Positivist Memes For Panpsychist Teens

Deepak Chopra quantum entangled with Jeff Epstein.

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Disease is going to infect and kill 100% of people. Going to implement a policy that saves lives, decreases average happiness. Which policy should we implement? The policy that: a. saves 75%, decreases happiness 75%, or b. saves 25%, decreases happiness 25%?

This week students tackled The Repugnant Conclusion. Surprising links between seemingly unrelated topics emerge when students choose readings. What is a 'low quality life' for Aristotle or the Stoics (who we discussed last week)? Is such a life *that* bad? a.co/d/02THJhJ5//

Does socialism support or undermine Stoic ideals?

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Can't wait to listen! #philosophy rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

3rd week teaching Intro using anthology. Students pick readings, exploring interesting connections between seemingly disparate themes, like Kant, stoicism, ideas of private ownership. Fun fun fun! On Audible soon. Never been a member, can join, preorder, get free! www.amazon.com/Weird-Believ...

Would Kant think capitalism is good?

Previous question misunderstood! Which philosopher living or dead has views that are or were most clearly the product of that philosopher's motivated reasoning?

Which philosophers views are clearly most distorted by motivated reasoning?

Teaching this one in this class this week. So far, dynamite, student driven conversations. Good stuff.

Silence treated like implicit acceptance of oppression. Permission to oppress! Resistance to oppression used to justify more oppression. What should we do? Vote. We can identify these people, hold them accountable for their crimes, dismantle the institutions that empower them.✌️

After teaching a couple Phil 101 classes using the anthology, things are going even better than I imagined. Great presentations, student-driven conversations. First chapter, chosen by students, was “Lying Is Always Wrong.” Exciting start to the semester! youtu.be/JWw-RVk8UtE?...

Finishing Vita Activa, and then starting with this one bsky.app/profile/what...

Honestly? Objectively? Starting the semester teaching from the anthology I assembled and I am so darn excited! And proud! a.co/d/1uJrUHl

"While the experience machine thought experiment is often presented as decisive proof that people value reality over pleasure... this conclusion is far from obvious." Felipe De Brigard "Reality Doesn't Matter" Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny a.co/d/j1UTFL5

“For eternalists, the full extent of our own lives is just as real as the moment you are experiencing now. This places a responsibility on us to make the most of our lives, to do good, to spread happiness, to relieve suffering, to live a good life...

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..

"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

"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

“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

“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

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

lot of people answering underestimating value of core strength

“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

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