Alec

I can understand the resistance, but that seems like the only sensible option IMO. Most of the crazy situations you'd expect come from such a scenario...

Apparently in some cases, the infant brains will create new connections between the two hemispheres as they develop, but I'm not sure what will happen...

Making this post partly as a bump for discussion, but really I just want to point to a nice short video I've just found that illustrates my point: htt...

Do we? When we sleep or get "knocked unconscious" are we really not conscious anymore, or are we still conscious but just not as actively aware of the...

Do those combinations also include how they are arranged together in space? If space were continuous, then there would seem to be an infinite number o...

I am not sure what you mean by "tenseless chat". Under the block universe, every time "is" real. What does the "is" mean here? Does it mean that it wa...

Yeah, that was how I read your "Change is analytic to time". That was what I'm saying essentially, but it seemed like you were inclined to disagree fo...

Is there a difference between saying that change cannot be isolated from time and time cannot be isolated from change? It seems they express the same ...

I think it goes deeper than that. Our concept of time is basically derived from our understanding of change. The fact is, if we did not perceive chang...

What does the "is" mean then, if not that it exists in the present tense? Either something is, was, or will exist so in what other way is the block un...

Yes. They are all different versions of the same entity that exists over its entire lifetime, different clones of the same person. That could be the c...

Okay, then you disagree with the article. I don't really have much else to say then :-} . I can only conclude that your version of eternalism is, like...

And so they currently exist which I have quoted you as saying. Look, the Stanford author was clearly outlining a sense of "now" that is ontological, w...

Interesting. It could be that we do not either exist as complete 4D entities extended throughout our entire lives, nor instantaneous entities in the b...

But they are all currently existing. Again, I must emphasize that part of your post. You keep saying that that they aren't. Unless you want to backtra...

Sorry, but this is just false: Maybe you should read up on more on the view before talking about it. There is a reason why they call it "Relativity". ...

That sounds a bit too extreme to me. It seems like eternalists are willing to grant that experiences do occur, but that they are illusory in the sense...

I think you're confusing a preferred time with things currently existing. The argument from relativity states that there is nothing to determine that ...

What do you mean by "relative terms"? And what inconsistency are you talking about? I don't understand. I was asking if you have an idea of what all m...

According to eternalism, every moment is real in the same sense as the present is real. I don't see how else I can make sense of all moments being rea...

I don't think that counterexample works. You defined a set that is composed solely of positive numbers. By definition, that excludes the possibility o...

Sure, I'm not disagreeing with the fact that we do understand infinity. My point was really about how our finite understanding of probability doesn't ...

That is an interesting point that you've brought up. As you and others have mentioned, probability doesn't seem to make sense when we bring in the inf...

And my point is that it doesn't matter. Sure, a simulation of Paris is not the same as Paris. That is why it's called a simulation. But that doesn't a...

I believe there are a couple of assumptions that you've made that I've pointed out below. I am not sure what you mean by dualism though, if you consid...

Never said you assumed BIVs. I merely used the case of BIVs to demonstrate what I think is a wild assumption with your approach. As far as I see it, t...

The problem is, once we start applying your reasoning to things in general, then it seems to amount to us saying that the experiences that we have of ...

I think the simulation argument is less about us and more about the world we live in.

No, I never emphasized any "underlying fulfillment of personal desire" at all. I am confused as to how you came to that interpretation, given that in ...

I am sorry but I am not sure what your concern is here. My point to @"Hanover" was that I could want something but not have any deeper reason for want...

My point is that goals don't need underlying reasons.

Sure there is. The jumping on one foot is it's own goal, because you wanted to jump on one foot.

I disagree that intentional acts must always have underlying reasons to them. If I were to have the sudden urge to jump on one foot and someone asks m...

Okay, I just got to reading it. I do agree that the very existence of guilt itself would imply a deeper desire that may not be selfish, which was what...

Thanks for the link. I'll set aside some time for it tonight, so I'll get to you then if I have any thoughts.

That doesn't sound reasonable because then you face a regress. Why do you want to satisfy that desire? Because it will satisfy some other desire in yo...

Any time someone wants something that isn't to their own benefit. Compare I simply want to save someone from a burning house vs. I want to save someon...

I don't see how I am creating a tautology. A conscious decision to do what you want doesn't necessarily mean that what you want is in accordance with ...

By "self-interest" I mean anything that benefits you or prevents harm on yourself. Come on. Are all conscious decisions that we make done out of conce...

I can understand where you're coming from, but it seems like if we ask a soldier why he saved his comrades, he wouldn't disagree that he did so becaus...