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Ola Nilsson
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Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
The day AGI explains to us how and why we are already simulated entities, will we believe its claim?
#philsky
July 10, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I cant really see any difference between Kolak’s open individualism and Zuboff’s universalism (I have spent much time with both) so why not conjoin them under the label open universalism? 👍
#philsky
June 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
If one realizes what it means that money can make an individual rich while making a society poor...
June 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I don't like this thought, but what if God finds our song beautiful the same way we find birdsong?
#philsky
March 20, 2026 at 8:53 AM
An important skill for a philosopher is being able to describe simple things in a much more complicated way.
#Philsky
September 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Reposted by Ola Nilsson
Say you're a person who chooses not to pull the lever in the trolley problem. More people are now run over than if you had actively pulled the lever. There are several ways to justify why one might believe it's not right to pull the lever.

But imagine a scenario where a tanker truck ⮕
#philsky
July 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I found a 2001 style monolith today...
#scifi
July 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Say you're a person who chooses not to pull the lever in the trolley problem. More people are now run over than if you had actively pulled the lever. There are several ways to justify why one might believe it's not right to pull the lever.

But imagine a scenario where a tanker truck ⮕
#philsky
July 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
When it comes to the trolley problem, I think I'm not someone who pulls the lever. But imagine I'm clumsy and accidentally nudge it — wouldn't it be a bit strange to then deliberately move it back to its original position?
#philsky #trolley
July 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Open individualism, direct from its source!
#philsky
Consciousness Live! S7 Ep5 -Discussion with Arnold Zuboff
YouTube video by onemorebrown
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May 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"It is not an internal contradiction in Newton's theory to assert that no specific point in space is privileged and that space is absolute in the sense that it matters metaphysically where objects are located." How can this not be a contradiction?! 🤔
#philsky
April 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Why is analytic philosophy so "boring" compared to continental philosophy? You know what I mean. Are there any controversial analytical philosphers out there with some kind of really provoactive"vibe"? You know what I mean.
#philsky
April 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Who were more badass, the Vikings or the Spartans?
March 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Is it an accurate observation that an overwhelming majority of active philosophers lean heavily to the left compared to the general population? Don't get me wrong; this isn't a criticism, just an observation.
#philsky
March 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
How would philosophy (in a broad sense) hold up under real market conditions—where supply and demand dictate value? Or maybe this is a very sensitive question?
##philsky
March 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
If you were dreaming and in your dream told that you wouldn't ever wake up, but stay in this state to your end, Which actions and choices would be rational to make under these circumstances?
#philsky
March 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It is said that the philosopher Edmund Gettier was asked to publish something since he had not published much recently. In 1963, he then wrote 'Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?', a two-page article that changed the course of epistemology. Less is more—something to keep in mind.
#philhist #philsky
March 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Is it controversial to claim that philosophy does not make any real progress and that it is not its role to do so?
#philsky
February 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"A Demonstration of the Causal Power of Absences" is a paper without text. Of course, the 'absence' is the spin here, but I'm more concerned about how you manage to not plagiarize it.
#philmind #philsky
February 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
It's quite easy to be a supporter of the identity of indiscernibles if one is a monist 😇

#philosophy #philsky
February 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The fact that an entity or process is inescapable does not make it fundamental?

#philosophy #philsky #philsci
February 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Reposted by Ola Nilsson
Philosopher Ola Nilsson is back with another one of his mind-boggling, and yet irresistibly compelling, thought experiments. This time he shows, with surprisingly few words, how one universal mind can appear to be many simply because of time and will.
www.essentiafoundation.org/the-circle-d...
The circle dance of personal identity
Philosopher Ola Nilsson is back with another one of his mind-boggling, and yet irresistibly compelling, thought experiments. This time he shows, with surprisingly few words, how one universal mind can...
www.essentiafoundation.org
February 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The essence of infinite regress: You like my post, and I like your like. You like my like on your like, and I like that like, and so on."
#philosophy #philsky
February 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM