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Well, we know plenty about consciousness through experience and science, and we know plenty about morality through experience and sociology. And, real...

But you don't like it when they bounce back with force and hit you in the face. You prefer to play catch with people who throw like a little girl. :gr...

Ok, I will leave you with this... "Noah is a fanatical religious stupid head". -Richard Dawkins

Phenomenology?! You were talking about speculation about UFO's. Quit trying to give this conspiracy theory bullshit a visage of credibility.

I don't care, and have no reason to care, because I'm not a gullible fool.

It doesn't matter one way or the other! That's precisely the point. Speculation like that counts for little-to-nothing. I thought I had made that clea...

Because it's meaningless, i.e. counts for nothing, to anyone who i) isn't that person, and ii) has their wits about them.

You mean that they've encountered flying objects that they've been unable to identify? Big deal. That just means that they've encountered flying objec...

That's not a claim that I've made, and is therefore irrelevant. I am not Terrapin Station.

I'm going to ignore the nonsense about psychopathy, besides this brief mention of it. "It's evidence for them" is so lame a response as to be laughabl...

What's "my model"? I haven't made the same claims as Terrapin,by the way. Although I did somewhat rhetorically raise the question of whether there's a...

If there's no means of verification, then it counts for nothing. You accept that, then? Because I was under the impression that you wanted to count it...

No, it's not my interpretation, it's my reasonable conclusion. Do you have a way of verifying their "report"? Yes or no? If yes, explain. If no, then ...

No, the first-person "reports" are just what they say after the event, which could be entirely fabricated or otherwise mistaken, with no possible way ...

What's dumb is failing to grasp the point. There's a million more analogies that I could come up with. The point is that what you're saying is indisti...

How very... convenient. Kind of like, "I can do a backflip", "Go on then", "I can't do it whilst you're watching".

That's what it stands for.

Perhaps you could try speaking in tongues. He's a religious fanatic, so it might just work. I've seen it before. What you do is you make loud, frenzie...

That's not true. There's a difference between understanding the emotions of others, and choosing to act with disregard for them.

Showing empathy would just be evidence that I have the ability to understand the emotions and experiences of others. No need for religious Mumbo-Jumbo...

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Because they don't exist.

Will you pray for my soul?

Oh! You were speculating! And that suddenly makes this a worthwhile philosophical activity? I've already stated my disagreement with that suggestion. ...

Right. And I suppose it was your love of stamp collecting which influenced your talk of spirit and God. Religion had nothing to do with it. You're sti...

Can you please be transparent enough to stop hiding behind the term "open-minded" when you really mean "accepting of nonsense"?

One: can't you read? Two: are you seriously going to deny that your talk of spirit and God is religiously influenced?

Also, make your mind up, lol. One minute I'm an ardent advocate of scientism, the next I'm anti-science!

The key word being speculation. And that's what it'll remain, pending sufficient evidence. And it's more promising than the religiously influenced fan...

Yeah, it's a red herring, and quite predictable. It's not uncommon to fall back on, "But you haven't shown that it's impossible!", as a distraction fr...

Haha. No. There's nothing fallacious about what I just said, and Hume put it well: a wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. I trust you can ...

Even if it's possible, absent any evidence, it's a possibility that only fools would take seriously. So you're fighting a losing battle here.

I'll give you the correct answer: yes. It would, obviously and at the very least, prove those things impossible, and narrow down the possibilities.

Well, if so, then that would at least finally prove, contrary to all prior evidence, that you're not entirely full of crap.

Mmm. Is there any credible evidence of anything conscious without a functional brain?

And that's the right approach. The wrong approach would be, "Ooh, doesn't spirit sound nice? Yeah, I'll go with that. Everything is spirit". And @"Wal...

And it's only partly my opinion. It's partly Kant's own opinion..................... man.

Like, that's your opinion, man.

Hardly. It was he who awoke him from his dogmatic slumber. Kant is indebted to Hume, and developed his groundbreaking thinking. But Hume wins hands do...

You must not have seen my profile. I've probably referenced Hume more than any other philosopher. 1711 - 1776, by the way.

I know, at least, that one has a better chance of obtaining it through a means other than those known to be faulty, such as wishful thinking and confi...

Would you rather hear kind words or harsh truths? Anyway, if, unlikely though it may seem, your speculation leads to some genuinely valuable insight, ...

That doesn't answer my question. And it was a question, not a statement, as you seem to have taken it.

Yes, back then. And back in times before modern advances in healthcare, I might have been brushing my teeth with wine and having my blood let when ill...

One is Boris Johnson, the other is Jimmy Savile.

But that's exactly what you'd expect the EU to say, whether that's a true reflection of their endgame or not. And parliament won't vote through an unc...

You're far too busy sticking your oar in here, there and everywhere to fit the description of a wallower. Well, Freud, the dissonance part is largely ...

Spoken like a true ignoramus. And how much do you think you'll learn in an echo chamber?

Yes. My toaster.

Delusion or misleading triviality? Take your pick, it's lose-lose. Regarding the latter, I refer you to my point about your toaster. What makes you th...