The CIA has always had the capacity to tap my phone, find out whatever information they want about me, and I'm sure they could have me killed if they ...
The problem with colour is not as straight forward as measuring with a ruler. The colours which we see are combinations of different wavelengths, and ...
Well I don't think you can prevent governments from having a "warfare arsenal". That's just a matter of fact that we must live with, and they claim th...
Tom is trying to backtrack, and tone down that rhetoric, now saying that animals lack a certain "type" of knowledge. But that's a rather meaningless s...
That's what I've been trying to explain to you, an image is a representation. Since the image is never exactly the same as the thing represented, it i...
You haven't considered the possibility that the whistle blower has created the "dangerous waters" which is being reported, just like the fireman who l...
I don't know about this "surface" you refer to. The coin consists of molecules which consists of atoms. What constitutes this so-called "surface"? And...
I really haven't seen "the reason" yet, so I can't say whether I agree or disagree. Perhaps we can clarify this reason, so I can make a decision. So t...
Actually I have tried short sessions in the past, 10 or 15 minutes, I liked to make a short go, take a break and then another go. I might have done th...
With a microscope, molecules can be "seen", so they must be reflecting or emitting some light, or electrical charge. Anyway, that's beside the point. ...
This is where I can't get to, seeing through my own stuff. Suppose I want an extended period of meditation, so I tell my wife I'm going on the mountai...
Exactly, you don't see the individual molecules, because your sensing system is interpreting what's there as one object, not a whole bunch of objects....
Is this really the case though? Is the outcome of an atom colliding with another atom really probabilistic, or is it deterministic? And are the action...
That's assuming general relativity provides us with an accurate model of things at this scale. But we can consider that the concept of "event horizon"...
Apparently, God does forgive. I think that human forgiving is an extension of the divine forgiving. The "going to hell" statement is not well defined....
That's what's called forgiving. In Christianity forgiving is a very important aspect of how one approaches "the sinner". To forgive is to accept the f...
Well, I admit it is impossible to do that in any absolute sense. We each do it in our own little way, but that's why subjectivity is so important, we ...
If there was evidence of Russian hacking, and interfering in the U.S. election, then isn't it the responsibility of the CIA to determine the specifics...
No, I have never had any formal instruction on meditation. But the question is, should I approach meditation with the preconceived idea that I am goin...
Ok, I see you completely missed the point, so I'll explain it more clearly. You are sensing something, seeing it. You sense it as a round coloured sha...
How is the act of spying, by the CIA, perceived as wrongdoing, isn't that their mandate? Oh I think I understand, when you're a member of the party be...
What I am referring to is younger education, grade school through high school. This is the primary learning, where we learn our intellectual habits. W...
If I understand correctly, it is not the case that there are red pixels in the composition, there are none, and that prompts the claim that there is n...
You don't see them. isn't it objective fact that seeing is interpretation? As I said, what we see as colour is a mixture of wavelengths, not a pure wa...
There are two distinct aspects of "the institution", which are closely related in practise, but are separable in theory, such that an institution may ...
Actually, if there was a cumulonimbus cloud directly above you, it would be dark grey, and not white, because they're very thick, dense, and block out...
The problem is not religious institutionalism itself. But I think, as I tried to describe, the problem lies in the idea that, correct belief, and mora...
Why not? I would say that all these things are interpretations. That there is a presence, that there is a colour, that there is a shape, all of these ...
Your logic seems to be a little bit faulty. I see no indication that law based on the human condition is the only way to avoid the "Hobbesian state of...
I do not agree with your premise, that law should be based in the human condition. I think that law should be based in morality. And from the perspect...
Don't we need some consistency between individuals as well? This consistency gives us what some people call inter-subjectivity, which in some cases it...
I believe that there is quantum uncertainty, which was originally not well understood. I also believe that field theory was developed as a means of ap...
The answer to your question (who, then, imposes it upon the imposers, I wonder?), is inherent within your statement. Organized religions assume the ex...
Actually, your method for determining colour proceeds from a faulty premise. You assume that a particular colour has a corresponding range of waveleng...
Actually I think it was quite evident that we were beyond the possibility of a productive discussion. We were nowhere near agreement on the meaning of...
Yeah I know, it's all assumptions, that's where we started in this conversation in the first place. That a thing has a continuous existence in time, i...
What's the point in lying? I thought we were doing philosophy. What comes up from google is this: "the action or process of causing so much damage to ...
I don't see what instrumentation has to do with this. The fact is that the vast majority of colours which we see, talk about, refer to, and describe, ...
This is a subject of knowledge, not an object of cognition. We need to be careful to keep this distinction. There are pure ideals, such as mathematica...
As I pointed out earlier, to define "red" as a particular range of wavelength is unacceptable, because the vast majority of instances of seeing a part...
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