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I think it would just be a discussion about different ways to use "belief." But people can use it anyway they want, true?

It's not a non-issue as long as black men and women are commonly afraid of the police. It would be nice if Trump would acknowledge the problem. But ma...

Regarding your climate change thread, I came across some climatology in youtube form. It's an English guy who's talking too slowly, but it's good info...

I don't think I'm going to be able to eat bratwurst and sauerkraut anymore. Oh, who am I kidding? I'll eat it.

But where does sauerkraut come from?

They tried but the animals kept getting smushed under the blocks and gumming up the works.

Yes. You could do that.

You can trust that it's fallible. You can trust your own ability to forgive (once you have that ability, of course.) Try determinism.

Nice doomful comeback. But you're making him into a much more powerful demon than he actually is. China.

Of course. :love:

I think the best philosopher admits to a limited understanding of consciousness and its place in the universe.

The USA isn't going to last forever. 5000 years from now we'll just be remembered as a blip at the end of the British Empire. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Having self confidence is not equivalent to denying one's fallibility. If you never make mistakes, you aren't doing anything. Screwing up is just part...

Constitution. Three branches. The usual. It's ok if some people are anarchists. We aren't going to lock them up and harvest their organs for transplan...

Trump isn't an anarchist, though. The core system is still in place. Regulatory bodies can be restarted downstream. I agree, although it wouldn't surp...

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Why do you say it's about role? I was talking about endurance. He wanted to turn back the clock. He thinks the US of the 60s and 70s can be revived. H...

Think of it as a test of the American gov't system. If it breaks down, then Trump revealed an underlying flaw. Trump and the Trump machine are just re...

It's interesting to ponder what drives some people to be so aggressive about an issue they don't really know much about. Is it like racism where anger...

I guess I phrased that poorly. Can you conceive of a world that is devoid of consciousness? One in which there is no consciousness? I don't think Wayf...

I take it you don't know if you can conceive of a world without mind or consciousness.

That doesn't really answer the question, though. I'm not asking about what you accept, but about what you can imagine. Are you a panpsychist?

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I'm reading the Three Body Problem now. It's good.

Yes. Do you think a mindless world is conceivable?

Science doesn't actually say we evolved from and depend on mindless processes. Science doesn't have a working theory of consciousness.

I was once staring at an object and I realized that the idea of the object was organizing my experience. I thought for a moment that I'm projecting id...

I think the subject is just off camera in dinosaur world.

The fossil is a red herring. You don't need dinosaurs to refer in speech to a world without any consciousness. The average myth starts with a primordi...

I agree with correlationism. The dinosaur argument undermines it?

I apologize for tim.

I'm with you there. My impression was that theoretical modestness was being put to service as a metaphysical arbiter. You can't do that. Would he appr...

Newton knew first hand what gravity is, while making it known that he didnt know what it is in the sense of having a theory for it. Sure. I'm not maki...

We aren't in a position to do anything about future disasters. All we can do is give some money to Sea Watch or whatever and go listen to Hans Zimmer'...

You've joined the bunch of fluff balls pretending to be badasses in how well we face reality. So far I'm winning.

But we don't know there has ever been a time without consciousness. We don't know what consciousness is. So the conclusion of the argument is an assum...

So saying "anterior" emphasizes that a world without consciousness isn't continuous with our world? But saying "before consciousness" implies continui...

Oh, you're right. He's using "anterior" to mean temporally behind or before. That's screwed up.

But I don't think you're being consistent with him. He's using "anterior" to mean after. You're using to mean before. Correct?

The people you're talking about will be gathered at the west coast. They won't cross the Sahara to get to Libya, so Italy won't be the closest port. G...

Anterior means 'in front of'. I think you mean posterior 'behind'.

I feel for Italians. I hope the crisis ends soon. I saw that Doctors Without Borders is involved.

That's true.

Italy has a history if being over crowded and having a tenuous economy. So a desire to limit immigration is understandable. On the other hand, nationa...

But who are they? Where do they come from? What is the government's official reason for limiting immigration? There's a good Politico article on it. H...

Who are the asylum seekers?

Concepts don't have the property of location.

We talk about concepts. We use them to design things. We based much of 20th Century art on them. That's what concepts are.

What sort of thing do you think the number two is?

Wow. What haven't you read? :grin: