Apustimelogist

Well yes, but our selves are also experiences. And then consider that experiebces are going on in our heads as part of the goings on of a physical sys...

Uhh maybe not necessarily against that way of looking at it but I was thinking more just about exactly what parts of your physicality you consider you...

Yes, I think I understand your view.. at least the notion that alternative gametes wouldn't be you. I guess my view is just that there isn't an object...

Would you say these are like specific experiences? With phenomena? Its strange because I don't think I can express meanings without words so it is not...

Well I haven't had a deep look at the topic so myabe, but this type of view is my general inclination, which I think I could argue as holding in this ...

I admit was thinking in a much more simplistically. These are some excellent points and the kind of complexities I find very interesting about biology...

I am sure philosophers have broad range of beliefs on the issue. I doubt I am the only person drawn toward that kind of view.

I am not sure what you're saying I dismissed

Yes, I already said. It is interesting though to think though what if you could replace it with something else functionally identical? Would that inte...

Thanks, I will take a look!

How would you characterize what happens in your head when you think? Like whenn trying to solve a problen?

Some random shower thoughts on the issue I think really in physical systems of many components the whole notion of objective identity might be moot be...

Yup, I was just saying that when I think about it more deeply, I just discard identity or self from an objective standpoint entirely. The genes obviou...

Yes, I get the intuition. It seems to make sense, more from the causal link standpoint than the blueprint one because I am not sure that DNA can be id...

So what is it about the gametes here is the important thing? Edit: I may as well ask to clarify specifically about why exactly the timing bit is impor...

Very interesting thread with some good posts. Don't think I have any interesting insights beyond what others have already mentioned. I think without a...

Yes, this seema actually quite similar to what I mean by being instrumentalist. I will have to take a look at the Austin thread; maybe you have a part...

Yes, thats definitely a good point. We don't know nearly enough about the brain, cognition, etc. But I do think we know enough about the world to make...

Well I think that implies a very deflated notion of truth which basically aligns with what I just said there.

If Banno's view is realism, it is an extremely thin, watered down realism where "truth" is nothing more than how we use the word, regardless of what "...

Yes, I think this kind of thing is very much in my preferred domain. My inclination right now I think is to just not try to shoehorn my understanding ...

Well I wasn't making an argument for or against the merits of some view or claim, I was just saying what I think would happen. I was just thinking it ...

Well they evidently do because you go on to list all the sorts of goals or reasons why people get out of bed, and the other goals and reasons these ar...

Well sure, I'm just saying that I think if that discussion were opened there would be disagreements, just like with the realism debate. I guess this w...

I think possibly one issue in this whole discussion is that both you and Banno want to argue for being able to say "x is true" or "x is false", yet ne...

Well every single opinion is good enough for someone even if has valid criticisns so I don't really see what this statement contributes any defence. W...

Well, I would call it a normative judgement rather than moral judgement, but maybe thats a tangential point. I don't agree. "I ought to get out of bed...

This kind of stuff is difficult without being very precise but I think there is a good point in the idea of chess not being true or false due to how i...

Again, that describes how people talk about truth but it doesn't in and of itself tell you if something is true or truthapt. So what stops someone fro...

What makes it true? Its very easy to reason about normativity in terms of some kind of means-ends analysis.

As far as I know, I think she just gives the best kind of modern account of emotions in psychology and neuroscience. Its probably better I just link e...

I recommend you might want to look at books by Lisa Feldman Barrett. She has a good modern take on emotions.

Well maybe "should" was too strong a word but I think similar kinds of skepticism as with moral realism can lead you to drop other realisms. Where to ...

Yes, this is a very good point. I think it would have to be something like you go under a medical procedure and wake up afterwards having gained a dop...

I am not sure I understand what you mean here??

Had some thoughts about Doppelgangers inspired by Karl Pilkington and then a film I saw recently called Infinity Pool: Imagine there is a world where ...

Aha I think this would create a regress of the same problem as someone else would come along and say that it isn't just different ways of the same thi...

Yes, I think all kinds of different fields with different methods, focusing on different topics sould be crucial for understanding. In terms of the wa...

They may be different but I don't think that difference entails anything to do with truth. Nothing has been presented to suggest that imo.

My personal opinions: I don't think these schemes are necessarily a "thing" in the language sense you talk about. All that there is, in a physical sen...

This is a very good point and one I have thought about a fair amount recently. From my intuition this may be a substantial reason for gulfs between re...

Well I think its less about saying "we might as well kust give away the whole thing" and more that some people just genuinely don't believe in the "wh...

Well I would say that just because people seem to assign truth values doesn't mean that that is necessarily what they mean; I don't think there is eve...

I mean't stance-independent moral fact. If moral statements aren't about facts in the first place then they may not be amenable to the T-sentence thin...

I just don't see why reference has to be maintained. Not saying that constructs from successive theories cannot be deemed the same or used in virtuall...

I confess, I think you've lost me here.

Not necessarily. I am just implying that people may be able to use such sentences such as "you ought to do this" without necessarily meaning it in a w...

If saying that *a moral statement* is true means that they are saying *that such a statement* is a stance-independent fact then why should they *apply...

Seems arbitrary. I don't see what going out of your way to prevent something entails about dtance independent moral facts. At the same time, many bad ...

Because you can talk about someones ethical beliefs as opinions or preferences like that. I don't see an inherent difference between a preference such...