Tower of Babble (@thetowerofbabble): "“Yea, so like, after I convinced the guy that mental properties supervene on physical properties, (in the sense that there can’t be a mental difference without a physical difference) he did the only thing any reasonable person would do, and started a totalitarian state and broke…"

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“Yea, so like, after I convinced the guy that mental properties supervene on physical properties, (in the sense that there can’t be a mental difference without a physical difference) he did the only thing any reasonable person would do, and started a totalitarian state and broke the Geneva convention. Yknow, the logical consequence of adopting supervenience physicalism.”

Zinbiel

Feb 20

One of the most obnoxious pseudo-intellectual takes I’ve seen on Substack.

I hesitate to give this post oxygen, but this is exactly why careful rational debate is needed. Please, try to do better folks.

If you look for reasoned argument here, you won’t find it. You will find the core assumptions brandished as self-evident truths.

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Despite the various conceptual gymnastics performed by analytic philosophers to excuse it of what seems obvious to everyone else, what will nonetheless prevail about physicalism is its antihuman, nihilistic, reductive, mechanistic, and degrading spirit. It is the austere, detached, ultra-rational, quantitative, clinical, precise spirit behind the creation of the various death factories of the 20th century, nuclear weapons, eugenics, and the surveillance technofeudalist world order we currently live under.

Vardaman's Fish

Feb 21

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