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@monarchist @freepatriot Nietzsche is such a gold mine. To me, he always seems to be almost impossibly ahead of his time. For some strange reason, it also seem to me that he is the philosopher that is the least understood, and most often interpreted in the least charitable (or ridiculous) way. =/

I wonder if there are any more modern philosophers of a similar calibre?

That question is tricky, since it seems like history is required to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Wittgenstein is another

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHJ4PDHF

Not according to Jefferson.

Those two words are mutually exclusive 😜

@freepatriot Bitch eat bitch world.

But it is not a Democratic Republic...

@h4890 @freepatriot

Probably a bell curve like anything else, from schizoid to genius.

I also disagree on biological programming. Regular critters can learn too.

The problem is that our ability to learn is biologically determined...

@h4890 @freepatriot

I do not think the phrase is meant as "life is (only) suffering" but more as "life necessarily involves suffering."

@h4890 @freepatriot

Good response to compatibilism. This parallels a lot of the nihilist critique. We do not know how we think, so we just do things, and then conclude it was free will, ex post facto rationalization style. Nietzsche mentioned this in "On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense."

@h4890 @freepatriot

It's the brain in a vat argument.

I looked at it for about five minutes and concluded that like Spinoza's Stone it was a useful teaching tool, but irrelevant since the results are the same.

If this is a simulation, I want it to be a good one.

@h4890 @freepatriot

This means the rules do not change: still consistent external stimulus, still arranging it for maximal adaptation and thriving, etc.