Any definition of the physical brings with it the concomitant necessity to define the mental. I'm sorry if my writing is unclear on this, but it attempts to point out that there is no "easy route" through an appeal to the physical, as any appeal to the physical necessarily depends on some view of the mystical, magical, never to be seen, mental. Physicalism is thus not any kind of plausible metaphysics.

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Schelling fences on slippery slopes
Laoch8y20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

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Strategies for dealing with emotional nihilism
Laoch8y40

4.5 years later still on SSRI's, a bit suicidal. Seeing a therapist, looking for a psychiatrist. Feels like I'm going to lose my mind and believe any old thing, return to a community and a way of life I despise (because of mind loss). So I came here to see what LW's have to say on this and noticed my old post. This has been going on for a while, no resolution in sight.

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Worth remembering (when comparing ‘the US’ to ‘Europe’)
Laoch10y20

I live in Ireland. Ireland is definitely not a bilingual country.

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Rationality Quotes May 2012
Laoch11y00

It's all burdensome to me.

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Rationality Quotes May 2012
Laoch11y00

Whether or not it's a large cultural phenomenon has nothing to do with how sensible the material is. It's actually probably brilliant fantasy I would agree, but if I'm looking for good sci-fi it's a bore fest.

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Rationality Quotes May 2012
Laoch11y10

Oh I completely agree. It's just my experience of Doctor Who has been that it's a well of irrational story lines. For example why would the TARDIS have a soul?

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Rationality Quotes May 2012
Laoch11y00

I know this is probably an ad hominem but isn't Gaiman the guy who wrote Doctor Who episodes? The worst sci-fi show ever.

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How to not be a fatalist? Need help from people who care about true beliefs.
Laoch12y00

As an update, I've read the the Free Will Solution sequence. It doesn't seem like there is any punchline to the sequences, I'm found the area of timeless physics interesting but I'm not sure how it helps. I don't think I'm any better off intellectually from the sequences.

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