I was never good at memorization, so formal language learning wasn't easy. And there wasn't much conversational practice available. Like you, at some ...
One learns to write better primarily through example and practice, but having a live feedback that points out outright mistakes and suggests improveme...
I intentionally picked a frivolous and perhaps imperfect parallel to sharpen the issue. Perhaps it would go easier with an example from physical scien...
That's a shame... There is a cluster of concepts closely related to potential: possibility in all its forms, probability, powers, dispositions. All of...
Well, that's what identity theorists say about consciousness vs neural activity. There are arguments against identity theory (other than epiphenomenal...
I already addressed this. The causal exclusion argument that motivates epiphenomenalism applies equally to physical events in a similar supervenient r...
Right, just as when you say "neutral activity is wanting to have milk" you don't mean just any random neural activity, but specifically whatever activ...
Originally, epiphenomenalism was indeed articulated in relation to mental/physical relationship. However, the justification for it does not rely on an...
The post was from Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs official account, in case that wasn't clear. Russian government agencies are not banned on X/Tw...
This thread belongs in the Lounge. What people find interesting or uninteresting in philosophy says more about them than about philosophy. PS But yeah...
Your question is too general. A lot depends on what decision you are making and which beliefs are influencing it. A decision has to be guided by some ...
Could you perhaps unpack what you mean by potency/potential in this context? Perhaps this is a well-trod ground for some, but I, for one, am not sure ...
I haven't read any of the discussion - just wanted to note that "Dr" Joe Dispenza (he has a chiropractor degree from something called Life University)...
I think the difference here is in how the sentences are structured. In "see... directly" the word 'directly' does not mean anything on its own. Instea...
All the people who take seriously the possibility of "humanity hitting the singularity" could probably fit on one city square, whereas the people who ...
Indeed, the challenge for the Contrast theory to meet its own criteria or meaningfulness would be to point out actual or potential instances where lan...
No, I think you were right the first time when you pointed out that the contrast theory of meaning does not require that the opposite trait be exempli...
Just seen About Dry Grasses, the latest by the Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Long, slow, and depressing, just the way I like it :D Kidding about d...
An interesting new study. NDEs have been compared to effects of psychedelics before, but those comparisons were "inter-subject": they compared reports...
Story collections by Julio Cortázar. There is a clear influence of Borges in a few "high concept" stories, which I generally don't like much. I actual...
I liked Pratchett. I don't read much fantasy, but I found his style and humor appealing. I was introduced to Pratchett by a college buddy who was a bi...
Geocentrism can be viewed as a matter of perspective, and as such it is neither right nor wrong - it is apt in some contexts and not others. But if yo...
No, I still don't know what you mean by 'external world as it is,' in general and specifically in this context. You say that the description is good, ...
See, this is what I was talking about: a lot of confusion is created when the term "information" is thrown around with little care given to its meanin...
I wasn't talking about geocentrists, I was commenting on the plain facts about the rising and setting of the sun and the stars. This is the stuff of a...
Information crucially depends on the sender and the receiver (and noise, if any) - this is what is being neglected here. Divining from patterns of tea...
Exactly, how is it that the same marks on dry clay can carry more or less information in different contexts? And note that it's not just any marks tha...
"Information" is a vexed term, as it is used differently (and often vaguely) in different contexts. A crucial thing about Shannon's theory in particul...
The statement 'the Sun and the stars revolve around Earth and they move from east to west' is, if taken literally, perfectly true, as anyone can attes...
:up: I am not sure that epiphenomenalism is all that common in our thinking. Historically, the term itself was coined in the context of mental vs phys...
No, I'd heard of Hoffman's "interface theory," but was discouraged by the largely dismissive reaction of the professional community and didn't invest ...
Nothing wrong with reductionist analysis as such (A is nothing other than B) - that is the most common type of explanation, particularly in science. W...
I am still not sure what position this is supposed to be. Plantinga's attack is aimed squarely at the "evolutionary naturalist," and Hoffman would be ...
That's only according to the epiphenomenalist view, which Plantinga ended up weaponizing for his argument against naturalism. (His so-called EAAN went...
I know Criterion, though I am not yet a subscriber. Used to rent Criterion tapes and then DVDs in my formative years. I would say Jarmusch is one of t...
Checking with IMDB, I didn't even realize how many Jarmusch films I have seen! Some I barely remember, but I do remember that all of them were enjoyab...
We still subdivide time into 12, 24 and 60 units, even though we use decimal notation. A remarkable legacy of ancient Sumerian mathematics, which used...
This is a discussion forum, not a bulletin board. If you are not prepared to have a discussion, you should not post here. By the way, what is your cur...
Not so (duh!) I am not sure I understand your algorithm and what probability distribution it gives to the integers, but clearly, there is any number o...
I think we can make an even stronger statement: the only way that the usual probability rules (normalizability, additivity) can be satisfied on an inf...
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