Do you not see how this applies to both sides? I'm fine with having a less hostile and more productive conversation, but every time I try to do that y...
Would you let a psychotic killer kill you or a member of your family? What "sometimes" practically entails is different from what it should entail. Mi...
You're one of those people who thinks that all valid arguments beg the question. Tedious. Learn to argue properly. And besides I did not definitively ...
And this doesn't follow either. Why single? Why not a coalition of minds? If we sense changes and changes are sensations, then are we "sensing sensati...
Reality potentially. Depends on whether reality is a sensation or not. In order to say that sensations represent sensations and only sensations, given...
Evidence? Specifically the “and nothing else” bit, where did you get that? This doesn’t mean sights resemble sights and nothing else. Same with smell ...
“You shouldn’t be responsible for societal impact” “But watch out, doing this will cause have a negative societal impact, so you shouldn’t do it” It’s...
It is hypocritical only for those who profess tolerance for all. No one here lives up to that, as far as I can see, though some claim it. Which is far...
Ah ok. So we should just delete any posts that seem pessimistic. Wouldn’t want it affecting people, their partners, or society after all. Gotcha. My o...
I wonder if there would have been a debate if Michael had been racist or anti Semitic. I really don’t think so. People here are somehow fine when some...
So could the opposite, so I don’t see your point. Very weird critique. Literally any action could be based on an ignorant idea of reality. So we shoul...
Many reasons. One would be that your imposition harms me more than it prevents harm from you such as here: But if I don't drive I can't get to work, a...
Is it illegal to farm without advanced farming equipment? No. Something being inefficient doesn't make it illegal. I would think those all fall within...
Another way of looking at that is that every time there seems to be multiple things that make up the world, they turn out to be made up of one thing. ...
Right, which is why there is not much anger or annoyance here. Because it isn't very important to either of us what the other thinks. I think that's b...
Fair enough. Someone who is not trying to convince or change others does not need anger or annoyance nor do they really need to justify their beliefs ...
That they are schizophrenic is your opinion (and most everyone else's). Not the schizophrenic's. And yet it would not be commendable for him to push o...
Doesn’t seem very healthy either. A schizophrenic may be absolutely convinced of all sorts of plots and demons. But it would be way better for them to...
None of this would mean slavery would be made illegal. It would just start to become an ineffective farming strategy. But would still be used in thing...
Would you look at that! Well this seems like quite a problem. This definition will at best lead to epiphenomenology. Again, as I said, when you make u...
People are often mistaken. Changing your mind the second you think it contradicts reality, will lead to changing it too often I think. There is merit ...
It's not constructive, it's a side effect. If you want to never be angry you have to be very detached from (not care much about) all your views, which...
It's a trade-off. You can think you're right about everything like and so be immune to criticism or anger, but at the cost of looking like a moron due...
Then it can't be derived as you defined it. How would you derive it? If I tell you about the property of "unglabungla" but am not able to explain the ...
Even physicalism does that. If the observer wasn't doing a large part in our interpretation of reality, object recognition AI wouldn't be so hard to b...
State it then. What does "physical" mean to a physicalist? It was a response to you. You said we can imagine things that are not real. I showed that e...
Why would there not be? Electrons and protons have charges but a balanced atom doesn't. Oftentimes properties are lost when you go from the constituen...
The people that proposed them, necessarily. Or else what does "fundamentally" add to "fundamentally different"? My definition is that it means they ca...
The example I used was to illustrate how you can't explain what Hakuna Matata is. So you can't say "it was just Matata". We don't know what Hakuna Mat...
Ok let's run with that. Ok, so let's call the fundamental stuff all of those are made of "X". Someone now proposes a different fundamental stuff stuff...
Except it matters how we make these distinctions. To me, positing that there are two fundamentally different kinds of stuff would also mean they canno...
If you think different kinds of stuff can apply forces on each other, then do you think the mind-body problem is not real? What does the word "fundame...
Let's say you find out, after long exhaustive search, that the fundamental thing making up the world is Matata. How would you go about explaining what...
Yes. Yes. I don't see why it couldn't. What applied that force? If it's a different kind of stuff, then how could it apply said force? That's the dual...
How many shapes can you make out of lines? But that doesn't contradict monism. You can have a circle and a square (and infinitely more shapes) all mad...
Not meaningless. But the debate between the different monisms is. Idealists and physicalists are using different words to talk about the same thing. "...
It's not just "most people will never do this". It's: Everyone thinks they are of the few who have. No matter how sharply you define what rationality ...
And that is what @"James Riley" did. He thought about your analogous example, and came to conclusions different from yours. What appears to be the cas...
“Happiness making” and prevention of harm is indistinguishable in my experience. It’s a conclusion I came to recently, though I haven’t explored its c...
I took this to mean that everything we can do, is either good or bad. So running has a moral value, either good or bad. You just don't know which. Is ...
What's the word "true" adding here? If you mean "lasting happiness", yes, just pick something that ages very slowly and you're mostly good to go. Thou...
Sure. But pain =/= evil. That's the distinction I was pointing out. What does "God is only concerned by moral responsibility" mean? There are plenty o...
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