Recent content by Michael S. Pearl

I very much enjoyed this piece. I enjoyed it because it is interesting. It is interesting because it opens up any number of conceptual possibilities - which is to say alternative ways of thinking and expressing. Or, to put it another way, the article invites all sorts of questions and musings...

He is (close enough to being) correct when he says: "objective or subjective. This, I maintain, is a false dichotomy."

The remarks in the transcript strike me as more political than philosophical, as a quest for maximally effective manipulation with less than no interest in provoking thoughts of substance. Unlike philosophizing, political talk warrants no charity. Accordingly, the Nietzsche corrections earlier...

To the extent that the Bible is regarded as one story, and even if it is regarded as a collection of stories, in any case, even if none comes across as deep with psychological insight, it is certainly possible that this is because the imagined intended audience is diverse in developed maturity...

Once you realize that the 'A' in "AI" stands for "Alleged", then you will understand all that you need to understand.

It is notable that, long before the time in which the Jesus stories are set, Jewish scripture (indicating that the thinking and the understanding of at least some) had already evolved beyond the seeming relative narrowness with which the "Mosaic narrative" is commonly associated. For instance...

That statement goes beyond mere bias to absolute scientistic drivel. It exhibits qualities expected with the sort of utilitarian impersonality which is absolutely incompatible with the at issue love-the-neighbor notion. If love exhibits trans-contextual indeterminateness, then it cannot be...

That remark is baseless tripe. Nothing I said depends on "warm fuzzies". Indeed, the very notion or principle of an act which is done personally "for the sake of the person of an encountered other" entails an act done without consideration in terms of any sort of benefit for the person acting...

Some people actually take comfort in being told - when some loved person dies, for instance - that one is praying for the person who died and/or the person or persons who love the person who died. One might well feel awkward in saying that one will pray, but, if it is known or even suspected...

Does the pursuit "to uncover what may or may not be true" occur absent motivation? I seriously doubt that - so much so that I'll say "No". Do feelings establish truth? I doubt that as well - so much so that I'll say "No". I instead expect that feelings reveal something more about importance than...

I keep wasting your time because I find you to be fascinating specimens. Your very restricted abilities to comprehend and to think in combination with your pretensiousness makes for a never-ending interesting study. Take, for instance, this notion of "autonomy ... is sufficient for being...

Should I address your vacuousness, your limp pettiness, or should I point out that you are still begging the question against those persons who think they experience actual macrophysical indeterminateness and include that indeterminateness as a necessary condition for there to be the free-to...

Had you ever developed a sufficient reading comprehension ability, and had you managed to learn anything about composition, you would have developed the thus far unrealized ability to analyze your thoughts and your expressions. Here is a brief lesson for you. Proper composition requires that...

False. Nothing is hidden. There is no question begging. An honest and capable person would take account of the actual presented context: that describing the experience which some humans have. On occasion, such as when deliberating (as typically occurs during the choosing event), some humans...

In this video, starting at around 31:15, Carrier says, "It's physically necessary. It's deterministically necessary. Like, if you reason from a premise to a conclusion, logically the conclusion is a necessary outcome. It's not only a logically necessary outcome, it's a physically necessary...