L'éléphant

We know our actions in a direct way -- no input from the outside world. If I walked over to the kitchen, I knew it without waiting for an object to hi...

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It's valid because of the form of the argument. Proof by contradiction works in math -- and it was built as a mathematical argument. We can't use the ...

I have no objection to the above comments. I did not read the scientific study to support that article. I also find that glorifying the dark perceptio...

Except that we can't do it that way. Remember the OP's question is "IS it both valid and sound?" If "action is appearance" (by proof of contradiction)...

Here is an article about "depressive realism" -- a term I just found out about: Here's a link to the article: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-dep...

I believe the field of psychology, or at least in the study of personalities, acknowledges that the pensive, quiet people (who often find life to be "...

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Check again. Valid and sound.

No. It doesn't make me change my mind. If there are evidence of alien life forms, and they've reached the Earth, and caught on camera, then they shoul...

Yes. You do.

Hahaha! :lol:

Here's a good specimen of humans that might be of interest in relation to the OP: Search for Robert Tulloch and James Parker murder of two professors....

I understand. You are right to call out statements such as "a woman has autonomy over her body" carte blanche. Abortion is one of those situations whe...

From the sound of it, she developed this not as a child, but as a teen. So, we can eliminate people and let actions happen? lol. You can say all the r...

In certain states in the US, a woman does not have a full autonomy over her body. An example is, if she was pregnant and a drug user, it is criminal.

In my previous posts I avoided saying the "mental conditions" because I don't want to turn this into a mental health issues. When the OP asked if good...

You must not have heard the joke about the thought police. No, we don't imprison people just cause they were born bad. We wait until there's evidence....

People are born either bad or good -- so nature. I apologize in advance to those who disagree. When we apply intelligence to behavior, i.e. learning, ...

You're not convinced with your own assertion. "Kind of"? I want to use the example of surgery. If you find someone cutting though the flesh and rearra...

But the definition of a fetus by the state changes depending on who terminates the life of the fetus. If it's a woman's action that terminates the fet...

I disagree. Banno's comment is an explanation of doing philosophy, not its definition.

I'm not posting here to argue for or against abortion. I want to just explain something that's irreconcilable about pro-abortion and anti-abortion soc...

Any government does not have a monopoly in information. This is what a common person believes -- that everything that comes out as information is crea...

The truth is somewhere in between. Life is not suffering. Life is one huge experimental lab that anyone could explore and try things out. It should al...

This is not the norm unless you are a narcissist. I mean that in a factual way. Most people have a good sense of more here, little there, okay, and go...

I could explain some of it, but won't. Good idea on paper. I would like an automatic benefit plan for minimum wage. The good argument is, the retail a...

I didn't buy the ticket. I want a real freak show, not modalities and scenarios. A two-prong dilemma doesn't count.

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To me, his mistake is to think that history -- or the development of political history is linear. The ancients actually thought it was a cycle, in whi...

We can't have this if our world worships massive material wealth -- the surplus economy where only those in position to hold the surpluses flourish.

No, we're not talking about cash or "one rich spouse". We're on topic here as below: This is the topic.

This is a funny thread.

A spouse dying also works. I don't recommend it. But that's how it can work too.

Reality is the whole cosmos. But in philosophy, we really do not have a hard definition of it. Philosophers do not intentionally define it, for good r...

To me this is incorrect as there are actually panels of experts who write the dictionary, they're just not cited for each word definition. So, it look...

Exactly.

people who go to concerts so they could hear themselves talk nonstop. They do this intentionally. Drivers who hit pedestrians. WTF, man! :scream: Drun...

Yes, this is all good. Also, tell niki wonoto to open himself/herself to the world -- even in small ways. Make his life mean something to others, if h...

We don't have awareness of time, per se. If there's "nothing" in the universe but time, then we wouldn't be able to perceive it. How we perceive time ...

Ah! I see where you're not clear about. The AI is not "independent" or autonomous, as we say about humans. The AI can be launched once and be automati...

Yes. The appeal to futility actually benefits the fraudsters and scammers. And it's incorrect to think that it's futile. It's not futile. Minimizing f...

They do move like a horse, but actually has the gait of a zebra. Back is lower than the front.

Okapi calf https://youtu.be/beWT1GRb7Zo

And the answer to your question is, you would not have grown into adulthood, or into childhood without object-perception. Unless you are blind, no ner...

Yes, of course. There are humans behind the AI -- humans that could be prosecuted for fraud, disinformation, and whatever.

Yes, this. Our world is now beginning to show machine worship, like we've never seen before. Some because there's tons of money to be gained, others b...

Yes, this is the gist of the cogito.

A cure for a dogmatic person is time. Alien debris had reached the Earth, but the aliens themselves were nowhere to be seen? Unfortunately for him, he...

I made a post earlier in this Illusion thread mentioning error in beliefs. Avi Loeb is neither wrong nor right in his belief at this point. If he gath...