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This wasn't for me, but I read it and I have thoughts. I think the problem is so much simpler than the chapter illustrates (and it seems most intuitio...

Again, I don't see the problem? Why would we assume there's purpose to anything? That said, you may be interested in one of my profs work I'm not move...

I have to say, I'm not so sure. Billions in communities outside the West see, for instance. Honour killings as a requirement, morally. All but the vic...

I don't see how. That meaning lives within your head - this is the basis for misunderstanding, right? You react badly to something I thought was clear...

I don't see that this is a problem. If you weren't suggesting so, sorry. It seems so..

I admit, I do not know what you are asking, really. But on its face, no. It isn't. It can't be.

Well, it's not though. It is not possible for my actions to be offense, or to be offended. The offense exists solely, and inarguably, in your reaction...

I think that's true, but uses of genuine and fake are various. I know you've taken my point, I just want to be clear that these concepts are not as cu...

I see you continue to refuse to answer the simple question posed. OK then. That is a shame. You made the claim. Stop answering with questions, and ans...

You made a claim. I've challenged it. You are not answering hte challenge. So be it. Further, I didn't say that. You claimed it about me. I asked a sp...

In the scenario I gave you, what suffering have I endured?

If at all... It may be that (as with further fact types) there is no perdurance occurring in the machines output.

You could answer the question, please good sir, instead of prevaricating. In the scenario i just gave you, what have i suffered, without something mor...

:lol: Nice. All too telling (not about you, to be clear)..

Offense is not given. So yes, it does as that does not obtain.

You outlined facts about the teletransporter and said they obtained in those terms. If that wasn't the claim, i suggest that was incredibly unclear. B...

I've asked what suffering. You've not answered. You receive information from my personal email account (clandestine, we assume). What have I suffered ...

This is where I think the problem lies. They will say "I have direct knowledge of this, as do other Christians" (or whatever sect). You and I would la...

I don't think that's quite true, anymore. I will resile, though, as I have given ample reason to take that seriously ("my truth"). When I've asked, th...

You have just said something unreasonable. Or you're trolling. Either way, previous comments stand.

I have an answer, from someone else. "The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that...

This seems problematic. Your concept of 'good manners' is probably not close to universal, so 'demanding' anything along those lines is probably not g...

No, I think the issue is that if we don't even agree on what's 'real' then we cannot discuss anything other than speculations. That is absolutely a cu...

Trollish? There is no chance you're here in good faith. As noted, you could review the exchanges where i have said things like "I do not think this is...

What suffering?

Sure, as night pointed out, rejecting does not mean accepting it as false. However, we can absolutely set it to one side until something even vaguely ...

If someone does not think prostitution is a legitimate job, in the same way they do not think raising one's own children is not a legitimate job, that...

No, they just are not relevant to what I'm pointing out. I've bene over why some of your responses are unreasonable at the time i responded to them. I...

Guys, let's just leave him to it. Nothing is going to move someone who is capable, in earnest, of responding to Fire's post with this: "That, to me, i...

Double-edged. For some, surely that'll be the case. For most, they know what they know and that's all they can go on. In this way, most people probabl...

Generally speaking, we do not walk into or out of teletransporters. Can you perhaps make it a bit more explicit how those facts obtain in that way? An...

Several things, but that wasn't what I was trying to point out. It seems, perhaps, my optimism was misplaced though: What you have quoted is my trying...

Do you not see that what Fireologist is outlining is exactly the situation which would lead you to say this? Obviously, that doesn't close any books b...

Reacting to one's environment. Perhaps awareness isn't the right word, but my recollection of The Conscious Mind tells me those terms are used as note...

Anything negative i've said about you personally(though, i take it I haven't, just being funny here) can be rescinded and in fact, reversed, based on ...

Is it not possible they - knew - and decided to not react to what might happen, and run the ad campaign anyway? That would have been my position on th...

Something like that strikes me as highly plausible. I think that's roughly the Chalmersian take too - but he calls awareness without experience consci...

I cannot help a horse put its snout in the water. I explained in extreme detail why this is the exact wrong description of what's happened. Onward, i ...

An absolutely excellent encapsulation of the issue. Thanks for that.

I think awareness and consciousness differ, but they might be hte same genus. In that way, I can see how panpsychism could be illusory purely in the s...

Have you had a look through the previous pages? I think much of what you might want to canvas has been brought to the table and discussed. Have fun :P

I've addressed this twice. You can either review the exchange, where I noted that numerical identity bakes this aspect in (i.e there isn't a question....

Likely, because non-Woke don't suppose to tell what others should do most of the time. But yeah, it's better for their mental health if they ignore it...

Its essentially an urban myth that Winterval caused any uproar. What actually happened was, initially, nothing at all. In 1998 a Bishop made some stup...

I would suggest "beyond me", for you at this stage.

*facepalm*. And the examples write themselves.

I think this is entirely wrong. We're looking at something observable, not abstract. We need to look at what actually happens in the world. Causation ...

You really need to re-read this exchange. This is no longer a relevant question, and its one I've directly answered in two different ways. Please revi...

I've not insulted you once. I've laid out exactly how incoherent your utterings are. They are, patently, out of step with reality. Everyone can see th...

Could you perhaps refrain from not answering anything, and just throwing these sorts of things out? I'm trying to understand you, but you seem to want...