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    Cassius Perhaps reformulating the question for clarity?

    How do I know what desires are 1) natural and necessary; 2) natural but unnecessary; 3) unnatural and unnecessary ? And are there any rules on how to apply the categorization onto each…
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  • Cassius November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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    PD26. Of desires, all that do not lead to a sense of pain, if they are not satisfied, are not necessary, but involve a craving which is easily dispelled when the object is hard to procure, or they seem likely to produce harm.



    Joshua is right to point to…
  • Joshua November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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    I'm not sure, but perhaps not? I might consider friendship to be a necessary desire, and loneliness to be the contrary pain, for example. In fact, now that I look at it I notice that the two Principal Doctrines on friendship are sandwiched between…
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    A thought experiment that can help clarify things is asking yourself:

    For any given choice, ask: Will what I do and the outcome matter to me next week, in one month, in a year, or 10 years from now?

    What you choose to eat for breakfast hardly matters…
  • Cassius November 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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    .... because only YOU can measure the pain or pleasure that results from any action.

    It is exactly wrong to do what the Benthamites tried to do and reduce the calculation purely to mathemetics.

    However, so long as you realize that the mathematics is…
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    Joshua would you want to add the word "bodily"?

    So it would be:

    The test of whether a desire is necessary is in determining whether a feeling of bodily pain results if that desire is not satisfied. If bodily pain results, the desire is necessary. If …
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    Here is a sample of the relevant texts:

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    And here is how I would synthesize all of this information;

    The test of whether a desire is necessary is in determining whether a feeling of pain results if that desire is not satisfied. If pain results, the…
  • Joshua November 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM

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    I quoted from Montaigne's essays, here is the relevant passage;

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    Kalosyni I see these categories as diagnostic tools for self-examination; where the purpose of classification is to reveal whether a desire leads us toward or away from tranquility.
    As Matteng indicated, we should use sober reasoning to ask how…
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    Philodemus' On Anger provides the most detailed practical methodology. He acknowledged that anger arises from our nature and should be treated with…
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    I'm just re-reading over this list and each definition, and realizing that things like cream-puffs and rootbeer floats would fall into the first category if they are easy to get, but they would fall into the second category if they were unavailable…
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    How do I know what desires fall into the various categories of natural and necessary desires, and are there hard and fast rules about how to apply the resulting categorization of a particular desire I am considering?"

    • natural and necessary - desire for
    …
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    This is well said and definitely bears repeating.
  • Kalosyni November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM

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    There is a hubris here in thinking that everything that humans imagine can eventually be technologically created...the hubris is in the idea of going beyond Nature, and the nature of things ("atoms/void").

    Regarding the word hubris:

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  • Kalosyni November 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM

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    I think that there is a difference between saying that "death i s nothing to us [me]"...vs..."death means nothing to us [me]".

    Maybe I am splitting hairs here...but...

    The first one is a simply way of saying that you can't think about or experience…
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    Here's an interesting recent paper out of Germany on three different levels or degrees of consciousness in humans and some animals. The discussion deals with some Epicurean concepts as it posits the physical capabilities of consciousness that humans…
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    A strict rule based decision making I find difficult, we need always sober reasoning/prudence to judge/feel the consequences and the context to make good choices/avoidances.

    But for orientation I see it currently like this table:

    Epicurean Necessary…
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    This seems like a very close issue as raised in Lucretius Book 3 when he points out that even if our atoms were rearranged later due to the effects of infinite time and space, that would still not be "us" because of the absence of continuous memory.

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    Oh, I fully agree that consciousness is "nothing more" than biology, chemistry, and physics. But the question remains: If some kind of mechanism could "read" a biological, chemical, and physical signature at a given moment in time and "upload" that…
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    That show was quite amusing! There's also a movie, The Island, which grapples with the subject, though not with a lot of intellectual depth. I only mention it because of the fun fact that the wombs which the clones were grown in were literally…
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    Count your blessings friend. Not only did we have a big dinner yesterday, we have a birthday today. And I'm out of town with family for the week. All my efforts over the last months were for nothing! ||
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    Indeed. Maybe in the far future, lab-grown clones - independent of the usual way of creating humans - will be able to be grown. They would arguably have consciousness, but there's a whole genre of sci-fi where lab-grown humanoids and cyborgs create…
  • EPicuruean November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM

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    I can see your point. I don't have much to argue about. However, I think you oversimplify the mind-body idea.

    Our current understanding of the mind is that it is just brain activity. Something akin to a computer program (or an analog circuit if you're…
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    I'm in agreement with Don on this issue as far as I can tell. His post above points out what I have considered the basic problem, which is that the uploading idea, as far as I know, is typically presented as "a brain in a box", which is to me…
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    I think so. The whole premise seems to me to be akin to "stealing someone's soul" simply dressed up in techno-babble and wishful thinking. The idea that one could "upload" one's consciousness to a computer is based on the idea that a person's being is…
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    I interpret the original question (and most hypotheticals like this) not to refer to now ("...IS a viable alternative") but to whether such a thing will be possible in the future with more advanced technology.

    Is there is some theoretical barrier or…
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    If you want to explore what can happen in a future with this capability, check out “Upload” TV series. [Prime Video 2020-2025]

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7826376/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk


    I agree with Martin and others that uploading your brain is not a…
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    Happy Thanksgiving! Have a toast to the health of the belly. ;)
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