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I think that's part of it, but also I think we can change. In a lot of ways I think we continue to treat animals as a resource more out of historical ...

This is the part I want more details on. Rather than some scholars, or rather than a most vigorous set of debates held within a 100 year period, I was...

That paper you shared @"Mww" is doing something similar to the blog post that I'm trying to highlight. It begins with a clear explication of an interp...

I forgot to add the link before posting, but have since edited it. Here it is on a first post.

I was lucky enough to find a translation of the letter on the internet. How could Descartes see the heart of terrestrial animals beating after removin...

Cool find. I've never read the objections before. Thanks for posting. *** Following the Descartes SEP article embedded within the blog I pulled the fo...

That's cool. Feel free to comment along. I've read a lot of Marx, including Capital v 1, but never the Grundrisse -- it wasn't exactly on my list, but...

Well, the person who told me about it bought me a hard copy of the book, officially guilt tripping me into committing. :D (honestly was probably going...

Another unmentioned: Dick Tracey. I love the visuals of the movie in particular, because of how well they translated old comics to film.

Cool. I think I just have this category I put a lot of movies into -- which doesn't mean they're bad, but rather I have to know what someone else like...

OOooo... good choice. As always, too many choices... I'm impressed with your ability to just have one :D I also enjoy that trilogy. I'll just try a gr...

While I like story, I also agree with your general taste for the elements of film that are particular to film. I love action movies because they are a...

One that hasn't been mentioned and I'd include, though, is the original Conan: The Barbarian. The visuals, in particular, are what I like about this m...

Many of my favorites have already been said :D I wanted to special mention this one, though, because I grew up with that movie (and later read it was ...

Alas, I'm bested in the back-and-forth. I yield good sir!

only in his case, though. The rest of us, who are pure in heart, just reflected upon the fiber content.

Ohhh, lmao. That one got me good.

Isn't it a kind of pleasure which deepens desire rather than satisfying desire? I think philosophy is like that for me. It's an intrinsically satisfyi...

Fair point. Maybe not good for the business as an organization, but if there's a class which controls said organization and they don't particularly ca...

There's a similar list for the United States. Right? Genocide and chattel slavery aren't ancient history, either. Something about an afternoon compari...

I'm not trying to salvage Marx, and I thought it obvious that this was so when I said I'm not trying to defend Marx on idealist grounds, or when I sai...

I'm saying I've considered the evidence, and my conclusion is that both nations are prone to doing all kinds of evil things to the extent that, after ...

Eh, it's a sad line of conversation I've already had the displeasure of going down. Wracking up the sins of each nation is a good way to feel sad the ...

Heh. I may just be too democracy-poisoned ;) I've heard "democracy" as a palliative to concrete wrongs far too often, putting justice in a place far b...

Yes! But, most importantly, this picture centers the worker as a political actor -- rather than being a part of the electorate, the worker can organiz...

You'll hear no idealist defenses of Marx from me. But you won't hear idealist condemnations either. Yes, millions died under socialism due to socialis...

This is just an imaginary of an imaginary. We done killed our millions. Racking up bodies won't decide what's the better way to live, though it makes ...

There is no free market. At this point in development it's simply stupid to think that there is. There is an environment set up some degrees away from...

All the same, if the chicken killers organize, and the farmer and the engineer and the veterinarian and the marketer aren't going to kill the chickens...

Heh, I do not share this view of the world. I think it's naive. What has changed governments -- and especially so-called democratic governments -- has...

Maybe, with the above picture in mind, the way I'd put it is -- I don't want a slice of pie, I want the bakery. Once I have a say in how the bakery op...

I think I'd prefer something like a causal nexus to highlight that there's more than one entity contributing to the overall pattern that we observe, a...

I think I'm resistant to the notion of responsibility really applying. In a particular case sometimes we can figure out, through political analysis, w...

I disagree. It's not the owners who decide, in this more general sense. It's the property relationships themselves which form an environment that moti...

So if this is all about philosophy and nothing about scientists, why are you arguing that species cannot be related to one another through mating? The...

Fair point. I'll address the actual argument later. To treat it fairly, I'd have to do a bit more work -- and I'm not feeling like doing that now ;).

I agree. I didn't, for instance, say that it's a true book. I just said I like it, and it'd be useful for you to read because it'd develop your philos...

I like Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True It's an easy introduction to the theory that covers the physical evidence. Now, probability or God -- that ...

I pulled out the old Pluhar to look and see what I was talking about -- and I think you're right. I'll just post the quote that was in my head upon fi...

Just in the way that multiple people can work with it, understand it, communicate about it, and even -- sometimes -- use it. Speaking about Kant we do...

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(1) and (2) are decided by class, I think. It's not an individual which makes a labor market. Markets and profits and money are made possible by the m...

Hrmm... I think I'd say logic has changed considerably since Kant, and I'd say that it's for the better too. While Kant has the modalities as categori...

I paged through The Conscious Mind and found what you're saying about re-arranging neural circuits (while asleep or something) so when you wake up you...

I guess I'd say the inverted spectrum argument fits with your rendition here, from the way I think of things. What you're saying is experience causes ...

Ach, sorry. Didn't hit the Reply, but the above is what I meant to reply to you.

I have an understanding of the hard problem. I just didn't know how to answer your question. I thought I set out my best understanding of the hard pro...

I think? I'm fine with being quizzed, but I don't have a firm answer to your first question.

There's a series of icons above the top of a reply screen. The one on the furthest left is a "B" for Bold. Then "I" for italics. As you go along one o...

Free-for-all anarchy is my philosophy, so why not? Where's the metaphysics of humor angle. :D