Terrapin Station

We can make a distinction between things that people make and things that aren't made by people.

Because, for example, I asked you three or four times in a row if you'd either agree to not resort to saying "That's an explanation" or alternately th...

I'd like you better if you'd have a real discussion instead of acting like a troll.

You should have added an LOL

And there goes the buzzer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2naim9F4010

One more chance to answer the question I'm asking and not just keep retyping stuff like an OCD victim.

Again, before dropping the above and going back a few squares, you need to say whether you agree that you're not going to simply respond with "That's ...

If you're not going to answer any questions, why do you expect me to? You have to play fair. I'm not interested in this as a game or as an ego-inflati...

I answered this already and I'll answer again, but you're not going to respond with "That's not an explanation," right?

We're not going back to anything where you might respond with "That's not an explanation" if you don't set forth your criteria for explanations. Do we...

Say what? "But how could it be that you're unfamiliar with the notion of what an accident is" That's what I wrote (implicationally) there

For example, I could say "3017amen is incapable of explaining how to spell the word 'cat.'" And then in response to anything you say, I can write, "Th...

I could say that you can't explain anything at all. All I'd need to do, with any explanation you offer, is say, "That's not (sufficient for) an explan...

The whole idea of an accident is that it's not intentional. So no. "Willingly" is intentional. It's as if you're not familiar with the idea of acciden...

Sure. Do you remember what I said about this idea? If I offer something as an explanation that you're going to respond to with "that's not an explanat...

Yes. I answered this already. Re explaining the feeling you get when you look at red, how am I going to know the feeling that you get when you look at...

No. I'm using the sense of "natural" where it's distinct from "made by a person." So watches are artifacts, not natural occurrences in that sense. It'...

Nothing unusual. You know what a brain is, right? (Or do I need to explain that to you, too?) Brains are dynamic, in constantly changing electrochemic...

What? You made a claim about what cognitive scientists claim re subconscious minds and accidents. I called bull on that claim. Why are you telling me ...

I don't understand that question grammatically. Could you rewrite it?

I'd both refute that and I'm refuting the claim that cognitive science says that subconscious mental content causes accidents. I'll offer another wage...

It's a set of brain states. Brains are physical.

I already said, the fact that you weren't paying attention caused it. Nothing. The lack of conscious attention with respect to driving caused it.

They make these things called "dictionaries" that will do this for you for any word you like. You can even get them in other languages. Red - "of a co...

Beliefs aren't truths period. Truth is a property of propositions. But yes, it would mean that the truth of "God does not exist" is subjective, becaus...

One way you demonstrate it is empirically. By showing that everywhere you look, there's no god. Another way you demonstrate it is via the fact that th...

Truth is never objective. Truth is a judgment we make--so a mental activity, about the relation of a proposition to something else. So by definition, ...

In the scenario you're talking about, the simple fact that you're not paying much attention to what you're doing with respect to driving. What can hel...

Again, it would be an example of apophenia.

No one makes a universe. It's a natural occurrence.

"Proof" is a red herring. Empirical claims are not provable, and proof in the context of logic and mathematics is simply a matter of whether something...

Not a mental phenomenon, no. Unconscious brain functions are not mental phenomena.

I have a (justified, true) belief that god does not exist, yes. (And I told you this in a post above, by the way.) Sure, I'd say that (if you're askin...

All experiences are conscious mental phenomena. "Experience" is a broad term for temporally -unfolding mental awareness of something.

You'd need knowledge that universes are the sorts of things that are usually made by universe-makers.

You can characterize it as abductive, too.

I can't offhand think of a single word for other questions, but I'd say that a couple things that are different than a general what/why/etc. are inqui...

Again, maybe try not reading everything so literally? You know what condition that tendency is indicative of, don't you?

The way that we reach an abductive conclusion of there being a watchmaker from a watch is simply via knowledge that watches are artifacts that are int...

Either prove that P or it's implied that one must doubt that P is quite the false dichotomy.

This strikes me as a "robot question," where a robot asks about a phenomenon that the robot doesn't experience but is trying to gain some understandin...

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I wouldn't say that. It's a moral exhortation. Moral stances aren't a belief system, since moral stances aren't even true or false. We could say that ...

Daydreaming is a conscious mental phenomenon. So is awareness while driving, although simple awareness is not the same sort of mental phenomenon as im...

I wouldn't say that's a belief. It's an exhortation. Beliefs have to do with thinking that something is the case.

Say what? Atheism isn't a goal for me. It's simply a term for a belief I have.

I don't buy that there are any subconscious mental phenomena.

No. I don't have a goal to seek the truth unless I'm consciously thinking "I have a goal to seek the truth." You don't have goals that you're not awar...

To believe them? It's not clear to me what you're referring to. To believe what?

I can't tell if that's a yes or no. So for example, I just thought, "I can't tell if he's answering yes or no." I didn't think anything about a goal.