charleton

What causes this? Agents follow from causes too. Your conclusion is not warranted. Compatibilism is a deterministic picture which recognises the idea ...

This is about conceptualising. All experience is prior.

As I said we do not need this CONCEPT to have experience. You need to take more care with words

All nations are comprised of migrants, or descendants of migrants. The most successful of nations are those in which migration has been recently encou...

You started by saying we could have no experience without the concept of self as individual. Are you now rejecting that position? yes/no? Now you ask ...

Fuck that LOL. Here I am dying of bowl cancer in great pain with defecting all over my death bed, but before I am allowed to die with some dignity I h...

Think about child psychology. From the womb in the first couple of years is where conceptualising starts to occur. But experience predicates it all. W...

Yes. I don't see the problem with a mini elephant. Or a mouse with thick legs. It would not be very agile but I do not think per se it would be a dang...

Duh. Have you thought about the possibility that is might come from experience?

There is no implication in the video that the number of cells or the internal structural architecture necessary for that to occur is in the video. As ...

You have a weird way of thinking. We do not need a concept of individuation to have experience. Experience underlies all conceptualising. Living thing...

It's you who have failed to think of all the possibilities. What kind of enlargement? I posited TWO. Neither of which leads to a living giant mouse.

Determinism states that at no single nexus of events a person could have acted otherwise. If we suppose that determinism is true, then where does that...

If you enlarge a mouse then the cells would break down as you would be enlarging the cells too. If you enlarge the mouse you would be enlarging the ca...

Not ridiculous but you are. The cells of a mouse the size of an elephant would be too big. The number, size and distribution of capillaries too few; f...

"Should the intent and personal opinions of a philosopher be considered when interpreting his work?" On the face of it this is the most obvious questi...

A mouse the size of an elephant would be stranded with those tiny legs, unable to move as it overheats, incapable of cooling its bulk as it heart beat...

To you basic science is absurd, we already know that. Whilst it might be possible for a mouse to reduce the number of its mitochondria, it is likely t...

irrelevant

Mammoths do not have a moral code, yet humans' moral codes ofter are said to include considerations as to the health of the ecosystems and environment...

NOT "inherently" bad - obviously !!

Always fresh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNkWac-Nm0A

No it means that what humans do, YOU think is bad. Good and Evil are just value judgements.

Is there any difference between the universe existing, and a universe in which a few humans think there is a god in the existing universe?

Human migration displaced millions of species habitats, rendered countless species extinct, and destroyed native and natural environments.

Moral??? Are you kidding? We are ALL migrants.

That's the problem with all hypotheticals. If they are possible, knowing the causes answers the hypothetical, offering no new information. In matters ...

There can be no case for state assisted suicide.. Suicide is not a decision or act that any state can be trusted to assist. The best we can hope for i...

I can have the same discussion about logic, and hence reason, being antithetical to believe too if you want. I can also have a discussion about the re...

:) Yes I was always puzzled by the Incredible Shrinking Man. How the hell did he manage to break surface tension of water to have a drink? What was ha...

Your use of these terms is has no utility. Since you want to use the "rational" definition of "belief" to self justify your silly religious Faith. Thi...

The square cube law can be used to explain why shrinking or expanding animals would be disastrous just in terms of mechanics without about of the biol...

Is this thread going to descend into a discussion of Buriden's Ass? As I have a solution.

Belief is a thing taken to be true regardless of evidence, information or reason. This, although, can be confused with "knowledge" is not the same thi...

This is simply nonsense. 1) You say some shit 2) I doubt that shit, based on knowledge. Faith based belief has nothing to do with it. Like I told you ...

Exactly. Belief is useless and unimportant. I'm only interested in knowledge. You make my point for me.

RE- call. Implies memory. Remember last week? No memory is internal, but recalls experiences we conceive of as external. I did not think I could be mo...

Specious nonsense. I don't care how religion defines faith. I can tell what it is. And here you encapsulated the double standard, which I mention abov...

1) we have experiences. 2) we can recall those experiences. 3) Recalling experience is not the same as experiencing a second time. 4) If we define exp...

No we recall experience. We experience ourselves continually in a way BUT...I think it makes more sense to define experience as as an interaction with...

There are two meanings to faith which characters like you switch between when it suits you. 1) Trust based on experience and knowledge. 2) Faith with ...

I imagine my education on this matter exceeds your own. You have not begun to make your case.

It's not a cause though is it?

Explain what this magical force "evolution" is and how it is causative! LOL ]

There are no better words than last words.

DO you want to parse that again??

Science can show you brain patterns with a colourful scanner, but has no access to emotional, political and social ideas which simply do not conform t...

Per se, there was nothing else. God was assumed. They did not need "ID" per se. Aristotle attributed to things a fourth cause or telos. Naturalism was...

these last words