Reformed Nihilist

I have no issues with noting that a mind is a compex process. I think that comparing it to a blizzatd in this way is useful... I often compare it to t...

Only because it's the only thing we can use to discuss these ideas. Maybe it's more important than you think.

Do you agree that in English, to say "I was thinking about Aristotle" is a sensible sentence, but "I was minding about Aristotle" isn't? Or we can do ...

Because what is or isn't a noun is a function of how billions of English speakers have historically and continue to currently speak, not a function of...

Look, you know that it's correct to say "a mind", and not "to mind", right? So you already know what I'm saying about nouns and verbs is true, right? ...

But what you are claiming to be true, in the way you are claiming it, is demonstrably false. "Mind" is in no way a verb. You need to find a way to exp...

I have seen your point from the beginning. I don't think you see mine. If you want to say that minds are manifested through actions, then that's a sen...

Yes, and "verb" is also a noun. So?

Do you understand why I say that "Mind" being a noun isn't a matter open for debate, but a fact of the English language?

Look, adding "For me" doesn't fix the problem you have here. I could say "For me, radishes are berries", but all that displays is that I either don't ...

Seeing as though language is virtually the only tool we have to communicate in this forum, I can't possibly imagine how you could communicate otherwis...

Because I insist, perhaps dogmatically, on speaking English, and in English, the word "thinking" isn't a synonym to the word "mind". You seem to want ...

That is a false statement in common English. Again, not up for debate, it's a fact of the language. I will reiterate that if your method leads you to ...

You are conflating "noun" with "material". A name, and equation, traffic, an answer... none of these consist of matter, even though, like the mind, al...

This is literally an explicitly false statement. The word "mind" is a noun unless it is referring to caring (a shepherd minds their flock, or "I don't...

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Well if this is the level that conversation is going to be, then let's just not, ok?

If you don't know how to identify if you've found an acceptable answer, then how do you know that engaging in the process has worked for you in figuri...

How do you know? Honest question.

Ok, but why must these things be accounted for? Or why don't we just take your list and say "That's it, let's call it a day"? It seems to me that it's...

If you don't have anything by which to decide sufficiency, then how do you know that what I offered is insufficient? How do you play a game when you d...

Well hindsight is 20/20 isn't it? Obviously I overestimated the literacy of the community on the facts surrounding IQ. I'm surprised and disappointed....

Tell me more about this story. How do you know this person had a 160 IQ? I don't actually know the IQ of anyone I have ever met in my life, and I'm in...

Ok. That might be the case. So how would we know when something was sufficient? Sufficient for what purpose, or to what end? The socio-cultural world ...

Of the two questions, I think I can offer one answer is uninteresting but pretty serviceable: I think it is generally of more social value to have a m...

An over-active sense of nostalgia?

I thought I explained a very personal example of what it can do. In the case of my personal history, it altered the trajectory of my education, and in...

Are you sure about this? Or could this be your own bias? This doesn't reflect my own experience beyond the fact that sometimes people are assholes, an...

The problem is that if you aren't talking about a specific deficit in our understanding, there is no apparent value in pointing to the complexity of t...

I was using it as a rhetorical device to note that it isn't a task that requires any special cognitive ability. I'm pretty sure it's a common figure o...

You are factually mistaken. The most commonly used IQ test (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) measures aptitude in four domains: Verbal Comprehension...

This is an example of one of the myths I mentioned. Why is it that you think this is the case? Are you sure you aren't mistaken?

Been taking a deep dive into Arctic Monkeys recently. https://youtu.be/bpOSxM0rNPM

Sadly, claims to such finds are not rare at all, and to date all I have encountered have be vacuous.

I suspect your tongue was firmly seated in cheek, but FWIW, as a child my step-father had a volatile and unpredictable temper, and yet here I am. I do...

I'm torn here. On the one hand, I want to suggest that before you run a victory lap for having solved metaphysics, maybe you want to present your idea...

This could be restated as "If the world were unpredictable, this would undermine not just science, but the notion of a world that can be made sense of...

Gotta say, you have very definitive opinions about the responses to a very vague and open ended question. Personally I'd find it more interesting if y...

Thanks. I'm actually a little surprised at how much of the old guard is still around and kicking on the "new" forum.

Cool. I love the notion and phrase "sham doubt", but often think it was one any one of Pierce, Quine or Russell, and can never seem to find an easy re...

Not quite sure I'm understanding the distinction you're trying to make. Can you expand?

While that's certainly true, is there any reason to believe that there could exist a species that is so intelligent that it could attain an understand...

I don't think he did. In fact, he derived a proof of God based on it, and lived a religious life because if it, at least according to him (I suspect i...

I'm not. I am saying that the way that a culturally prevalent and deeply rooted force like religion effects language, the history of thought and there...

No, but the one's that are most prevalent in the modern western world that we live in are, and that is the context for this being a meaningful and int...

Thanks. Been quite a while. Things are well enough I suppose. Hope all is well with you too (and all of you too).

While true, a good Bayesian analysis would consider factors such as the history of cultural myths or religions and how they might inform (or be inform...

Perhaps. I'm not fluent in Latin, or an expert in linguistic archeology (if that's even a thing).

I don't think I agree with this analysis entirely. I think that there has been a search for, a belief in, and a feeling of a need for absolutes in phi...

Okay, I think we are saying the same thing, but with a different spin. I'm not lamenting the entire lack of philosophy that goes beyond the notion of ...