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Did you extract the freon first?

Apparently Descartes built a robot in the shape of a woman and it's known as Descartes' Daughter. Somehow it ended up in a trunk on a ship. While at s...

Causes high blood pressure :grin:

A stab at how Austin and Ayers are talking past one another: For Ayers, the hallmark of indirect realism is divergence between the world as experience...

It's true that predictions about future climate change are in a range, not precise numbers.

I just saw a news thing that said the revised ECS is 4.8. It would be sweet if the revised ECS was lower than previously thought. It's higher though. ...

You keep comparing the whole OT to the message of Jesus. There's much more to Christianity than the sayings of Jesus as depicted in the gospels. Did y...

At least you're not in Siberia.

You pitbulls need to stick together.

I think he's just here to poke unenlightened in the butt.

Nietzsche's point was that slaves want something that's directly opposed to what warlords want.

This is typical of what you find when you go looking for secondary information on Austin's overall agenda: So there's no single view of him that repre...

No, that was 50 million years ago. True. There are huge number of variables that go into climate conditions. That's why they use super computers to mo...

Corvus was directing attention to what we know about the eye, which is that an image is transduced to electrical signals, which the brain subsequently...

I think Corvus was just pointing out that science shows that perception involves representation and interpretation. It's just weird to insist that tha...

You're right. If the OT says the weak are uplifted and the mighty are humbled, that's slave morality. And yes, Jesus' message is definitely slave mora...

The idea is that there's a brand of morality that idealizes the underdog. History is a cloud out of which you can pull whatever narrative you like. I ...

Jesus has a pretty bad temper in Mark. He's cool as a cucumber in John. Some scholars speculate that he's a composite of a number of preachers who cam...

The only cups I own are used for holding pencils and paint brushes. I drink tea out of a metal tumbler that comes with a lid.

Yes, if you read the SEP article on sense data, it asks you to focus just on blobs of color. I can do that, and it does have some philosophical signif...

There are all kinds of realisms and anti-realisms, so I agree there's no consistent usage. For this essay, I think an indirect realist believes there ...

Was it coconut? :worry:

Per the SEP, that's what sense data is. That's what Austin is complaining about: little blobs of color.

I've never believed little blobs of color are fundamental to perception, so I missed out on the pie. I don't think any scientists believe that either,...

To say that what we see is "a church that now looks like a barn" is to admit that ideas and interpretation are parts of perception. That admission see...

It's been a lot hotter, yes. There used to be jungles at the poles and the equator water was close to boiling. That event was actually due to large am...

I was reading him as having a less dramatic point. I think he accepts that perception involves a fair amount of interpretation. I think he's targeting...

I see.

You have two kinds of neurons, sensory neurons and motor neurons. Sensory neurons do nothing but send electrical impulses into your central nervous sy...

There is such a thing as sense data, per basic anatomy and physiology. It's just taking things too far to state that we don't see the world we're in, ...

No doubt.

That's what @"RussellA" said. It's linguistic idealism.

You had said he puts mind at the center of reality, and language at the center of mind. That's why I thought the ultimate relationship would be mind t...

I see. So Austin doesn't want sense data because it interferes with the way he envisions the relationship between mind and world?

Could you explain what that is?

Sure. I'll be right over. I've decided the world doesn't need to be saved. It's pretty much whatever it's supposed to be.

It just seems like that would be the reason to maintain contact, not sever it.

So sad. :groan:

It would be so great to have a time machine and go to the future when the mind is more fully understood. :smile:

That's crazy. Maybe you popped his hope-balloon and he couldn't forgive you?

I think it's mainly because large numbers of Americans are nuts.

Sounds terrible. Although inflation is down. The Fed is probably through raising rates.

Biden will be the nominee unless he decides not the run. I think he's doing an excellent job. Do I wish he was younger? Yes. Every year after 80 is a ...

Do you think Israel would have been more brutal and careless about civilian casualties if they'd been unhampered by international pressure and hostage...

His predominant message was about love and forgiveness when he wasn't talking about the end of the world. Yes, the afterlife comes up from time to tim...

Where is this in the gospels?

Did you make an argument for the gospels being life-denying? I didn't see that.

No, I don't think so. I think you misunderstood something.

I couldn't conclude that we never see things correctly due to the possibility of hallucination. Detecting an hallucination presupposes that at some po...

Sometimes there is reason to doubt what you're experiencing, say if they just gave you ketamine and you're now convinced you're a character in a video...