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Well I disagree. I think we should have stopped at hunter gathering. We'd be way happier.

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When there's a decision to make, but you don't mind which option you take?

180, your posts are in code. I don't have the codec.

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But you explicitly said you knew you were not a BiV.

If this is some kind of irreducible compound, I have no idea what you mean by it.

Today I got up, heard the birds singing, smelled the toast, trod on a nail. If the computers had not stimulated my brain I would not have had those ex...

The idea that you are a BiV is coherent, founded in experience and unfalsified. Foundherentism is a theory of justification.

I don't think I'm a BiV either. But I'm not sure why. You haven't established a prima facie reason for thinking you're not. EDIT: I agree it's somewha...

Oh, OK. If you're a BiV all you have is introspection, loosely defined or not.

You're abducting from information gained by introspection.

What is it like?

You just think you are. Introspection is unreliable.

Idealism just needs other minds, not necessarily god.

Berkeley would agree I think. And Berkeley also thinks we have direct unmediated contact with the world. Your views on the relationship between langua...

The rats in my house are developing quite a sophisticated civilisation.

Yes I don't understand what you are referring to there.

The Berkeleyan subjective idealist empiricist intuition is that the external world is made up of lots of properties - that is how we experience it. Ho...

But aren't you a kind of linguo-idealist? Sometimes you say things along the lines of language structuring the world. But we can't talk about the worl...

If idealism is so obviously wrong to you, why do you think people believe it? I'm asking for philosophical reasons, not psychological or cultural ones...

While I think the Bible can be a good inspiration or starting point for doing philosophy, I'm not sure it really contains much philosophy without the ...

This sounds somewhat Lockean, with the concept of force replacing Locke's primary qualities. I'm honestly not sure what I think of it. I'm open to the...

They're not stable. Gravity has changed. Just taking my case, I've steadily got heavier over the last 40 years.

Mental Capacity Act 2005 - UK legislation Waterland - Graham Swift Contributions form a Potential Corpse - Eugene Halliday Article 12 of the UNCRPD (a...

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I read Cuthbert's post as ironic, but I could be wrong.

:scratches head: To go to heaven in the religious sense you have to die. But the transhumanist is saying we can have a heaven on earth AND not die. So...

You haven't done any yet. Do some and you might not get banned.

Mystic, why are you on a philosophy forum?

If anyone is unsure, one way to learn is to hit one's thumb hard with a hammer. That's pain, and from that one might further intuit the concept of con...

Something is good if it is willed/loved by any agent, from that agent's point of view, god or not. Counterexamples welcome.

Ah, I know what you mean. Ball-cocks or float-valves are sometimes call ball-valves, but not any more it seems.

There's something funny going on under your sink if there's a ball valve there. That reminds me, you might want to check out Murun Buchstansangur.

Yes I see what you mean. I guess the physical brain state still has properties that its constituent neurons, or even molecules, do not have, for examp...

I broadly agree with your posts in this thread I think. I prefer to avoid the term 'materialism' as it is vague and has a lot of baggage. It's also un...

OK, thanks. That experiences supervene on the physical is compatible with any theory of mind, including substance dualism (I'm not a substance dualist...

Do you actually think that?

I don't think it can be measured at all, even in a living person. Other minds can be inferred though. And by examining the arguments for inferring oth...

I think the question is interesting and possibly headway can be made. Does that mean that I am afraid of death and desire immortality?

Does philosophy have a valuable function do you think? Regarding figuring out the nature of the world I do think philosophy is all we have to tackle c...

Yes, you're right regarding Tononi, I was unfair. I was generalising but should not have included Tononi in that. Yes I did end up with a clearer expe...

Yes that's the conclusion I came to as well. There's no answer to the question "OK, by why can't integrating information happen in the dark?" As if of...

My view is that nothing happens to consciousness at death. What is lost is identity - temporary functional wholes (e.g. a human body and brain) disint...

Yes! Sorry I was unclear. My bad. I'll get to the rest of your reply later, thanks.

I'm interested in your views. In particular I'm interested in the relationship between neural events and particular experiences and what we can conclu...

Sure, then there must be evidence to support this claim. Please give some examples of the evidence.

In a broad sense of 'experiment' you can, I think. I can ask myself the question, "Is there something it is like to be me?" and I can consult myself a...

This seems backwards to me. Prima facie, a neuron firing is a neuron firing, and a conscious experience is a conscious experience. The first step is t...

But there is a logical difficulty here in talking about a first person perspective from a third person perspective. Describing subjectivity in objecti...