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Do people have agency in Buddhism? That's often how reincarnation is interpreted in the west: as a solution to earthly injustice. That's obviously the...

I don't read his posts. He's kind of a lunatic.

So you're being a devil's advocate? Truth is also hard to define. It's indispensable, though.

Correct. BTW, do you actually believe in reincarnation?

What's your answer?

In this case your metaphysics comes first. Everything else revolves around that. That's just an aspect of the times you were born into. A set of ideas...

Ok

Conceivability was the issue.

The basic idea is pretty simple. If you don't understand it, I don't know what would remedy that. To understand others you have to shift to their poin...

This is what I was looking for. It's not incoherent. It's entirely conceivable. Asserting otherwise is going too far. :up:

Well, for the average person it was simple.

C'mon. It's been pretty simple for thousands of years.

I don't think so. Christianity.

People have understood it for thousands of years. I guess you're cut off from the vast majority of people in your own culture and broader language gro...

I like that.

Did you know that if you cook carrots, onions, and celery together it tastes amazing?

As I said, I'm looking for a reason to rule it out. You haven't given me one. If your point is that we should rule it out because we can't confirm it,...

Because the priest told me so.

I'm what the Khan became.

I'm sure you can use the word correctly in a sentence. What more is there?

Sure. What I'm really looking for from Fooloso4 is his or her basis for ruling out reincarnation. That it's problematic isn't a reason to rule it out....

Of course not. The new Jimi would probably be drawn to guitar music or something like that. The point was that you endure as your body passes away.

I think they believe that what you basically are is a soul that enters into physical life repeatedly. So it's you.

I don't think a person who believes in reincarnation would say that you retain specific bodily movements from one life to the next. I think they would...

Muscle memory is the result of the nervous system's ability to be set and reset. If you were being hunted by the CIA for several years, your sympathet...

No one denies that physical life is an important component of the generation of your skills, memories, and so forth. I'm asking how you know these thi...

There was no goading or cynicism there. Try thinking the best of people.

How do you know that?

It's you. Your experiences, your skills, your fears, your disappointments, your failures, your relationships, etc.

Is that a problem?

What software are you using? I've always wanted to make graphics for YouTube videos.

What all definitions have in common is that it's an animating force (anima). For Neoplatonists it was part of a divine emanation. This is monistic ide...

You can have discussions with the people who do want to discuss it. Just ignore the others if they're bothering you.

They call it the soul. Why is that answer insufficient?

Wheat is a kind of grass. We eat bunches of it. BTW, did you know the members of the homo genus are all neotenic? This means they retain childlike fea...

There's an irrational aspect to every belief system, if we define irrationality as embracing a belief without good reason. Good reasons can include th...

Ok. I'll just talk to the wall. The SEP in nonreductive eliminativism: ”Like dualists, eliminative materialists insist that ordinary mental states can...

Make that 13.

Processes and activities are things, though. I'm not clear on what you're eliminating. I don't think anybody tries to use qualia is an explanation for...

An eliminative materialist is reductive. Since you say you're a nonreductive physicalist, basically I'm asking what you're eliminative about.

I think Apollodorus is about 14 years old.

Is this a contradiction?

Who cares?

Most living languages are constantly evolving. It's creativity.

I don't know.

That's exactly what Newton did with the word "gravity".

Some people are creative by nature, like Newton, who talked about gravity when, far from being established, it was accused of woo-ness. He abandoned t...

In phil of mind, the argument is sometimes about who has the burden if proof. Lacking facts, they resort to trying to discover the elephant like blind...

So once you accept nonreductive physicalism, then you'll see that you have no reason to require the symphony have an organic infrastructure. Chalmer's...

I'd say identified as emergent, not reified. Emergence is the prevailing view in philosophy of mind right now (if you like to be fashionable).