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How does that kind of system work?

I dont think they want guns at all. They want windmills.

But didn't Merkel say it was time for Europe to start finding new allies (can't remember how she put it). Was that just bluster?

I appreciate that. But I think a situation evolved during the Cold War. It became ok to ignore certain domestic problems because the standing of the U...

Yea. I think conscience is the most important thing. Transgress somebody's cultural rules, and they'll forgive you if they know you didn't mean any ha...

Dont ask Japanese people personal questions. That's culture, not ethnicity. You can ask a Japanese American anything you want.

What the fuck?

No, it really isn't.

I thought you were on board with the "extended mind" angle.

So when you talked about phenomenal states being linked to physical states, how should I understand that? What do you mean by "physical states"? Why d...

Not sure what that has to do with anything.

Did you look back at SLX's post as I suggested?

I think about this from time to time (sometimes when I'm looking in the mirror). I don't have the issues you do about selfhood, though. Look back at S...

Actual color blindness happens when you forget that your friend is of a particular race until it comes up somehow.

I don't have suspicion. I don't understand how projects like idealism and physicalism are supposed to be saying anything informative. The philosophy f...

I didn't realize anyone looked at it this way. With Chalmers, the focus is heavily on what we don't know, the approaches that are out there, and the c...

Forrest (@"Pfhorrest") if you get a second, could say a little about Leibniz's answer to the PoE, and what he had to say about heaven?

It varies by community then.

What It's Like to Freakin' Hate the Phrase: "What It's Like" Chapter 1:

Do girls receive education where you live? Just curious.

Thanks for the quote! I think there are multiple differences. 1. The difference between the color and the thing 2. The difference between red and othe...

I like Leibniz's solution: there are some number possible worlds. None of them lack some kind of dissatisfaction, imperfection, transgression, pain, e...

He's an excellent gimp-slave.

Yep. Or: the experience of having an orgasm isn't distinct from having an orgasm, just to put a megaphone on it.

What does it mean to carry someone who fails morality lessons?

Dont you sometimes have students who fail despite your best efforts?

Why not?

Per Kierkegaard, faith is like floating in water that is 70,000 fathoms deep and mainly has to do with forgiveness.

Ok.

87.8% of human trafficking victims will seek healthcare services during their trafficking situation. 63.3% will be seen at emergency departments.

I like the term bendy bus.

I said we dont know. You heard "you're wrong." ?

Really? Didnt mean to be.

The same is true of Marxism btw, and that's not a coincidence. The word "robot" comes from an author's lament about what capitalism tries to turn peop...

So you understand it too? I'm not sure what the previous grief was about, but good. My point from the beginning was that we dont know how it works. Is...

They did it on Star Trek. But point taken. Is there no point in worrying about it because we can't influence such large-scale events?

And yet you fully understand what a p-zombie is. Put down the pretense of confusion.

You're like somebody's grandpa, "Stop your wild speculations and simmer down! Goddammit. Wheres my pipe?"

I dont even know what means. :rofl:

Yes it would. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Chalmers speculated at one point that Dennett might truly represent a different kind of consciousness, that he might be a sign that we're not all alik...

Yep. As BC stated, globalism is another word for global domination. I never really understood that before. That would be a strange thing to do. So you...

I really don't know. I'd like your thoughts. What happens to the global economy if the US isn't there as a peace keeper? That would tell us what happe...

Cool. The central board idea was an attempt to explain how multiple responses take on the character of a unified experience.

There are a number of speculations about how phenomenal consciousness works. Which one is your favorite? There used to be one about a central drawing ...

Let's review: drake presented a scenario that seemed to span from cosmology to neuroscience. I pointed out that he doesnt have bookends for that stack...

Do you see a difference between "is related to" and "reduces to"?

It's awesome that we can correlate conscious states to neuronal activity. That's a first step is developing a theory of consciousness. The notion that...

Experience.

They either lack the technology or the fostering environment. But yea, cyanobacteria would cover the whole universe if they could manage, which brings...