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And that nonsense certainly isn't the received view in the sciences.

Strong causal determinism hasn't been the received view in the sciences for something like 140 years now.

Re the comments about beliefs, I'm not of the view that any beliefs, or even any speech, is morally wrong. However, I sure don't agree that racist bel...

I wouldn't be surprised if that mattered to the rapist's moral views.

I can't recall this, but did Schopenhauer claim that some aspect of the world is not a "unitary force that manifests as individuated objects in the ph...

Who is "we"? What is the data set you're engaging with? You list four "principles," with three of them focused on harm, and comment on them as if they...

The issue is what you're referring to by wax.

I'd say that valuing things, finding things interesting, finding things entertaining, etc., is itself useful, plus it has upshot benefits for mental a...

It's always seemed to me that people are addicted and/or prone to addiction for some things but not others, and that everyone is addicted to some thin...

I'd say more that unless someone has very unusual mental phenomena, a rejection of free will is far more likely to be based on faith, since there's no...

And for good reason. The idea of being without form is incoherent.

Here's one thing I wrote in the earlier post that you didn't seem to read or understand. You're at least not targetedly addressing anything from that ...

The reason that "the oppressed" can be racist is simply because racism refers to "the belief that merely belonging to a particular 'race' implies char...

Not everyone would say that, but even if so, I'm probably unlikely to be swayed by an argumentum ad populum. Anyway, the rest of your comment seems li...

Maybe I didn't read your essay closely enough, but I didn't see where you present any support--rational or empirical--for the idea that everything is ...

How would there be a fact whether the cake was really made of pieces prior to cutting it or not? That's simply telling us how an individual is thinkin...

Recognizing others wouldn't be the same thing as recognizing other minds, first off. One can't observe other minds. One can only observe phenomena tha...

That might be your last reply to me, but it certainly won't be my last post pointing our your countless conceptual errors.

Rather, you're not very familiar with the concepts you're attempting to deal with. True/false is binary logic.

Also, your opening statement is this: "Broadly speaking, one can speak of two types of systems in nature: analog and digital." Well, everything extant...

You had claimed that binary logic can only be done on digital systems. Us "working with a digital system" when we do logic is our brains doing somethi...

Well, and also, Streelight was initially focusing on the putative fact that logic, at least binary logic, obtains in digital systems but not analog sy...

Well, first, I'm a nominalist who doesn't buy identity through time. So I'd say that it's not the same wax. Basically, my view is that of Heraclitus: ...

I think you're bowing out rather because you don't want to deal with the issue I'm bringing up but okay. Not following through all the way is honestly...

Oh, well then probably don't answer "no" to the question "are we functioning digitally" when I ask you, as if you know what I'm talking about and you ...

Well then how do we manage to do formal logic if it's necessarily digital and we are not functioning digitally when we do it?

So would you say that we're "functioning digitally" when we do formal logic?

Without getting into the ontology of logic for a moment (maybe that will eventually be necessary, but I'll avoid it for now), we can at least do forma...

So we're not partially symbolic representation systems in your view? How would we not be a symbolic representation system when we do formal logic?

So humans aren't systems or processes in nature in your view?

Wait, so you're just going to ignore addressing my question re how teaching what you said you realized would solve a specific problem? I'm familiar wi...

Did anyone address whether we're "analog" or "digital" yet? If so, I didn't see it.

"The only error is your failure to adjust your preconceptions to reality." --Brian Eno

Yes, that's right. I don't think the idea of a "formless existent" is even coherent, really. I don't know what the connection would seem to be in your...

It's still not really clear what you mean. Literal noise is just sound, and whether we're talking about representationalism or direct realism or anyth...

I don't know if I'd say "amusement," exactly. For one, it's just how I think naturally. But re things people have claimed under philosophy's rubric th...

Representationalism in phil of mind isn't using the term "representation(alism)" in the same sense in which it's used in the visual arts. In phil of m...

Re "posting/thinking consistently" I rather feel it's a GOOD thing for people to not necessarily have to "play their role" a la being consistent in th...

I like the idea a lot, and I've had similar ideas myself--I think forums tend to devolve into personal grudges/psychological baggage re personalities ...

I was first attracted to philosophy, at age 11 initially, via stumbling into philosophy books in a library, and having a dual reaction of (1) realizin...

Situational ethics is often defined like this, per Wikipedia: "Situational ethics, or situation ethics, takes into account the particular context of a...

Before I even get to the identity part, I had a question about this part: following this, would you say that persons are "digital?" Because we have no...

I don't subscribe to any established "school" or approach to ethics. For one, I'm no longer of the opinion that any sort of overarching principle-orie...

"I've become aware in recent years that no one really controls anything in terms of their behavior. Sure you have some conscious free will " That seem...

Say that you have a library that consists of one book, with a cover that's simply a picture of an elephant, and it has one page containing the letter ...

The initial post of this thread is steeped in a misunderstanding of what morality is ontologically--which is quite ironic given its undercurrent of su...