Was explaining flux and conservation of mass energy to son, we were pushing salt around a piece of black construction paper with paint brushes...making designs with the salt, talking about trees and planets, impermanence and permanence...and he made this..

"[T]he self is like the chants of a phony doctor—Phut! Svaha! ... The chants have no causal efficacy. The healing is brought about by the use of certain medicinal herbs; the rest is just drama!" Monima Chadha, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny a.co/d/48gPCXi

"Your consciousness isn’t a private, nonphysical world that you know immediately and infallibly. It is a complex physical response occurring within you that you mistake for a private, nonphysical world." Keith Frankish, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny

"There is consciousness in rocks." Luke Roelofs, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny

Just did a briefy survey of recent philjobs listings and they are pitiful reflection of the state of the discipline. Don't see a single job ad with a lazy/weirdo AOS or even AOC! Sad, sad state of affairs.

"Will people in the future look back at us and think of us in the same way we now think of those who thought diseases were due to an imbalance of humors or those who thought the Sun revolved around the Earth?" Angela Potochnik and Dana Tulodziecki, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny

"Yes, conscious and intelligent robots will indeed one day walk the earth." Pete Mandik, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny a.co/d/9cIF02Q

Matan? No, me! 96 or 97. Trailer. Ceiling collapsing. Terrified of never escaping poverty. Good times, good times...

“When the doctor says, ‘Look, it’s a boy,’ he is not reporting the fact that the child is a boy; he is creating the fact that the child is a boy.” - Kevin Richardson Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny link in bio

"Anything can be art." - Alex King Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny link in bio

"It’s perfectly fine not to do your own research. There’s nothing wrong with letting others do your thinking for you. In fact, it is the insistence on thinking for yourself that is intellectually defective and dangerous." - Jonathan Matheson Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny link in bio

“The idea that an objective person puts aside their opinions, interests, and emotions and considers nothing but the evidence is wrong.” - Louise Antony Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny link in bio

“Mattering is not a matter of fact.” - Victor Moberger Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny link in bio

“When one finds plausible and formidable versions of different moral traditions, one might begin to doubt that one tradition should be declared the winner.” David Wong, Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny link in bio

"We are our faculty of judgment... We are, in a deep and real sense, the captains of our own ship, and so long as disease or age will not damage our faculty of volition, nothing and no one can truly own us." Massimo Pigliucci, Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny link in bio

“No one is responsible because luck in how we are (our genes and our formative background) and luck in what happens to us together explain the reasons that guide our actions.” Neil Levy, Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny link in bio

Thanks, I hate it.

“Persons can still be free in an important way even if determinism is true.” Michael McKenna, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny

"It is often said that unjust prejudices such as racism are the result of ignorance...Where does the power to unjustly oppress people come from? Part of the answer is that people use knowledge to unjustly privilege themselves over others." Marcus Aravan link in bio

lot of people answering underestimating value of core strength

"Property is best thought of as not yours, but ours." Christine Sypnowich, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny

“Not only do taxes steal our time and energy; they also waste that time and energy, which compounds this injustice.” Adam Moore, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny

"When you conceive a child, it is just a matter of time until the ultimate injury befalls that child... every birth is a death in waiting." David Benatar, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny

Not to get all philosophical, but who would you rather be? #lego #starwars #legostarwars #philosophy

Every single f-ing chapter of the anthology summarized here... #philosophy youtube.com/playlist?lis...

“Philosophers have spent at least 2,500 years trying to produce a good theory of government authority... But basically all their attempts to justify government authority stink, and stink badly.” Jason Brennan, Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny

"Debates about how people ought to conduct their intimate relationships are not an abstract philosophical game. Real lives are directly impacted by how we think about these questions, and by how we behave towards one another in discussing—and policing—romantic relationship norms." Carrie Jenkins

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“It’s hard to not be an evil bastard.” Alastair Norcross, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny

“Good outcomes don’t magically change a wrong into a right.” Krista K. Thomason, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny

“Neither chronic pain nor chronic employment discrimination can be overcome with willpower.” - Joe Stramondo, Too Weird To Believe, Too Plausible To Deny (a.co/d/0t8BiuN)

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philosophy (n.) the art of finding ingenious ways to make the facts fit your intuitions

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