Apustimelogist

If you think I have not understood something, then explain why rather than pointless, contentless quips.

Its not a counter because it is a completely different scenario with new constraints that change the issue. It's totally reasonable to have a complete...

This is a completely different scenario though witli different connotations where you are introducing another malevolent agent who you are bargaining ...

I disagree. I don't see the need to come up with a fixed solution to this problem if there is no fully satisfactory choice. No ethical view will do th...

I haven't proposed an ethical system but I haven't seen any that successfully resolve this issue in a fully satisfactory way... which I guess is why i...

Interesting analysis, better example of the plane scenario.

I wasn't suggesting general in that sense. My point is that killing an innocent person could be wrong. But saving the human race could be right. At th...

Hmm, thinking about it, I thought the baseball example was more ambiguous but thinking about it more I'm just thinking that I don't think this would b...

This is very interesting. Much more ambiguous as to whether this is a "kill 5 kids to save 1000" or "To save 1000 you must do a certain move which its...

I think I forgot to read these bits: Well I don't think its necessarily a black and white issue. I think the only reason less death is a better outcom...

Well we are using absurd in different senses I feel. You're using absurd in a sense to express your moral disagreement while I am using it in the more...

You don't think there is an absurdity in letting the whole human race die because you don't want to kill an innocent person? I think regardless of wha...

I think this is a strawman because clearly what is not interesting about the trolley problem is not the trolley problem on its own, but the underlying...

They are experiments. What is being measured is not what someone would do practically but their judgement or opinion. You don't need actual experiment...

Yes, thinking about it I see what you mean. When I made this comment I was still stuck on the question of whether this had to be some evil agent conco...

It also falls apart when the scenario is accidental / incidental and hasn't been engineered by some evil agent.

I don't see this much different to how scientific experiments are always much simpler than everyday reality. A dice roll is presumably describable via...

I think there are layers to agency in the sense that one could be forced to make a harmful choice by someone, in which we might reduce responsibility ...

I don't think I can agree on your view that the other things are distractions. These "distractions" are part of what make it interesting, and the fact...

But you can have a kind of incidental, naturalistic reason for why the event occurred. It could be just to do with trains carrying people like they no...

Aha, I respect that you have doubled down on this. Yes, I think my view on this can change a lot depending on how I picture the scenario or the detail...

When I say regardless, I am not implying exclusion of practical application, not to say that a trolley-type problem can never arise or that people's r...

Well, what's your answer to the different question?

What if you had to execute the 999 people yourself?

Some people are just interested in morality just because they are interested in morality, regardless of practical application. For them there is no re...

There's an interesting question. Is there lack of evidence of other intelligent life because it is so rare for it to get started? Or because once it s...

Aha, that actually made me laugh out loud for several minutes.

I like reading about these ideas, something both very poetic and powerful about them. What is the Buddhist view about creating life? If they see life ...

Wow, very interesting, thanks! Will definitely have a look.

Pregnancy is actually an interesting example in these kinds of debates that touch on the notion of disease as a construct that is intertwined with soc...

I might steal this phrase to describe how even though I am not a dualist, I often refer to both brains and experiences. The experiences aren't explana...

No, not at all. I am just pointing out than in the scientific process we construct concepts and models of cognition abstracting from things people obs...

And according to some, that has only exacerbated the culturo-emotional malaise talked about in your other post.

Maybe Barrett is explaining how emotions are world-directed in terms of how interoceptive states are integrated with external environmental context an...

Not a fan of this. Just comes across as suggesting this stuff produces some kind of secret sauce to salvation which is independent to other structural...

I wouldn't say it is just this, but also organisms acting on the external environment in order to realize the sensory experiences which confirm their ...

Here is the issue. You are talking about the idea of some mysterious unobservable process. I am coming from a different angle which is what is actuall...

Nonsense. You didn't understand what I was saying. I don't even think what I was saying actually depends on any metaphysical stance. It just depends o...

I have made it clear in this discussion that I am not a dualist so why are you interpreting my words in a dualist fashion? I have used the notion of p...

Hmm, I don't think anyone could create any kind of explanations for language or the use of words without including what words are referring to or conn...

What else do you have in mind in terms of explanation? Edit: To clarify - in terms of other explanations that cannot be explained by "the human sensor...

Very good point. I think what this point really alludes to from my perspective is that numbers is not strictly a passive consequence of objects in the...

Well what is entailed by it then? I haven't understood from what you have said so far. I don't recall talking to or reading about anyone else who has ...

Just commenting on this to remember/"bookmark" it because I thought it was interesting.

Because we have a brain with trillions of parameters capable of extremely complicated abstraction and inference tasks!

Everything I am saying about idealism is just the basic contemporary opinion on it. I linked an article by David Chalmers as the source for my definit...

Sounds a bit reductive, no? The world is much more complicated than that. At the same time, were the issues being discussed much better for societies ...

Getting rid of neoliberalism, heh.

Very interesting. I certainly get the intuition. We know that the sensation of sweetness is associated with certain molecules but its not clear that p...

I feel like your misunderstandings here must come from a different notion of idealism. Idealism as I described and as entertained in the article I lin...