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Thanks. I'll count that as an answer. You're not talking about axioms as if they exist or can exist independently of people, are you?

Saying something like "it's just neurons" would probably be like saying that a guitar making sounds is "just the neck" or "just the frets" or "just th...

So isn't that something in common with respect to life and mind?

Certainly I can. But how? Well, based on how I think about that, what my preferences are, etc.

Because that's factually all that's going on when we "do morality." You observe the phenomenon, and then you take a look at what's going on ontologica...

Everthing physically possible is a function. "How something functions ideally" is about individuals' preferences. There is no objective "ideal," no fa...

Don't you believe that you're living and you have a mind? That would be something they have in common, right? They're both "things that you currently ...

I agree with that. "Life and mind don't have anything in common" would be an unusual way to say that, though. If a subset of some category has a parti...

Does he give any indication of what the argument is for that claim? I think we should be skeptical of any claim that a large amount of people are all ...

If you're asking that question in the manner of looking for a blueprint of it, we don't know exactly how it works yet. If you're asking more "loosely"...

I'm not saying that I do this, necessarily, but might not someone posit passive physical existents?

I'm not sure what "emerging indiscriminately" amounts to, but you feel that dualism rather gives you a "clear location"? ?? So would you say that you'...

When I first saw this thread on the list, by the way, I was guessing it was going to be a proposed forum name change.

"The hyper-inflation of outrage and victimhood" --I'm against it. ;-) I'm a free speech absolutist with the view that free speech isn't merely a legal...

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I don't believe it's possible with people that are anything like real, contemporary people. Some people would always organize and take some control vi...

Simulations are physical.

Any "should" is necessarily a way that someone feels.

A definition is going to present synonymous words and phrases. There is circularity to that. A feline is a cat, a cat is a feline. If someone doesn't ...

Again, in my view, space is the extension of matter and the extensional relations between matter, and it doesnt exist aside from that. So the form is ...

No it wasnt. It would be answered by saying yes, no, or explaining why it's not possible to answer yes or no, where you literally write, "It's not pos...

I wasn't using "or" to suggest a synonym. It was rather two items in a list. "Bring beer or wine to the party."

From one angle, I appreciate you doing all of that work, but from my perspective, all of that work is only compounding the problems. I could pick all ...

Why did you title your paper after a false dichotomy by the way? "Mind or Randomness"?

At any rate, it appears that one of the mistakes you're making is that you're assuming that: Because it's sometimes the case that x obtains in the wak...

Nothing like what I said. What you're referring me to is a bunch of stuff irrelevant to what I'm asking you. Maybe just simply address what I'm asking...

Holy crap, dude. You've got to be joking that you continually type that much when I ask you something yet you never even answer what I ask you. LOL. 9...

It's a bunch of irrelevant stuff to read through. Insofar as that goes, though, even though this has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm asking you...

You're saying that "self-evident truths" observe things?

What is "really real"? Why use that phrase instead of just "real"?

How does that response answer how something like "grains of wheat growing into wheat stalks" is evidence of intentionality? You're saying that it's ev...

What else might B be? You said that B observes. What other sort of things would you say make observations?

How is any of that evidence of intentionality?

B is a person? Re "A" what the heck are you talking about re "its origins" and re "projecting"?

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Good reasons grounded in empirical evidence, for example.

Personally I think it's a mess Pretty much every phrase there is problematic. Just for one example, "the "self-consciousness of his essential being"? ...

What, exactly, are you talking about here?

There is nothing extant without form.

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The thing is that they can't function a wrong way. They're always going to simply be in some state or other even if the state is simply that they're i...

I wouldn't say there are facts about right way to drive a car, the right way for a human to behave or the proper functioning of a heart. There are onl...

I don't agree that "correct" and "incorrect" are appropriate here. Only "conventional" and "unconventional" are. It's not incorrect to be unconvention...

For one, I'm not of the opinion that it's some unified project (continental philosophy) that can be attacked as if it is. It's that contingently, the ...

Perhaps I should do that because? What is the grounds for the suggestion?

Then why would you write "quote me"? And why would you assume that I'm making a comment based on textual evidence rather than other possibilities?

See how much good reading that nonsense is doing you? You think that I'm thinking that I'm quoting you.

What's lazy is assuming that they're worth studying just because you like them. Philosophically they're crap and they'll lead you in countless wrong d...

Well, and likewise, "Are they really saying something of worth/are they really worth studying just because they're well-entrenched in the field, where...

That's an awfully charitable take on the average post on the board. :grin: