If there is 'nothing out there' corresponding to your perception (which you have very expressly positied) then, no. It isn't anything. It represents n...
That may be your opinion. Not mine. I disclaim that Graham is a personal friend, and has been for quite some time. That said, yeah - pretending that h...
Yeah see, this is, on it's face, a totally contradictory set of claims. It represents nothing, unless there is a real thing to which you are referring...
As is this: The Immortality Key Unfortunately, he gets mystical about it, instead of anthropological. But the synthesis is good. Appreciate you linkin...
I'm not sure that's the case. As best I can tell, on multiple readings and having traversed probably half a million words in analysis (I include lectu...
This doesn't make much sense, and I have no idea what you're getting at. Anyone paying any attention to the temperature of the USA over the last 12 mo...
The problem I, and it seems plenty of other very intelligent people, have with this conception of both Kant's intention, and the (relatively) plain re...
All i can really say is, hehehe. This was the obvious outcome. It seemed clear to me at least a year out. I very much hope Mikie is getting the help h...
This is what I was trying to get at, but there's no real explanation for why this is the case other than 'it's required for what we take to be experie...
I think this can be fairly easily sorted out with a question: Is your position that a Zygote and an Adult Human are the same thing? This seems, to me,...
Really good point worth distilling here - you cannot have thoughts without separation of objects/concepts/abstractions. This requires a spatial aspect...
Which, contra your previous comments, the "DK effect" as described in your proferrings presents a valuable, discreet metric along which to deply the D...
I agree with this, and I think this is why this particular debate always ends up coming down to a 'gut feeling', such as that contains any meaning. I'...
I would posit this as the most important, clear, contradiction in your thinking. If they are not 'different thing's then they cannot be alternate stat...
The preceding line attests to my assent :P This is me using Banno's point in a way I think is slightly less pedantic, and more effective (to me, perso...
I don't think anyone worth speaking to could deny this. Yet, Banno's flimsy point beats it. No reasonable person could read all three beings as morall...
Whatever you're talking about has nothing to do with me. This is not a position i hold/deny/have had much thought about. Since you've mentioned it, I ...
I think what's trying (imo, quite badly) to do is point out that your argument (i.e how you would assess the question yourself) is inapt for much of a...
Not at all. Their output makes vaguely more sense - which is not enough to shift the burden on to me. They provide no access to clarity - it's usually...
Neither of these apply to your title. You're welcome. Is, unfortunately, that flowery language intended to refer to proper concepts and ideas, lacking...
That's not true, at all. Men creating a zygote tethers them to a legal requirement that can be absolutely life-destroying for a man who did not intend...
The etymology of 'agnostic' leads directly to the definition i gave "Not-knowledge". A-gnostic. I hear what you're saying, but these are attempts to u...
Unfortunately, I am always left with a really sour taste upon being handed anything that comes with a 'you have to wait until you click with it' type ...
No, not quite. Deism is belief in a pervasive force of creation. Some resort to the Gaia version of this when they want to personalize it, but it has ...
I suppose that just depends on what way you're comfortable presenting hte notion. I mean to say that there are things that exist outside of minds, and...
I have been able to extend my vocal range down from an unstable (or at least inconsistent) E2 (2nd-lowest E on a grand) down to a B1 (2nd-lowest B on ...
"big history" is a great enemy for the Libertarians among us hahaha. Do you mean to ask whether there are members who have never posted? Seems like yo...
Personally, my issue with Stoicism is that 'when it fails', there's not a way to reason yourself back to it. It's a mental state. I think the tenets (...
Now you are. Morality is strictly to do with how we treat one another. A Zygote is not a 'one another'. This is probably the only intuition of Banno's...
In fairness, 'interesting' has no moral valence. It is interesting, historically speaking. But this is a digression. I would just have made this point...
We wouldn't know, or care. That's not a moral consideration. None of this is the case, and the quote you responded to points each out. There is no inc...
See my comment a couple above yours (assume you have, just using a figure of speech). Clarity seems to be the biggest difference between the two 'camp...
Hmm. I see. So, ethics must be a bi-directional consideration (i.e if we are to act, only acts related to other moral actors matter?) Novel - and I'm ...
It isn't a premise. Once again, you do not know the words you are using. This is senseless. It literally does not mean anything of value to the conver...
LOL. I think I'm still curious as to why you, Banno, think there's such a stark ethical difference between the embryo and the person (i assume you're ...
Not sure what you're asking, or what 'diversion' you're pointing at? What position are you wanting steelmanned? I haven't given 'a position'. I've sol...
This shows me clearly you are not on the ball. THe are two separate objections, based on the two possible avenues you could claim to be running in. Ne...
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