I thought that depended on solving the riddle of consciousness first. I was thinking of majoring in cog sci but am declining because it is too statist...
I think I'd rather be in something more social and compassionate. It just seems too lifeless... kinda like a monkey pushing buttons... something a rob...
Ok, thanks. understood. Why is Harris making this mistake though? What is leading him to accept compatibilism in some respects but openly deny it as w...
I feared this was so. Passive aggressive is somewhat easy to handle because it usually takes the form of a strawman or an inability to understand what...
Yes but learning that language is very difficult. You need to have certain type of mind, perhaps can easily remember insignificant details like doctor...
Metaphysical extremes are not always without content or context... they just have less and depending on how much validates its worth. That's just a fa...
Great question, you had me puzzled there to find an answer. Now that I think about it, there really is no way to find a distinction between the object...
Then you contradicted yourself. You said doubt is like jello, there is always room for it... but apparently not for cogito ergo sum according to you. ...
That isn't true, if it was true then any objective world could be called subjective. As you say, If there was no objective world that I was perceiving...
Yes but you can't prove light or air humidity or smog has an objective existence, you can only prove you can perceive it subjectively. Even if you use...
If I can rephrase that to make sure I understand, i think you are missing a THE and an AN somewhere there: The terms of reference of the subject doubt...
What about reality as a dream though, you didn't express that. Also, it isn't impossible to live without dreams... just ask anyone who is on benzos or...
I'd like to point out the the lack of free will doesn't necessitate determinism. Also, that the mind has both conscious and unconscious counterparts. ...
Just because you don't have control doesn't mean to say life isn't worth living. That is like the argument "if life doesn't go on forever then it is n...
What about if existence is meant in the sense of an objective universe that exists without witness? Then comes along an organism to add essence to the...
Simply put, he is just saying that it is the deliberation of the possible choices or outcomes before a decision is made that affects the beneficiality...
Thanks Terrapin, that outlined it in a lot more detail and gave me some context as to what it will be like. I have no objections to the descriptions o...
I did ask you what a better alternative to evolutionary reductionism is in this case and you said it would be a moral philosophy, yet I said how absur...
I see, when you phrase it like that it would seem quite hard to fail as long as you understood what the theory was or had read what the philosopher ph...
What was included in these end of term exams apart from formal logic? Was the whole course hard? Did you struggle anywhere? Where your papers marked w...
The OP is setting out to prove that we and all other organisms are intrinsically egoist because we are derived from the panpsychist "stuff". It fails ...
lol, more like self-entitled, pompous nobodies "is a social class of people engaged in complex mental labor aimed at guiding or critiquing, or otherwi...
Let me just clarify, do you mean inert matter as rocks and wind? Because they have no imperative to do anything. Or do you mean things like trees and ...
such as? are you seriously saying that you know a way that can better rectify the problem of consciousness than panpsychism yet still keep a subjectiv...
They are the same both 6&7 That sounds really true. I had this problem on the other forum that crashed. I was flamed for using evolution as a term for...
lol, not necessarily. You can do skype voice call. This would be a great marketing technique for this forum actually, an option for CHAT messenger or ...
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