I'm in way over my pay grade here. I'll just say that I'm a big believer in the importance of qualia to any theory of mind, and opposed to those who s...
For someone who doesn't believe that 2 + 2 and 4 represent the same thing, and who essentially rejects the very idea of symbolic reasoning, I'm impres...
Very thought-provoking essay. I do not believe the mind can be a creation of the mind. The mind is the only thing that can NOT be a creation of the mi...
Surely that is nothing I ever wrote or believed. I've asked myself that question. I'm of the opinion that the mainstream Dems (Pelosi and company) are...
You're defining current US foreign policy as defending the world? Our destruction of Libya and Syria under Obama? Our futile invasions of Iraq and Afg...
Ah. Nice distinction. Well I'm no philosopher so I can't go down this rabbit hole. But just because subjective knowledge isn't propositional doesn't m...
I'm glad you're so optimistic. My concern is that in contrast to, say, the Occupy protests of 2011, the current destruction and violence is approved o...
I'm a big fan of Chris Hedges. I don't share his leftist outlook but I do appreciate his analysis of the warfare state and how it functions. I've noti...
I was only able to follow the first couple of sentences then got lost. My understanding of this fascinating example is that after her color vision is ...
I don't believe we'll ever find ultimate reality either in physics or in metaphysics. I read Steven Weinberg's Dreams of a Final Theory some years bac...
Hope you don't mind if I prefer to keep the issue of free speech nonpartisan. It is for me. I'll stipulate that there's not much of a constituency for...
I was being a little tongue in cheek contemplating a galaxy made up of all the discarded technology of all the other galaxies. Of course galaxies by d...
The alt media have been screaming their heads off for decades. And frankly the left used to support free speech. This anti-freedom left is a frighteni...
I don't find it funny in the least. Nor that some of the signatories to the letter have now apologized for daring to come out in support of free speec...
Yes thank you. You know that in the last couple of days some of the signatories have actually apologized for daring to agree to something that J.K. Ro...
He only says that so that he can pull God out of his sleeve. There is simply no fundamental reason, no known law of physics, that rules out an infinit...
@"Kev", Our friend Noam signed a letter today opposing cancel culture and supporting free speech. JK Rowling and many others also signed. https://theh...
No such thing. Math and physics are what we humans use to make a model for ourselves of what the world is and how it works. There's no reason to think...
Do you mean a galaxy simulated inside a computer? We can do that even in a finite computer. In fact we simulate galaxies right now with the computers ...
The conclusion is baked it. If we said, "Whatever exists must have a cause," then there could be nothing that exists that wasn't caused. Even God was ...
Thank you so much for this link. As you may know I'm a great consumer and sometimes even connoisseur of alternate ideas. I've always been someone who ...
Ok. Still, even knowing that I'd push back. The powers that be are far from monolithic. I've read articles claiming that the deep state is at war with...
I'm no expert. I'm a Chomskyan in my worldview but I've never read much of his or anyone else's work. I acquired my knowledge of politics and the soci...
I'm trying to learn to be smart. When I talk politics my natural style is to be provocative. I often exaggerate a point or deliberately take the unpop...
Ok we agree on half the thesis and not the other. Forgive me for being such a hit and run kind of poster on political topics, but I often prefer to ju...
I haven't checked out this thread in a while, sounds like it's about to get spicy. Alright! You're confusing pure math with applied math. A common cat...
Pitchfork-wielding protesters descend on wealthy Hamptons estates NY Post again, but I have lowbrow taste. And Nearly $1 Billion Is Shifted From Polic...
The question of the thread is whether there's a culture war going on. There is. It's between people willing to call out the insanity of Claira and peo...
The locution is: "I'ma stab you." These days that's how people can tell you've been educated at Harvard. Your bourgeoisie roots are showing. Or as the...
Ok, you think she's a one-off. I've been following the news lately (and for decades) and I think she's the end product of a plan. That would be my opi...
That's a great question. I think I'll leave it at what I've already said. But I do invite to you at least try to explain to me what is it about this s...
Me? Why don't you send an angry tweet to the company that fired her? I did nothing other than express an opinion. That's not a very serious level of c...
If you feel strongly that this demented young woman was wronged, here is her GoFundMe page where you can donate to her cause. https://www.gofundme.com...
The story was reported nationally. There's nothing factually false about the story regardless of the source. You could google her name and get a hundr...
I've sworn off talking politics on this site so I've pretty much said my piece. My only point is that the current unrest is the opposite of grass root...
Powerful interests are funding the "spontaneous" protests. Black Lives Matter, the organization, takes in huge amounts of money in contributions from ...
A good definition uniquely identifies the thing being defined and is reversible. A triangle is a three-sided polygon. A three-sided polygon is a trian...
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