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Thanks! Good to hear from you, too.

I guess we can a draw a Venn diagram and show that all of the above would be inside the circle of consciousness. It goes without saying that all of th...

That looks like a hummingbird sandwich. It looks good -- the soup and bagel. Thanks for sharing.

So, the point I was trying to make is, there really isn't a gap between the subjective and the material component of our experiences. The million puls...

I had a pleasure reading it. Honestly.

I like this thread because it brings up a lot of philosophical questions, rather than scientific questions -- a common problem when physicalism is the...

In those days, poets existed through the patronage of the rich. They penned praises for their patrons.

Define subjective experience.

Wow! Okay. I'm gonna say it outright that you are mistaken and -- Jesus Christ! The damage to the financial industry is much more than getting their m...

It does explain that the processes such as the consciousness are made possible by the physical bodies that we possess. Here is the folly of the civili...

No problem. :up: I could interpret what you say here in two ways: One. In other words, you are supporting physicalism. If there's never been an accoun...

:up: I'll check them out.

I laughed at this. My dude, are you not seeing the point?

You could wipe out your awareness/consciousness by eliminating the sodium in your diet. Is this clear?

lol. You haven't heard of the physicalist account of the bridge because they don't say there is one! That's my point. Physicalism denies that there is...

It's because you have the ordinary observation of reality. So, to you, if you can't see the atoms, atoms don't exist. Only tables and chairs exist. In...

In my view, intelligence is a physical thing.

I don't have one. I mentioned earlier that I favor physicalism.

I actually watched their debate. My purpose was to find out if Trump was really crazy as the media portray. I did not find him crazy. What I found is ...

Conceptualization is still part of our mental activity. And mental activity is neuronal. And we know that's physical. But I think you mean to say, the...

I think what you're really asking is how did consciousness or mind develop from the brain. This is the hard problem of philosophy. And this forum is t...

Matter precedes intelligence.

I disagree. Intelligence did develop in complex organisms and it is cumulative -- so there must be the 'infrastructure' of brain and body. And this in...

Did the experiment reveal their findings? If that was a true experiment, the researchers would have some insights as to why the dog went insane.

Once again, I think you misunderstood. I don't read Fire's comment as saying the dog's reaction is rational. This is the pitfall of propositional logi...

I didn't say you should implicate yourself. .

I think on this thread, we keep missing the point when we say ..."but animals also do this or that.." Like us, animals can and do learn from each othe...

Nietzche's Übermensch. It is uninteresting once you know it is about existentialism and the will to power.

Yes, true. It's the mind.

Absolutely. What ethologists describe as intelligence in animals is really their innate possession of reactions to stimuli, much, much better than hum...

Interesting! I work overtime. So, that's great!

The pre-socratics, if I remember correctly, believed there are universal truths. But they believed that not everyone could access the right path to th...

Okay, thank you for expanding on your comment because I had wanted to come back to this thread to make a critical observation that the point of ration...

Edit: "Advanced" as we are? I don't know if I've given that impression -- but I had implied that if there signs of intelligent life, we have the techn...

Ah, fair point. Their method of communication might be different. And yet, radioactivity is the universal language of the entire universe. There are 1...

I see. So, I'm inclined to conclude that, as members of this forum, we have not been paying attention to much of what were posted here. This is from @...

Nonsense! If they truly existed, they would find a way to contact us, the same way we had been trying for decades now. "harm" is non-knowledge, it is ...

@"Fire Ologist" You have very well explained what I wanted to say. Animals do not need to have rational thinking because they do well with what they'v...

This -- And this -- I do not find it hard to be nice to people. But, like Tom, I don't have real expectations of people -- in general. Except when it'...

@"Athena" I'm bringing my response here from your other thread. No. It is not reason that they use, although they can be described as intelligent. And...

No. It is not reason that they use, although they can be described as intelligent. Animals do not put together an argument to arrive at a conclusion. ...

Not true. They passed the tax relief act during covid. Not true. The causes of increases in national debt have half to do with the government services...

True. But the fact that he didn't fuck it up, is what I meant. And as we speak, his policies on taxation are still in place until 2025? -- I mean, com...

But isn't that tyranny as well? When you say that people shouldn't be used for their labor period?

So, how are people going to earn money?

There have been experiments done (these are true experiments) on UBI, universal basic income, to get low income people to be more productive to get to...

Not in the sense of mass production. No. But there are carpenters, bakers, and chocolate makers who truly enjoy their labor.

Until years ago, the model of production is that the demands dictate the supply. But now, through marketing, industries could create 'demands'. So, th...

This all points to what I just said earlier -- that it is our own perceptual interpretation that gives a logical picture.

The American economy was actually good when Trump was president. Let's see who comes out stronger in the debate. Edit: not that it makes sense, but if...