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I didn't say "vast", you inexplicably decided to add that. When I Google the question, it's notable that even when I find articles arguing against mat...

and yet as far as I can tell, today the majority of physicists, neuro scientists and cognitive scientists don't share his conviction (even the ones wh...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jenna-ellis-testimony-georgia-trump_n_6552c083e4b0c9f246615c86 Trump Was ‘Not Going To Leave’ The White House, Lawyer T...

I don't even think it's fair to say it's "shot through with error" just because it's failed to provide a clear answer to a very, very hard problem. If...

Seems less like a proof and more like an opinion to me. I think you're over-playing the hand there.

as intriguing as this claim is, it's not very Googleable. "Newton proved we aren't mechanistic" doesn't bring up any relevant results.

that's why I like what I call "middle emergence"

What does "in control of your thoughts" mean? Controlling them how?

Could you talk a bit about why you think that?

This is probably borderline off topic but, do you really feel like you're "in control of your thoughts" when you're not drunk?

I think you might be. I don't think they've published a paper just to propose a tautology (though worse ideas have been published)

That phrasing borders on tautological. "X will tend to happen in a system when the environment around that system is favourable for X". Replace x with...

Fascinating. Could you give a short "blurb", 3 sentences or so, of the most important ideas in this sphere of thought to you? Concepts, normative rule...

I loosely agree with the take given in op and have had similar thoughts myself.

They'll have to? Is this a prediction? You think this will be a reality? When?

Right of return is the idea that Palestinians who previously lived on specific tracts of land that are now lived in by Israeli Jews have the right to ...

the detail you call "straight forward" is worth saying explicitly. Thank you for doing that now.

Resigning seems like a shortcut, a way to answer the question without answering the question.

yes, those things would also constitute evidence, sure.

it makes a huge difference, because it's evidence of the claim. Population increases are evidence against the claim of genocide.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'chance occurrence' here, and what you're suggesting is the alternative. Most biologists, I'm pretty sure, think...

I don't see how the situation counts. Can you break it down for me?

I can't be the only one that thinks the word "genocide" is dramatic. Jews were genocided - the current count of Jews is STILL less than it was before ...

I would like to formally retract anything that might be interpreted as a suggestion for Israel or Palestine towards a "solution". Israel is, quite fra...

respectable change of direction there

This guy thinks most Palestinians would cheer the end of HAMAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2BSDLFVT74 He's very biased, I think, given his histor...

The best thing Palestinians could do, as a group, is stand up against Hamas - make it clear that the people aren't looking for the destruction of Isra...

People are being very dismissive of this here. It's not necessarily obvious that things must become more complex over time, so framing it as "a theory...

I don't know. I mean, I'm a layman, not an expert, so to be completely honest, the evidence of "most experts in cognition and consciousness agree that...

okay Our priors are too distant, I think, for you to understand my intuitions or for me to understand yours. That's fine.

Primordial features of reality, as far as we know, all have a kind of locality to them. They aren't aware of the macroscopic "objects" we would percei...

my reason for not liking panpsychism as an explanation for human consciousness is that panpsychism almost implies a certain kind of extremely local co...

if pansychism is true, human consciousness (probably) isn't the result of evolution. But I don't think that's likely - I don't turn my nose up at it e...

Yes, that's exactly what I would say. If our information processing capabilities increased because of evolution, and consciousness is a consequence of...

no, I don't see your point. If science doesn't have ALL the answers about something, it can't have ANY answers about something? Is that the point? The...

the question seems largely irrelevant to me. I also know when I bought most of my computer accessories, but if there's some computer accessory i have ...

who is "we"? I have no idea when sight evolved, but I have very little doubt that sight did evolve.

that's how I take bells theorem as well. Epistemic interpretations remain popular in spite of it - I think it's because the epistemic take allows peop...

This take is tentatively the one I'm choosing to take: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2016/09/08/consciousness-and-downward-causation/ This...

Why does that make it not analogous? Tornadoes are composed of things that don't have the properties of tornadoes. Consciousness is composed of things...

This doesn't square with the rest of your comment. If occupation counts for the most, and most of the occupants are Arab Muslims, then... establishing...

sure, which is why I think the claim that Jews had a right to it all in the 20s is patently absurd (not that you're making that claim), but the idea t...

what I'm saying is, if someone came and said they had a right to your house, them pointing to a fictional book they wrote wouldn't make you feel any m...

That doesn't seem especially cynical to me. What do you think Hamas wanted out of the attack? I mean, what he described isn't any MORE cynical than wh...

I somewhat agree. However, I wouldn't say that gave them any more of a right to the land on Palestine back in the first half of the 20th century more ...

okay, allow me to take a step back - why did you bring it up? Do you think it weighs into the ethics of anything going on in Israel?

is there a reason anybody not interested in the superstition should be persuaded to weigh this information into the ethics of the situation at all?

That's not what Christianity already did?

Is nobody else annoyed at the clear lack of one option? We are conscious, epiphenomenalism is NOT true, all causes are physical, and consciousness evo...

Hamas was never there to defend the population in the first place. Have they ever done that? Actually quite a lot. The entire world is watching right ...