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Just seems to beg the question to me when you're proposing it as a means to adjudicate whether something is or isn't within said color category. Seems...
March 10, 2017 at 22:31
Point 2 may be a bit poetical, all depending on how we want to hash terms out. I mostly mean that you shouldn't doubt your perceptions of one thing ju...
March 10, 2017 at 22:18
Here's an image I created out of two color picked items, one from the teal (what was white-ish) table, and one from a part of a strawberry: http://img...
March 10, 2017 at 22:15
I would say that the picture is made of pixels, but to say that the picture simply is the pixels isn't quite right. For one, there is the arrangement ...
March 10, 2017 at 12:23
My problem with this approach is that the spectrometer doesn't see red. The spectrometer absorbs photons and spits out some data based upon this measu...
March 10, 2017 at 11:59
It's worth noting that there is zero evidence for a number of beliefs, some of which include beliefs about what counts as evidence for which we surely...
March 10, 2017 at 11:39
Maaan.... liberals in the U.S. are worthless. Which is basically just a rah-rah, yeah, but hey -- rah-rah yeah. ;) I know who I'd vote for -- but it's...
March 08, 2017 at 01:24
Definitely. Any more suggestions are of course appreciated.
March 07, 2017 at 22:43
Thanks for the suggestions, all! These were exaclty the sort of recommendations I was looking for so I could begin tracking down books, and then build...
March 07, 2017 at 22:18
Sounds like the sort of game I'd like. Boss fights were a big part of Hyper Light Drifter, but so was the exploration and dungeon crawling. Yeah, whil...
March 06, 2017 at 22:29
Hyper Light Drifter https://youtu.be/nWufEJ1Ava0 I just beat this game. It has it's own unique flavor, but it has been compared to the old Zelda games...
March 06, 2017 at 00:45
I'm kind of grouping these since they are related. I think, broadly speaking at least, whether a robot can identify a red card from all other colors i...
March 05, 2017 at 17:28
I actually dislike his approach, here, because it seems to me to be committing the very mistake that generates the hard problem of consciousness in th...
March 04, 2017 at 15:18
Let's back up a bit here. In this particular discussion the distinction between consciousness and where I am located at within my body is important, s...
March 03, 2017 at 22:19
On your third question -- Epicurus believed the mind to be located in the chest -- where we tend to have a two-part mind, one in the head and the othe...
March 03, 2017 at 11:56
Golly, it's been wayyyy long since I've read Hume. I remember being very impressed with his argument though when I did read him. But I also remember l...
March 03, 2017 at 03:26
I did do that with paint.net color picker first :D. They were, indeed, grayish-greenish, and as I put blue on the blank canvas it began to look red. O...
March 02, 2017 at 22:11
Good point in saying it's the image, not the dress -- though it might be the case that the dress could appear this or that way in different environmen...
March 02, 2017 at 12:30
Sure. I didn't mean to say you had to be an expert and lay it out for me -- only that these are the questions I think people should ask when they hear...
March 02, 2017 at 11:56
When did I have a conversation with my brain? Or does it speak to itself? Obviously this way of talking is supposed to convey something -- but what do...
March 02, 2017 at 11:29
Only if there is no difference between the parts and the whole, though. If the strawberry image just is the pixels, then I would agree with you. But i...
March 02, 2017 at 10:05
Hrmm, I usually see panpsychism being proposed contra naturalism, though. At least, self-described naturalists would often object to panpsychism, diff...
March 02, 2017 at 09:40
I'm tempted to lay your emphasis like "We have experience" to say that we are the sorts of being which have experiences, but that doesn't mean is fals...
March 02, 2017 at 09:25
Damnit! I so do like being thought of. ;)
March 02, 2017 at 08:30
I'm not sure if that's directed at me or just something to keep things on track. I'll clarify why I asked how Heister is using ideology just in case. ...
March 02, 2017 at 03:43
It seems a terrible answer, but it really does just depend. Useful for what? I don't know what principles you're reflecting on here that have been los...
March 01, 2017 at 23:28
I don't think the man off the street thinks in terms of realism, idealism, physicalism, monism, etc. But I wouldn't then say they have no metaphysical...
February 27, 2017 at 22:00
It can help to write out some thoughts. Why not give it a try? People will be more amenable to conversing with a post of substance and exchanging idea...
February 26, 2017 at 04:57
Yes, I think so. Though when you say: I'm less inclined to believe so. Or, at least, I believe such beliefs can have practical effects, but it wouldn'...
February 26, 2017 at 04:34
Hrm. I guess the semester has started up again, hasn't it? :D
February 25, 2017 at 18:39
to take a stab at some sincerity, though: I thought the comment was referencing the "deep state" -- what that will actually entail in terms of policy,...
February 25, 2017 at 01:42
Hmm. Perhaps there is hope after all, then. "The filing cabinets will soon know the meaning of the word pain." ?
February 25, 2017 at 01:30
*steeples hands* That sounds awfully.... administrative.
February 25, 2017 at 01:10
Verily, the filing cabinets are soon to know the real meaning of the word pain.
February 25, 2017 at 01:05
It seems to me that the OP sets the initial 'boundaries' of a discussion, and that the author of said OP has the priority to alter those boundaries ov...
February 24, 2017 at 22:16
Obligatory obfuscation.
February 24, 2017 at 22:13
The twist here is that you're taking away one of the main points against homosexuality -- that it is not natural. If you believe the one is committing...
February 24, 2017 at 22:03
Right, but then that was the plan all along. The communist male milking facilities are clearly a historical necessity demanded by the dialectic.
February 24, 2017 at 07:16
What, exactly, needs justifying? It strikes me that those who believe homosexual acts are morally wrong are the one's that need to justify their state...
February 24, 2017 at 07:14
But mustn't we imagine that Sisyphus smiles? ;)
February 21, 2017 at 22:54
I do believe jorndoe is riffing off of St Anslem's proof of God.
February 20, 2017 at 22:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwUztIvlBc Pretty much always puts me in a good mood.
February 20, 2017 at 11:54
Well, yes. I saw the connections :D. But I'm still in digestion mode, I suppose, because every time I'd try to highlight this or that it seemed more o...
February 20, 2017 at 11:30
Interesting read and listen. Not sure what else to say. Seems a novel take on things, which is nice to see.
February 20, 2017 at 00:29
That was really cool.
February 19, 2017 at 17:21
I understand that to be the case, too. Not surprising since a lot of mastering 'organic' languages isn't in the basic rules, but in the exceptions, th...
February 19, 2017 at 17:16
Already been tried ;).
February 19, 2017 at 15:12
Heh, me either. I'm more asking after your thoughts here than some kind of definition. Your clarification, while vague, is actually helpful. :) That m...
February 18, 2017 at 18:29
I will say that 'bleen' isn't something that I believe needs to be ruled out. I don't believe that this is bleen, or that grue, but "500 years ago all...
February 18, 2017 at 18:09
I'm just playing with some thoughts here: I have near me a plastic bottle filled with isopropyl alcohol, and a cardboard box filled with paper securit...
February 18, 2017 at 17:01