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You are only justified in thinking the coin is PROBABLY loaded. As you know, there is no such thing as a finite sequence of tosses incompatible with e...

There is another option: it is not the brain that is conscious, but the abstraction instantiated on the brain. i.e. consciousness is a software featur...

Strictly it's subjectivity, which they (and fundamental particles) lack.

You may have experienced the situation where you become aware that you are in a particular state, when you were previously unaware. This can happen to...

Crows are among the handful of animals whose behaviours seem to refute the idea that animals are not conscious beings - i.e. they lack subjectivity. N...

You're not joking! "An historic act of devastating incompetence!" Assange confirms the entire CIA cyber weapons arsenal is available on the black mark...

Sure, and right now the flowers are full of the joys of spring. Whatever state a dog happens to be in, it cannot know it is in that state. If it could...

And since humans know about the big bang and quantum mechanics, it's certain that fish know that the earth orbits the sun. Pretty sure that's how evol...

There is no evidence, nor reason to suppose animals have consciousness. If animals could create "what-it-is-like-to-see-red" knowledge, then what is t...

Assange may indeed have much of that ability, as have others. Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware,...

Looks like the Germans may prosecute over the CIA hacker base in Frankfurt!

I think you've missed the point of "Vault 7 Part One". It was these very cyber-attack tools that were used to wire-tap Trump and his transition team d...

Panpsychics have no clue how the subjectivity imputed to individual fundamental particles might combine to form the unified subjectivity of a person. ...

The facts are that Bangladesh is gaining land, has suffered no increase in cyclones, and has benefited enormously from CO2 fertilization.

You mean the Bangladesh that achieved record rice and record total cereal production in 2015? Last year's harvest being marginally below that record. ...

The "robot problem" is actually a version of the "combination problem", which is the most significant problem facing panpsychism.

What is the mountain of evidence that global warming is a bad thing?

Granted that all the fundamental particles are conscious, then PP can't answer why the robot, qua robot, is not conscious. The panpsychic might protes...

Can it answer a question like, "Why is this robot not conscious?" For some reason, no one takes the claim of PanVitalism seriously: that fundamental p...

I think it is you that is missing the point. It is a well known problem for panpsychism - the combination problem. Even if you insist that each electr...

Really? We have one problem - how to explain consciousness - which panpsychism actually doesn't help us with, plus it causes a whole host of other pro...

Doesn't seem to get round the "robot problem" - i.e. to grant a robot qualia requires a change in its programming, not its matter.

I we want to give a robot subjectivity - i.e. "what it is like" knowledge, we have to program it that way. Swapping out a hard-drive, or adding more m...

Why is my subjectivity unaffected when I have a hair cut?

Instead of applying the knowledge argument to Mary, let's apply it to a robot. The robot has been programmed with all knowledge of light, but is unabl...

I have just been made aware, via my extensive philosophical network, that critics of Philip Goff might like to sharpen their arguments between now and...

Sure, an uncountable infinity of real numbers exist within any finite interval, but you can't identify them and can't distinguish them. None of these ...

What is the first number after 0 according to Peirce? What is the first number after 0 according to mathematics - i.e. Cantor/Dedekind/Cauchy et al? I...

What is the first number after 0?

But surely you are aware that the set of real numbers is complete?

What is discrete in the Reals? What aspect of the Reals is being inadequately represented by this discrete thing?

And those later objections have been swept aside. Cantor was the first to rigorously define the continuum in 1870s and all the dissenters have been fo...

What? Have you not been paying attention? The continuum was discovered via set theory!

OOps! Hydropower now proved to cause dangerous global warming. Officially no longer "green". https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/11/949/275...

What does "dividing" even mean? If you mean that you can take an interval of the Reals, well we learned how to do that at school, so we can do it. We ...

There certainly isn't, but don't discount the worlds fastest growing source of energy, which nearly matches oil in terms of energy production - coal. ...

Well, you can certainly partition the continuum of the Reals wherever you wish.

The UK also has vast stores of hydrocarbons that could be fracked - hundreds of years worth, but Scotland prefers to import US fracked gas.

I described the facts behind biofuels - increased CO2, forest and habitat destruction, subsidies, but forgot to mention the inevitable increase in foo...

So long as you consider massive subsidies and destruction of primary forest habitats "commercially viable", which it certainly is if you are in receip...

You're not joking are you?

Nuclear fission works quite well.

Could you give an example of how you "actually" divide a continuum, and "introduce a discontinuity"?

Literally Hitler, and there are many of these: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/adolf-hitler-donald-trump-mein-kampf-bluffed-way-to-po...

We know it for sure, because that's the media narrative. Don't forget, Trump and his non-haters are literally Hitler.

If you are looking for a set of rules to impose on others, then perhaps it is ambiguous. However, if you are looking for a moral theory with which to ...

Do not harm the methods of error correction.

Sure, when PROVED wrong, just ignore it.

You will need to dismantle Relativity as well as Set Theory, not to mention reason if you want to maintain a "totality of facts". e.g. https://en.wiki...

But the particle must be within one of the discrete grooves.