Terrapin Station

Right, so why do you think that if you feel that you don't know, then no one else does either?

Are you talking about our mental content here, re dispositions, etc.?

No maybe or hoping about it, but who knows the reason you have some doubts. You don't really seem to be sharing the source of your doubts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rVmVIWChSI

Yeah, the default on completely ridiculous ideas shouldn't be that they're plausible, so we'll refrain from saying one way or the other.

What does "nature" refer to, exactly, if (a) we can do things contrary to nature, or alternately (b) we could avoid doing things contrary to nature?

There are a number of problems with that article but the first is this. Just how are we managing voluntary control over anything if causal determinism...

That's a persistent problem with the board in general.

What does, what Vagabond said, or what you said about Labour versus the Liberal party? At any rate, if one feels that x is unequal, then we can't trea...

Why would you be asking me questions or responding to me period in that case?

What the hell? I already addressed this. In terms of being able to see the game, they're not treated equally there.

If you're talking about the post I responded to already (I wouldn't at all say that was describing an experiment), I already responded to it. It's not...

in I'm not about to read through the entire thread trying to figure out what post that might be.

This is the point; at the moment at least. What exchange of information?

No idea what you're talking about there. Whether it's unequal depends on how you frame it. If we're talking about with respect to the view, it's not u...

Which post has the experiment you laid out?

What exchange of information?

Obviously they're being treated equally re the view of the game (well, or as equally as possible --it's not possible for them to have an identical vie...

So if some people are treated so that they reach their potential and others are not, are they treated equally?

The picture of people watching a sporting event? Those folks arent being treated equally re having a view of the game.

How are we getting a range in the example I'm explaining?

I didn't see that comment but someone would have to explain it to me. It seems contradictory. We can't both maintain inequities yet be treating people...

Sufficient for what? Even if I were to agree with that, aren't I in the demographic in question?

?? Of course. Why wouldn't it be for me to judge? Which judging individual am I supposed to defer to and why am I supposed to defer to them?

People in the same family, who interact with the same adults, go to the same school, have the same teachers, have many of the same friends, listen to ...

Depends on the (supposed) injustice, but I don't believe there's any injustice here (obviously).

It seems as if you're unaware that people in the same family, including twins, even, can and often do have completely different moral views.

I believe/I'm asserting the fact that no gods exist.

Easy answer: in most cases, no, that wouldn't be at all appropriate. There might be a few people who think that way about it in those situations, but ...

I don't have a problem with there being a "men's rights" movement, but at present, it seems kind of dumb to have one.

I'm an atheist. I'd rather be immortal, as long as I could be relatively young/healthy as an immortal.

Extramental concepts?

"Evolution doesn't work so as to produce a bunch of clones in this regard."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqUiWpGGCmI

You posted twice and didn't address me either time. I only noticed the second one: "I was just giving you a chance to build your position " Re "opposi...

I'm not interested in typing some long, very generalized thing. I think it's rather a problem on this board that people tend to do that. There's usual...

Ask a more specific question if you don't understand something I said.

Because saying that the opposite is that we're not influenced by anything ignores other alternatives. So it's a false dichotomy.

Morality comes from the way your brain works. Broadly, it stems from evolutionary development. We evolved into the sorts of creatures that both requir...

Ah, okay. I was just trying to simply clarify something about the distinction for TheMadFool (and for anyone who might have agreed), contra a misunder...

What would you say that has to do with my post?

We don't create facts with our claims (aside from the fact that we made whatever claim, for example). And we don't "revise facts" when we change our b...

Right. But the opposite of that wouldn't be decisions that are not influenced by anything. The opposite would simply be some departure from strict cau...

The moral of the story is that OCDish adherence to principles is a bad idea. That doesn't mean that the content of a principle is a bad idea. But just...

Yeah, it is. You could attempt to make it coherent, though. No one has been successful in that yet. Is that what you're shooting for? Coming to an agr...

How am I supposed to know that you weren't following the conversation? I quoted the bit I just re-quoted above, and that's what I was responding to. T...

So if it's something an individual is doing, you're just not going to call it meaning?

Toargue that it means something per what?

Empirical claims are not provable period. So you're asking for a category error. The idea of anything existing outside of space or time is incoherent.

I would say that if you have no particles you have no time to measure. I don't think there's any conjecture to it. An event with no material is incohe...