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That is one interpretation that I think is proposed by Ned Block. However, it may be that A-consciousness is intertwined with P-consciousness. I think...

Interesting. Any scientific theories of that sort posit panpsychism as related to observer-dependent quantum theory?

You are misrepresenting my view. I said it may be necessary but not sufficient. In other words, I don't just imagine "green". I imagine a green object...

True, but for all intents and purposes, science assumes certain premises such that matter/energy and space/time is what is being measured. Thus, the h...

This is the difference between cognition and behavior. It is doubtful most computers are cognizant, but certainly they perform behaviors which might b...

Qualia is brute sensation (e.g. seeing green, hearing noise, etc.). Although imagination, and memories probably rely on qualia, etc. they are not the ...

Try imagining something. Remember an event that happened. Feel sad. Feel joy. These are things that are mental states. P-Zombies presumably don't do t...

I wrote a couple things in the other thread that might help explain the problem better: To be clear, most scientific views would not posit a dualism i...

Again, exactly the conservative argument.

But that's the exact argument that will be used by conservatives. But you don't understand. Everyone has an opportunity to do well. You see, some peop...

The hidden text when you hover over it says: "Continental philosophers: Replacing words with math symbols doesn't make it clear, replacing words with ...

Thanks!

I thought this was appropriate :rofl: http://existentialcomics.com/

I just said this earlier:

What I said in my last post.

Communism doesn't solve the problem of work. It simply creates a larger overseer of the work that people will perform. According to some though, work ...

The problem is the "arising" of consciousness from non-consciousness. What is "this" that is "there" that was not there before? If you say "consciousn...

I hope the government you are striving for won't run like this.

Blazin' saddles you're being touchy! It doesn't have to do with antinatalism. It may have to do with the fact that the problem lies in a) the work its...

So as much as I agree with his assessment, I don't see any way out of not working for something. You may not work for someone but you will work for so...

The modern world is about minutia-mongering. How much minutia can you plumb the depths of? The most respected and necessary forms of output are those ...

I like to think of it as an addiction AND a forgetting. Our psychology tends towards Pollyanaism. When things are going well, when we are in "flow sta...

For some interesting debates on this already, that you may have participated in yourself (I don't remember) see here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/d...

Both. The Will is Schop's view of reality as it is in-itself (pace Kant). There is a flip aspect whereby the monistic will "seems" individuated in tim...

I think that is well-stated. The problem is with being itself rather than objectified thing. That is an odd notion for even the most speculative I wou...

At the end of the day it is still who works for whom. People have to work is the real thing here. Besides allowing more chances for people from differ...

I see you deleted the posts I wrote. That's fine. Your thread. You are the moderator. I accept that. I'll try to engage you regarding only what you wa...

Not having to coordinate at all.. No conditions needed. It's a non-starter, but who says it has to be :). We can think of things that don't exist all ...

Hence my quote above here:

Another formulation might be, "You are free to choose which form of coordination you would like to see people de facto forced by :). Edit: So when peo...

That's sort of what I was getting at above with "Coordination implies there will be de facto force".

Let's call a spade a spade. Any organizational setup of politics is to coordinate how resources are distributed. In ANY system, you still have to coor...

Really thoughtful responses. I have sympathies with Whiteheadian process philosophy as it starts from experiential and/or occasional processes and goe...

While natural rights were originally grounded in the language of natural law theory, I believe even Enlightenment folks knew that this made little sen...

Well my point was that for all of Rome's dominating tendencies.. the dominating religious institutions of Church and feudalism with little by way of n...

Oh great, Rome was destroyed and we got the freakn Middle Ages.. a joy that was :roll:.

Why not go right to the father? Who cares about the son? Usually he's a bit spoiled and nepotistic. Best to just go to where the real source of wealth...

I think that is something he mentions as being objectively good. See here: http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/377/2019/06/3.-Every-...

It's simply a better state of affairs. No suffering exists. No one needs to be around to now this is good. People being around or not does not change ...

It's just the bedrock of the axiom. It would be absurd to say that we should create people so that values exist like good and bad, thus creating the v...

You can argue the child is not a full adult, and is obligatory once born to enact this. Once, born harm may be justified in non-adults, but the fact t...

It's not about utilitiarian in the "greatest good for the greatest benefit" sense (in fact antinatalism doesn't have to rely on any utilitarian princi...

It is simply an analogy to illustrate his point. The claim is that the presence of pain is bad and the presence of pleasure is good. To never get sick...

I know you're not, but I am as part of a broader definition of suffering :grin:. Yeah but this is a scenario that is not the case of the never born. Y...

I believe I have.. Lightwaves hit rods and cones.. goes through optical nerves to cortical nerves.. these nerves go through various networks and feedb...

It depends on how radically different experiential states are to physical states. You are still in the realm of physical arrangements of matter, not e...

Red herring, as I've explained before.. when accounting for causing the conditions of suffering for others one's own suffering for not causing the con...

No, replace preventing with simply "not suffering" if that helps. Not suffering is ALWAYS good, and this is NOT relative to whether there are people a...

In a good or bad way :chin:? Anyways, Yes, nonexistence, at least as it refers to the next generation of progeny, is the best way to go. You don't nee...

Also, just so everyone can at least get some primary sources here, please read David Benatar himself. Unfortunately I can't PDF the whole book, Better...