quixologist t1_jefclp1 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:32 PM

Reply to Any good bars with foosball? by The-Ant

Bobby Boucher, dat you?

quixologist t1_jdifcbn wrote on March 24, 2023 at 4:49 PM

Reply to Framing the Jefferson by Swarmin_Swedes

Meanwhile, MLK just looks mad about it all.

quixologist t1_ja4vnqv wrote on February 26, 2023 at 9:28 PM

Reply to Neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues that Thomas Nagel was wrong: neuroscience can give us knowledge about what it is like to be an animal. For example, his own fMRI studies on dogs have shown that they can feel genuine affection for their owners. by Ma3Ke4Li3

Not to say it’s entirely apples and oranges, but putting “feelings of affection” in the title is already anthropomorphizing this to such a degree that I can’t take it seriously. Dogs and humans might share some cortical similarities, but a dog won’t be able to relate to running on two legs, and I can’t relate to wagging a tail. The “what-it’s-like-ness” is still elusive.

quixologist t1_j9h8a81 wrote on February 21, 2023 at 11:22 PM

Reply to comment by yijiujiu in Often mischaracterized as a rather debaucherous, hedonistic philosophy, Epicureanism actually focuses on the removal of pain and anxiety from our lives, and champions a calm ‘philosophy as therapy’ approach in pursuit of life’s highest pleasure: mental tranquility. by philosophybreak

r/Epicureanism

quixologist t1_j9g9dxr wrote on February 21, 2023 at 6:30 PM

Reply to Often mischaracterized as a rather debaucherous, hedonistic philosophy, Epicureanism actually focuses on the removal of pain and anxiety from our lives, and champions a calm ‘philosophy as therapy’ approach in pursuit of life’s highest pleasure: mental tranquility. by philosophybreak

ITT: people who have not read any Epicurean work, (no Lucretius, none of the Epicurean letters, no Vatican Collection, not even The Swerve…let alone contemporary scholarship)…and yet are enthusiastically opposed on the grounds of its “hedonism.”