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Anonymous ## Mod ## 11/10/26(Wed)10:01 No. 3905 ID: 4c1a8e [Reply] Stickied
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For growing and shit or whatever I present to you:

THE BIG STICKIED THREAD OF PHILOSOPHY RESOURCES



Put in whatever resources that fit in here, whether it's from wikipedia, youtube, some university, or where ever. Just remember to keep it within the board's guidelines and rules.
Use it or lose it, faggots.


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Anonymous 22/07/24(Sun)18:34 No. 15021 ID: 3742c4

https://www.youtube.com/c/KaneB
https://www.youtube.com/c/carneadesofcyrene
You can find there lectures on many philosophical subjects




Anonymous ## Mod ## 12/02/02(Thu)05:26 No. 5920 ID: 4fb7fa [Reply] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts] Stickied
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This thread is for discussion of the validity of religion(s) and arguments for and against the existence of god/gods.

Any other new posts about this subject will be deleted, or locked and referred to this one.

New threads about religious concepts that play inside their own ruleset are allowed, and we kindly ask that you refrain from turning those well meaning threads into arguments about religion as a whole.


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thread thread 24/08/27(Tue)00:06 No. 15613 ID: 5246c9

Why bother discussing religions since there's really nothing you can do about them at all.

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READ THIS BEFORE POSTING YOU PILE OF FAGGOTS Anonymous ## Mod ## 11/09/09(Fri)04:51 No. 2371 ID: 175f07 [Reply] Locked Stickied
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Atheism Spectrum Disorder Anonymous 24/04/20(Sat)17:24 No. 15387 ID: 01d296 [Reply] [First 100 posts] [Last 50 posts]
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364254/
>Religious believers intuitively conceptualize deities as intentional agents with mental states who anticipate and respond to human beliefs, desires and concerns. It follows that mentalizing deficits, associated with the autistic spectrum and also commonly found in men more than in women, may undermine this intuitive support and reduce belief in a personal God.
>...it is possible that the autism spectrum is associated with interest in math, science, and engineering (IMSE), which in turn reduces religious belief.

If autistic people lack the ability to understand other people's feelings and desires, then obviously there can be no moral imperative for them to care about anyone other than themselves. If your life is based on numerical values in a graph, calculations using formulas and looking at the world through a mechanistic lense then you become sociopathic.
I've never met an autistic person that wasn't socially awkward and giving off creepy serial killer vibes.


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Anonymous 24/10/04(Fri)15:22 No. 15690 ID: e00345

>>15689
I'd say 100%.


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Anonymous 24/10/05(Sat)06:08 No. 15691 ID: f0dc15

>>15677
idk i think cartoon villian is more accurate.


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Anonymous 24/10/05(Sat)06:10 No. 15692 ID: f0dc15

>>15606
Thats not such a bad thing.




what is woes, just tryna find my way lucee most sane user 23/09/23(Sat)06:01 No. 15343 ID: fb0e48 [Reply]
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does anyone have anything based on more esoteric philosophy, any ideas or concepts that seem more strange and interesting and over the edge I wanna hear em. I've tried researching on this and it seems as I want to get back into philosophy I can't find much on material on this as its more logical based for my taste. Also just got a kindle so any recommendations for the best classics you believe that can probably be found in pdf free online would be appreciated.


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Anonymous 24/09/01(Sun)11:55 No. 15619 ID: fa0951

>>15617
If the universe is many entities fixed in a single state, how does consciousness/memory "transfer" for one person between images?


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Anonymous 24/09/01(Sun)23:19 No. 15621 ID: ffb737

>>15619
what is consciousness? if it is the awareness of the rest of the minds contents, including memories of things like thoughts, emotions, sensations, and recieved sense data, then it is not carried over at all, it is instantaneous just as everything else is. your memories of being your previous selves are what creates the illusion of a continuous stream of consciousness, which is only but a small part of the illusion of fluid time (a singular universe that changes state, rather than an infinite set of universes that remain fixed in one state without ever moving or changing in any way). you can interpret this in one of two ways, either you arent special compared to anything else in the universe, or you are one with the universe you inhabit, and this is true of every version of yourself through this timeline and all others in which a variant of yourself is present.

the fabric of reality is like this because it allows for travel backwards in time, and i like to think that reality accounts for everything, for if it did not, that would be a great existential threat, as under the infinite vastness of space and time even the most improbable event becomes a certainty to occur, and to do so an infinite number of times.


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Anonymous 24/09/19(Thu)10:05 No. 15660 ID: a30731

The cave way




Anonymous 22/04/28(Thu)06:19 No. 14936 ID: 865d12 [Reply]
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Friends, I'm dying for direction. What I want is Solipsism as a topic handled from an Existential standpoint, not epistemologically. I want to learn about how Hollywoodian Solipsism effects our mentality and turns us into self-serving drones. I know that might be too opinionated and specific so I am also fine with anything that touches it tangentially. If you have any thoughts on the issue yourself I'd love to hear it.


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Anonymous 24/09/09(Mon)15:44 No. 15640 ID: 1445a0

>>15639
Solipsism means that reality is one-dimensional instead of multilayered.


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Anonymous 24/09/09(Mon)17:32 No. 15641 ID: 886a93
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Full video - https://t.co/7SrWkxvJUW


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Anonymous 24/09/10(Tue)09:15 No. 15642 ID: 52f22c

>>15640
Solipsism is the foundation of monotheism. A singular omnipotent being that rules and creates everything is by default a solipsistic deity.




A mind that affects matter Anonymous 22/09/17(Sat)14:23 No. 15149 ID: 02e9f5 [Reply]
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350862574_Psychophysical_interactions_with_a_double-slit_interference_pattern_Exploratory_evidence_of_a_causal_influence
>For the experimental data, the outcome supported a pattern of results predicted by a causal psychophysical effect

https://physicsessays.org/browse-journal-2/product/1424-4-dean-radin-leena-michel-and-arnaud-delorme-psychophysical-modulation-of-fringe-visibility-in-a-distant-double-slit-optical-system.html
>...these results were found to support von Neumann’s conclusion that the mind of the observer is an inextricable part of the measurement process.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287506033_Reassessment_of_an_independent_verification_of_psychophysical_interactions_with_a_double-slit_interference_pattern
>Baer's independent analysis confirmed that the optical apparatus used in this experiment was indeed sensitive enough to provide evidence for a psychophysical effect.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258707222_Consciousness_and_the_double-slit_interference_pattern_Six_experiments
>The results appear to be consistent with a consciousness-related interpretation of the quantum measurement problem.

Apparently there is a strong aversion within the scientific community regarding how consciousness tends to go beyond regular cause and effect when you measure its influence on its surroundings. The materialistic interpretation of reality fails to explain why these unusual occurences exist and why you can never see a physical link between these events.

Are you convinced that there is only matter in this universe and nothing else?
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Anonymous 24/09/01(Sun)23:28 No. 15622 ID: ffb737

>>15572
because it isnt there.
i strongly disagree with your baseless assertion.
theres no free will, some components of our minds ensure we are constantly doing, saying, thinking, and feeling in ways other parts of our psyche would rather we not.
we often claim that we desire free will to hold ourselves to account, but in practice i see us using free will to justify making judgements of others for their actions, while we make excuses for our own.
free will is unnessacary and is in fact a harmful belief within our society, we can make much better models on the basis of pragmatics and pursuit of preferable outcomes, but the myth of free will keeps a status quo in place that none of us thinks is satisfactory.


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Anonymous 24/09/02(Mon)09:45 No. 15624 ID: fc175e
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>>15399
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01620-3
>The long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) has become a cornerstone in evolutionary biology that researchers continue to mine for insights. During their 75,000 generations of growth, the bacteria have made huge gains in their fitness — how fast they grow relative to other bacteria — and evolved some surprising traits.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JB.00831-15
>The LTEE isolation of Cit+ mutants has become a textbook example of the power of long-term evolution to generate new species. But, based on our results, E. coli arrives at the same solution to access citrate in days versus years, as originally shown by Hall. In either case, genes involved in the process maintain their same function but show expanded expression by deregulation. Because of this, we argue that this is not speciation any more than is the case with any other regulatory mutant of E. coli. We conclude that the rarity of the LTEE mutant was an artifact of the experimental conditions and not a unique evolutionary event. No new genetic information (novel gene function) evolved.

Materialists think that biology somehow determines how you act and behave but in reality there is no evidence for this other than assumptions.


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Anonymous 24/09/04(Wed)18:21 No. 15631 ID: c42491
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>>15624
I don't think anyone can explain why bacteria would develop consciousness or how it produces awareness step by step.




Anonymous 16/08/31(Wed)03:45 No. 12662 ID: 1cc955 [Reply]
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About free will.

Are you reading this text voluntarily? My personal guess is, that many will instinctively answer with yes. In German the adjective „voluntarily“ is translated to „freiwillig“, which means „with free will“ or more literal „free willy“.
Bad jokes aside, the definition of doing something voluntarily, is taking action according to your own free will.
Now why I am focusing on this is, because I want to explore what it actually means to do something voluntarily, along the axis of determinism and free will.

Let’s assume you answered yes to the question of reading this text voluntarily.
And let’s assume our brains do function deterministically.
That would mean, you just had an illusion about having a free will.
The illusion, that you did have a choice, not to read this text this far. Some unknown law, which we try to approximate in the natural sciences, is entirely responsible for what you just did, including the feeling of doing it voluntarily.
It also means, that if you were able to go back in time, every time you did do so, the world and the universe would develop exactly the way they have always been destined to. Including you, reading this text, over and over again. Like a clockwork turning back and forth.
Consciously experiencing a movie that doesn’t feel like a movie but real.
Being aware of this fact also means, that one of the characteristics of this deterministic system is, that it can understand itself.
Let’s have a look at it understanding itself.
If the voluntary guy exists in this deterministic system, his thoughts are part of this system and his conscious experience of having acted voluntarily describes the system in the same way, as an experience of not having done so, would.
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Anonymous 21/03/26(Fri)09:56 No. 14715 ID: 7cb4c3

I masturbate every other day, I keep myself on a strict schedule so that I don't rape anyone. Remember to take a bath and wash your clothes afterwards kings


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Anonymous 24/08/31(Sat)23:47 No. 15615 ID: ffb737

words take on new meanings aside from those implied by the etymology.

lets accept the lack of free will, then what doss it mean to act voluntarily?

well, here it means that
A. your brain was informed about the consequences they could expect from giving their consent.
B. your brain was not influenced into expressing your consent by the perception of some external threat that is added as a consequence to refusal by the one making the ask of you.

im a pragmatist, nice to meet you, yes we are all autistic af.


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Anonymous 24/09/03(Tue)06:35 No. 15627 ID: ba8a7f

Free will is relative. It's not absolute.
Nothing in this plane of existence is absolute.




Plato's Democracy to Tyranny Anonymous 18/04/19(Thu)19:20 No. 13503 ID: 8bdadd [Reply]
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In the United States and other western democracies (see it's in the phrase). We are currently in a degenerate cosmopolitan democracy that values wealth, possessions, and sex over virtue and intellectual pursuits. From here individuals are atomized. They begin to hate their situation and they demand the rule of a tyrant. This explains the phenomena of Trump, the support for Bernie Sanders, and even some of the youths support for Jeremy Corbyn in the UK.

As an American, I was surprised by the vociferous response of virtually any progressive millennial to brexit. I couldn't understand why they cared. Until it dawned on me, we have become so cosmopolitan that people want an all powerful supranational entity to rule over their quasi-bohemian lifestyle.


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Anonymous 24/06/30(Sun)10:25 No. 15514 ID: 734dfa

We are living in the age of mass-individualism.

Everybody likes to think themselves a demigod denied of their bithright to change the world.

Also ironically, intellectual pursuits arent about virtues. Theyre about pondering virtues like theyre candy, but never actually following them.
Irony, the fetishisation of intellectual stuff is a key ingredient of materialism.

People use politics as a vehicle for consumer habits.

Hpw many political campaigms must be about sexuality or electronic media regulation?
People care more about teens messing with their genitals than actual starving children.

Mpst adults love to talk about whom was involeved in some secret think tank yet they know nothing about natural science.
Most adults are dumbfounded about what makes grass green and the sky blue.
But they have multiple theories about presidential scandals.
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Anonymous 24/06/30(Sun)10:32 No. 15515 ID: 734dfa

>>14307
This is also the same problem with the current idea of maturation.

Ancient society used to have children participate in industrial and political.affairs.
Most people nowadays lack the basic skills for propr adulthood.
They cannot cook, clean, fix machinery, etc.
But they feel entitled to have a spouse and suburban minimansion just because theyre "old enough".

People nowadays whine about being single amd lonely yet theyre still screwing around with booze amd drugs or binge watching TV and focusing on "get rich quick schemes".
They want to have a perfect marriage despite having a high body count, dietary-induced disorders, anxiety, paraphilia, overweightness,


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Anonymous 24/09/01(Sun)00:01 No. 15616 ID: ffb737

my political opinions are simple:

- we should get rid of representitive democracy, elected leadership has got all the problems that arose under monarchy, but worse because the people are less willing to rise up against the system.
- i propose one of the three; either we go back to having absolute supreme leaders such as a monarchy or dictatorship, or we install a true (direct) democracy where legislative policy is made by a direct vote of the people, or we go full lolbert and establish some barebones set of minarchist laws that are necessary to keep a society stable, and count on covenant communities and natural consequnces to shape the laws of every region beyond the basic laws of ownership regard oneself and ones property (dont kill, dont steal, etc. - plus we can play the fun game of deciding who gets coverage under the laws of the nap), minimal law like those offered up under the principle of nonaggression are also good for eugenics as the dumbasses and asshats are permitted to cull themselves by way of their own inferiority.

- in any event, political change can only come through a circumvention of the system, and that means violent revolution. the goal of a good activist group should be the deatruction or nationalization of their country's (((central banking))) and (((revenue collection)).




Suppose Diogenes and Buddha meet Anonymous 21/11/27(Sat)18:55 No. 14847 ID: 4a1e6d [Reply]
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What would they say to each other, assuming they would overcome the language barrier?


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Anonymous 22/02/20(Sun)12:58 No. 14903 ID: 273d68

get out of my sun normie


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Anonymous 22/02/25(Fri)18:01 No. 14906 ID: 91c4fb

“Is there a dragon howl in a dead tree?”
“I say there’s a lion roar in a skull.”


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Anonymous 24/08/15(Thu)17:01 No. 15590 ID: e72f06

"Stop masturbating in public"
"No"
"Ok"





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