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:up: Maybe it's the nature of consciousness that we're only awake when there's some measure of struggle.

To some extent yes. Especially discussions where people continuously misconstrue one another. War substitute.

I agree. There aren't many cases of legit socialism, but maybe we could say that the aim of socialists is to relieve you of your patron status. You wo...

True.

Post WW2, economic policy tended to be about social stability in Europe and the US. Full employment was the goal (for white people) and manufacturing ...

Fdrake was orphaned at a young age and was sold to a pirate for a bag of coffee.

Wind is made of smaller winds, which in turn are made of smaller ones and so on ad infinitum. Some say this makes no sense, but to let understanding s...

"I realized that everything is in vain, and I hated life. And this too was in vain" -- Ecclesiasticus

Maybe nationalism is a manifestation of a society's ego. Is a fractured ego better than narcissism? We're just accustomed to the fallout of excessive ...

This inspires me to see what frequencies I imagine when I sing Give Me Shelter in my mind. I found I had to practice to even duplicate it with my voic...

So is Biden according to Republicans.

They wouldn't need asylum if the US hadnt neoliberalised their societies.

It was caused by US exploitation of South America. President blaming is a sideshow.

There's a fair amount of pacifism in the US that clashes with flag waving, which is often associated with military action. Military might is one way t...

Wow. I think we got the bert1 from the meanie alternate reality.

You said about Meghan Markle that she was complaining about stuff that happens every day for people of color in America. I'm not saying that's wrong, ...

I guess.

Don't people say, "I had to struggle, so I have no pity for you." ? Probably have to develop some pity eventually, huh?

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I think so, yes. But since it says we never see the world unmediated, it just invites us to ask how close the world is to our models, or if we just th...

Right. Bare assumptions are unwarranted. That's not to say you shouldn't have them. it just means you can't account for your confidence. Isaac appeare...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but branding doesn't obliterate the original meanings of the words involved. "Dos Equis", a so-so beer, has a name ...

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I was just saying there are some prerequisites for language use. Some of it is probably innate capacity, some of it is learned. Meaning doesn't spring...

That's a play on words, both meanings are using "two" as a number.

"2" could be code for my lawnmower. We do look to use to discern meaning. The notion that meaning is identical to use is wrong. Without some predeterm...

The forces of evil?

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I'm going to have to declare victory here. :party: That we rely on so-called representations to learn about evidence of ID (indirect realism) when the...

Ironically the brain isn't innervated, so no, you can't feel your brain. Not even half a question.

Oh. Well you could disconnect the afferent nerves from the brain. You'd have that sensory data, but no pain.

The SEP are explains it better than I could. Here.

Multiple realizability blocks the path to reductionism. Pain has to be emergent.

Yep. I'm reading a book now on Neoliberalism. It's explaining how consent for it was constructed. Per my tastes, there really isn't a villain in the s...

Are you familiar with multiple realizability?

This wasn't true after WW2. People then believed that domestic tranquility was a matter of national security. They saw the upheaval of the first half ...

With demented people you have to play into their delusions to keep them calm. You have to shrug if they get insulting or try to hit. It's hard to keep...

The common view is that pain and pleasure are representations of nervous input. We don't know how awareness and representation work. This view goes ba...

I don't think there's any chance they would have closed the borders and locked down in January, especially since the WHO was advising a wait-and-see a...

The WHO declined to call it a global emergency.. They said it wasn't spreading human to human.

Just the facts, ma'am. :cool:

I've noticed you have a habit of misunderstanding what other people say.

Maybe if the Chinese hadn't suppressed information about it, Europe would have been saved. It passed to the US mainly from Europe.

They did close the border to China. They just didn't realize that It was in the process of exploding in Italy. COVID19 symptoms may not show up for tw...

Yes. The US closed it's border to Europe on March 11. They had already closed the border to China. The virus had probably been in NY about two weeks b...

I'm not defending Trump. I'm telling you it was too late to control the virus with contact tracing at the point NY knew the virus was present. That's ...

That's incorrect.

It doesnt. For the most part, lockdowns were used to reduce the load on healthcare systems. In Europe and the US, the virus was out of control before ...

The pandemic is subsiding for us. The virus is on its way to becoming endemic on most of the planet. Your battle has only begun.

I think Marchesk has already allowed that some parts of subjective experience are shareable in principle. Whether some aspects are nonlinguistic, so u...