By "original post" are you referring to the one where you referenced the Newsweek article? It doesn't address the topic of who has a better chance bet...
Of course, but it makes it a reasonable belief. I'm awaiting reasons to believe it false. This isn't one: The metric cited is popularity with his cons...
That is a snowballing effect, but at the core of that snowball is that there are good reasons to believe Biden is more electable: as a moderate, he is...
If Sanders is one of the best speakers around, and that makes a meaningful difference in terms of votes why hasn't Bernie run away with votes in the p...
If Bernie does that, who will this convince to vote for him? Might this not actually repel as many from voting for him? e.g. why would a moderate inde...
Yes, the theory that Biden is more electable has been pushed, including by me. I'm not lying; I actually believe it and I explained why. The only coun...
The people who believe "He's so crazy it might just work!" will vote for Trump in any case. I'm not sure that goes much beyond his base. Some others a...
I'm not policing, I'm giving you my perspective, just as you're giving me yours. I just happen to think abstract objects should not be considered exis...
I consider materialism to be possibly true, or at least that it's the case to beat. A materialist can't countenance "forms" existing on their own, bec...
The article also notes that national polls are misleading. The most relevant polls are those of battleground states. Bernie has two electibility probl...
Agreed Still fuzzy. Intuitively there's an existential difference between me a Julius Caesar: I exist now, Julius does not. Similar with the future. S...
I think you've muddled up ontology and epistemology. It is true that a statement of what does not exist doesn't say anything much about what does exis...
Yes, but not as abstract objects. States of affairs (i.e. complex objects) exist that have the properties we associate with rows. The ones that use th...
You're making a mereological error. Do you exist? Are you a thing? After all, you're just a collection of particles arranged a certain way (actually, ...
The issue is entirely epistemological: do reports of OBEs constitute adequate evidence to justify belief that OBEs are actual? A dualist has the backg...
Willingness to listen isn't the issue. The issue is epistemelogical: 1. Proposition PAL (Probability of Aliens is very Low): per established science, ...
I'm not convinced mind is a thing, an existent. There are mental activities, and the phenomenon of consciousness. What we lack is a pardigm for analyz...
By my reckoning, an actual row of 3 actual ducks is a material state of affairs (a thing). It is more than its parts (duck, duck, duck) because it inc...
The assumption of an immaterial mind is an escape hatch from difficult questions. What are qualia? They're the stuff of minds. No further analysis is ...
I don't understand how anyone can deny that, other than through blind faith. Assuming you're referring to ontological emergence, not just epistemologi...
There is a great deal of testimonial evidence of alien encounters. All that have been investigated have been discovered false, none verified as true. ...
immaterial object. quote="Wayfarer;390265"]many other aspects of 'mind-body' medicine, all suggest that mind influences the body in ways which are har...
Physicalism is often dismissed based on the inability to answer some hard questions. I wanted to show there are also challenging questions for immater...
There are endemic problems in the cost of education. If we, through government action, simply foot the bill, costs will skyrocket further. Compare thi...
Even if your mind is not spatially located, your brain is - and there's clearly a strong connection between your mind and your brain. Your mind doesn'...
OK, this suggests mental states contingently arise. Nevertheless, the relevant mental states do not arise without the physical input. Sensory percepti...
I suggest that we can deduce this is the case. But surely you must agree that sensory perception originates in physical processes, and ultimately ment...
As I said, the pain signal (in effect) reaches a transducer which produces the mental state of localized pain. Does this much sound plausible? If so, ...
As a non-physicist and non-theist, I think these speculative hypotheses are interesting in two respects:1) they expand the possibilities we can consid...
When a pain receptor is fired, the mind experiences it as the quale "pain". That is the nature of the mental experience. In effect, the signal passes ...
I suggest that it's a consequence of the neural connections being different. Consider how we distinguish the location of a pain in the left knee - it'...
It's a useful analogy in some contexts, but it may not be the best analogy for analyzing the ontology of mind. For example, we aren't going to find a ...
Look on the bright side: had China not had their one-child policy, there would be more Chinese people today and consequently, more individuals with th...
I don't think it requires redefining "physical" and "natural", it means reconsidering the nature of our thoughts. A visual image is something distinct...
I agree with this, and suggest this may just mean we have a problematic paradigm. E.g. reference to "information" seems problematic, because informati...
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