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impossible because I don't think you can remove the qualia of human experience while leaving everything else physically in tact. I'd lean more towards...

perhaps you think p zombies are impossible. That's... one of the valid takes. I think they're impossible too. Once you decide they're impossible, ques...

That's right, and the thing you seem to miss out on in your op I would have thought they don't necessarily have any beliefs whatsoever, but I suppose ...

I don't think you've fully grasped what p zombies are

The wording might leave it open to him being removed from the actual ballot even if he wins the primary. "President Trump is disqualified from holding...

OR, perhaps they're merely suggestions that some people will find agreeable, and the people who don't can ignore it. Many people naturally have simila...

It doesn't appear that way to me. It appears to me like he's offering commandments to people who want to go good. No religious-like faith required for...

I have no idea why you're asking these questions or how they're relevant to the conversation we had

I don't know that that's how it played out in reality. What reason do you have to think that? That the majority of scientists accepted evolution witho...

glad the joke wasn't lost on you haha, there's always a risk it's going to be taken seriously when I say something like that

you only think that because you're biased and probably evil

I wouldn't want to change how you think! You seem very curious, which is only a fantastic quality to have

why does it seem like these are a series of homework questions?

Nobody has a problem with his legal attempts at contesting it. Take it to a court, they look at it, decide if the case has merit. That's fine. The pro...

I don't think that's what biology says at all. It says we exist because our ancestors did propagate. The casual reason for our existence doesn't neces...

No, I definitely do not think that the only reason science accepts evolution is because there's no other option. Science accepts evolution because we ...

This is a guy who thinks it should be legal to call a bomb threat on a plane... This guy's verison of legality is everyone else's vision of hell.

I'm not convinced that "being honest" can't be considered a verb phrase that takes the grammatical place of a verb, and functions in every way like a ...

you thought the experience of auditory inner monologue was a German thing?

I think you're drastically over estimating the disagreement within science. There are very few things with a stronger scientific consensus than evolut...

"being honest" is a verb. You can make just about any adjective into a verb in a similar way. "Being friendly". "Being angry". "Being green". You can ...

isn't honest an adjective?

The accusations are confessions, of course.

None! In fact I accept the latter entirely. I mean, I'm not like 100% confident in it or anything, but it seems intuitively reasonable to me.

Ah okay. Well in regards to the former, that's potentially a matter of interpretation though I would say most interpretations would not word it like t...

Bell's Theorem is precisely about ruling out the latter.

Why in the world would you write a post to me about people getting confused and having ill intents, if you aren't specifically talking about me, the v...

right, so it's acknowledged now that you chose to respond like that to me instead of just realising that I read your words at face value. "He read my ...

Yeah, okay.

I mean I would totally love to just go back in time and you just say "oh yeah I see why you thought I meant that" instead of insulting me. That was al...

dang, you really don't want to just admit there's a bit of ambiguity in your op do you? You'll insult everyone else rather than just say "yeah I see w...

I think they if you wanted this thread to be about a particular type of skeptical realist, there are words you could have used in your title and op th...

It is? Your title implies it's about everyone who believes the world exists. I suspect I'm not the only one who thinks so. Plenty of people who believ...

I suspect that's a no on some of them. But of course there are different types of realists. Most people are realists, and there's plenty of types of p...

some realists are Christians or Muslims or Jews or Buddhists or Hindus or etc. Some realists are atheists. I don't see how realism implicitly makes an...

I don't understand how what you said has to do with realism being a type of skepticism. Realism itself makes no claims about God or souls or unicorns ...

But to many, the point of morality IS to suit us (us being the larger picture, humanity as a whole - morality exists to improve our lives). So if some...

The thought experiment about Solipsism is, of course, endlessly relevant because it can't be disproven. As far as I know, there's no sequence of exper...

This seems a very unfairly asymmetrical question. Why would someone need proof that it's not a dream, but not need proof that it is a dream?

Because the mwi interpretation is simpler by some metrics than other interpretations - namely, it has fewer postulates than most of its competitors. I...

I don't think George Floyd deserves the sainthood bestowed upon him by popular opinion, but I couldn't agree more about everything else.

I think he's referring to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_George_Floyd

Occam's razor, for me. It is a simpler model of the world that the world always works one way, than a model of the world that it works one way when I'...

I think there's a pretty good chance that's just reality. Without the creepy demon.

sure, any spot on a board could be 0,0, so choose a spot to be your 0,0 and then throw the dart.

Ooh I really like this thought experiment. Good food for thought. Thank you. Fun fact: if you did throw a dart at an infinitely dividable board, and y...

To some extent, it seems Hamas has terrorised their population into compliance. At the same time, it's not infeasible that a sizable portion of the po...

It doesn't say anything like that in the wiki you linked. Where are you getting that from?

To the contrary, QFT was literally invented in the first place to be compatible with the most fundamentally smallist theory there is: relativity. QFTs...

It would seem you and I have different ideas about smallism. To me, QFT is the very essence of smallism. To me, when a smallist says "big things happe...