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I think so, yea.

I see. :up:

I think this is the most popular view today, right?

I don't think it's about dependency. It's just that two things that track together: "There cannot be an A-difference without a B-difference."

Could you explain why?

I think you're echoing Chalmers, but going beyond asking for a theory of consciousness to asking for a theory of abstractions (like math) as well. He ...

I really don't know. He won't take the popular vote, but as for the electoral college, it comes down to what the swing states do. Biden is the incumbe...

The New York Times says yes. Being convicted doesn't automatically disqualify him. If the majority of states wanted to disqualify him they could, but ...

What about our ancestors who all lived in huts and hunted moose? I'm not trying to be a smart ass, I just don't understand what you're saying.

So if I go to Alaska, build a hut and live by hunting moose for ten years, did I lift off from reality?

The whole thing. :razz:

Ok. What is the meaning you're referring to? Can it be spelled out?

I was just trying to understand the term. I still am.

Yes. I made the same point earlier. Islam has greater ideological ease with militancy than other Abrahamic religions do. Can't really form this into a...

You're saying there are multiple meanings to "materialism." That's cool.

What I hear you saying is that Marx was a materialist, except we aren't using the meaning usually associated with that term in philosophy. Ok. That's ...

I did a thread on that!

Manuel mentioned earlier: if dualism is true, we can't figure out how the two substances interact with each other. Monism solves that problem.

I did a dive once to try to understand what Marx's ontological outlook was. I read that he was into Feuerbach, so I read about him. I looked into the ...

Wow! Why did they switch over to keys?

I don't think so.

In order for it to be dialectical, there has to be an opposition. That's what "dialectical" means in the Marxist sense. Where is the opposition?

If it's dialectical materialism, where is the immaterial part?

Yep. Time to pack up and leave.

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The old key problem. I no longer have a key. I have a fob. With my new Toyota, you just push a button on the dashboard and it turns on. I feel like I'...

I don't think Netanyahu ever intended for Gaza to go back to the way it was. I think he wants the refugees to leave Israel. Or die.

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I thought maybe he'd eventually come out of it and join the rest of us.

If I'm a functionalist, I would tell you that there is no hard problem. Phenomenal consciousness is fully explained (or explainable) by science in its...

Sure. The conceivability of p-zombies demonstrates that a functionalist like Dennett (assuming he qualifies as a functionalist) is only providing poss...

But it's conceivable. The fact that they show up in sci-fi demonstrates that. This means a reductionist can't shift the burden to a non-reductionist. ...

What if you woke up and found that you're a bird sitting in a bush that has a never-ending supply of berries? What then?

That's probably the best way to see what physicalism has to say for itself. Thanks!

Islam does have a fair amount of ideological ease with militancy because its central figure was a military leader. I'm having a hard time drawing a li...

What's causing the religious extremism?

What is your answer to this question?

I don't understand the point of this question. Could you spell it out?

I think those features of Abrahamic religions were stress responses. Secularism has enjoyed a happy period where stresses have been put at arms length...

Energy isn't a substance, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUn2izowBkw

:up: Nice.

Does this follow from an argument? Or is it an assumption?

The way Jews absorbed Greek and Persian eschatology was by reading it into the Torah. The idea is that the OT is in code. We discover God's message to...

What is it? What is that perspective like?

:blush: Thank you.

:up: It this coincides with this: Wouldn't you have to argue that physicalism itself is successful? Is that possible?

:up: But out of curiosity, if you had to give an argument for physicalism, what would you say? I guess you'd have to bypass the semantic issue.

Oh good. Did you know the same thing is true of Muslims?

That's good, because Jewish apocalypticism is basically about a deep, raging hatred of Gentiles. It's the kind of hatred that twists the soul. Rabbis ...

Jewish eschatology pervades the Talmud. Do you even know what that is? :eyes: