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He was poisoned. It was the tuna salad.

Understanding why his argument fails is interesting: maybe as a lesson in what not to do.

Another related avenue: psychological generalization vs situated cognition

I'm actually just plowing through the SEP article you posted. It's kind of like homework so I can understand various angles on the concept of emergenc...

If you have a subscription to the NY Times, search that site for "Paul Wolfowitz Iraq war". You'll read it in his own words. I think you're scoffing b...

Where you said 'can translate' he said 'must be able to translate'. That he was wrong is super intuitional. I wrote the proof that he's wrong from a s...

He argued that person-a can't be utilizing concepts that are untranslatable to person-b. He said our concept of truth can't handle a situation like th...

The purpose was to democratize the middle east. That was made public like a decade ago. News travels really slowly to finland? Yea, that didnt happen....

Your version is weaker than his. His version is unsupportable, so weaker is better.

This is an interesting argument against reductionism: From Pylyshyn (1984): Jim sees an auto accident. He goes to a phone and dials 91. What will he d...

What do you want the US to do and why?

I dont think Davidson was trying to say that whatever people happen to believe must be correct. Is that what you meant? He was maybe saying that relat...

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"certain native flora in Australia have evolved to rely on bushfires as a means of reproduction, and fire events are an interwoven and an essential pa...

You mean Trump?

Notes for @"Hanover" When somebody asks what Thomism says about evil, that's philosophy of religion. When somebody asks why God made dinosaurs, that's...

The existence of evil brings about a greater good.

Waiting for apocalypse is also something adults have been doing for thousands of years. The signs that it's not true: ignored, not because the facts d...

Large amounts of money went to American farmers to insulate them from the effects of the trade war. Trump is very likely to win again in 2020. Get phi...

Functionalism isn't like that. It emphasizes outer causes and ramifications over internal neural states. It does make sense to think about social norm...

Functionalism in philosophy of mind is kin to behaviorism except it identifies psychological states as mediators of a pattern of causes and effects. T...

With a little generosity, Isaac and others are just frustrated that they arent having higher quality conversations and they want the ability to police...

I'm not sure I'm understanding you, but spider eyes evolved separately from human eyes. Could arachnids continue to evolve into creatures with rich in...

I know. I was talking to a woman about a really fascinating book she found at a used bookstore called 'The Weight of Ink.' We talked about it for a wh...

This stronger version of MR is the prevailing view in philosophy of mind at this point. 'MR in token systems over time' is non-reductive physicalism. ...

If there's something you desperately want to discuss without interruption, do it by PM.

Per Fodor there are two degrees of MR: a weaker MR allows the same psychological state to arise from distinct structures: say electronic technology vs...

I hear you. I'm just exploring different aspects of the concept of emergence.

Right. So I write a program and compile it for an Intel microprocessor, then compile it for some other processor. What in the biological world compare...

I would like to know the extent to which MR is a shot in the dark vs based on evidence.

This is why I dont like that analogy: if you're running the same program on computers with different hardware, it would still be simple (with a diagno...

I don't know. My guess is that since city people were dependent on the grain stores, they had a reason to make the city work. There's a theory that th...

Impact of the advent of agriculture. Agriculture results in grain surpluses that could be stored. People who become dependent on stored grain can't be...

A Democratic dynasty wouldn't put us in a much better position. We need fission and fusion power if possible. Democrats wouldn't support that. We'll d...

It's the problem of explaining subjectivity.

That almost happened in 08-09. The US could definitely crash into a ditch and default on its debt in the midst of a decade long depression out of whic...

How fuck the rest if the world? He's going to be acquitted, he'll claim exoneration, he'll run in 2020 and we'll all party hard when he loses. But if ...

So if a scientist takes up the challenge of addressing the "hard problem", you'd see that as misguided?

Projicience Charles Sherrington's word for the referral of sensory sources to locations outside the brain.

Oh.

Notice the difference between: Did you have a fried egg and beans? and Did you have a fried egg and not a fried egg? Look at the truth table again.

I asked you to explain why the truth table says that. So not a sophist. LOL.

Why is that how conjunction works? So once again, I'm not sure if you're intending to be a sophist or you actually believe what you're saying.

Why?

American clown president confounds world leaders. The view of the planet from outer space is unchanged. Except Australia looks more red than usual. ?

Me too. He's awesome.

So let's say the sentence is A: If I believe A is true, then I believe A is false. It's still a paradox. If/then isn't describing a sequence of events...

Trump didn't get to do what he wanted regarding Biden, so that's the happy outcome.

Nothing is alternating, though.

How alternating? If it's true, it's false. If it's false, it's true. Same with Russell's paradox: if yes, then no (and vice versa).