Metaphysician Undercover

If it is the case, then memories are not things stored in the subconscious, and your post is pretty much irrelevant.

What if memory is like I suggested, a pattern of neural activity which is repeated? That's the obvious consequence of a person being right. Accept the...

As I said, that's a judgement. Do you dispute the obvious?

That someone is wrong is a judgement. There is no necessary relation between a judgement of "wrong", and how the world is. This is because a judgement...

Taking mind-independence for granted, as a metaphysical axiom, is completely pointless because it provides no ontological principles through which one...

I'll join that party. When's the taste test? Be forewarned, I'm not a fussy eater.

How could it be that all memories which a person has could be present to a mind (subconsciously) at the same time? Wouldn't this be amazingly confusin...

I provided the evidence. Were you not paying attention? I have no problem with the science of predictive coding, I think it's fine in its application ...

Now, all you need to do is notice that the conscious mind has some causal power over the subconscious, and we'd be in agreement. From this agreement w...

I would call this bullshit. Do you think that speaking a specific language means that you identify with, as belonging to, and wanting to be a citizen ...

The poor baby, it doesn't get fed and it starts crying. Best to just walk away and ignore it.

This does not address the problem. You said: "The conscious mind owes all its experiences to the subconscious mind". This implies that in both dreamin...

I explained to you why "verification" is irrelevant. No, I do not have to provide something else. I demonstrated logically, from sound premises, why y...

Where do the pigs lie?

By "various freedoms", you really mean various constraints don't you? This is how "total freedom" is broken down into individual "freedoms", by imposi...

I think I explained this already. The conscious part of your mind must have the ability to cause the subconscious part to present things to it in a se...

I've taken a lot of psychedelics, and I don't think it's at all similar to dreaming. I can agree that this prediction process, is an important aspect ...

This is the problem of democracy which Plato described in The Republic, and the reason why he designated democracy as the worst, or most corrupt form ...

If I understand correctly, what you are saying is that lucid dreaming doesn't really solve the issue of inconsistency between dreaming and awake reali...

Aren't the perceptual functions and imaginative functions pretty much the same though? Are you saying that when a person is asleep one cannot think ra...

How can the two be the same person, when the things believed by the sleeping person are completely inconsistent with the things believed by the awake ...

When I was a kid we played a game called "Whisper Down the Valley". We'd sit in a circle and someone would whisper a phrase to the person beside them....

I don't see how this could solve the problem. Isn't it the case that information, or "EnFormAction", is itself a property of something, a system or so...

The problem is ontological, I really don't think there even could be a scientific solution to it. "Energy" is a property, it is not something independ...

The problem with this approach is that when things are done right, it's not newsworthy, it's just the way things are expected to be done, so there is ...

The basic problem of process philosophy is to explain why processes, activities, appear to us as substantial objects. This problem forces Whitehead to...

You shouldn't have said that. I expected too much. Then, disappointment. Not that the story is bad or anything like that. I guess I'm like the author,...

Distance from Moscow to Beijing: 5,793.80 km

Metaphorically.

What kind of logic takes you to a conclusion which contradicts your premise?

Step into the twentieth century NOS, there's no need to payback loans. Just do what we all do, and pay interest on it forever. Look:

The war will work out great for Putin and Trump if they manage to divvy Ukraine's assets and leave the locals with nothing. That, is a lack of diploma...

Trump has no interest in the governing of Ukraine, the welfare of the people, or anything like that. He has no interest in people in general. To him, ...

Trump has proposed American ownership of some of Ukraine's rare earth mineral deposits, and wants to send American troops to stake these claims.

If you think about it, the principle of momentum is really not at all intuitive. It's based in an assumption of constant velocity, which is not at all...

Now we might need to take another look at Ukraine's independence. Trump and Putin are in the midst of dividing it between themselves. We'll see how th...

I'd say 100 out of 100. Dairy cattle are a strange animal. They're designed to produce way more milk than the calf (or even twins) can drink. That lea...

Yes!

I don't worry about that because my doctor is professional.

OK. Do you refuse to take your doctor's prescriptions on an ethical basis?

No, it wouldn't be the cause for the trial. X being in court with prosecutors accusing, is the cause of the trial.

The politician's classic move. Promise the moon, to get elected, then admit it's not possible.

How can anything act as a cause, from the past? Isn't it the case that the only way something can be a cause, is to act at the present?

OK

Like U?

So was mine. What's "G"?

?

?

Can you ride em?

I had to go out early in the morning and milk a cow. Then we'd pour the milk through a diaper to strain it, and leave it in the fridge in a big pot. T...