Jamal

This speaks for truth not being relative. Something is true whether you believe it or not. And what BC sees as the relativity of truth is just the amb...

Yes, it's not a "being" (in the sense you're using, viz., having an inner life). That's a stipulation of the thought experiment.

Well, the primary use of the concept of p-zombies is an argument against physicalist theories of mind. If p-zombies are logically possible then consci...

Thanks. Been meaning to read them myself.

what do you think of it?

This is the point of the thought experiment.

I don't think physicalism entails functionalism or the computational theory of mind, although they're compatible.

I think you should start making an exception for us folks on TPF.

I'm not sure I have a stance on that, though I feel like I want to question your statement. I was talking about ideology, or about the changes in poli...

I know, and I'm not interested.

Sorry, kind of.

Much as I like his movies, "healthy" is not a word that springs immediately to mind.

Like csal, I'm a bit suspicious of all this anti-consumerist talk. I'm going to ramble on and see what happens. I'm not sure how relevant it'll be. Ta...

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper by E...

Hi Rachel and welcome to TPF. I don't have any links to the relevant studies, but there is evidence in psychology suggesting that stating publicly wha...

Is sex as idolized elsewhere as in the West? I don't know about is, but it certainly was. The sculptures below are in India, on a temple built around ...

I noticed in the navigation bar that there was a response to one of my posts, and when I opened the mentions drop-down I saw it was from you, saying "...

You're saying that many people want to avoid intimacy, therefore sex is a requirement in modern relationships? Do you mean sexual or romantic relation...

I imagine it's about day and night. At night it's scary and bad things happen.

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I personally wouldn't mind, but as you haven't made any clear or detailed criticisms except for the profile pics, preferring just to express your disl...

Yikes.

Totally forgot about Clients from Hell. I used to read it all the time. And don't get me wrong: I've had some horrible clients myself, and I have comp...

I saw enough evidence to suggest that Landru could never get tired of saying "conservative meme". He must be saying it somewhere else.

It's because it's a young profession, and maybe also because nobody (usually) dies or goes to jail if things go wrong. Some people think we should be ...

Did some programming at university but mostly self-taught.

I did wonder if that's what you meant, because I'd heard the story that John Cage tells about one of his inspirations for creating 4'33": "It was afte...

When I became a developer I vowed I would never become one of those guys who complained to other developers about "the users", treating them as the en...

In my opinion, to say the design is bland is largely a misguided criticism with regard to a web design that exists to optimize the reading of text. An...

Yes, that's come up a few times. In any case, a lack of features has nothing to do with the layout.

So it's about ease of navigation? Anything in particular? I much prefer this one in almost every way, once it's zoomed to 125% at least. Such as?

Good decision. I think it was the Carcass gig that did it for me.

It's called tinnitus and it affects 10-15% of people. I used to go to heavy metal concerts and I was used to the ringing in my ears afterwards. Usuall...

More preferable, I suppose, for the people who prefer it. Even if "spelled" is less common than "spelt" in British English, it is common enough that i...

What don't you like about it?

I don't agree that it's more appropriate, and otherwise what you're saying doesn't go against my point. Also I'm not sure how to pronounce "happeded".

What took you so long?

Both are common in British English, as reflected in dictionaries such as Oxford's, and to me "spelled" is better anyway.

How awful.

Please, I'm still struggling to overcome my Calvinist heritage and could do without any setbacks right now.

True, it does fail to capture that. It's not perfect. What it does suggest is that sex, stripped of its prudish sacralization, can be a sensual pleasu...

Ethics is the answer to the predicament of material human beings. It makes no sense otherwise.

I dare say if you were to find out that the material doesn't exist, the same thing would happen. Which is to say that a virtuous person is virtuous no...

I don't think it follows that the analogy fails, but only that sex is far more complicated than food.

That seems to be an ignorant and prejudiced judgment, and nothing more. I can't see why you think that I have given up on what is noble, unless you're...

Music to my ears, chorizo to my loins.

Thanks, but if you mean the first line, that's Nietzsche. :D

Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only the name of something in the body. It's the tapas thing again (is this a vulgar analogy? perhap...

Not much of a step at all if your ethics is ancient Greek, which is about living well (although "immoral" is a troublesome word).

Yeah, well I'm more of a positive hedonist and a sensualist than Epicurus, but I go for some kind of virtue ethics in which one can judge a person's t...