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There is a difference, it seems to me. Perceptual hallucinations are complex, we construct a model which turns out to be contradicted by further data....

This is insane. You provided the wikipedia link as part of your post! You invited people to read it! EDIT: But never mind. We don't have to rely on wi...

Oh, I'm a panpsychist. There are several reasons for that, but the overall reason is that it's the least problematic option. The worst theory of consc...

Oh, sorry, I just skimmed the conversation and missed context.

Do you think panpsychists are committed to souls? I can't think of any time I've read a contemporary panpsychist talking about souls.

That's just innacurate. Most academic panpsychists I am aware of are a mile away from animism. My own views are somewhat closer to animism, but they'r...

There are a variety of panpsychists, but my guess is that most contemporary panpsychists are of the second kind you mention - the ones that think that...

Israel are creating Hamas

thanks! I'll try the short stories i think. Crash never appealed to me a concept.

:up: Looks pretty good to me. I'm fairly new to political/.economic thought. Sortition would be fab. There are sole traders of course, self-employed i...

Can you recommend some good Ballard? I really liked Concrete Island.

Sure, but there are no things without a mind.

I don't think so. Their consciousness is exactly the same type. Both are aware of something. What is different is what they are aware of. In the case ...

All non-living things are conscious as well as living things.

For that to happen someone has to bring a case. The process of gathering evidence, making arguments, hearings, and all the rest of it takes ages. And ...

I can't speak for Punshhh, but I don't think Israel should ever yield to Hamas' demands. What Israel should do is the right thing, regardless of Hamas...

Indeed, but it's standard rhetoric for aggressive acts. I remember Tony Blair saying something like "Saddam, by his actions, chose to be invaded." A w...

Give the hostages back once Israeli have undone as much of the harm as they can, got all settlers out of West Bank, etc

What about the reverse, until Israel stops occupying Palestinian territories, withdraw from Gaza and rebuild all the buildings they've knocked down an...

Yup. Netanyahu co-opting persecution of Jews cheapens it horribly. https://youtu.be/NzZQkqgLqAY

It is a philosophical point. One theory of mind is that mental states are brain states. Arguing against that is philosophy. What's your point, philoso...

I don't consider myself an adherent to any religious system or practice, nor do i belong to any religious communities. But i think some claims which a...

Ditto. I lived in Suffolk. Very conservative. Ignorant, insular. Of course you can find your tribe anywhere with a large population, but you'll have t...

I don't know if you mean that literally or not, but if you do then I pretty much agree with you. Physical models predict her behaviour as best they ca...

The reason I don't talk about Kant is that I studied it about 30 years ago and I can barely remember anything about it, apart from that I thought it w...

Yes, not heard of that one but I've come across the idea in a few places.

We should never have invented agriculture. I think we're fucked. We have outpaced our environment, and our DNA, disastrously. Amish-style is a good wo...

@"ButyDude" Your OP introduces a lot of 'culture war' topics, which naturally excite some of the less moderate responses. To mitigate this, it can be ...

Banno, isn't it customary to regard the OP as defining the scope of discussion in a thread?

I'm actually interested in the OP, but this thread seems to be going the way of all flesh. I don't know what the answers are, and I'm interested in he...

One persons misconceptions are another person's blindness. One person's blindness is another person's wilful ignorance. One person's exit is another p...

Is this about the British empiricists? Locke, Berkeley, Hume?

I'm not overly keen on the question. I'd need to know what the course material was to ensure I understood what kind of answer they want. 'Do we infer....

October 7th was the first realistic chance they had to go full-on genocide. They couldn't have done that under the gaze of the rest of the world witho...

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-01-11/wipe-gaza-off-the-face-of-the-earth-the-statements-made-by-israeli-politicians-on-which-south-afri...

For genocide, you need an actus reus and a mens rea it seems. You have to do certain acts. And you have to do them with a criminal intent, in this cas...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide Seems a, b, c are clearly engaged. Not...

Oh, indeed! It was a frivolous comparison. :)

The UK is doing that with asylum seekers. Pack them off to Rwanda. It's been blocked by the courts on Human Rights grounds so far, but the Conservativ...

Is that right though? I'm not sure what it could mean for time to change. Things move from one place to another, that is a kind of change. They do so ...

One view of time is that it is basically the same thing as change. Time starts when change happens. Not sure if this fits with science or not.

@"Banno" How about: 1) Assumption: If change, then time 2) Assumption: If nothing to something, then change 3) Assumption: Nothing to something 4) The...

I give it a day

Yes, science has been gradually annexing philosophical territory as it figures out a way to check an idea against the world in a publicly repeatable w...

Paradigm shifts in science result from the scientific method, it seems to me. There is no analogous method in philosophy, and i can't really think of ...

That seems like a reasonable analysis to me.

The skeptic equivocates between self and consciousness. The idealist says there is a world external to self, but not a world external to consciousness...

Yes, not as sticky a paedophilia though.

There is a moral (but not legal) argument to be made that the citizens of a democracy are responsible for the actions of their rulers, and therefore a...

If you think there is a problem of other minds, the conceivability of p-zombies follows. If it's conceivable that other people than I lack consciousne...