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I am not. I am alluding to bodily identity. It is subtle, to be fair but distinct issues, imo. A perfect replica is still a replica. Is that a bit cle...
August 08, 2025 at 05:37
You don't control it. And no, you are not that. It is something which happens in your body without your knowledge. Unless you believe you consist in s...
August 08, 2025 at 05:24
I really don't think you're grasping the responses to your point. This one is a prime example. Why are they adding a new member? And if there's no par...
August 08, 2025 at 05:20
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That was a bad move, but thanks for hte clarification.
August 04, 2025 at 22:18
I didn't content they did. Not sure where this is coming from. This doesn't have much relevance to my position, or the claim, to be clear. For sake of...
August 04, 2025 at 20:22
You have explicitly moved the goal post. It is not under your volition. That is the point. You have no control over it (other than by brute force, whi...
August 04, 2025 at 20:19
This is, expressly, the problem I am having (and one I wanted to highlight within 'woke'). That is ironic, unfortunately as I think it is what's happe...
August 04, 2025 at 20:09
You have almost no control, whatsovever, over your heartbeat. It is separate to even your brain's control center. You do not control the vast, vast, v...
August 04, 2025 at 05:52
This is, expressly, the problem I am having (and one I wanted to highlight within 'woke'). That is ironic, unfortunately as I think it is what's happe...
August 04, 2025 at 05:52
Yeah, decent and absolutely worth discussing. I think there's a mistake being made though, where there's going to be a rejection of totally sound idea...
August 04, 2025 at 04:46
I have wrestled with Parfit, and his teletransporter for a couple of years now. I think this is the correct answer to the branch-line case. Any "one" ...
August 04, 2025 at 04:35
I don't understand what you're describing or trying to set up here. This doesn't jibe with anything we've said, that I can tell. The follow ons seems ...
July 31, 2025 at 20:13
Yep, agreed. That's why I resorted to saying we're talking in Circles in my reply to Antony. It seems like no start point is acceptable.
July 31, 2025 at 03:53
What i mean is that people who can provide reasons, and not either deflect (which, I think personally, Anthony is) or move on to epithets, threats, im...
July 31, 2025 at 02:03
I understand. But if the principle reduces to "certain physical descriptions as between objects and processes are invariable" then it does hte same th...
July 30, 2025 at 20:40
Yes. Of course this one example - but one of plenty. (i'm also only trying to illustrate hte attitude - not decry all 'wokists' on the same basis). I'...
July 30, 2025 at 20:06
A totally fair position, imo. For me, its hte underlying assumptions in even the use of the word "trans" in these contexts that has me thinking a bit ...
July 30, 2025 at 04:59
Well, I'm not even quite sure what you mean by that so i responded in kind, there. So yeah, not sure what you mean. You could mean a few things: 1. al...
July 30, 2025 at 00:31
They saw a 28.2% y on y drop in sales at the highest effective point in June 2023 and 20% stock loss by the end of May that year. That's about 26 Bill...
July 29, 2025 at 23:21
Hard to tell. Habermaas is one of the least-clear writers I've come across. In principle though, yes, that's fine and preferable. The question was mor...
July 29, 2025 at 20:40
That makes sense to me - and makes sense of many intuitions. I think properly, though, the word would simply be a description of a physical process (o...
July 29, 2025 at 20:31
That has nothing much to do with me. What I'm telling you is they are not synonymous (which is an empirical fact. Wokists do not play out hte tenets o...
July 29, 2025 at 20:04
Almost entirely as expected. A non-engagement. You have experiences. Either argue against that, or argue that you don't know about them. IF you do kno...
July 29, 2025 at 02:02
I'm not against IP rights. They don't sound sufficiently similar to get me to take up the case, even. I wouldn't have had the client back for a second...
July 29, 2025 at 01:58
Oh, i fully agree. I'm just putting forth what I think will prevent Banno from interacting with it sufficiently, and where I think that may be able to...
July 29, 2025 at 01:54
I think you may be missing a trick wihch is implicit in all our comments here... These are not synonymous. At all.
July 29, 2025 at 01:53
Lewis or Pierce? If Lewis, Banno rejects the premise of what he was doing. There is no sense data. The only thing i see saving this, for the purpose o...
July 29, 2025 at 01:49
This happens prior to your whim and fancy. You can't read them without thought. That's a direct cause of activity in your brain and consequently, your...
July 29, 2025 at 01:33
:up: Yeah. I think that's quite important though. Bad faith is the most common currency at the present time (maybe, always). Seems to me to be true, e...
July 29, 2025 at 01:31
I see that plenty of objections are being ignored. Such is life...
July 29, 2025 at 01:21
The transfer of certain particles from heated air (or metal, i guess) into the water, ramping up the potential kinetic energy in the water until it ca...
July 29, 2025 at 01:18
I, again, am wholly convinced you're trying to have a different discussion, and save the term from what is clearly a current actuality under its banne...
July 29, 2025 at 01:07
I see some, what I take to be, confusion in the direction of how these things work, so forgive if something seems out of step... I do not think causat...
July 28, 2025 at 20:17
The issue for me here, and this goes direct to Kim i guess, is that we need not then fall into a "physicalism of a kind" to explain the oddities which...
July 28, 2025 at 20:04
It's this part that I think falters. For the person who rejects your moral position, you wont be taken seriously. There are plenty of 'woke' 'commands...
July 28, 2025 at 20:02
Its been at least a year, and that's just since i've been here. I'll take a crack. So far so good... That's one use (but much research is equivocal as...
July 28, 2025 at 05:34
I don't think too many people would shy away from this. It's the underlying justification and detail that makes people squirm. Who holds the guns? You...
July 28, 2025 at 05:26
Morality can be rational, but there is absolutely no non-telelogical way to make it 'legitimate'. I think this is the majority of the problem people a...
July 28, 2025 at 05:24
I find it hard to understand causation, properly, in physical terms. I've been reading a bit of Kim lately and "near enough" seems the best level of e...
July 28, 2025 at 01:58
I'm not sure what you're talking about/referring to/wanting to clarify. So, maybe something below will help lol. Only my first couple of lines were ai...
July 28, 2025 at 01:54
Yes, I agree with that. I think that's possibly where you and I have fallen out on this topic previously. We don't agree on what's also going on there...
July 28, 2025 at 01:41
Embarrassingly just picked up Spinozas Ethics
July 28, 2025 at 00:36
I'm not really making an argument here, but comment (and on the two parts of the above quote separately). If qualia are private experiences, we can st...
July 28, 2025 at 00:36
One of their best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps6JhuXoRsI I'm-a gonna go, Gonna load my shot gun Point that barrel right where it hurts Ain't no ...
July 28, 2025 at 00:07
Random. Big fan - saw them in a little club here a few years back.
July 28, 2025 at 00:05
Please try to say something relevant instead of drive-by emotional outbursts, lest ye be hypocrite #1 :) Hmm. Having read several of the more substant...
July 28, 2025 at 00:04
Very much enjoying most comments here. The only thing I'd say is that it seems to me we're still in the middle of all this. We're not really past, or ...
July 28, 2025 at 00:01
So, I have three points. Please take hte first one gently, as I conclude somewhat different to how this reads (also, ignore the bolds until the conclu...
July 24, 2025 at 21:09
It would be a database. The US is woefully inadequate when it comes to record keeping, particularly cross-state and cross-department, it seems. I don'...
July 24, 2025 at 20:23
LMAO. Ooof. Luckily I'm Irish. But i did find the FOTC pretty funny. Banana balls is still one of the funniest insults i've heard.
July 24, 2025 at 03:13