I don't think all ways of drawing conclusions are the same. I think we can be more certain of something, especially if we are agreeing on certain foun...
I don't think so. But I do feel it is speculative either way. If virtual particles can suddenly arise in a complete vaccuum, i don't think that area w...
rtWell, to me, sort of. We perceive things from specific points in time and space. Here you are using the view from anywhere, as a kind of test. So, w...
I am not sure having a cause and coming from nothing are the same things. That's one. I think an area where virtual particles can arise is a something...
That doesn't really answer his question. Perhaps he is making an assumption if he believes that, but then you also could be being certain when you say...
Right, but I was responding to .... I certainly build from assumptions that might not be correct. I don't want to just lie on the floor and question e...
I was responding to a post where subjective and objective were being distinguished and he had a kind of mental method, it seemed to me, for distinguis...
If you eliminate Tim, yes he is no longer there to like apples. If you eliminate the moon, then the earth no longer has a moon. You are taking away on...
People seem to have confidence to act on things with all sorts of criteria and often will realize they don't like their previous criteria and act on t...
In the context of the universe as it is. The something here would not just be the particles, but whatever the rules or possibilites (or necessities ) ...
yes, banks are a neat scheme especially with fiat banking and banks being able to simply create money out of nothing that is a real, concrete debt to ...
Sort of. They've been trained since an early age that their surface is vastly more important their experience of life and what they are. Hence the way...
Enjoyed this. I'd add that despite all the advances in technology (or in part because of it?) we work more now for less money, in general. And not coi...
People can do both those things. We are not binary machines. And often people care more about things that are close to them, even, say, poor in their ...
I would guess for the same reasons the right doesn't boycott goods from despotic regimes: laziness, lack of time and energy to go about researching pr...
I don't see the connection between these two sentences. Nor what Objectively it matters, but not philosophically? Is philosophy precisely NOT about th...
Again, we don't know what causes consciousness and what does not, so we can't rule out that consciousness is not in other things, nor can we say that ...
You damage the cognitive functions, sure. Our experiences are affected by brain damage sure. That's what happens to us. That doesn't mean that brains ...
Cognitive functions can be complex, but 'experiencing' may or may not be simple or complex. We don't know the mechanism that causes consciousness. And...
It's an implicit claim about me, not my arguments. You haven't read the OR. You haven't read it well enough or you would agree with me. That's to the ...
That's exactly it, We disagree with each other. Every person in every thread could say to people they disagree with 'study X harder', but it's essenti...
He doesn't disregard it, he does say that many people do. And again this has little to do with Occam no intending to make an ontological claim, but ra...
Oh, ok. I think that's because generic versions are cutting into profits so the companies are looking for drugs in other areas like oncology.I certain...
That is decidely wrong. At least it was not Occam's intention or meaning. Further it is not the scientific use of parsimony either. Yes, it is commonl...
Well, I looked at the money, just to make sure I wasn't confused. The psychotropic drugs are still huge sellers People like 'magic bullets', my quotes...
One point is that I don't think this is true. There has been a deceleration in the growth - in part because some of the patents on common psychotropic...
Brains can stimulate themselves. I am pretty sure the pharmaceutical companies are still making a lot of money off of psychotropics. adderall Xanax Al...
Occam's Razor is not an ontological hypothesis. It is not suggesting that simplicty is more likely to be true (because things are more likely to be si...
In a sense i wasn't questioning whether they are morally good, but if they have all the necessary kinds of skills and knowledge needed to make decisio...
I would need to see evidence that people with scientific minds are as empathetic as other people, have emotional intelligence, have good introspective...
It would be silly since it leaves out the intestines, for example. But oddly, and I mean from a purely physicalist, non-dualist perspective, people of...
It could be that it would be bad for us to worship other gods since they are not really gods. This being from the monotheist perspective. Our worship ...
There is always brain acitivity unless the person is dead. Further the coffee is added to the situation. The brain is not added to the situation. But ...
It depends on what you are trying to explain, iow not simply the specific thing you are trying to expain, but what kind of explanation. If we are tryi...
If you don't know the mechanism or cause of consciousness, you can't claim to know what the necessary conditions are or the sufficient conditions are....
The hard problem is not that something cannot be explained, but that it hasn't been. Your OP is mainly assertions that the brain covers subjective exp...
Well, as said, it does not fit with my experience in the Alba emotion training at all. We should have been all over the place in our identification of...
It seems to presume, this hypothesis, that any body state can be freely interpreted (via culture, habit, parenting...) to any of the labels. I doubt t...
Of course there was. Something go you interested in math books that set up specific neuronal pathways in your mind that you returned to which lead to ...
Well, one can attribute motives in all directions on an issue like this. Even 50 years ago, in science it was professionally risky to even view in pro...
Could you tell me why the examples I have given in the posts I responded to and in the articles should not be considered examples of animals being rat...
Animals can also be irrational. They can repeatedy think something is a threat despite experience that it is harmless and not alive. My dog had that w...
The animal sees the human fiddle with a metal thing and then manages to get through a gate keeping the animal in. The animal decides to fiddle in diff...
Sure. I am not saying all animals are the same. Just that animals are rational, often. And language is an incredible tool. We can do things with it an...
Animals are quite rational about many things. They can even figure things out, like how to open doors, how to work across species to get prey (https:/...
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