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Yes, and not just him. Berkeley, Hume, Locke, and Kant did as well, some to more degrees than the other, just to name a few. If you'd like, I could cr...

Not sure why you're surprised. I'm pretty irresistible. My proof: /uploads/resized/files/w8/4i0gcohosidbs029.jpg

I know. The fee just kept going and going and the wife is really attached, so Biscuit got the best care of any farm animal ever.

So, yeah., goats eat grass and hay and have multiple stomachs to digest it, so unless we're going to share Bermuda grass, the goats and I are going to...

Speaking of illnesses, one of my goats got some bacteria that turned him into a shit fountain. His usual neat pellet excrement turned into the likes o...

Isn't the nature of a hypothetical that we assume something for the sake of argument, regardless of truth? Hypotheticals themselves appear in the subj...

We all have reflexive reactions to things that upon later thoughtful reflection we realize might not have been valid. Those who are most reflective an...

Prednisone does that. I had to give my dog prednisone once and he peed rivers. It was pretty impressive actually. He would stand there for like 5 minu...

I had Covid a while ago. I was really tired for a couple of weeks and had a fever. I watched Community reruns on Netflix and saw about 100 episodes. I...

Every bulb has its own switch and some switches turn off other switches. I like the control and the safety that offers. The cat was sitting on the man...

So there's this guy, and he's walking through the desert and he has a car door with him. His friend asks "why the car door?" and the guy says "In case...

There is no requirement that you write coherently or logically. I think there's a prohibition from speaking in poetry or writing a screen play. If you...

Nice. I felt like I was there.

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I'd expect nothing less.

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I adopted some sausage. Eventually I will have the whole hog, at which time I will name it Elmo, and I will love it as if he were my own child.

I love oysters as well, but I substitute Oreos for them.

Laws banning drugs and alcohol pretty much eradicated them, so this ought to work.

I know, right? The evolution of humanity is toward greater life expectancy, less hunger, less strife, less war. I extrapolate from what I see a trajec...

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And pretending like the cup is indistinct from the perception of the cup is just pretending to speak of the cup.

I commit to its existing. I've not argued for idealism.

The OP asks how useful a discussion of qualia are, and I can't say much time has been spent by me on the topic. I'm open to figuring our how all these...

I found his book Consciousness Explained useless, as in not making any useful points.

"Representationism, also called Representationalism, philosophical theory of knowledge based on the assertion that the mind perceives only mental imag...

And your problem is that you believe understandable philosophy is the goal as opposed to dealing with the reality that there are experiences of things...

Asking what properties qualia has is no different from asking what properties an object has. You bump into a cup, what properties does that cup have? ...

To one subscribing to internalism, a justification is valid if one's internal subjective reasons are considered sufficient to hold to a belief. To one...

They affect parts of me, not my knees, but probably my emotions, my intellect, my knowledge. Somewhere between my hat and my neck.

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Those Great Pyrenees are amazing dogs. They will protect livestock with their life. I know it's not flattering they saw you as livestock, but you get ...

This confusion arises over how we are referring to the person. I have all along held that a person is composed of a variety of organs, each with their...

A ram moves fast and once it knocks the shit out of you, it's likely to be able to keep at it. My goats are debudded, which means their horns have bee...

My position is that you have an experience, and it might be caused by a variety of things, but the sensation itself ultimately was caused by your brai...

I don't think either of us disagree with whether we are speaking to one another intelligibly. The disagreement is whether there has to be a common poi...

Don't be clouded by the apocalyptic visions of Christianity, That is but one vision, which lacks the unrestrained positivity inherent in other traditi...

The generally positive trajectory of civilization, with decreased suffering, greater cures for ailments, increased prosperity, and an overall improvem...

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Every event has a cause.

I've acknowledged it's causative, but there other ways to evoke phenomenal states other than perceptual input, like chemicals, electrodes in the brain...

There's a very small audience for such jokes, right?

The properties experienced of the object are subjectively imposed. An object absent its properties is not describable. While that might not make you h...

I've claimed the noumenal causative of the phenomenal. You're arguing against Kant, not me.

So you've read my comments as suggesting that the sensory input required to illicit pain is conversation about pain? This conversation isn't insane, i...

Why must the image be of something real to be seen? We can't compare my randomly created image againstyour by discussing them online without submittin...

They are all shared phenomenona. Pain, cups, flowers, the whole lot. If pain can be an shared without there being pains out there to measure against s...

No. You so miss the point here. When we were talking of the image on our screen, not the cup. I was talking about the image on my screen, you of yours...

Not "perhaps" That's the exact point. Pain is the beetle, yet we talk of pain, never sharing our pain with one another. When I say "I am in pain" how ...