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I see what you're saying. The source I read was a Pakistani who was giving a broad history of Islam since 1900. He said that Iran is a beacon for Shii...

Yea, that joke sucks.

That all sounds reasonable to me. Science always starts from assumptions. There's a practical aspect to that. I was just saying there's a contradictio...

What's the difference between the United States of America and a cup of yogurt? If you leave a cup of yogurt alone for 200 years, it develops a cultur...

There is a perfect handshake though. Not too squishy, not too much like a gorilla, definitely don't pull them into your bosom like Trump.

But I think you'll run into trouble with your conception of space. If the room you're in is the limit of the universe, are you saying there is no spac...

It takes a lot of aggression to kill a hundred people with an axe (I assume). One imagines that remotely launching a guided missile takes no aggressio...

Yea, but non-reductive physicalism is the standard view of consciousness. That's like property dualism.

https://youtu.be/5acmGYLkUbQ?si=CrpaN7iRykRfmHDz

Robert Rosen wrote about causally open and closed systems in Life Itself. The theme ends up being Kantian. Schopenhauer is the ultimate dude for cause...

Do they have Walmart brain surge..

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When a modest little argument becomes a devastating wedge, it's a thing of beauty. It's unfortunate that there isn't enough interest in philosophy of ...

They don't. The hallmark of metaphysical possibility is that you can have God create the situation however you like. God made the p-zombies that way. ...

You responded to a post I made three years ago. I'm not too interested in explaining Chalmers' agenda. If you're satisfied with your conclusion, that'...

Ok.

I'd encourage you to read his own words.

They don't in Pakistan. That's interesting that they do elsewhere.

It's what David Chalmers meant by it.

It's metaphysical possibility we're considering. That boils down to conceivibility. If I couldn't conceive of Deckard being an p-zombie, then I wouldn...

I don't know if they're conscious or not. That's the point.

Didn't you watch Bladerunner? :grin:

But it's along the lines of blasphemy for Shiites to support Sunnis, so the support isn't about ideology at all. It's just about regional strategy, ri...

It's "pa-sketti"

Not according to scientists. "Ethnographic comparisons with contemporary groups of Hunter Gatherers broadly imply a high reliance on animal protein su...

I totally agree, though.

Bread allowed us to get away from meat, yes. Archeological finds tell us that pre-agriculture hominins were heavily dependent on meat. Of course it do...

Maybe. I was thinking about the robotic equipment that fills American factories now. No need for human labor.

Maybe. Aristotle said slavery was a necessary evil. Automation has been slowly taking the place of human labor for at least 50 years, making it easier...

Isn't Hamas Sunni? Why is Iran supporting them?

They won't be able to move to the Netherlands, though. That whole place is going to be under water.

I think the whole area is going to dry up in the next century anyway. They can all move together to Norway or wherever.

That's true. It just seems like a zombie walk. They can try to destroy Hamas, but they probably won't succeed.

In other words: more terrorist attacks? I mean, what they're doing is fueling the Hamas of the future. Being friendly toward Gazan Palestinians would ...

Do you think this generalizes to encompass all thought? There's this dynamic tension between our ideas on the one hand, and the information we come ac...

What do you think would happen?

Do you mean that the property of sittable-ness is a construction of human minds? But we still learn a posteriori whether a thing has this property? Or...

There are already a lot of Palestinians in Jerusalem. No corpse laden boats have appeared. The idea that the two groups can get along has already been...

35% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Donald Trump. Doesn't mean they're all going to raid the Capitol. At least I hope not. :grimace:

Not until they become democratic.

That will fall by the wayside eventually. Future generations will see that trying to establish a Jewish state was a bad idea which just stained their ...

I think if Israel treated Palestinians the way it treats Jews, Hamas would disappear in a puff of satisfaction.

What's the pitbull? Hamas or the Gaza strip? Israel is attacking both. Gaza is 2 million people, 55% of which live in refugee camps, and 80% are in po...

When you shoot this particular pitbull, the whole neighborhood is likely to fall apart. That's why a giant swat team has pulled up along the coast of ...

I have to imagine that the US is under attack from a strip of land that contains eight refugee camps. I have to imagine that this ungodly situation is...

All the people on Little House on the Prairie were trans.

There used to be a theory that the Boston Tea Party was masterminded to bring about colonial unity in the face of British punishment. I think most his...

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I hear you. One of the things that's really hard to understand is honor killing. It's where male family members kill their sister/daughter by beating ...

Ok. But you've been making statements about how Israel ought to conquer the whole region, and then vague swipes which appear to be directed at Muslims...