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I read this as agreeing with what I wrote.

ve 1) I didn't demand anything 2) I find it interesting you assume it does not pass falsifiability itself. Perhaps you are right. I am not so sure it ...

Is the proposition falsifiability should be a criterion for valid scientific hypotheses and theories falsifiable? And for a different take on falsifia...

You haven't really addressed my argument. First you are asking me to distinguish between two people where there is a fine line between them. I am not ...

We are social mammals, not monads, so our egos, healthy ones are conscious of and want have good social relations. Not with everyone, but with some ki...

What Uber does is set up people to work for companies who can shut them off and tell them what to do, but the companies have no responsibilities for t...

I think this is more or less what I was saying. If you lean towards the bad, even by the minutest degree over 50% bad, you will tend to create a net n...

Yes. And all animal life also. We all make decisions every day that may cause harm in others who have not consented to it. You can't avoid this unless...

Yes, I've made a similar argument with both Schop and I think it was Batricks. Basically he is saying: Value X is the most important value. This is se...

This is a very idiosyncratic idea of the ego. The ego, generally, is the sense of self, sense of identity. It is protective. There are parts of the un...

I don't see this as common at all. People seem skeptical about government almost as a rule. I wish they were more so, but this seems hallucinated. It'...

If the entities that manifested in the planes were the pilots' people, in the sense we think of children being the parents', and these appearing out o...

If there's a 50% mark. If you are more than fifty percent ethical, Heaven. Less, Hell. And God can read ethical tendencies down below the ethical 'Pla...

In the process of deciding who is an expert and that their minds are reliable (in that specific expertise) you are trusting you own mind.

That certainly makes sense in our universe, but must a universe move from instability to stability? IOW I am not sure this actually rebuts the OP, but...

Any response is speculative, but they would likely stand out for their brilliance, regardless. This would likely not be acknowledged by some or many o...

It's axiomatic in his system. For good or for ill.

That's a particular kind of consequentialism. It's not an argument against consequentialism. In fact his arguments, like most consequentialist argumen...

I have sympathy for this position. I think the problem comes in around what is a skill and what is a value. Adoption certain presents tests for parent...

I wouldn't relegate it there, though perhaps you would. IOW you may like this notion, but he was not correct in relation to me whom he was responding ...

Cannot presently be measured. It can be known because we have it ourselves. We experience experience. WE notice there is experiencing. It is a facet o...

Actually it's not. I am not assuming that minds and consciousness are different things. I am simply pointing out that epistemologically we can track m...

If I go back to your first post in the thread... it seems to me you are writing about minds, not consciousness. Yes, we can look at what minds do, esp...

Neither is perceptible to touch. But then there are ways to look at an atom: with an electron microscope. Or see its effects: in particle cloud chambe...

I was mainly responding to the idea that I 'could conceive them in waking life'. That's not true for many of my dreams. I simply cannot do those kinds...

I think that verb 'could' is very problematic. I often have dreams that include content I could not have made in waking life. Where I am talking to so...

continental philosophy is more right brain, analytic more left brain. I mean this not so much in the pop psychology sense, but more in the sense Iain ...

I am not arguing that a pattern that is present for a long time is right. I am arguing that breaking that pattern bears the onus. My values, which I d...

AGain, I didn't argue it was. But since it is natural the onus is on the other side to say, wait, now we know more stuff than we used to, we should st...

Right, but the onus is on those saying it is bad to show it is bad. I don't see that onus met. It is present in all species of mammals we know of. Yes...

I wasn't questioning it along Berkleyian lines. I was saying it no longer means anything. It is a placeholder term for real. Or verified. It sounds li...

I have made that exact same arguments with certain agnostics, but it does not hold for all agnostics only for those who say that no one can know. The ...

Here's the only applicable point... I see nothing you have written in your threads here that would annoy the State. It is at a level of extreme abstra...

I don't think 'material' is a meaningful term. It changes over time and includes things that have qualities and lack qualities people a couple of hund...

I agree and I also think it is taking two to tango in all of those not up to snuff discussions. People rarely seem to notice what their own team is do...

We should also get rid of discussions of metaphysics, politics, feminism, definitely anti-natalism... in fact as I think of it, most threads seem to n...

There are two ways of thinking something is possible. 1) Given the nature of the universe and what I know about it, it is possible X happened or exist...

I have seen this stated. But again, I don't think it is necessary, especially in the case where one notices that knowledge changes over time and some ...

Was someone suggesting that there are actually two objects of discussion? Or was it more like each of you is discussing your model and not Jack? If it...

It allows that something that is called supernatural might exist. It also allows, in some versions of agnosticism, that some things/phenomena currentl...

Don't you have to have a head to be bald? I'd say it's false. I wouldn't say my dishwasher is bald. Even if a few hairs were stuck to its top.

If Jack relates to each of you differently - which is at least minimally likely - then what you talk about when you talk about Jack will be different....

What emotions do you find the age we live in inhospitable to? You earlier said people were not willing to take risks for liberty. What risks do you ta...

Are animals aggressively forcing their view on their offspring? At what point in evolution did having children become an aggression against not yet ex...

But then precisely as you say, it is not a logical argument. It is not a reason for you to believe. It is how they come to believe. It isn't failing a...

Is faith an argument? I know there are all kinds of theists, so some theists may use their faith as an argument for your belief. So anything is possib...

Sure, they add this label on. It doesn't cost them much and it gains them something with some people. But they'd be sociopaths if everyone forgot Jesu...

I think that's all fair and generally true. I have a some college philosophy behind me, but mostly its been my own pursuit, so I take my conclusions w...

Well, sure. I am not saying they are 'without sin' (lol). But I think the real threats come from people who are much more cynical about belief and gen...

Pharma, the gm industry, the nanotech industry, the neo cons....the list is long. Fundamentalists, on the scale of global or even national power, come...