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Heh, yeah fair. Might as well note that Marxism can lazily take care of this problem through the dialectic. But the solution might be considered worse...

Would you believe me in saying @"Banno" and @"180 Proof" understand the problem? At least, such is my belief. I think their contentions come from anot...

I think that this is an odd tactic. You can state what the hard problem is. And others find it unsatisfying. What are you hoping to get out of these r...

Yes, there is! I mean, the P-zombie argument has an obvious modal angle too, right? And for Chalmer's, again in memory and all that, the very conceiva...

Public/Private, though, are distinctions from a way of doing philosophy that is not the target of the hard problem -- the functionalist account of the...

In this case I think even one example might be enough. It's not that all of our feels will be different, it's that it's possible, in a functional, phy...

I read The Conscious Mind over 10 years ago just to figure out what the hullabaloo was. For awhile I was persuaded by Chalmer's property-dualism. Thes...

Heh. Forgive me for my stupid puns.

Right! I think he's more replying to the mind-brain identity theorists there. And, since it's a talk, it's more of a comment to a way of thinking that...

ah, must just be me then. udderly amazing!

udderly devastating

:( -- All I can say is I've been in situations where that's the case for me, and I hope it gets better.

I remember mayor at least being on this sight.... and hyena occasionally pops by? .... yeah, it was still a shame.

That just makes it a real religion, by all descriptions at least.

:lol: lmao, and thus baden beget shoutbox 2

In the dreaming there was the void and in the void there was the paul a memory within a dreaming of a dream...

Sometimes fence-sitting is helpful, though. Not always. And I think there's definitely the temptation to become Buridan's ass in the wrong circumstanc...

I, for one, would not want anyone to be out of the loop. Especially @"alan1000"

Really, if we're going to put pig stuff in the shoutbox, then it ought to be in both. ;)

It would be a delicious sort of irony if this thread became the new shoutbox

One of the things about the thermometer definition is it explicitly states how to pick out temperature without telling you anything about temperature....

Honestly I have to rethink it now. I'm not sure anymore. Okiedokie, if we're talking Hume/Kant then I'm on familiar ground. So, compactly maybe: the h...

Heh, if so then I'm not understanding it because it is not very intuitive to me. :D The bits on what we can and cannot imagine are somewhat opaque to ...

I didn't, but I knew about the phenomena. It's why I prefer the thermometer as a basis for theorizing heat :) -- whatever is being picked out by the m...

Eh, no worries, it's not necessary to the point anyways. I was just being shmancy ;)

Heh. I'm not being clear. I do not agree with Thrasymachus. I was attempting a reductio of your position -- if what is good is just what is good for s...

Because it wasn't used that way in the analogy of the identity theorists Kripke was responding to in making an analogy between heat-molecules and mind...

Good stuff. I prefer not to go into gory detail in talking about ethics -- it seems to defeat the point? -- but can you imagine a person who makes a l...

We almost got to disagreement. Maybe next time. :) Thanks for pursuing the thread. The explanations from different people finally got me to wrap my he...

I think we'd interpret radiant heat as molecules. (and, truthfully, that's how I understand Newton's notion of light -- they are little light particle...

So I gather what you're wanting to emphasize is how any value we posit will be valid within a system-context, where system-context is always changing ...

It's how William Casebeer likes to translate Aristotle's eudaimonia in Natural Ethical Facts. Normatively oriented organization dynamics of living sys...

That is consistent, at least, with Moore's notion as I understand it. So if you say justice implies a moral notion of equivelence or balance -- where ...

I'm starting to see what he's getting at, I think. For me, I'm hesitant to call "the motion of molecules" rigid because it doesn't pick out the same i...

The first thought I had was justice. Justice is generally considered good. And yet justice is not... because sometimes justice must deal with rule-bre...

I'm not sure about the general case, but in the case of this paper I agree. I think I'm just marking where things are becoming strange for me. At this...

In my second re-read right after the molecular motion is heat part. So I'm sort of just thinking out loud here in quoting, I'm not sure if I have a po...

Just to make sure we're on the same page here, this is the wiki link to the phenomena I believe we're discussing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthal...

Just to make sure we'll hate one another, that last paragraph sounds Hegelian. ;) But your first paragraph gots me rethinking the paper. Guess I'll ha...

I feel like it's a problem, but then I see the demonstration. I think I'm tempted by @"unenlightened"'s approach. It's necessary, yet our language of ...

Fair.

Was it a misquote, or an interpretation? I thought it was the latter.

I realize now I kind of went off on my own tangent in interpreting the whole text, which is different from the intent you've set out. I don't think yo...

Thanks :) Yeah it gets more complicated. What you're talking about, I think, is Gibbs "free" energy. Energy transfer still occurs, it's just not in th...

Heh yeah we cross-posted. Good thread. Got me to try Kripke again.

If I read it right, at least, you're missing the "but that if this were so it would be a different lectern". So it could be, but then it's not the lec...

This might be the first time I've somewhat followed along with Kripke. I've tried him before only to give up. The molecular theory of heat part of the...

Entropy really "clicked" for me when I understood it as nothing but the direction we observe energy to move -- without the 2nd law of thermodynamics, ...

Well, at least, I don't know how. Correlations I think I'd say is Relations. Except maybe with a phenomenological twist. A relation from a certain poi...