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I think you have it backwards. Morality is mostly about looking backward, not forward. You only feel guilt and grief about what's already been done. W...

I agree.

I read that in the 1970s, climatology was described as a science of wild guesses. A huge amount of progress has been made, but there are still problem...

I'm coming around to the whole grift theory. I think you're exactly right.

Ha! That's weird.

The fact that nobody just answers his question is a sign that he's right.

I don't think it changed. The word climate has been central to it the whole time, like from the 1980s onward?

Did they? I hadn't noticed.

A big volcano in the S Pacific blew up this year. Volcanoes usually cool the climate (like during the 1990s), but this one is making it hotter because...

Yes having or showing a composed or serious manner that is worthy of respect.

Kripke agrees with you. There is no fact about what a moral realist intends at any given time. But this issue doesn't answer the OP. You're pointing t...

Could we verify this empirically? What sort of research project would we construct?

This is the answer you were looking for:

There's no fact about which rules anyone follows anyway.

You're arguing that moral realists behave differently from anti-realists. Even if that's true, it doesn't answer the OP. It's not the reality of the m...

I predict low voter turnout. I think that will help Trump. GOP voters are old and reliable.

Let's see, how many more? Bunches!! :grin:

@"Hanover" This guy's son was on ECMO. It's a heart lung machine. It went on for a long time, and they eventually realized there was no way the kid co...

@"Mikie" She came in hemorrhaging and gasping. They stabilized her but there wasn't much that could be done. Her father poured lye down her throat. On...

@"Wayfarer" People who smoked so much that their lungs started falling apart live in fear of the way they're going to die because they know what it's ...

There's absolutely nothing dignified about death. Everybody eventually gets what they deserve.

You could get the straight answer if you felt like reading a wikipedia article about it.

I asked because you keep saying the cycle from the 800,000 year graph is happening now. It's not. You're overlooking the massive difference in scale b...

I have to ask you: did you think the earth's climate had pretty much always been the way it is now?

I don't even know what you're asking, but I have a feeling you're going to ask again, in spite of the video. :grimace:

It's partly the earth's axial wobble, and partly the way the earth's orbit changes from circular to elliptical. I haven't read a book about the climat...

Yes.

That graph covers 800,000 years in 4 inches. You're just a tiny speck at the end.

I don't know what you mean by "the same pattern." We're in a interglacial period. The glacial periods are the dips.

Basically a shit ton of computer modelling by a shit ton of scientists all over the world. It's called the IPCC.

For climate change? Of course. The climate has been changing since there's been a climate.

milankovitch cycle?

That's an interesting issue, but it's not the hard problem.

Me neither.

What do you value?

To wonder how you find life worth living.

There is phenomenal consciousness. Where does it lead me?

You're welcome to explain it to us. :strong:

Sure. It's called first person data. It's there in the physical sciences. What we're looking for is an explanation for it. Why does it exist?

Critical lack of knowledge. The easy problems of consciousness are the ones our present scientific "toolbox" are equipped to handle, such as how sight...

I most certainly did not. You didn't read anything I wrote. You didn't read the SEP quote, much less the link. I'm out.

I don't believe in God. I was explaining how there can be aposteriori necessity in the moral realm. You had suggested that I should get a nobel philos...

You seem to be spinning off questions without having read anything I wrote. Too busy?

Read the SEP link. There is none. You either do or you don't.

? You were asking how there could be necessarily true statements known a posteriori. Did you understand the answer? Love.

Think for a second about what you're asking a skeptic to do. A person is a skeptic for a reason. You don't know what that reason is tied up with. It c...

The formatting got screwed up there, but look at the bolded section that starts with "Laws of nature." This is the primary root of moral realism: that...

I could work out a scenario in which someone would conclude that it is (the bolded part), but the point is that possible world semantics always starts...

Right. Adjectives can't be rigid designators.

That's an adjective. You can use the Holocaust as a rigid designator.