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Did you see a post of mine that suggested otherwise?

I knew this. I'm wondering about the world Jesus lived in. Weren't the Sadducees hellenized Jews? I wonder if they would have been familiar with Plato...

Is philosophy like a magic closet that keeps filling up with detritus? Instead of diligently cleaning it for the rest of eternity, why not just throw ...

Not early on. The kind of Christianity that survived had a deep affinity for Platonism. Through people like Augustine, Platonism lived on for centurie...

Shut your trap.

If I don't believe in ducks, there isn't necessarily any defiance of logic in it, even if I deny ducks while staring at one. It's just odd, not illogi...

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Oh I didn't know they claimed femininity. Notice my protocol pronoun use?

I don't think Iris was female.

Western civilization turned inward with the fall of Rome. Human life withdrew into private manors ruled by warlords. The only education that existed w...

But if it's higher than the gods, wouldn't that make it even more unavailable to humans? How would you explain the human knowledge of justice?

Yes, I read about that. It's astounding.

Could be. I wouldn't know how to begin to calculate that. I don't think that's relevant to my point though. I don't know what economic innovation is. ...

Good question. Liberalism is a philosophical stance. A liberal prizes individual liberty and believes a state's job should be limited to protecting pr...

You could also stand to just be respectful and patient. You are presenting ideas about Plato that most would hold to be absurd, so if you encounter re...

:up: Separation of church and state?

I don't think it will help anything to argue, though. Let him have his opinions. Start your own thread to express yours, right?

You could just say: "I respectfully disagree." and leave it at that.

The world has seen what I think is an unprecedented technological boom starting in the 19th Century, but particularly escalating in the 1980s. I would...

Everybody is entitled to their opinion, right?

Maybe a little.

I think you have a really interesting perspective.

For the most part, he understands it pretty well, because he understands the author. it's about turning inward.

Hmm. What I can say is that you aren't using "experience" the way Chalmers does. Since he's a solar figure in philosophy of mind at this point, I'll h...

Have you read the Cloud of Unknowing? Different take on wisdom?

Superposition is an epistemological situation, right?

This is an intriguing paragraph because I don't know how you're using "experience." The way I meant it, pain would usually be a component of experienc...

Look a little further into the use of "reductive" ok? That's correct. Pain is thought of as an experience, not a behavior.

Then you're using 'reduction' in an unusual way. What you're describing is nonreductive physicalism. Few would accept that definition at this point.

You'll need something like the concept of emergence to cover the diverse physical basis.

Neuroscience conflicts with a reductive approach. Does that help?

Read the entire sentence. Google the part you don't understand.

You can't stop them.

If this is the case, it will come out eventually. In the meantime there are people who feel great relief from putting down their burden. Leave them be...

The neuroscience doesn't work with a reductive approach due to multiple realizability.

You seem to be pretty happy with your understanding of this dialogue. In some areas Apollodorus understands it better than you do, and he's also happy...

It's not actually ants, tho.

What's wrong with antisemitism? Why can't I be racist? Why can't we have a Nazi speak at my campus? Do something different, like what's with hurricane...

I think you're using philosophy as a license to ignore the work of physicists. Not good. All you can say is that consciousness was taken very seriousl...

So you didn't watch the whole video, huh?

I know you aren't talking about O'Dowd. He knows more about QM than you ever will.

https://youtu.be/CT7SiRiqK-Q

Descartes said God exists by definition.

The OP mentioned logic. Rationality is a different issue. Belief in God can be embraced in either fashion: rationally or irrationally. Rationality doe...

wut

The Big Bang is speculative. It's an unsettled area of physics, so it's not really a foundation for anything and hasn't been digested by the scientifi...

Yep.

It's kind of obvious, really.

As I mentioned earlier, Athens has just lost a war. It was a demoralizing defeat, and we know with hindsight that Athens will never recover and return...