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I saw some in a grocery store parking lot in Arizona.

I used to be fascinated by the Golden Dawn. Lots of cool stories.

A soft version of Sapir-Whorf (and by implication Witt's assertion about the limits of his world) is accepted by linguistic scientists and can be supp...

A cool way to see the implications is to follow the the story of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's cultural relativity. Whorf tried to prove it by anal...

I dreamed I was going around picking up stray dogs and I wondered if it counted as kidnapping.

You really only need allies when you're fighting for your life. Otherwise, why care what Europeans want or need when they wouldn't piss on you if you ...

OH, I see what you're saying. :up:

Nope

Again, my 2 cents worth: Chalmers wouldn't have a problem with this essay. He brings up gravity himself as an example of the kind of conceptual revolu...

I think it's a case where there's no way to say that precisely in English, so they just borrowed the whole phrase.

I'm sure you realize that American unilateralism started before Trump, so what was the point of bringing him up? Sorry, I'm just getting tired of the ...

"And it came to pass..." is a little nugget of Hebrew phrasing now stuck in the world's languages because of the Bible. :grin:

How Dead Languages Work Coulter George He says different languages are like cuisines and he discusses the sapir whorf hypothesis.

Irritable much?

Sounds like philosophy of mind isn't your cuppa.

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That's weird because until only has one L.

My response to this was "but there's a massive crime in there, be sensitive." I thought maybe mine was just an American view til Baden responded.

I read it as a response to those who approach the science of consciousness as if there's no need for a conceptual shift to deal with it. That all this...

I'm interested in understanding Strawson's panpsychism. I don't understand why he wants to rule out strong emergence. Why would it have to be miraculo...

A guy, Bill, makes a clone. The clone starts spending time with Bill's wife. In a greenhouse, the clone starts taking the wife's gloves off. She has a...

I just meant that solipsism is conceivable. Maybe the concept of self would break down if there's nothing else. Why call it "my mind" if there are no ...

Isn't it possible that you're eternal and you just forgot? Again, maybe you can do that, but you don't remember how.

@"Tom Storm" You understand why covid is spreading in Australia, right?

Could you explain why?

Economic outlooks aren't arrived at via empiricism. It always comes from deeper psychological issues and the winners of wars write the economic textbo...

It occurred to me a few minutes after I wrote that why it's wrong: https://www.atomicheritage.org/sites/default/files/Castle%20Bravo.jpg

Why China's response to AGW is the most important. China produces a quarter of the greenhouse gases that are affecting the climate. China is also asce...

I didn't know that. I think NATO, a product of the Cold War, will just morph into a European defense force, right? I don't think the US military sees ...

He won't actually threaten the Nordic states will he?

Freshman classes in global warming teach that the long-term analysis and planning necessary to deal with AGW isn't in our present skill set as a speci...

What's the back story on that painting? It's cool.

Not sure. this?

I thought you were admiring his ingenuity. Sorry.

So you love him too. Good for you.

So he's a petty warlord. Very Russian.

Is it that Putin wants to grow Russia back into a regional power? It just seems like he would benefit financially from good relationships with western...

Tardigrade!

https://www.optimistdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_726784747-e1641308705780.jpg

So you won't share? Fine.

:razz: I'm assuming you're engaging this stuff for some purpose? I know you aren't stupid enough to believe any of it. Just curious.

Sorry man, but that post was flat ridiculous.

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Like what?

Yep. Same for free will.

Yep

That's pretty much what he advocates, although some aspects of thinking can be reproduced mechanically, so the greater focus on the part we can't conc...

It's Kusama.

What do you mean?

Yeah, the US doesn't need that iceberg they're sitting on.