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I'm just trying to make a living here. Maybe I do a little brown-nosing. What have your principles gained you?

The first paragraph of your post was anti-realist. Realism is about confidence that some final statement can be made. Anti-realism rejects that confid...

Yes. I'm on location in Russia.

Such a great post. I'm also anti-realist but carry along a working scenario. I stress things you don't. Speaking of events, I happen to be walking tod...

That's what the White House has been missing: more teeth and testicles.

It's truthful hyperbole. Hyperbolic truth.

So our concepts bring us to the realization of oneness, but fail to take us onwards into it?

Thank god we kept our machine guns. The zombies are upon us.

That makes sense, but if we back up and look at the concepts utilized in that scenario: isn't there a strict opposition of material/immaterial built i...

It's science fiction. They thought hell was underground, and the idea that the earth is spherical was circulating. When they get to the bottom of hell...

I was just looking to understand how your view is different from Chalmer's naturalistic dualism, if it is. I think we all agree that there are events ...

Are you a panpsychist?

True, so what's your view?

Eliminative materialism excludes in exactly the same way monistic idealism does. Materialism and idealism are mirror images of one another. Whatever f...

I think we have a winner. :party:

:D

I'm fine with abortion up to the end of the second trimester. After that, it's murder. But that's just based on my feelings. What are the philosophica...

It could be code for "There are doughnuts in the conference room."

What is Indras net?

Cool.

Schopenhauer was. Check him out sometime. Especially the last part of WW&R.

Are you a determinist?

Consciousness is unified. For that reason Schopenhauer said it is the One. The picture I got from reading Schopenhauer was like a diamond with many fa...

:lol:

Britain doesn't need a wall.

Then you agree that efforts should be undertaken to diminish illegal immigration?

You were saying at one point that logic is a set of rules for the way we talk. I think logic is about the limits of imagination, and we discover those...

But notice that you repeatedly overlook the illegal part of illegal immigration and respond to just immigration. Why should we all be in favor of comp...

Some things that we know a priori are necessarily true, like the LONC. Kripke just adds that you also have a priori knowledge about your own choices.

Let's do a thought experiment and start by saying there are things we can't imagine (even in principle) and see where it leads. I suppose it could be ...

Hume was copying Locke. You didnt avoid the can't/Kant joke because you pointed out that you were avoiding it. Since your hemisphere is hogging the su...

If you see no difference between imagining and "bringing words together," our experiences are too different to continue on.

On the way to explaining bundle theory, Hume asks us to imagine an object that has no properties. He finds that he is not able to imagine it. He obvio...

Are you actually imagining that? Or just saying the words?

Such as?

The limits of imagination are the limits of the knowable. So for all practical purposes, the limits of imagination are the limits of what is. In cases...

Have you ever witnessed something you can't imagine? IOW, do experience and imagination have the same boundaries?

Couple more thoughts on myth and metaphor: "Homer, it is essential to recall, was not just a poet; he was a teller of myths and legends. The mythmakin...

But the neuron itself changes over time. It has to eat and excrete. What's your view on why it's the same cell over time when its material makeup is c...

Fiction or non-fiction?

Aren't neurons an exception? They aren't replaced for the most part. The metaphor is divinity. Or divinity is like a massive self-portrait.

That's not always derogatory. Some little old ladies mean it in a good way.

To the Puzzle of Belief?

:D

Is it? Maybe after Kripke they realized they have to assert necessity.

Kripke says that identity statement is necessarily true. Do you agree that we can imagine that the brain state exists, but there is no accompanying pa...

If B is identical to A, then B couldn't be said to cause A. I think what the identity theorist really means to say is that there is no such thing as A...

I do like leaving things clean and sparkly. But then there's the Sisyphus factor. Did you have some sort of epiphany in any of your jobs about that?

It just seems like it would get boring eventually. I have a theory that human civilization is a side-effect of attention deficit disorder.

The US is headed in that direction. Medicare funds will start falling short sometime in the next decade, I think. It's mainly due to population growth...