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I don't think you understand what many of the phrases being used in this exchange mean. My knowledge is based on the scientific explication of these c...
August 29, 2025 at 04:40
Who did? Kant? Sure. There's no reason to deny that physical objects cause perception of physical objects. I think probably the distinction you want t...
August 29, 2025 at 04:23
Yes, good point. Now you're cooking.
August 29, 2025 at 04:03
For the exact same reason we call a burned CD pirated. Audibly indistinguishable, but one is original and one is note. These are facts that seem to ma...
August 29, 2025 at 03:50
But at the moment immediately after B comes into existence, they have diverged. That's crucial, and being missed.
August 28, 2025 at 20:09
Then all physical jobs, of any kind, are prostitution. But that is obviously, and clearly ridiculous. If for no other reason than "prostitute" serves ...
August 28, 2025 at 20:08
The post-cloned original isn't a descendant of anyone. They are the same person. The clone isn't a descendant either. They are a copy. When you burn a...
August 28, 2025 at 20:07
Yes, and that's the general consensus because we already create entities in our minds, in waking and sleeping consciousness. There is literally zero r...
August 28, 2025 at 20:03
That, again, ignores what matters here. I'm going to just leave it, because it seems like statistics aren't really working here. They can't, as best a...
August 28, 2025 at 19:58
No, thanks. It's quite correct.
August 28, 2025 at 19:53
Words aren't abstract. They are sounds (or, written symbols). They are not like numbers. So, no, i don't mean to say that. It might be worth reducing ...
August 28, 2025 at 19:52
This is key. Even on relatively acceptable arguments about psychological continuity being what matters for continued existence, this difference will a...
August 28, 2025 at 19:36
Oh Banno. When you're older, you'll understand this a bit better.
August 28, 2025 at 05:00
The worst I've read is a piece by a philosopher unfortunately, Andrea Long Chu. I came into it in good faith. I'd been told that this writer was parti...
August 28, 2025 at 04:21
I'm not sure i understand hte question there. Can be a little clearer? I've never said words cannot be given between interlocutors, to my knowledge. I...
August 28, 2025 at 04:13
It's like because its trite, immature and ignores the specific criteria that causes prostitution to obtain. Also, attempting to denigrate other pursui...
August 28, 2025 at 04:11
Unfortunately bud, this is the exact wrong reading. I have posted the statistics in full elsewhere, because they are on my desktop computer at home, b...
August 27, 2025 at 22:50
In good company - I agree, tentatively.
August 27, 2025 at 22:46
Not at all, I've explained in quite minute detail why this is hte case, on my account. This would have been a clearer way to illustrate hte point, tha...
August 27, 2025 at 22:46
Run this for those who bag on Trump? Is that protesting too much? I don't care, that just seems an odd double standard to raise.
August 27, 2025 at 20:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9LnBNbd3s Lula was a girl from a humble town She had a mean drunk daddy; liked to push her around He sold what he ca...
August 27, 2025 at 20:24
I am currently obsessed with this guy from Nebraska, by way of Nashville named Evan Bartels. Dude has some of the most incredible songs I've heard in ...
August 27, 2025 at 20:19
Skyfall was also amazing, so James Bond has a knack for decent tunes even now.
August 27, 2025 at 20:14
That does not seem right, at all. There is no cessation of consciousness during sleep. There is a dampening. Your pre-and-sub-conscious are all fully ...
August 27, 2025 at 20:14
Hmm, the problem with this is that it is not. What is a lack of emotional intelligence is thinking that someone else can say something which carries w...
August 27, 2025 at 20:09
Right, so what I've said is this: You are either lying, or not reading my responses before replying. The latter is impossible, since you're quoting my...
August 27, 2025 at 19:51
This is exactly wrong. You don't know how you produce your every-day experiences, let alone hallucinations. There is simply zero reason to entertain h...
August 27, 2025 at 19:37
I am, quite explicitly, not. On a psychological conception, it doesn't change anything about what i've said. Either you survive or you don't. The intu...
August 27, 2025 at 19:35
I think this is well-worded. The noumena aren't necessarily esoteric, just as if they are in a room we can't access, so its not as 'mysterious' as one...
August 27, 2025 at 19:34
Yeah, reading it back it's confusing. My point is the 'truth' seems to function the way I've described, anyway. The example to give, which I think is ...
August 27, 2025 at 04:46
I've actually not seen/read Notebook. Possibly aging myself (downward...). Yes, it's pretty difficult. I found it extremely hard to conceive of my dem...
August 27, 2025 at 04:07
Hmm. What else is there to truth? I can't see anything particularly special about observing directly something B which is logically required for A to ...
August 27, 2025 at 03:26
You're missing the point. We do this, and gain secure inferences which are not part of the logical or empirical assessments at hand. I don't quite see...
August 27, 2025 at 01:26
Beautiful track. Chris is quite an underrated lyricist. Tbf, he has one of the most incredibly voices humans have produced, so can see why.. lol.
August 27, 2025 at 01:19
This comes somewhat from the context (which is why I gave myself an out for misunderstanding) but I'll give it a go: Partial survival would mean partl...
August 27, 2025 at 01:12
How I feel is not observable, but the truth of it exist only within myself and cannot be observed, even by me, because I am having the feelings. Direc...
August 27, 2025 at 01:07
I think it is quite clear that what's being pushed back on is the hijacking of progressive ideals within a non-progressive social framework. The contr...
August 26, 2025 at 23:32
Not to me. These functions are optimized in different places. I don't think reading/crunching numbers is one where 'feelings' are helpful as opposed t...
August 26, 2025 at 20:31
I don't think this is right. Either you survive or you don't. How you survive certain seems up for grabs, but there you cannot be 'part there'. You're...
August 26, 2025 at 20:27
A fair point. I can't say I'd think the same. I would also add that lucidity, at times, tends to come with all but end-stage degenerative mental disea...
August 26, 2025 at 20:25
False. I have given you the reasons people are made uncomfortable. This occurs when anyone does it. I cannot grasp how you're missing what's being put...
August 26, 2025 at 20:23
Because I am intelligent, and it is occurring inside my head. There is nothing to be explained. We understand how this occurs. We create entities cons...
August 26, 2025 at 20:05
Interesting, thanks for the clarification. That seems fundamentally way less off the mark :P I suppose my point was more than, as a third party, we wo...
August 26, 2025 at 00:10
Yes, very meaningful distinction (no sarcasm). Thanks for that.
August 26, 2025 at 00:08
Oh, i'm definitely with you. It was just a comment on the version put forward in the OP (i.e the world in which a mind exists - which is not hte exter...
August 26, 2025 at 00:02
Oh, word? Good shit.
August 25, 2025 at 23:25
Obviously not.
August 25, 2025 at 22:52
I disagree, but i get the joke ;)
August 25, 2025 at 22:48
its also the general scholarly consensus, best I can tell.
August 25, 2025 at 21:15
No. This is clearly bollocks. I gave you several reasons, which have nothing to do with being trans. Please stop putting words in my mouth. You may. M...
August 25, 2025 at 21:12