Posts by sixtra@masto.nu
(DIR) Post #ATLfX00PDkuylWqjz6 by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-03-06T19:27:58Z
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“Who’s the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?” - Obi-Wan Kenobi#QuoteOfTheDay
(DIR) Post #ATdWaYnlo44Svisi9o by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-03-15T10:12:34Z
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“Study the past if you would define the future.”- Confucius#QuoteOfTheDay
(DIR) Post #AVvHcBKMuVR12KnANE by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-05-22T19:33:48Z
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special."- Stephen Hawking #QuoteOfTheDay
(DIR) Post #AWrOF3QEnQJ8SX2qwa by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-06-19T20:21:19Z
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#QuoteOfTheDay #Philosophy
(DIR) Post #AXFxmioWYovZQAqy4O by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-01T16:52:38Z
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“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.”- Epicurus#QuoteOfTheDay
(DIR) Post #AXYEZ6g9pfick5eT32 by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-10T12:25:28Z
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Five mistakes #Atheists Make About #Epistemology #Philosphy https://youtu.be/4dalQu-vdMU
(DIR) Post #AXYQiDonr9nWwPoBdY by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-10T14:41:35Z
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@minogully I have also been skeptical about intuition, but at the same time one must not forget that part of our intuition is a little based on previous experiences as well. Although it’s not exactly what’s highlighted in the video, but that’s what’s so good overall. One like, aha! Yes, of course, why not, it sounds completely logical. I really think Emerson nailed it in this series/video.
(DIR) Post #AXYayJB2hRMXjgWJ1s by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-10T16:36:27Z
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@minogully I recognize that too, but sometimes I wonder if some of these misunderstandings are about precisely the fact that they cannot separate evidence from proofs(conclusive). I try to separate them both when I’m having conversations online. And I actually had a conversation today with a countryman on just this topic. Since I said that I grant theists arguments for “God”.
(DIR) Post #AXZ85O5y6qO9VI882a by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-10T22:47:36Z
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@minogully Exactly, and I don’t know how many times we’ve argued about “belief” etc on Twitter. I totally get people’s way of using “lack of- /absence of beliefs”.. It’s never about them being wrong but in the end it comes down to what you have written: ”no one wants to hear that their definition needs adjustment.”
(DIR) Post #AXb6HJR2V8dpEtCsq0 by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-11T21:36:44Z
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|The ‘alpha male’ myth, debunked|“I think humans are psychologically exactly like the apes, so socially and emotionally we are like apes. We are intellectually more developed. We have language, of course, we are technologically more developed. But many of the basics of our social relationships, both in terms of the hierarchies that we have, the friendships, the attachments, in all of these ways, we are very close to the primates.” - Frans de Waal https://youtu.be/inx2dMobzYs
(DIR) Post #AXdEon0mkG7MTVJw1Y by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-12T22:21:51Z
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@minogully I think that one has to separate philosophical evidence from scientific evidence. In philosophy one can use “inductive arguments” to provide evidence for a propositional hypothesis for ex.While scientific evidence is using repeatability to ground and test the hypothesis more empirical, I would assume.
(DIR) Post #AXdF8FX4vgX8QthknI by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-12T22:25:21Z
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@minogully @dmitryro That’s why I lean towards that “evidence” leads towards certainty aka “proof”, which is a validation of the evidence or as an hypothesis that turns into a theory.I may of course be incorrect, but that’s how I generally interpret it. With a more philosophical approach so to speak. 😁
(DIR) Post #AXdFlqnyHjlRKDUPSq by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-12T22:32:33Z
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@minogully #Evidence #Philosophy #Science http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/career-education/difference-between-science-and-philosophy/
(DIR) Post #AXz2seGdCt74diYf4K by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-07-23T10:51:45Z
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Your brain doesn’t detect reality. It creates it. | Lisa Feldman Barrett”Philosophers have been arguing about this for like as long as philosophy has existed: The question of does your experience match reality, or are you really experiencing reality in its stark, objective truth? And the answer is simply: "Not exactly."”https://youtu.be/ikvrwOnay3g
(DIR) Post #AYLdafbszSM9nGme36 by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-08-03T08:26:45Z
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”After death, you’re aware that you’ve died, say scientists”In time to death what happens inside our mind during this process? Does death immediately overtake our subjective experience or does it slowly creep in?https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/after-death-youre-aware-that-youve-died-scientists-claim/
(DIR) Post #AYcy6JiS0IwkiEuJ2O by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-08-11T17:06:39Z
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Finally Friday folks! So we celebrate it with a cold beer and some history, cheers 🍻
(DIR) Post #AYtdB17YTeeGHMU6ls by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-08-19T18:02:18Z
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There’s no hope for us, “If People Care About Homo Sapien Extinction?” 😂🤣
(DIR) Post #AZdUH05J34ZgcgITPk by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-09-10T20:59:15Z
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Today is the 73 rd birthday for one of my guitar heroes, Mr. Joe Perry from the legendary band Aerosmith
(DIR) Post #AZjJDGwAW2YhBVnnQe by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-09-13T16:23:35Z
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I’ve got an early bird delivery in the mailbox this morning. The title has always made me a little bit hesitant to buy the book. But since it regularly gets good reviews I couldn’t resist any longer. “The Atheist handbook to the Old Testament, Volume 1” by Joshua Bowen.#History #Bible
(DIR) Post #AaJ0SW1tHFGhM6eqCe by sixtra@masto.nu
2023-09-30T21:43:03Z
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Next up is: “‘Creating the Qur'an’, that presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur'an's origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other scriptural traditions” by Stephen J. Shoemaker. #History #Religion #Islam #Quran