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Heyooo so anyone tired of all the Continental bullshit you have to engage with nowadays??

It's funny because most articles will get through no matter their (poor) quality but original posts and comments will get blocked and deleted. I haven't been around enough to notice Tate posts. I think he is a fucking scumbag and an idiot, and I imagine you could get some fucking bad misogyny in anything related to him because hey this is reddit, and I imagine there's a point when that violates sub rules. I mean I I think it's in everyone's interest for the level of discourse to be above the 4chan shit you can find on other subreddits. Anyway I'm not familiar with the post you're talking about so I don't know if this is relevant.

[Does not being able to define precisely thought or consciousness mean we look at any chat bot and say ‘dang, that thing could be self aware!’?]

No I don't believe it means that. Why would it? If it COULD be, then you test for it until it proves that it is. Our problem to start with is not knowing with certainty what Thought or Consciousness actually is.

And that is exactly what an atheist would NOT say. If you can't prove something exists, it is just an idea in your head. Whether or not billions of people subscribe to some variation on the theme does not prove anything, and therefore you should NOT start worshipping whatever it happens to be.

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I appreciate your thought out response. I shall return when I have the energy to muster. Hopefully in the next few days.

Hey mate, what did you think? Do you have some agreements with me? :D

thank goodness that's not your job. I don't have any interest in baseless conjecture and whining.

For me, art patronage is one of the wisest things that money can be used for: https://chowcollection.medium.com/the-art-patronage-vade-mecum-65ef44aacbf2

Since say one this has been a religious, rather a philosophical community. Not that I would like to discuss Tate in particular.

How is that slogan equal to the people making all the decisions of the government? What do you think “running” something mean? If you own a car, then you lend that car to friend to drive, who do you think is driving the goddam car? Just bcs you own the car, and have the right to take back the car if you so choose, doesn’t mean you are “running” the car. And if your friend kill someone with your car without your knowledge, you don’t take responsibility for your friend action. Does that make sense? Or I suggest you go read a book or something. Its not my job to be your teacher.

Are the IAI people mods on this subreddit or are connected to them? They lock threads and silence people left and right under the guise of broad meaningless rules that can be interpreted in a myriad of ways. Removing comments is questionable at best, but locking threads to prevent further criticism when it’s not going in a favorable direction to the article is simply unwarranted. The amount of censorship in this subreddit is beyond astounding considering this is a philosophy subreddit. Wtf is going on here? When someone says something they don’t like, it’s gone in an instant. There was some unwarranted criticism towards a Tate piece but the mods just silenced the whole thread and removed everything. This is beyond disgusting and a serious abuse of power. Even though I liked the piece very much, the censorship and the silencing of people and their opinions is alarming.

Why can’t people talk about what they dislike and like, people have died throughout all of history to fight censorship like this, yet these mods are extremely abusive with their power. It’s a distasteful abuse of power, in a subreddit where difference of opinion and skepticism should be encouraged, not silenced. Locking whole threads and preventing people from commenting or posting is extremely backwards. It’s not a good sign for a philosophy subreddit to be like that.

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