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Why does the question matter first off?

:up: My answer would be: We shouldn't prosecute him but people will anyways.

The person that would otherwise be harmed. The premise is clear "Do not do something that will harm someone if there is a safer alternative available"...

The irony....

I really wanna know what you hoped to accomplish by this thread...

Don’t want this to turn into another AN thread but the point of AN isn’t “saving the unborn”, it’s “Not doing something that results in harming someon...

I sometimes wonder if that’s what everyone here is doing.... Philosophy as an escape from reality. A socially acceptable form of daydreaming perhaps.

I meant mind. Stop nitpicking. What sensible property do electrons have? Or photons of light? Or quantum wave functions? A sizeable population of the ...

I started reading the drivel you wrote and determined it is not worth responding to. I think anyone reading can see which of us is making more sense. ...

Thus it is possible that consciousness is a sensible object without smell or taste or texture or color. There is a sizable population that believes th...

I've pointed out a bad premise in each. That's known as addressing generally. But yea.... replying to you was a mistake as usual if you can't even see...

Mental things causing physical changes is telekinesis. Seems dubious. No. What does light taste like? What is its texture? Overgeneralization. It coul...

“I don’t mind infecting someone with COVID by not wearing a mask because they could have avoided it (somehow)” Is that really what you’re saying? And ...

How in the world is wearing a mask risky? If someone suggests so they’ll at best be ignored.

Well that was the matter in question. “Which is the best proper starting point”? When you ask that, you can’t assume your answer already. Pantagruel’s...

I don’t think so. Would be very interested in meeting one but the “thematic discrepancy” would be too much I think. I find that generally, one’s attit...

Yup, so we outlaw the ones that have risks we deem high enough. Like stealing. Or killing. Or not wearing a mask during a pandemic.

Because not wearing the mask has a chance to affect other people’s bodies negatively in this case. Same reason you don’t have a right to steal or kill...

Only part I don’t get. What’s an “appetite” that’s not a desire or intention? What are these “hedonic experiences”?

Sure. I’m just adding mine. If you want to. But that got us nowhere last time.

I don’t see how any of this tells someone what they should do? It just seems to be cataloguing what people need and want, and the results of that. It ...

Because not doing it is also harmful. To the people already here. And before you ask me why I’m commenting this: It’s to offer a different perspective...

Idk why it takes so long for someone to say the most obvious points. Finally! The claim would then have to be that lockdowns killed more than 40700-40...

But when you have hundreds and thousands of subjects it’s difficult to believe they’re all lying to troll you. And besides, no one has a reason to cal...

I think so. You don't share this assumption? You think that you can have the exact same physical state at two different times and have different exper...

By changing variables around to see if the affect the sensations and the reports. There will be some physical differences which result in different se...

Finally someone said it!

I am familiar with the experiment and many of its variations. It does not pose a threat to determinism. It ends our hopes of actually determining the ...

Actually they don't, but believers still believe! I'm undecided on the issue btw. I don't think determinism/indeterminism matters much. Strong or weak...

Did he really though? He got all his beliefs back. With God as a bonus. Maybe doubting everything should drive you insane.

Reductionist? Just curious. Like these: Modern scientific observations don't discard determinism. Probabilistic theories do not discard determinism an...

Way I see it is it is the only way out for a dualist who wants to respect the science. That, or parallelism. Because it is very difficult to convince ...

I doubt it!

When should you favor the utility/aesthetic value over the social value? Some people, like flat earthers do it too much. Others too little, and are pr...

Well now you’ve replaced one question (whatever it was you were doubting) with 7. More room for doubt. But I think “How certain do I have to be in thi...

I voted yes obviously because it’s not like I have to press the button. Having the ability to be happy whenever I want to seems to be a pure positive.

You wouldn’t really be left with anything. If you want to keep doubting, beyond any reasonable stopping point, you could. The question is where is a r...

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I doubt it!

I would know.

Right but what do we do instead of introspection? I would think the answer is “No” then. Doubting your beliefs isn’t fun usually. And if it’s not how ...

The question then is: Now what? Is this reason to doubt more, or less? Then again, doesn't this also apply for the reasons you believe this: We seem t...

Give me an example of a thought you don't perceive. You can perceive a thought by definition. I would flip that. You don't hold the thought in memory....

When it comes to investigating the existence of something yes, it must make a difference for us to detect it. But our own thoughts are clearly apparen...

How does that follow? Where is the contradiction in noticing something that has no effect?

Yup. Because it is meaningless to speak of epiphenomena that you do know know of. Just as meaningless as experiences that you don’t notice.

“You don’t know hardship” or “You don’t know heartbreak” and other such (melodramatic?) uses are common. In other words: No u :joke:

Yea I thought it was clear I dropped that. Yup. Sort of feel bad that this is all I say after you wrote all that :rofl:

Of course! Anyone can know the wavelength for one. I’m beginning to think this whole thread is a disagreement over nothing for the most part. We just ...

That just seems like a silly question. How do you notice the experience of seeing a red apple? You grant that experiences exist right? Calling somethi...