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That would be so amazing.

The Hard Problem is specifically a problem for science: to explain the phenomenal character of consciousness. There are those who claim it can't be ap...

I think that's what I have. They're inedible until after the first freeze. Then they're mushy and sweet. People used to make "pudding" with them, whic...

And so the question comes down to definitions: "Some philosophers (e.g, Dennett 1987, 1991) use the term ‘qualia’ in a still more restricted way so th...

I have a bunch of persimmon trees. Mine are spherical, not oblong.

You're a Chalmers fan unawares.

So you basically have absolutely no idea what's meant by "the Hard Problem." :up:

That's precisely Chalmers' point. Jesus.

Freedom is a state of mind. -- Americanism 101

Evolution strikes again

You may be right.

But if you collapse the distinction between perception and object, doesn't that mean the world is the content of perception? It appears to be close to...

I think the collapse we're talking about is hardcore idealism.

"According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as ...

I point out that history is repeating itself and you accuse me of blindness. :chin:

It sounds to me like the kind of thing that's been happening over and over for the last few thousand years.

Trump has a lot more fans than Dennett. His is very much a minority view.

First person.

I don't think most victims are overweight or suffer from diseases they chose to have, but it's true that morbidly obese people don't usually survive i...

Could you say who it is who uses it that way? As I said, in philosophy of mind and science of consciousness, it's a thing to explain, not an explanati...

Even Dennett accepts qualia. He just wants to explain it in a particular way. I wouldn't pay much attention to surveys.

I don't know of any philosophers who want to use qualia to explain life or deal with idealism. For Chalmers, it is the explanandum, and he leans towar...

But enough about me, what do you think about me?

The east west thing? Yeah. They're old hippies.

The east west thing was big back in the 19th Century. I think most people realize now that there's nothing to the division. Mysticism is mysticism whe...

in my language community "enlighten" has to do with knowledge. "Let me enlighten you as to the right way to blah blah blah". There's a connotation of ...

No tengo nada.

No. It's because you think you're a sheep.

He was Austrian, so yes, and he wanted to keep it from happening again.

And that's because Americans collectivize pretty easily. I only regret I have but one life to give for my country. Ask not what your country can do fo...

I don't think it does.

Hayek said there's no such thing as social injustice, so not new.

Aren't you at the Arctic Circle now?

Hayek says a centrally planned economy will become a dictatorship because inevitably, the planning will fall into the hands of the power hungry Stalin...

That would give the schizophrenics something to think about.

Are you in the middle of nowhere?

crap

But what if reason evolved to provide fitness rather than truth?

I see. But a fair amount of the non-speculative physics would also appear far fetched to the average person. Thus the importance of honoring language ...

The holographic universe is contemporary speculative physics. Why would it be far fetched?

How does somebody just stand there and get rammed by a ram until they're dead? How about run away?

I mentioned the holographic universe. Matt O'Dowd devoted a bunch of Spacetime episodes to explaining it and I'm still confused by it. Apparently it's...

Yes, but I think that's another way of saying that physical objects are possible, but not necessary.

Yep. All the way back. https://detoursamericanwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2570113006_689f98ff86_z.jpg

But it isn't necessarily true that there are physical objects. It could all be per the holographic universe theory.

There's no gate?

Hayek would say that if goat fucking is an organic feature of Arizona's cultural heritage, it would be folly to outlaw it because interfering with nat...

This is a hinge proposition?

Hayek says that if no law is broken, there's no injustice, and he rejects legislation against social injustice. He only recognizes in law that evolved...

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