None of this is an actual argument thoughhttps://twitter.com/logo_daedalus/status/998571856209825793 …
sure, if were talking about spinoza himself. his contemporary descendants cannot be just smugly dismissed in this way tho if one is engaging honestly with the progress of modern neuroscience
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I don't think you can make the leap that neuroscience implies spinozist monism. It doesn't imply anything but the data it provides.
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im not saying that, but your original thread was about spinoza and his descendants more generally
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Yes- I am saying that I cannot fathom believing that the cosmos is a material accident & human existence is a contingency of contingencies making a big fuss over a blip on the timeline of empty aeons.
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sounds like a lack of imagination on your part
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I can imagine it- but I cannot imagine holding onto it as a precious insight of some sort. I can also imagine being momentarily suicidal, but not holding on to this inclination as a "glimpse into the truth" or somth.
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