Plus the price of access to the huge Chinese markets was that the goods sold had to be manufactured there. The US government was hostile to American b...
Tones is just super precise in his expressions and Michael is a little more intuitive. Once you understand the issue, you'll see that they're saying t...
With any historical event you can play a game. Find the causal factors in 1. The moments just prior to the event. 2. The previous three decades. 3. Th...
:lol: Why do we have to be a Three Stooges movie? Why can't we be Dune? We tried that. It didn't work. The US military was built to deal with Hitler a...
For Americans "government" does refer to the system. We use "administration" to refer to the people who occupy the executive branch at a certain time....
Flexible governments survive where rigid ones fail. It's strikes me as very strange that you think you're a supporter of democracy when you think peop...
He's right though, isn't he? The US makes a schizoid global leader when there's no existential threat to keep things on track. The world needs an empe...
Taylor was brought up by Joshs. I think the idea was crime and victimhood are sources of the idea and experience of the self. The little book I'm read...
That's Project 2025, which is a plan for removing all opposition to Trump in the government. His VP endorsed it, but Trump hasn't. His VP embraces "da...
I don't think there is one. He was elected for a reason: because he represents what the majority of Americans want the USA to be. This isn't evil or u...
Nah, humans are incredibly adaptable and naturally migratory. It will be like the early iron age. The sea peoples will be cruising all over the place,...
Physical substance is removed pretty regularly from your brain, though. Brain cells eat and poop like all other living things. Do little bits of you g...
We could start with three headings: 1. Consciousness is at least potentially explainable 2. Mysterian (it's not explainable) 3. Don't know or don't ca...
Yes. In a lot of states you have to be registered with a party to vote in that party's presidential primary. Probably most of the people who chose Tru...
Yes. We're in weird times. I haven't quite put the puzzle pieces together to understand what it means. I've considered the possibility that there's be...
Some people think he was subject to politically motivated attacks, some people think he's a scumbag, but that's in keeping their values. Some people j...
It's sort of a third viewpoint. It's not mysterian or Cartesian. I guess my theory is that Cartesianism is lurking in the shadows unless he's a behavi...
It makes the diagram bigger. Damasio sees identity as an ever changing aggregate. For instance, if you're staring at a woman and you ask yourself who ...
So my goal will be to continue with both Taylor's and Hagberg's thoughts and see what happens to the Cartesian self as we go. Can I maintain Wittgenst...
No. We can hypothesize, theorize, draw diagrams with different perspectives about intention, we can get scientific, religious, etc. It's possible that...
I think most Trump voters just don't take any of his faults seriously. If seasoned military officers warned that he's a danger to democracy, people ig...
The Cartesian outline of the self has obvious faults, so what does it have going for it? In the OP I say that Cartesianism gives us a self that's avai...
There are only 13 states that have banned abortion. There are 8 states that have no restrictions at all. The rest are about par with European countrie...
Could be. Another version of the self is the world itself. If you want to know who you are, listen to what you say about the world. The world is a mir...
In a way, the Cartesian self belongs to both religion and science. When we want a theory about the self that goes beyond art and poetry, we immediatel...
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