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I tried editing it to add 'other' but that didn't seem possible. How about voting 'stay home' and clarify your position in a post?
March 13, 2020 at 00:02
Cast your vote here.
March 12, 2020 at 23:53
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...
March 12, 2020 at 22:53
I am one of them, and I see good reasons to think it's true, and haven't seen good reasons to think otherwise. Got any?
March 12, 2020 at 22:19
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...
March 12, 2020 at 20:05
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...
March 12, 2020 at 19:01
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...
March 12, 2020 at 18:45
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...
March 12, 2020 at 17:45
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...
March 12, 2020 at 15:13
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...
March 12, 2020 at 01:24
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...
March 12, 2020 at 01:10
I'm glad you made that excellent point! Why would anyone vote for a guy with dementia when we can instead give the crazy guy 4 more years?
March 11, 2020 at 23:37
I don't see how the perception that he has dementia would affect any votes, since the case can be made for Trump as well. For example, see this.
March 11, 2020 at 22:27
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...
March 11, 2020 at 22:13
The article also notes that national polls are misleading. The most relevant polls are those of battleground states. Bernie has two electibility probl...
March 11, 2020 at 19:36
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...
March 11, 2020 at 18:48
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...
March 11, 2020 at 18:35
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...
March 11, 2020 at 18:11
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, ...
March 11, 2020 at 15:23
The issue is entirely epistemological: do reports of OBEs constitute adequate evidence to justify belief that OBEs are actual? A dualist has the backg...
March 11, 2020 at 15:07
Willingness to listen isn't the issue. The issue is epistemelogical: 1. Proposition PAL (Probability of Aliens is very Low): per established science, ...
March 11, 2020 at 14:50
If something is believed to be impossible, what sort of evidence would be needed to undercut that belief?Certainly not testimonial evidence.
March 11, 2020 at 02:58
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...
March 11, 2020 at 01:50
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...
March 11, 2020 at 01:33
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 ...
March 10, 2020 at 21:34
I don't understand how anyone can deny that, other than through blind faith. Assuming you're referring to ontological emergence, not just epistemologi...
March 10, 2020 at 15:38
There is a great deal of testimonial evidence of alien encounters. All that have been investigated have been discovered false, none verified as true. ...
March 10, 2020 at 15:24
Have you seen this?
March 10, 2020 at 15:13
immaterial object. quote="Wayfarer;390265"]many other aspects of 'mind-body' medicine, all suggest that mind influences the body in ways which are har...
March 10, 2020 at 02:42
The hard problrm of consciousness.
March 09, 2020 at 21:16
If the mind is an immaterial object apart from the brain, many questions are raised. I listed them here
March 09, 2020 at 18:51
Physicalism is often dismissed based on the inability to answer some hard questions. I wanted to show there are also challenging questions for immater...
March 09, 2020 at 18:43
There are endemic problems in the cost of education. If we, through government action, simply foot the bill, costs will skyrocket further. Compare thi...
March 09, 2020 at 15:20
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'...
March 08, 2020 at 23:15
OK, this suggests mental states contingently arise. Nevertheless, the relevant mental states do not arise without the physical input. Sensory percepti...
March 08, 2020 at 04:44
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...
March 08, 2020 at 02:26
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, ...
March 07, 2020 at 23:45
How about: the sheer ecstacy of being in heaven reduces the temptation to sin to vanishingly small levels. I should become a theist.
March 07, 2020 at 22:02
Free will can only disappear if it exists in the first place. But supposing it does, what makes you think free will necessarily disappears?
March 07, 2020 at 21:34
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...
March 07, 2020 at 06:14
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 ...
March 06, 2020 at 16:02
:lol:
March 06, 2020 at 15:34
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'...
March 05, 2020 at 22:59
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 ...
March 05, 2020 at 20:06
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...
March 05, 2020 at 18:29
I don't think it requires redefining "physical" and "natural", it means reconsidering the nature of our thoughts. A visual image is something distinct...
March 04, 2020 at 20:49
I agree with this, and suggest this may just mean we have a problematic paradigm. E.g. reference to "information" seems problematic, because informati...
March 04, 2020 at 17:43
Mankind has invented this forum. Problem solved.
March 04, 2020 at 17:21
What threat(s) to our existence are you referring to?
March 04, 2020 at 15:37