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Why does he want Ukraine anyway? Access to the sea? We've already talked about why Ukraine doesn't give up. Can't say I understand the region at all.

Chomsky addresses the "hard problem" by saying it may eventually be abandoned rather than solved. I don't think that's out of step with Chalmers' opin...

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I don't think the US has enough interest in Ukraine to engage beyond sanctions. If they try to take Poland, I guess things would heat up. Just for old...

@"javra" pointed out that though we may have high confidence in relativity based on our observations, there's still something wrong: relativity confli...

So you give the heart to the good guy who becomes a serial killer, while the evil guy would have cured cancer. If they have the same prognosis, flip a...

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It's still not obvious that the same thing that makes the moon go around the earth makes apples fall. But what about relativity? Isn't it built on tho...

So by agreeing with his contemporaries, Newton wasn't denying gravity. He was saying common sense was failing him and his generation, right?

In a way that's a kind of faith (or groundless confidence): that out present ideas are sufficient to handle whatever nature happens to be. I didn't me...

I read once that the founder of Honda had an accent that sounds low class in Japan. Supposedly his wife would try to get him to sound more sophisticat...

"To paraphrase with regard to the contemporary analogue I mentioned, it “would be a very great step in science to account for mental aspects of the wo...

So qualia is just like gravity in that we know about it, but can't explain it. For gravity, a paradigm shift was required to begin explaining it, but ...

I didn't realize Newton had said that rational people would reject gravity for lack of a physical explanation. If we transport Newton to our time, wou...

Nice smack down https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/642934

How could they beat the charges?

My french press is a paintbrush holder now. It was too much work for my morning brain.

Hope you find some soul rest.

It's a birth defect. I guess he's always had it. That's good news, though.

Did they say it's an AVM?

Sorry to hear that. When it rains it fucking pours, huh?

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That seems to be a step back from: The structure is now "? believes that p" where "?" is the name of the believer(s) and "p" can be expressed in propo...

The people I'm talking about still have symptoms, but after 21 days we assume we're looking at long term effects, not an active infection.

We don't test them again. An antibody test would show up positive.

For what it's worth, we take people off covid isolation at 21 days from diagnosis.

This sounds like a psychological situation I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. :grimace:

Yeah. He goes on to wonder if any of it is real, so tries to devise reality tests. Did the Kafka roach do that? I don't remember.

Why do they need you?

I need someone to write my story for me. It's about a guy who wakes up and can't understand what his wife is saying. He assumes he's having a stroke, ...

Declaring a lockdown now would squash whatever economic activity you have with no benefit. The coronaviruses are becoming endemic.

https://youtu.be/WG-JtF8JeXg

We'll, you said "Whose a terrorist state". when it's actually "Who's a terrorist state.". :lol:

See what I mean? Your just like NOS.

Can't get to the article. But yeah, I know the US government has a history of feeding drugs to its population to quell revolt. But I said heroin, not ...

Afghanistan is getting their pound of flesh. Their heroin is destroying people all over the world.

Snacks for God is a very old custom. It's supposed to get the gods on your side, but it's also how the priests get their food.

We'll be able to print meat eventually. We just need free energy.

I need my fair share of the virtual pie! The ability to create imaginary wealth is the key to our extreme technological dynamism. In a world without a...

You can go on a philosophy forum and whine about it, though.

Yep.

The danger I see in your thinking is acceptance of the notion that politicians don't usually lie.

His power over Congress stems from his popularity, obviously. Republican congressmen can't condemn him because he'll retaliate. It's democracy.

You mean the screen takes a shit and you come out of the recharging jack?

They have Mormons in Australia? :grin:

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Profoundly sarcastic?

I don't think that's in the constitution. Does Australia have a constitution? My mind was blown to smithereens when I found out the UK doesn't have on...

I get the feeling you're being sarcastic.

I don't take myself seriously. :razz: