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You have to admit that some of the more recent attempts to show morally right balls ended up making things worse, as in Iraq?

I think Biden is genuinely hawkish, but the pandemic, weak economy, and the need to patch up Obamacare and extend Medicaid will keep him busy.

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There's no fighting prosperity. Leftism has to wait.

Quick question; have you noticed any emotion rising as you attempt to gain absolute pitch?

That's written as if Democrats had a choice. They didn't. The Democratic party moved right in the 80s because rightism was just too powerful. It was e...

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It sounds like you agree with Heidegger that ideas (for lack of a better word) are at the core of what we see and hear and taste.

A process component of what? I dont understand.

Ari waxes poetic about what it means: https://youtu.be/MS8C5BHoZHQ

And you learned to identify it as hunger from your earliest interactions with your community in the form of your caregiver, as Lacan suggests. But not...

Exactly. It's AP-speak where to exist is to be the subject of a sentence. Santa Claus exists in this sense. Doesnt mean AP philosophers think Santa is...

Yaaaaay!

So at this point we could move on to arguments by Chalmers and others aiming to show that the concept of qualia does make sense and that we cant say t...

Cool. Yes, I'm interested. My cousin has a genetic anomaly that's known to be associated with perfect pitch. She's always had it. She started playing ...

Turing test. That's all he had to say.

All of that is qualia. What Dennett wants you to do is find some space for doubt. Start by looking at other people. See how there is room to doubt wha...

I didnt claim anything. I said I keep coming back to that as a possible explanation for the existance of reductionism. No insult intended. If you want...

A fair amount of what you just said about me is how I feel about you. I understand that I've been offensive, but I thought I was just being defensive....

We know quite a bit about the functional aspects of consciousness. With regard to the rest: we're just starting.

I'm reading about the changes that took place in science when the concept of zero was introduced. Imagine someone 2400 years ago daydreaming about a t...

It may be that there is no answer to that question.

Right. Obviously you arent alone there. Likewise, Dennett says you're a deluded victim of folk psychology. We'll finally be out from under Descartes a...

We may have to recategorize consciousness as a physical thing in order to build a working theory of consciousness. IOW, talk surrounding the Hard Prob...

The Hard Problem isn't about explaining how consciousness arises from inanimate matter. The "easy" problem is explaining how the functions of consciou...

Or maybe like this: Dennett's view is a pretty bold attempt to address the Hard Problem. It's not the prevailing view in either neuroscience or philos...

Cool!

Ahh! This is such a great book! "Experiences and values seem to inhere in physical relationships but are not there at the same time. This something-no...

This is an interesting point I'm going to have to think about, regarding the acceptance of the concept of zero: "Quantity could be understood in both ...

Nah. He was a dumbass wannabe dictator.

You mean 75 more days to enjoy the supreme smack down?

I'm at work. Few more days. :)

I'm guessing you're joking. I was asking a serious question.

Yes, they're doing a great job. Are you anti-lockdown due to that?

Adjusted for population, Europe has twice as many people hospitalized for covid19 than the US. If you get the NYT, it's here. Wtf? Is it that the US i...

"3. Conceptual and Non-Conceptual Representation It is a traditional assumption among realists about mental representations that representational stat...

I think the majority of philosophers representing philosophy of mind know exactly what it means. But you don't. :chin:

Cant get through the day without one or two.

Chalmers said we might one day have a theory of consciousness that allows us to predict the phenomenal consciousness of a bee, or What It's Like To Be...

There are only two ways to do that: acceptance or delusion.

So you would agree that explaining function doesnt explain qualia. That's a pretty common view.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!

Funny thing: both pro-qualia and anti-qualia arguments depend on your ability to conceive the p-zombie.

Science fiction abounds with characters who either are p-zombies or could be. I think most would agree p-zombies are logically possible. The next step...

Ha! I'm a moron. That's what most of the pumps are for, though: to make you say yes, I could be qualia-less.

He's asking you to doubt that I have qualia. That's the first step. The next step is to doubt that anybody does. So just at the first step: can you ac...

I think what he means is: Imagine you're giving me a taste while I'm connected to an angiogram or whatever. You give me some yummy assam tea and see t...

An internalist wouldn't disagree with this.

Isn't it just that as your perspective changes, the rules change for the stuff you're looking at?