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I would have said adverse side effects are the bigger concern. 1 out of a million people vaccinated for small pox will die from the vaccine. So if we ...

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Kids these days and their direct realism. Jeese!

A belief is an abstract object probably, all patterned and what not. The Greeks made a terrible mistake in taking their frustrations out on the Trojan...

The issue was whether Celebrex is more likely than other NSAIDS to cause heart attacks. It's not. ”A 2013 meta-analysis of hundreds of clinical trials...

That was about how Dennett avoids global skepticism. Except the Mozart and Lorn thing. Alternating them really is freaky. Also the Nutcracker and Mari...

Look closer. The heart scare came after the original trials and we now know that Celebrex is not more likely to cause adverse heart related outcomes t...

:up: Thanks for the cool thread.

Shouldn't be a big deal to identify who gave false info to the FDA about which drug.

Which drug?

Sigh. Who gave false info about their testing (to the FDA)?

It's more that I have faith that neither Pfizer nor Moderna want to deal with the legal downside of giving false info about their testing. And yes, th...

Good question. Yet, the FDA has given the mRNA vaccine the big Checkity Check, so defrost that sucker, I'm ready!! Cancer is big business. No doubt ab...

It sounds like you don't have faith in the three stage testing system. You're not alone there. Astra Zeneca's vaccine is expected to be the one poorer...

I think your point was that we don't need a vaccine because we have working therapeutics. What drugs were you talking about?

Oh sorry, yes we're all doomed because we didn't sacrifice to Poseidon (I'm rereading the Iliad.)

That's partly because the mRNA vaccine is a new technology. Future vaccine production will also be sped up due to this innovation. Cool, huh?

I've been thinking this too. It's such a weird virus.

Probably needs to add more Bailey's, except I think it's ineffable. :grimace:

I think it's clear that the qualists won the war because the anti-camp ended up with nothing but distaste for the word. Distaste.

Hard antinatalism is the view that no one should have kids. Soft antinatalism is just the view that this is a bad world to bring kids into. Would you ...

If you alternate Mozart and Lorn it makes both of them seem more sinister. Just thought I'd share that.

Holy Crap! More Human than Human!

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:cool: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=95HqlWRFrAk

Well, if you must.

The code for which is running on a simulated android who's trying to get out of the matrix so he can find out what chicken actually tastes like.

All in one acid trip.

I don't know what it would mean to say an abstract object exists at a certain time. Dennett counts beliefs as abstract objects. A belief is true a cer...

Philosophy of math. Frege is one of the roots of the idea.

A set isn't a linguistic object. A set is an abstract object: neither mental nor physical.

Abstract objects are things like sets: they aren't physical, but they aren't mental objects either. Allowing abstract objects requires a little ontolo...

Some of your mind is in your cell phone.

They control the military, they make the rules. Physical force creates stability so that money actually has meaning and value. But the military (or po...

I asked Marchesk this earlier: "Moore's point was that whatever an idealist claims about the illusory nature of the physical, she still jumps out of t...

Squanderers are pretty common. Every generation has a few.

But if you split up the kingdom each generation, the royalty should eventually become paupers. Even if the oldest is the only one allowed to inherit, ...

I think we're talking past one another.

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How much of that was Iran vs the US backing the wrong Iraqi leader?

So we're back with Chalmers and a certain amount of ontological anti-realism, which just means questioning the usefulness of labels like physical and ...

I guess what I'm asking is: if you succeed in creating doubt about the content of consciousness, doesn't that doubt invade everything you think you kn...

Isaac's words above could easily be those of a staunch idealist arguing with Moore. Moore's point was that whatever an idealist claims about the illus...

Because there's no color or pain in neurons? That works.

So functionalism? If not, why not?

Is it just a conflict about what qualia is?

American 1 percenters operate in a global ecosystem. Does it really make sense to think about how they reflect something uniquely American?

Exactly. Pushing doubt is a two-edged sword.

I don't think butterflies can smile. Kind of like you. :love:

You could put it that way.