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I did read that but there were details I found hard to understand. I would really appreciate it if you could lay out the explicit difference between t...

What I would say to anybody still defending Trump right now, after everything that's happened is, consider how you would react if Biden loses the elec...

he's talking about it like the elector thing is the only thing Donald Trump is in hot water for. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't believe if is...

Any chance this Jan 6 trial is over before the next election? I assume trump has the resources to delay it for an unreasonable amount of time.

All of the alternatives you listed seem to me to fit well within the "I am" category. They don't seem to be actual alternatives to "I think, therefore...

Yes I agree with that too. It's an insurmountable recursion looking at it either way. It doesn't do anything to discount determinism in my view.

The problem here would seem to be that in order for a machine to be able to calculate what itself is going to do, it has to have enough memory to mode...

In my view, no. The thought experiment is not just practically impossible, it is also in principle impossible in all conceivable deterministic univers...

Sorry if I'm treading old ground, just wanted to share my view: Evolutionary psychology conceptually is perfectly fine. The general idea that we have ...

I agree that it doesn't feel that way, but it could just as easily be that way. Perhaps consciousness is a case of perpetual last-thursdayism, where e...

There's been a lot of talk in this thread about "duration of the present", has it been disambiguated anywhere what this actually refers to? I know wha...

As an aside, is the only alternative to "time is fundamentally real" some kind of block universe? It seems that way to me.

It's my current (and very subject to change) belief that "illusory" is not the right word to use, and what they really mean is "emergent". I hear more...

Mental fitness tests for presidential candidates would be fantastic.

I'm really curious to see how that story plays out. Though in situations like this, if this guy does end up being found guilty, there will always be t...

It is actually feasible to me that there's a sort of consciousness even at the scale of single celled organisms. Maybe they do have wants.

want as a metaphor rather than literal might be agreeable. Even the most basic life forms have mechanisms for staying alive, and, mental states or not...

I'm fairly confident most life doesn't have mental states one could describe as "wants", or mental states at all.

It seems like on the surface "obligation" means almost like a definitional obligation, rather than a normative one. In other words, "in order for a th...

Perhaps the conclusion to this tangent is, the op would benefit from clarifying what the definition of good, ought and should are.

Ah crap, my previous post lost all the emojis I put in, and now it's nonsense. I put in a bunch of banana emojis. .. edit, I figured out how to use fl...

Loosely speaking, yes. I'm sure there are much more rigourous ways of saying what I'm saying, and we're sort of no longer talking about morality, this...

Same thing for "good". I've never suggested that the DEFINITION of good is "whatever people say", but I have suggested that a way of trying to disambi...

Doesn't this logic apply to all words? So all words X are just defined as "X is whatever people say it is"? No, I think what you do instead is you lis...

I know that you're getting at, it's a very fun game lol, but the idea isn't "good and should are exactly only the things people say", what I'm suggest...

I don't know of many people who use the word like that.

perhaps it's unsatisfying, but for me it's pretty straight forward to think of what good and should mean intuitively. How do people use the word? To w...

It's clear, I think, but it faces some problems conceptually like Tom Storm is addressing. It's like you're defining "ought" as "is" - like you can sa...

The facts in the above paragraph don't have any normativity to them. "This is a fact about life, this is what happens when life is created." It doesn'...

As a complete aside, this is why Einstein was so concerned with "spooky action at a distance". Relativity of simultaneity creates some serious head sc...

unfortunately I haven't figured out how to quote people appropriately, so bear with me lmao. If we want to think of the world as having a "global cloc...

I think the major difference in ideas here is, is "the present" a global state? (Perhaps universal would be more clear than global) Or is it a "local"...

the fabric one haha. Nice to meet you

Just wanted to introduce myself briefly and say hello folks. I'm a nerd, I'm a dork, and I'm hoping to find some interesting ideas here, and share som...

while I can appreciate that there are Christians who treat it this way, maybe even most Christians, it does make one wonder why prayer is practiced th...

yes, that's the idea. You lose the election and you peacefully transfer power

Hell, at this point it would be an improvement to have a republican president commit to a peaceful transfer of power, and then honour that commitment.