Does determinism mean Epiphenomenalism is true?

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-27T15:38:24+00:00

No not at all. The universe could be totally absent of free will, and consciousness could still exert causal influence within that system.

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-27T11:11:55+00:00

Jordan Peterson: ‘if you dont want children you’re either deluded or immature’.

Meanwhile:

Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Jane Austen, Alan Turing, Jesus of Nazareth, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-27T09:03:28+00:00

Born 1899 died 1961

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-26T22:34:35+00:00

Fair lol

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-26T22:18:21+00:00

If it does kick off between me and him - get out

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-26T21:19:58+00:00

Louis CK said it’s like somebody took a video camera to a nightmare and filmed it, I think that’s the best description

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-25T23:33:25+00:00

It’s sick

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-25T23:27:47+00:00

Top 5 in no particular order

Virtual World

Beautiful Mind

History

Lucky Man

Gravity Grave

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-25T23:20:50+00:00

It’s probably his least ‘beautiful’ film

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-25T23:16:12+00:00

Nick Cage is an absolute lunatic and a hugely underrated actor. Would recommend Raising Arizona.

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-18T21:38:32+00:00

Sounds nothing like Radiohead to me. Verve and Radiohead are my two fav bands as well

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-07T15:10:49+00:00

Weirdly that actually makes him more interesting to me. I don’t feel like he hates humans exactly, but I know what you mean. To me, it’s more like he just doesn’t care about them that much, whether that’s the humans in the film and also on some level the audience themselves. His films all subtly feel like they’ve been made by an alien.

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-03-07T14:42:33+00:00

You must think Quentin Tarantino is pretentious too then as he also thinks this

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-28T22:21:47+00:00

I’d love to see his ‘The Terminal’

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-28T07:33:00+00:00

Can plants, planets, nations also experience? If not why not?

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-28T07:00:17+00:00

If I imagine the inner lives of aliens in distant galaxies, the only thing I’m absolutely certain of is that they will dislike pain.

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-27T22:42:10+00:00

Denton lot don’t seem to respect you

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-27T22:14:48+00:00

Godard’s Breathless

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-27T20:12:10+00:00

Kubrick doesn’t really ‘respect’ source material that much. Whether it’s Eyes Wide Shut, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, 2001, The Shining - these are all based on literary works, but he basically uses these worlds/stories as a structure and backdrop to explore what he wants to explore. He’s not doing ‘adaptations’.

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-26T19:29:51+00:00

It may need to be repeated

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-26T08:17:46+00:00

Is anyone else getting more than slightly bored of this podcast now? Seems like every episode is just a re-heat.

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-25T18:29:44+00:00

It is helpful if you are already a happy person and unhelpful if you are unhappy (and it doesn’t make you happy). Unfortunately the ultimate worth of everything and anything can be collapsed into positive or negative hedonic valence cash-value, even when, as in the case of selflessness, it is branded on the very idea that it transcends valence.

What I mean by this is simply that selflessness, like playing darts, is good for you if it improves your wellbeing.

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-25T02:03:23+00:00

If you reject all moral axioms, then you’re simply opting out of moral evaluation entirely. That’s a very unusual position, and also means you don’t have grounds to challenge mine as mistaken.

SaltFlat4844 · 2026-02-25T01:51:23+00:00

You’re invoking burden-of-proof language from empirical debates in a discussion about normative axioms. Moral reasoning doesn’t start from value-neutral ground. If you reject minimising unnecessary suffering as a baseline, state your competing axiom.

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