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No it can't. These concepts were invented by humans. Animals have no notions (possibly, at all, but at least) of these things. No they aren't. They ar...

:ok: Thank you for saving me time lol

I don't think that's the case. And I addressed that. Nice. I don't think so, no. We do not need to know what constitutes the 'homunculus' to know abou...

No i don't, and I am utterly done with going int he circle you lead yourself in. Your words are getting you into a muddle that i have tried for two pa...

:nerd: nice. I agree with those sentiments

None of this relates to the discussion/distinction we're talking about. We are perceivers - I was trying to avoid the chess move a lot like to make wh...

Hey Tom - fwiw, my responses in that thread in which we had a disagreement are somewhat pursuant to the aim of not heading down this path of pathologi...

That depends on what your conception of a perceiver is. It is the experient. The consciousness who apprehends the end-result of the process of percept...

if a process which necessarily disconnects the end receiver from the distal object is “direct”, alrighty :)

But they couldn't possibly be this. It isn't a move open to you, and you have rejected the two possible versions where it's true: physical objects in ...

Reducing the inputs of data to a system would probably reduce the instances of possible misfiring. This seems fairly normal inference to me..

You have agreed with the description given by myself and others of the process of human perception. That description is indirect. So, I'm just going t...

Then I need not say more on the previous. You accept that our perception is necessarily indirect by understanding that our visual system doesn’t give ...

Saving this comment space for a full reply as it’s dinner time. But, so that I can leave it off later - I’m not going to give an account of direct per...

I was online ten minutes early and waited until 15 after the start time twiddling my thumbs. It was an uphill battle anyhow :P Another time! Perhaps s...

The reply we are both referring to in turn here, is the one you have quoted. The passage is here: The point being, this wasn't to impugn anything part...

It’s possible my reply to you didn’t land because this was directly addressed, in relation to at least one other commenter. I invite you to reread wha...

Not really. We’re presented with perverse incentives to purchase, but that’s more a matter of individual will.

:lol: Very real

It would have been good if either this, or your other conception of the conflict, were actually agree upon in the first pages of this thread. Read tog...

Tis a TPF meet-up via AVL - if any are interested, or want to suggest better timing.

It wasn't a rational thing to do. You seem to want to be in this category of rationalising 9/11. That is your choice. Being anti-USA enough to think t...

Are you serious, my brethren? Im now simply happy to say the size of your ego is impressive. Responses to your posts, from my estimation, are largely ...

I can't make a huge amount from those passages. I realise Frege is who he is in the history of Phil and particularly language use. So, may i despair a...

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Have either of you read Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead? You're coming eerily close to his method of trying to ascertain a moral calcula...

Anything that tries to rationalise 9/11 probably shouldn't be taken very seriously. It was not a rational event, or action to take.

Oh, I see what you mean. Perhaps. I've spoken to him extremely briefly and he came across pretty robust, but wrong. I think he's trying to say that pe...

Ah piss. He comes across, to me, like an Emo lyricist of the 19th Century. It's mainly just him wallowing in his own filth and projecting on others. N...

What about Kantof Hume? Hehehe. He seems to have basically invented his own use of things like "language" "reality", "thought" and "object" and then r...

I agree. Wittgenstein, though, is not treated this way by the majority of his adherents. Plus, I was being a little bit more negative - I think he mak...

:ok: Except Deepak? hehe

A parochial example of where Sex and Gender come apart - and it matters. This minister is using trans people as a political football here. It's 'despi...

Are you serious my guy? Your self image is a rather impressive edifice Oh, interesting. :)

I am an antinatalist. I suppose providing ultimate joy would be cool but eradication is a safer bet

oh. I see…

So, this isn't meant to be the usual dig it would be in a face-to-face conversation: Im not 'suggesting' anything - exactly what i wrote is my positio...

Woah - Has Vaskane deleted his account and become Arne?

Id be interested to hear your take on how Morality exists outside of that context or, more discreetly: What does morality consist in, on your view?

Fwiw, even on my slightly adjusted Indirect Realist account, this is still the case.

Hmm, a few things to unpack here. Up-top, it's worth noting that this is not my position - It is my trying to clarify Timothy's. His account seems to ...

I think you would need to support this with some pretty exceptionally spectacular empirical evidence. Even accepting that premise, much of the rest of...

I really don't think this issue involves morality. That is one of the chief problems I have with almost every activist I've ever encountered in any me...

I saw half of your comment. Probably good you deleted it, but I'd like to say: ignoring the hyperbolic language, I think you merely let yourself say y...

Hehe, this is a two way street. And that fact (illustrated in a moment) provides me ample evidence that your position is not stable: You can claim thi...

While I am somewhat sympathetic to the line you're taking, no. No one but an authority has conferred any rights, ever. Philosophers have discussed the...

Just chiming in - To me, Hegel is ridiculous, pompous and barely says anything interesting, in my opinion. it is no wonder he inspired some of the mos...

I believe they would find a way to instantaneously eradicate all sentient life. We wouldn't know or care. Nothing would happen from our perspective.

Grievous Bodily Shame.

This confuses me. I don't think that, haven't said that. Enforceability is what i've talked about. Not non-violability. A right wouldn't be a right if...