Metaphysician Undercover

It's a lot more precise than how you make it out. Imagine, the assassin sights the target. The window of opportunity is short, and the decision must b...

In this section, "Existentialism", I have difficulty to understand what is meant by "particular science", and "substantive content", in the following ...

You appear to be incorrectly applying some sort of theory of cause and effect. You did no such thing. I willfully criticized your act of arranging wor...

So you say, but will you demonstrate that you actually believe what you say? Otherwise you are just showing that you know how to arrange words in an i...

AI at this point is not capable of giving any "semblance of truth". Yes, it can very aptly "summarize accepted fact", and you might want to use it for...

I think the problem is, that if change happens over time, and a person can always change one's mind as time passes, then how does that state of not be...

You don't see the difference between stating a number of possibilities, and selecting one possibility? Come on Harry, where's your mind at? I'm sittin...

Sorry, my mistake, I wasn't thinking when i wrote that. I didn't adequately grasp what you were asking. I didn't say that content precedes form did I?...

Content is logically prior, by Aristotelian logic, in the way I explained. And also the way that Adorn described, "the whole which is expressed by the...

Exactly, and that is the point. To choose not to decide is an example of a type of choice which escapes your description of what a choice is, which wa...

It is the concluding paragraph of that section, where he talks about the remainder, which is an instance of non-identity. In the last few sections he'...

But that's the mistake of dialectical identity thinking which Adorno is exposing with negative dialectics. The two are not properly dialectically oppo...

This is actually how philosophy can help one to achieve a better, more restful, sleep at night. Your own mundane problems will keep you awake at night...

I don't think we can accurately talk about real points within what is assumed to be a continuous process. This is the problem with representing the en...

I think we are very much in agreement here. Where we disagree is concerning the finer points of how he gets to this conclusion, and exactly how to und...

I really don't see how your analogy about the two rivers is relevant. The question is, could the person, at the time prior to stepping into the river,...

Well, quite often I decide not to choose, or decide to do something completely different, totally unrelated to A and B. How is this compatible with ho...

Then that ought to be stated with reference, instead of ""If the mind emerges from physical processes..." which implies that you believe it is possibl...

That's not a nice thought. But the answer is no, those are diapers not cargo pants.

There are dualist cosmologies. That's why arbitrarily ruling them out, as you do in your op with "If the mind emerges from physical processes...", pro...

If you are not educated in classical philosophy, then you are excused for not being acquainted with the cosmological argument. However, I am sure you ...

That's two good reasons, as "the basis" which you asked for. Why do you ask for more?

Yes, there is a number of reasons to believe that materialism is false. We have our experience of free will choice for one. And there is also the cosm...

Substantiality and Method In this section, I think Adorno attributes substantiality to society. The following are two key passage which I believe indi...

I object to what you take for granted: You take materialism to be true, and when confronted with the possibility that it might be false, you adopt the...

Once it's been said, it can be said to be said. Isn't language beautiful?

Each speaker has one's own idiosyncrasies. Even those who grow up in the same very closely knit family, as brothers and sisters, will develop unique s...

I don't see the point. I agree, a choice made cannot be changed. But this does not negate the proposition that one could have made a different choice ...

What do you mean by "one time"? Do you deny that a person can deliberate, procrastinate, or otherwise delay in decision making, such that the choice o...

The question is not whether someone can change a choice which is already made, but whether one could have, at that time, the time when the choice was ...

Your desire to be convinced is the problematic attitude. It's an attitude which rejects possibilities opting only for that which one is convinced of. ...

Or, we simply disagree with your premises (e.g. "mind arises from matter"), which you prefer to take for granted rather than to discuss.

There might be a chip for that. The scary thing about interacting with AI, is when it interacts with you without you knowing. But I guess that's nothi...

That's Plato, one of the best philosophers ever. He's all jokes, all the way through, until you hit the "Laws", the most mundane and boring work ever,...

Time for a showdown. Instead of Deep Blue against Kasparov, we'll pit chatGPT against ...(?)... in a debate. Oh shit, I just used Google to remember G...

Yes, I definitely think there is a market for small batch pasteurizing. Then we could have a variety of different milks to choose from in the market. ...

i suppose, you know the way trends go. There is a bit of a trend toward raw milk right now. Some people think it's better to let their kids get expose...

There's many different brands of cows too. Holstein likes to corner the market because they are designed for quantity rather than quality. But each fa...

I would agree, neither one is true, but they each offer principles for an approach. And, I think it's very clear that dualism offers better principles...

There is no such thing as a closed physical system, so we can dismiss this as a non-issue.

It's no secret that Trump would like to see a regime change in Venezuela. Is he trying to irk them into a response, so he has an excuse to attack? If ...

Obviously, there's a bunch of old men around here.

What's with trump's seemingly random attacks on South American vessels? Is he looking for war?

My buddy has a weak bladder and often has to pee in a plastic bag when driving, then he leaves it at a gas station.

If copying AI makes them look smarter than they are, that's pretty sad.

I think most serious philosophers work very hard to maintain consistency with empirical evidence. Otherwise it would be just like pure mathematics, wh...

Then your op is misleading. I thought you said you were putting forth an argument. Anyone can put forth wild, unsupported speculation, but to claim th...

My point was that such a proposal lacks soundness.

Let me see if I understand what you are saying. If there are aspects of the universe which we cannot understand, we could assume a law of physics whic...

The laws of physics are what is stated by physicists according to their understanding. Even if we assume that the stated laws of physics correspond wi...