Some places are always cloudy, others clear; some have light pollution, others none. Whenever I can see the Milky Way, I feel so small and insignificant in the universe, dwarfed by the awesome power of the elements.

What impact could the night sky have on the general philosophical trend of a city or area? Do people who live where they are unable to see the stars view the world differently from those who see them nightly?

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To be honest with you I’ve never really bothered to read many of the original philosophical works on these topics, I much prefer to use sites like the stanford philosophy encyclopedia, they also have a page on compatibilism. (Many related pages as well!)

I feel like this is a very big thing that a lot of people struggle with

I’ll do some reading on compatibilism, for sure. Who would you suggest I start with?

I really enjoyed this answer. It definitely serves the purpose of the question!

This is an interesting idea. I guess I was kind of asking a complicated question in too simple of terms. As an example, someone could have a base life philosophy of stoicism, and model their actions based on those philosophical principals

Why does Stoicism sound so much like Pacifism. The more I read the more pacifist I feel like. Also when Nero ordered death of Seneca why didn’t he protest. Is it not stoic to go against wrong?

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Believing that human rights are the minimum love which we owe to other people. And that therefore, if we don't love them at least that much (honoring their intrinsic rights), then we are criminals.

The absence of moral absolutes or absolute morals. Also the opposite of objective morality.

Economics?

Is there a field of study focused on describing all philosophical systems in terms of cold hard math, evolutionary biology, and game theory? Seeking the ego death of humanity, thanks in advance.

What would classify as philosophy? Would anyone be able to claim any sesquipedalian passage of words as "philosophy"?

For me, compatibilism, combined with different existentialist ideas, helped me get a perspective on my own emotions and a better grasp on how to lead/control them (or in most cases, how not to be affected by them). It made me realize that no one is directly responsible for anything, so take everything with a grain of salt, and it made me, for better or for worse, get a gigantic (hidden) ego lol. I have always been pretty content with my life, but these ideas really hammered it in. So yeah, do tell if this is useful at all :)

I don't see a realistic scenario where people would be kept in a matrix like simulation without informed consent.

In my opinion, the matrix-ish simulation will either exist as entertainment or something to keep generation ship passengers from going mad or to keep them from forgetting how to function on a planet.

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Elaborate?

There’s always friction. Life is always changing. There is no clear line between reality and fiction.

A good upstanding life is a subjective matter that will need to find some grounding to deconstruct on the philosophical plane.

One option is to consider the perennial competition between collective success vs individual gratification, among human societies, which lays the basis of a lot of ethical direction.

A human is like a crazy efficient optimization machine that encodes not just its own learnings but also experiences gathered over many many generations. Some injunction of nature vs nurture is implied here, which I'll keep myself from getting into.

Anyways, so an individual needs to optimise both for self (the short-term) and also for the society (the long-term). At the same time, each one of us is traded cards we can play with.

One of the best strategies that can be employed to attain a fruitful and fulfilling life is the one that lets you use your cards to the maximum positive effect.

A number of traditional philosophies seem to offer a solution in mindfulness, self awareness and acceptance as a means to move forward efficiently. What this means is that, one lets oneself be directed by a balance of thought and action, that avoids you from becoming too reliant on your egoistical motives. This seems like a rather difficult thing to explain in a few words, so I'll leave it there for you to explore further if you find it interesting enough.

"explanation for most UFO incidents would seem to have terrestrial explanations"

The thing is, the most recent reports released by the government, (which I believe the person you are replying to is referring to), stated that while (something like) 98% of UFO reports did have plausible terrestrial explanations, (something like) 2% of them had none. With even the most rare explanations being discounted by leading experts at NASA, the Pentagon, etc.

That is the new piece of information that has revitalized the discourse. I'm a skeptic, but I am personally still waiting to hear the rational counter­-argument to that particular point, that can bring us back to Occam, so to speak.

“New paradigm”

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