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I was arguing that your throwing someone into life (take that literally or metaphorically) as if they are victims or as if they have not consented is ...

The problem I have with this is that you are making a decision on what you think is the case. I think there are two beliefs here. We are fallible AND ...

Let's set aside the issue of can one side of the brain function alone. So, can a scientist use only those traits that have been attributed (correctly ...

That is absurd. First of all, I am not a moral realist. I don't think morals exist. I was not mounting a moral argument. I was reacting to an implicit...

Not really, but I am taking it as a transitive verb. I mean, even as a metaphor it means transferring something somewhere. But that is not what happen...

Sure, and it does.

I didn't say it did. I responded, I think pretty clearly, to this idea of a parent throwing someone into life. A someone who may or may not want life....

I never said anything about embracing life's game, whatever that means.

I am talking about an organism doing what it can to live, both on a cellular level and to whatever extent it can as it can move. There is no incarnati...

I'm not arguing that one can change the game of life.

That doesn't contradict what I said. I didn't said a child chose a life. But that matter that was made after the choice of the parents wanted life, it...

Well, that would be rejecting society not necessarily life. But my point doesn't hinge on that. The way you framed the issue was as if someone was thr...

But you aren't thrown into the world. A part of the world coalesced. And that life that you were grew, that is did what life does. It's as if you are ...

True. But I think that could be made clearer. And I think also the way the left column group seems to be religious and the right secular, it really se...

Actually that isn't what evolutionary theory would say. That would be teleological, with evolution somehow deciding to produce thoughts that are lofty...

I think the binary categorization of people itself runs against some of the values I would guess it is promoting. Specifically those on the right side...

I think if anything it was understated. They own the regulators, some of whom even own stocks in the industries they are regulating. Plus the revovlin...

Remember, I'm just some nobody online. But it sounds a little like an anxiety disorder.

I don't think these are the same: thinking about a Zen Koan and excessive thinking. First, thinking about Zen Koans in generally surrounded by meditat...

If we are talking about emotional suffering, then current suffering can be a ressurection of past suffering.

Is that really what you experience or are those your fears about what will/would happen if......?

I don't think that's a good interpretation of my post. If you mean, hey the universe isn't teleological, that doesn't seem to be what he is asking abo...

If you break a bone, it hurts. You will tend not to move that area of the body if you can. This can reduce the bone tearing through flesh and causing ...

Lovely. Me too. And hey, I have some fringe beliefs - though often with some scientist backers out there - but I would say I have a similar relationsh...

I'm often overly cranky. I did not take it as an attack per se, but on one level a very poor response, philosophically/discussion-wise. On another rud...

Sure. Absolutely. I didn't my that my very simple schema was the range of reactions. I meant that some of the interactions in the thread follow the sc...

OK, I think that was a pretty crappy response. I also said referring to the neutron bombs. and I also pointed out that they didn't exist. I also menti...

Well, we have always made distinctions between technologies that it's ok to be in wide use - like private people get to have them, perhaps even kids g...

I think the problem, to put it at an abstract level is this. Person A: I think phenomenon A is real. Person B: phenomenon A can't be real because it d...

I think there are very few neo-luddites who are against all technology and the original ones were not against all technology. Nor would many disagree ...

I don't think it shows this. Does a philosophy professor really need a computer to teach philosophy? Didn't we have excellent (and of course not so ex...

Was the story meant to show that being a neo-luddite is an untenable position?

Though we don't owe future potential machine consciousnesses anything (yet). Once they are here and if they actually experience life, well, I suppose ...

Or even just the sense that it is good for business, without any money exchanging hands. I was stunned by how naive even journalists were about the is...

I'm not sure if you are pro or con by this short description, but I am guessing you are pro-gm. In the current system, in the US, the regulators are o...

Would this mean that you think transgender people are confused? IOW they feel that actually they are not the sex they were born with and often want to...

I've been on a bit of a rant lately about cars and electric scooters. No incredible insights to follow, but where I live in Europe many of the drivers...

I wish this was true, or better put, it is true, but to a certain degree and I wish it was more so. Where I live we have a lot of cars, and now we als...

What struck me about this Japanese concept is that there are some fairly complicated nerve nexuses around the heart and belly and that this may be mor...

They also reduce children's ability to recognize facial expressions. IOW they reduce empathy. To be clear, this doesn't mean they make children nasty....

Even Wikipedia gives some sense of the complexity. And note, ideas like the precautionary principle entail that new tech could be used, if one was cau...

I think it's good to keep in mind that a neo-luddite might have problems to varying degrees with technology. Even the original Luddites were not again...

Logic is about the connection between assertions, assertions and conclusions. I don't think it makes sense to say a tree is logical or my cells act lo...

1 Something's goin on. 2 It feels like it could be better. Sometimes it feels like it should be better.

Hicks did have a position, a general sort of spiritual/philosophical position. Joe Rogen has a lot of opinions, probably a few philosophical bases, li...

Voting totals justify those who are in or come into office. If less and less people vote, the system is less and less justified. So, not voting can be...

:up: and good luck with the living situation.

One thought on that. In very complicated situations you have to rely on intuition. Often people want to make it seem like their decisions are based on...

I wasn't from a position of moral relativism. In abstract discussions of certainty or uncertainty and it's attendant problems we can imply or create h...

I'll throw out the idea that when we talk about certainty and uncertainty in a universal, abstract way I think it misses that some people need to be m...