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kochiekoch
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Food, desire, and pleasure: What role should food take in an Epicurean lifestyle?.
Here are the slides that I presented in today's Zoom:
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Adrastus
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM I need to state for the record that I have no problem with life-saving and life-enhancing medical science. Treatments and therapies like prostheses, vaccinations, surgery under anesthesia, cochlear implants, MRIs, pacemakers, and all the others that… -
kochiekoch
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM I need to state for the record that I have no problem with life-saving and life-enhancing medical science. Treatments and therapies like prostheses, vaccinations, surgery under anesthesia, cochlear implants, MRIs, pacemakers, and all the others that… -
kochiekoch
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM My thoughts on transhumanism (e.g., uploading consciousness to a machine or transferring it to another brain) are directly akin to my thoughts on the "pleasure machine": WHO owns the hardware doing the storage or transfer? What are their motivations?… -
kochiekoch
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM Further improving bodies with implants, exoskeletons, brain interfaces and the like and extending lifespans is likely to happen. Full transhumanism by leaving the body/uploading something to machinery is a delusion. What can be uploaded is a reductionist… -
Martin
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM I need to state for the record that I have no problem with life-saving and life-enhancing medical science. Treatments and therapies like prostheses, vaccinations, surgery under anesthesia, cochlear implants, MRIs, pacemakers, and all the others that… -
Cassius
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM Replied to the thread Episode 309 - The Error of Basing Happiness On The Alleged Divinity Of The Human Mind.PostThis episode will be out later today or at the latest tomorrow. Editing is almost complete and i want to particularly commend Joshua's windup on the main topic of this episode -
sanantoniogarden
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM Further improving bodies with implants, exoskeletons, brain interfaces and the like and extending lifespans is likely to happen. Full transhumanism by leaving the body/uploading something to machinery is a delusion. What can be uploaded is a reductionist… -
sanantoniogarden
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM My thoughts on transhumanism (e.g., uploading consciousness to a machine or transferring it to another brain) are directly akin to my thoughts on the "pleasure machine": WHO owns the hardware doing the storage or transfer? What are their motivations?… -
Joshua
Reaction (Post)November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM I need to state for the record that I have no problem with life-saving and life-enhancing medical science. Treatments and therapies like prostheses, vaccinations, surgery under anesthesia, cochlear implants, MRIs, pacemakers, and all the others that…
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