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The list seems to define 'life' (and thus better addresses the OP) than a lot of the prior discussion about distinguishing 'alive' from 'dead'. The la...
April 12, 2017 at 13:14
Didn't think I claimed that. The statement references 2017, and I chose the iceberg as my example of something that does not exist in that year. Not f...
April 12, 2017 at 02:22
Is that the "I" that has no experience of 2010? How does your 2017 component come by memory of that year if it is not part of your experience?
April 12, 2017 at 01:57
This post was confusing because of the switch between A and B series references. It illustrates that it needs to be stated up front before declaring s...
April 12, 2017 at 01:57
Well, I mean exists, but I was trying to express a definition, and it seemed circular to use the word in its own definition. I exist. My third grandmo...
April 12, 2017 at 01:15
Right you are, illustrating the danger of using A-forms. I used 'exist' without a definition of it. If it means any presence in the block, then there ...
April 11, 2017 at 23:24
The B-view is almost necessary when discussing from a block viewpoint. To say 'existed' is to reference a moment in time that the view denies. The A-v...
April 11, 2017 at 17:35
You need to clarify your claim. What is "I" in that statement above? The 2017 component that has no direct experience of 2010, or the entire-worm-self...
April 11, 2017 at 16:12
The interpretation says this being does have the 2010 joys, but it does not say that the 2017 subcomponent has direct access to 2010 state (or 2020 fo...
April 11, 2017 at 15:02
You seem to expect the 2017 component of yourself to experience the 2010 joys as if they were 2017 experiences. Sort of a dualistic thinking that what...
April 11, 2017 at 13:21
Maybe the oyster just has all its parts functioning. So does a car, so having function parts does not distinguish lifeform from a non-lifeform, but it...
April 11, 2017 at 03:49
Have not read the entire thread yet, but it seems the only difference between worm theory and stage theory is the assignment of identity relationship ...
April 11, 2017 at 01:15
The infidelity example was a poor one, illustrating only that the irrational side is more often in control than the rational side, but not illustratin...
April 10, 2017 at 13:37
A dog is hardly a stretch. How about an oyster? It quite seems to have life as a whole and can be killed, yet has no apparent consciousness. A star fi...
April 10, 2017 at 04:19
You seem to be referring to the experience of some color in your OP, not the scientific definition, which is a specific narrow range of frequencies th...
April 09, 2017 at 11:36
OK. There are empirical ways to determine the point of death of something complex like a cow. The definition has changed as technology has been able t...
April 09, 2017 at 01:46
Hard to say. Have to pick an example where rational deduces something over what are seen as instinctive truths, and without the long rational story be...
April 08, 2017 at 23:36
Similarly: A difference exists between a flipped coin coming up heads vs. it coming up tails. There is no separate material that distinguishes the coi...
April 08, 2017 at 20:25
I don't think there is a separate material that distinguishes a live cow from a dead one. That belief does not preclude that the difference in state i...
April 08, 2017 at 17:39
Why would our inability to restore a complex material state imply that it must not be material? The recently dead cow has life. One can isolate a good...
April 08, 2017 at 17:04
Survival of the fittest refers to a fit species, not a fit individual. If it were the latter, the goal would be to be immortal, and while there are im...
April 08, 2017 at 12:40
I can never keep up with these conversations. Being fit. It does me no benefit to be fit, but that's how I'm programmed. I think I understand it, and ...
April 08, 2017 at 04:04
Not neccesarily. It is not the number one goal unless it is thus programmed. Survival is not my primary goal, but merely a means to the perpetuation o...
April 08, 2017 at 00:29
I actually suspect humanity is moving towards a hive-existence (only a few more small steps that those cell phones get embedded in our heads), but man...
April 07, 2017 at 12:43
"However, with what is known about the probabilistic nature of quantum physics it is certainly possible that real mental entities can exert an indepen...
September 08, 2016 at 16:59
Not sure what you might consider obeying causality, and I think different interpretations will give different answers to this. But note that there do ...
August 06, 2016 at 23:45
I'm no expert on Godel's theorems, but most of them seemed to apply to a straight deterministic single thread model with no quantum probability, Incom...
August 05, 2016 at 03:18
Morals seem to be defined by humans, sort of as part of a social contract. I don't therefore see where else from which they might come. Obviously I do...
August 05, 2016 at 03:11
You're only asking that now because I finally signed up.
July 30, 2016 at 03:57
No, more like the parental control block for my 'parents' whose network it is. They're trying to prevent me from downloading malicious stuff. This sit...
July 29, 2016 at 23:55
Sign out is under "Other sites we like". Logical.... Anyway, the problem is the hostile network. I signed out and the attempt to sign in was greeted w...
July 29, 2016 at 20:51
Using chrome 51, or IE 11 How does one sign out? Just toss my cookies? I wanted to experiment since I have the funny network up now. It obviously lets...
July 29, 2016 at 15:28
I used to be asked the capitol of England as part of the signup process last year. That was always as far as I got. I could not enter my reply. The do...
July 29, 2016 at 10:47
I was unable to sign up for over a year, and it occurs to me that it was because my attempts were from a different PC. I signed up finally on my home ...
July 29, 2016 at 02:40
In: Identity  — view comment
For humans, it rests on that memory, yes. Without it, there'd be no acts for which we can be held responsible. But the amoeba people (sentient, but re...
July 29, 2016 at 02:30
In: Identity  — view comment
And that's why they don't allow philosophical testimony in court, and also why the amoeba people wouldn't have a legal system recognizable to us. I di...
July 26, 2016 at 12:30
In: Identity  — view comment
About this Stanford quote, I would have said "reveal my relation with some past experiencer..." The quote seems concerned with numeric identity, but I...
July 26, 2016 at 01:25
In: Identity  — view comment
I don't think ethical responsibility hangs on the same sort of identity as numeric identity. A. I have primary ethical responsibility to myself, meani...
July 25, 2016 at 18:45
1 Apartments This is a fair description of a computer task scheduler. One computer (Bob) and many tasks (one or more per application for instance) eac...
July 24, 2016 at 16:04
That was the IP yesterday, after f.FP had been down a couple days, but was still recognized by the name server. Now both URLs are the new IP. It seems...
July 24, 2016 at 05:48
OK, the latter is recognized, but in "please stand by" mode. It is 104.27.132.146 whereas the former was 159.203.90.37. New server?? Thanks for the we...
July 24, 2016 at 01:14
Has probably been mentioned, but the posts are not dated. Impossible to search for where one might have left off, and I'm never sure if I'm responding...
July 23, 2016 at 23:21
Finally migrated over. Never could get past the London question. PF is no longer recognized by the name servers. Not good.
July 23, 2016 at 23:17