L'éléphant

May I request that when the OP mentions a book or article or essay, that to include at least a passage from that reading?

She can't. The instruction reads that she has no memory of prior awakening or what day it is. She doesn't even know that the experimenter tosses the c...

I said the average -- which means it is the largest stats. If you look at the diagram, in 2017 (The Past Year), the numbers of those involved are fair...

The simpletons will literally take the virtual sexual violence as fiction. I hope that my society limits their number to parts per million (ppm). A so...

The closest word I could think of is reflex.

Thanks.

What I said prior was the average person has no interest in governance or politics. How did you come up with the opposite given the stats?

I thought I saw this problem posted before in the Lounge? Without memory of prior awakening or knowledge of what day it is, she would have to answer 1...

The scholarly political theories we learned from higher education are only good inside the lecture halls. What we see in actuality is quite a differen...

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What does pickled green tomato taste like?

That means a superior nation would not emerge. The average person does not have an interest in governance, politics, and nationwide ideals.

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I touched on this issue in another thread. In philosophy, the accepted belief is the causal theory of perception -- which means the CNS, and which mea...

The bowel movement is controlled by the enteric nervous system. They call it the second brain -- without input from our self-awareness (the central ne...

I agree. Nonetheless, those narrow-minded people, like you said, would make it like he was advancing an argument. Corncob pipe? https://encrypted-tbn0...

Oh, I responded incorrectly, Tom. I meant to say, that foundationalism is itself a theory, a school of thought, if you will, which has a logical syste...

If you mean if foundationalism as a theory is on the same level of argument as presuppositions (statements expressing premises), no.

I actually overheard two people talking about same-sex marriage. One was a senior associate about 70 years of age, man, the other one was about 60 yea...

Yes. This would be a fair response against foundationalism -- but it also means that it hasn't undermined foundationalism.

A rehash of what's already been written about phenomenal experience in philosophy, except with fancy words and invention or creative license, which un...

Foundationalism isn't problematic to me. If it's challenged, then I'd ask, on what grounds is foundationalism in error or false? No matter what their ...

I don't care about perfection. I care about optimization -- for example at work, if I'm optimized (and I have benchmarks as a guide), then I'm content...

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What about the cannibal who showed up too early to dinner? He got the raw skin

Yeah, this notion gets under fire often because it's cloaked in appeal to ad populum. But how else could one talk about a moral view without mentionin...

That's a mislabeled response from me. When I said "no", I meant that you are correct in your explanation of the article, but I disagree with the artic...

No.

A's statement is more than an appeal to emotion to B. Notice A's shift from a cultural/societal statement to a factual (biology) claim. You can't argu...

I call the article by Nicholas Humphrey pop philosophy.

"The experts", as technocrats were referred to, were seen as the ones that could save the government and society from degradation. But the way they we...

Read John Locke and JS Mill.

The intelligentsia and technocrats butted heads. Adorno, Habermas, Mancuse are part of the intelligentsia. The intellectuals were supposed to be the a...

First of all, using the title "A potential solution to the hard problem" is itself biased already because, without first allowing the thread responses...

I get it. That was my point. But I was trying to point out to you that human errors are errors peculiar to humans. Which is what makes it interesting ...

*Sigh*. Okay. I'm not interested in continuing. Thanks.

It now occurs to me that my discussion with you is futile. So, I'm ending it here.

And I say to that, have faith in the rationality of your audience. The test of time will reveal that the victors are the former. If someone is throwin...

If ever an AGI is created, it still would not be sentient, as humans are sentient. Or in our usual term, conscious. The measure of consciousness invol...

I find this comment puzzling. The true source being the neuroscience. Let's not re-invent the wheel. We have at our disposal a discipline that devoted...

No. That's just you talking human talk. What does "in time" mean to you? Explain that first. Then try to analyze, for example, the retrieval of inform...

Until they can perceive time, i.e. they develop a temporal mind, they're stuck with a built-in clock calibrated to coincide with the time zones. Math ...

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You should let people celebrate your birthday.

Humans have perception of time, internally -- pulse and heartbeats, as examples. This is our starting point of the temporal nature of the mind. Consci...

All big governments spy. If your government has a powerful news media, you're heard more. And all big governments hide nasty things from the public. Y...

@"lorenzo sleakes" , To say "you have proven nothing" is ignoratio elenchi (failing to see the point of @"180 Proof"'s response).

haha! This is the kind of exchange that's pervasive here in the forum. :lol:

I'm sorry. I personally do not care about some birds, like parrots. So, I didn't find it amusing. I also did not like the laugh, it's not cute. I like...