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Sorry about that ya whinin' bawbag!

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Yes. He comes across as a fuckwitt with some of the things he says, but if you just look at how it's all functioning, it makes sense.

I should have said "toasts" lol.

Hi, lover. :love:

We normally turn an uncountable noun into a countable noun by adding a count marker. So, water, becomes "a glass of water", bread becomes "a slice of ...

Most of us seem to agree Trump is winning as things stand, me, @"Mikie", the betting markets, Nate SIlver etc. The fact we may disagree slightly on th...

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Something, I guess, we can all agree on.

No, it's not. His odds have been going up rapidly across betting markets generally since the start of October. Averages about 59% overall now. Maybe p...

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Political idiots like Elon Musk play into this misunderstanding by claiming polymarket is more accurate then the polls. No, it just tracks the polls. ...

We don't need polymarket as a primary source anyway. It just reflects the polls. When Kamala was about 3% ahead nationally, polymarket read 50/50. She...

Saw you on the show. Book sounds great. :strong: I've got one coming out myself. It's called "The Calmer Sutra: Sex Life of Sloths". Kinda Zoology mee...

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There's a buck or two to be made selling Dem Kool Aid, apparently. The race is a toss up as it stands. A "blue tsunami" would require a major shift. W...

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Hello, my learned friends and welcome to "The Infinite Mirror", the talk show that never ends! And now, your host, Barken Mod! Welcome, welcome, every...

Thanks, javi. Honestly, just the fact you and others like my stories is reward enough to make me keep wanting to write more. :pray:

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(By the way, I'll try to keep up and respond to all the points raised with me. If I fall behind on this, I hope to catch up at some point. I do apprec...

I think this is a good line of argument. I had thought of physicalism, also metaphorically, as kind of a snake pit where whenever one snake pops its h...

It's Scooby Doo saying "November".

Thank bog someone around here has a bit of sense. :up:

To succinctly reiterate the main thesis: physicalism is unnecessary and undesirable metaphysical baggage in relation to the scientific method; it tend...

I've emphasized that and wondered why others don't seem to realize the import of that even in the text you quoted.

Hey man, are you, like, being sacastic? Are you, like, really saying we're not supposed to smile? Can you just, like, indicate whenever you're being s...

Basically saying nothing again. "Cryptocurrency is good. But it might also be bad. We'll make it better in the most non-specific way possible. Now be ...

@"Michael" "Protect cryptocurrency investments so that Black men who make them know their money is safe." What does that actually mean? And how is tha...

That's to say, you don't get on the plane naked, but an empty suitcase isn't any further help as long as you've got clothes on.

In this context, amenable to the scientific method or not. In order to employ the scientific method, you employ it on that which it can be employed bu...

Thanks for the references. :up: I will take a look at that article.

I think this highlights an important tension within physicalism. Broad physicalist interpretations certainly add nothing conceptually, but the more ph...

Solid criticism. I should have reined myself in and been more precise and nuanced there. (I may reformulate the point in my new thread rather than her...

Yes. Methodological naturalism says behave as if it were and get on with it. Physicalism seems like a vacuous piece of extra metaphysical naturalist b...

I'll get back to you on this. I've discovered after writing the OP that Chomsky made a somewhat similar critique. An available paper discussing his vi...

I generally agree with this. My previous comments here have, of course, been somewhat lacking in seriousness.

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Agree. Reading the wiki page was enough for me.

You know I would agree then simply deliberately fuck it up and write a better one without telling you, right?

No, I'm not going to help you beat me in the short story activity. :wink: Good luck though. :strong: On a less jocular note, are you looking for editi...

What happens then is you strip away / distort the contextual network; enabling conditions like gravity, thermodynamics etc become meaningless and you ...

I won't develop the point here as we're drifting off-topic, but what's considered spooky for the physicalists are just the metaphysical assumptions th...

That OP looks messy and unfocused to me. And this conversation seems now to be about everything and anything. Apparently so.

The fundamental reality of the physicalist boils down to, at the finest level, the mathematically inferred or imagined, not the empirically observable...

Yes, the term really only makes sense at the macro-level. In the quantum sphere, the physical is as spooky as idealism sounds to materialists. So, phy...