Paine

It is from the dialogue of Plato named Parmenides. Here is the bit about time:

But Parmenides said: "Then the one always both is and becomes older and younger than itself?" Aristotle was too busy looking at how creatures lived to...

That is an interesting analogy. I read Chalmers as breaking from the Cartesian theater where the duality of a first person being separated from the re...

In other words: "the willingness to fight a common enemy is merely an illusion." Fighting people who kill your friends and neighbors may look and feel...

These are the moves you have repeated for hundreds of pages.

Memories are fleeting, as mortal as we are.

I will give it a shot. Science, as a practice, developed through a lot of discussion about separating causality from coincidence. Given that we are cr...

You probably remember what you did and what has happened to you in the past. That 'set of experiences' is probably the closest you will get to what yo...

How do you experience it? I don't ask that as a trick question. I am not accusing anybody of misrepresenting their experiences. The element of Chalmer...

I am puzzled by your puzzlement. Your life is different from mine. That comes from you being stuck with your set of experiences instead of mine. It do...

I tried googling the numbers and did not get matching results. What is your preferred database? Edited to add forgotten not. Apologies.

From what sources are you getting this information? Most sources that I have seen do not reflect this view. There has been a long ongoing call from U....

He accepted his punishment but did not accept that he was no longer a citizen. He performed the work of being a mid-wife for the birth of thoughts til...

I was not objecting to your consideration of different motives. What is fallacious is your argument that the diversity of motives proves that the will...

In regard to mutual respect, how do you see that in the context of Nietzsche's attempting to undermine Christianity, as such? Or the Civil Rights move...

The U.K. recognizes that pandering to Russian Oligarchs was not double plus good.

My personal experience has been only learning the virtues of the dispassionate after losing my cool over and over again. The lessons keep coming. It m...

I, too, will miss Olivier5.

The matter of agency is whether the common response to being invaded has been to fight back. The issue has come up here in the context of those saying...

I am not convinced that a 'valid' proposition excludes the possibility of error. That suggests an environment where arguments would be true if made cl...

I agree with that call for courtesy. I have to admit I just used the reply function to add them to the conversation and I still haven't practiced the ...

This is an improvement from when you did not see any kind of Ukrainian identity as being germane to what is happening. It takes Ukrainians for them to...

I see the resemblance. Part of my bringing it up was to separate the issue from a 'ghost in the machine' matter that you have been charged with introd...

I think there are important differences between Chalmer's approach and these two philosophers. The experience of being oneself is given as a necessity...

I referred to the ones who are fighting and the ones who support those people. There are a lot of them. I won't bother posting more evidence for that ...

Your observations do not support the little regard you have for Ukrainian motivations. They do show why you view their agency to be unimportant.

I want the conflict to end now. I am not the one fighting it, however. Once again, you would have the Ukrainians merely be pieces on a board game.

Yes, neither you nor I are fighting. But you are willing to explain to the one's fighting why they are dying. To leave their view out of the picture c...

The people in Ukraine who are fighting Russians are fighting because they were attacked by Russians. Whatever arrangements could have been made before...

As far as smug self-righteousness goes, it is difficult to surpass its glory when you dismiss the will to defend oneself as a slavish pursuit of an id...

If I understand your report of what Withey is saying, he is comparing different kinds of persuasion rather than presenting a self-evident truth reveal...

I was thinking more along the lines that it would be good to stop the party sooner than later.

I respect your decision.

Well, I have to say the banning looks kind of fun. I shuffle around the set like Mr. Rogers. Chances are low that I will get banned for my sweaters be...

The writings themselves have been understood in many conflicting ways. Unfortunately, many violent struggles have been involved with such differences....

The situation is dynamic. Whatever sentiments were prevalent before the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the Russians have been busy. There is the departure...

To some extent, was not part of Kant's project to meet Hume's challenge regarding the pursuit of causes? The idea being that we could pursue them as s...

Spot on. Metaphysics comes after physics, like after shave. The effort devoted to either is proportionate to what is excluded by the other. We are all...

You mean like this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND6jfaYE42U

Well, I am not a very good representative to give an account of the matter since the majority of my interests fall outside the common terms of discour...

Are you sure about that? Perhaps we should call it Pandora's Box.

I like the dishes and cup.

As Bowie said: "Don't hold your breath but the pretty things are going to hell"

And lo, there was a thing. But nobody could agree what it was or tasted like.

That does sound fun. Just got my first test saying my cholesterol is too high.

There still is a left wing? I thought it died from whatever it caught.

"Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise."

Socrates was reported to be ugly and he sported a snub nose.

It does have something to do with work. My life in the trades has been an interaction with stuff and learning or not learning how to be better at shap...

What I gathered from Chalmer's argument is that no amount of science can approach why consciousness is possible as whatever it is. The assumption that...