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In: Free will  — view comment
If there is a cost to building them. But the whole point of epiphenomena is that they’re costless. And not impactful. At best you mean evolutionarily....
March 05, 2021 at 06:42
How come I’m on every AN thread then? If you wanna play the victim go right ahead. It isn’t personal. I replied to your OP because I found it interest...
March 05, 2021 at 06:37
No. Why would I read a random opinion article that does something as ridiculous as treat people as an agenda of productivity. “We should have more kid...
March 05, 2021 at 03:26
Sigh. You know what you’re right. You keep making the same argument, and you don’t want to hear the same response. Ok have fun in your echo chamber. A...
March 05, 2021 at 03:24
Who said that? Keyword: Seems These 2: I'd say it was just about on the radar as it is now, in the sense that the "percentage of antinatalists" hasn't...
March 05, 2021 at 01:45
“Know” has more uses than “Justified true belief”. For instance “Know programming”. Which means be competent at it. I meant it in the colloquial sense...
March 05, 2021 at 00:41
Ok. And he doesn’t know what red is. Because he hasn’t experienced anything within the range. In the same way that Unenlightened’s friend can go on wi...
March 04, 2021 at 23:27
In: Free will  — view comment
Ok. Do you happen to be a panpsychist by chance?
March 04, 2021 at 23:21
In: Free will  — view comment
You mean, continuous as in it is the same kind of stuff as rocks? I thought you meant it in the sense that we have an integrated “seamless” experience...
March 04, 2021 at 23:15
In: Free will  — view comment
Cool but I wasn’t asking whether or not the mind is “continuous”. Not sure if this is addressed to me.
March 04, 2021 at 23:12
Or of the agenda of AN. There is nothing self justifying of any agenda. It won’t be hashed out because the nays will die out much faster than the yays...
March 04, 2021 at 23:08
In: Free will  — view comment
I know there are, I asked what those constraints are. And whether or not you think “minds” are physical.
March 04, 2021 at 23:02
In: Free will  — view comment
Sailing awfully close to dualist lines here.
March 04, 2021 at 23:02
It’s brown. But I can’t get the image out of my mind of you responding with an entire essay about how there is no “one experience of brown” when asked...
March 04, 2021 at 22:56
In: Free will  — view comment
Well how come a mind can move an arm but can’t move anything outside of the body? So there is some limit here. How does that work? I know Olivier isn’...
March 04, 2021 at 22:54
In: Free will  — view comment
The other side must show how a feeling can move an arm.
March 04, 2021 at 17:26
Then antinatalism is also political. Having agendas isn’t inherently bad. It depends on the agenda. It couldn’t. The society that has people shun the ...
March 04, 2021 at 16:38
Good enough. Not exactly sure what you mean here but it has "feeling" in it so that will do. Everyone who has tried to define qualia or experience has...
March 04, 2021 at 14:46
Literally every single AN thread had the 3 of us :rofl: Maybe we're just interested in the same topics.
March 04, 2021 at 14:31
Well I managed to skip school a few times by faking pain.
March 04, 2021 at 13:06
Then it is the same as Unenlightened's question: "What is does red look like". I can't answer that. Not for lack of properties but for an inability to...
March 04, 2021 at 13:04
I apologize, I truly don't mean to be. Honestly. You started the thread! If you make the same arguments of course I'm going to give the same reply! So...
March 04, 2021 at 12:39
In: Free will  — view comment
Well said. I think the whole determinism indeterminism debate is a red herring. That’s not actually what people care about when they think of freedom ...
March 04, 2021 at 10:58
You argue the same thing you get the same reply. Why are you surprised? Not one that I’d find convincing. If I could think of an argument that could c...
March 04, 2021 at 10:55
Not trying to rehash. Just pointing out that you have an assumption that I don’t think many share behind what you’re saying. It’s not objectively the ...
March 04, 2021 at 10:03
I'm sorry but this legitimately read like word salad. I have no clue what you're saying. Not just the cone cells. The cone cells and the glasses and t...
March 04, 2021 at 08:41
The content is changed. The use (structure) is preserved. I didn't. I even gave an example. Color inverting glasses. Color inverting glasses would be ...
March 04, 2021 at 08:18
False. The content can be derived from something else. As long as the structure is the same then it is "of red". The structure is decided by activity ...
March 04, 2021 at 08:13
Those are the same thing. As in, the objects that fit the linguistic definition are exactly the objects that fit the neurological definition. The thin...
March 04, 2021 at 08:06
You asked why it's the default not why it's justified. It's the default because it is intuitive and the majority believe it. And so naturally they wil...
March 04, 2021 at 05:52
Well first off, most people like doing this. And second: For these reasons: That's justification #1. There are plenty of others that people use. Objec...
March 03, 2021 at 21:37
Because those who didn't create them died out. And the ones that are left were the ones that felt the need to create such arrangements. So their child...
March 03, 2021 at 21:18
In: Free will  — view comment
And indeterminism makes enormous claims. Like the idea that things can happen for no reason. What is or isn’t a “gigantic claim” is a matter of person...
March 03, 2021 at 10:03
Let's start over. I don't understand what you're not getting. Or what I'm not getting. First, let's establish whether or not people having different c...
March 03, 2021 at 08:42
And this happens every time you see a red object correct? So the physical conditions are the same? So shouldn't the epiphenomena be the same? In other...
March 03, 2021 at 08:38
It can't be defined by being caused by wavelengths of light alone. What makes you think there needs to be a physical connection for a physical differe...
March 03, 2021 at 08:22
So you don't actually think it's the case. Let me follow that line of thinking. By your estimation the commonality between things we call "red" is pur...
March 03, 2021 at 08:18
But a second ago when I asked you whether or not there is something common between experiences of red you replied with a staunch “No”. So what happene...
March 03, 2021 at 07:50
That’s not what I said. You know what each color word means. You know what “blue” and “red” and “purple”.... mean. You are shown a new object. How do ...
March 03, 2021 at 05:39
In: Free will  — view comment
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March 02, 2021 at 03:13
In: Free will  — view comment
False. Or it could only feel that way while not being a decision at all. That is the matter in question in this thread. Repeatedly saying “it is a cho...
March 02, 2021 at 03:03
In: Free will  — view comment
“It feels that way therefore it must be that way” There is plenty of substantiation for it. Physics for one is deterministic. Or can be at least Maybe...
March 02, 2021 at 02:41
In: Free will  — view comment
When have I said that? I don’t know if the world is deterministic or not. Again, unsubstantiated claims and oversimplification. And in either case, wh...
March 02, 2021 at 02:31
Sure. Problem is when they also think that the mind is completely divorced from physical systems. That it’s entirely non-physical.
March 02, 2021 at 02:23
Oh. My bad then. If you were not a dualist just say so sooner.
March 02, 2021 at 02:22
In: Free will  — view comment
Evidence? It could just be that the insight is a result of atoms bumping into each other. As usual you make unsubstantiated claims. You’ve been doing ...
March 02, 2021 at 02:18
In: Free will  — view comment
So the requirements seem to be: Some randomness + deliberation + decision is being made by the self (whatever that is) Well, we can get deliberation o...
March 02, 2021 at 02:14
In: Free will  — view comment
And new insight does not classify as “outcome”? Outcome of years of research and dedication maybe? Why do you think so? I certainly don’t think so. Do...
March 01, 2021 at 16:38
I usually hear it the other way around. That the mental is non physical. Physical is whatever physicists study. People don’t want to associate with th...
March 01, 2021 at 11:36