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Someone did mention it but the thread got deleted. I'm guessing they're leaving this thread because Banno &co are mocking the idea that there is fundi...

I heard it receives some of its funding from the New Internationalist.

Is that an inference, or an observation, or something else?

This is way better than Banno's effort.

If every new generation is a degeneration from the last, surely we should be extinct by now?

It's the worst philosophy forum apart from all the others. The old forum died but Jamalrob reanimated its remains.

This is a rare occasion when I can agree with Benkei, 180, Street and NOS in the same breath! Hurrah!

Yes, I think it likely jorndoe is talking about God. And on this I agree with him (Cuthbert's interesting aside about different usages of if..then.. n...

I like this. :)

In other contexts your post would fit perfectly. And maybe it is welcome here as well, I don't know. I thought you would like to know what a philosoph...

This may all be very true and enlightening. However this thread is about language and concepts (which you have touched on) not about consciousness. Ev...

I'm a bit more optimistic than others. I think many philosophical problems have been solved, or at least progress has been made. It's just there is no...

Being a hairdryer would really suck...

But what if you start running around infecting people?

It's really hard, I think! What if you become a disease vector?

I do get a bit triggered when people don't respect the OP. Otherwise every thread becomes the same free for all for people's opinions on whatever they...

Then your point is obscure to me. Anyone else understand Banno?

OK, so for every sense of 'consciousness' (or at least the ones given in the Oxford online dictionary), you can tell to what degree x is conscious (fr...

Banno, do you think there are, as a matter of fact, distinct senses of 'consciousness'?

Pretty bad. Tree is responding to light, but not much else. You have to hit the rock pretty hard to get it to respond all at the moment.

OK, thanks. I'm not sure that any of them are, not clearly anyway. Possibly how one reads and interprets these is influenced by prior philosophical vi...

Neither of them seem to know who the current Prime Minister is. It's not looking good.

Which is the best definition of 'rat'? To betray someone to the authorities as in 'to rat someone out'? Or small rodent? The word has at least two sen...

Shit or get off the pot.

OK, so please could you explain your point?

Ok, I just did. You seem to be suggesting that talk of consciousness outside of a this kind of medical sense makes no sense. So to wonder if, say, a t...

Very good OP. I think the natural language use and philosophical (as in 'hard problem') use (if there is such a distinction) intersect in, for example...

Certainly any criticism of the possibility of reincarnation should be suppressed in a thread which is only about philosophical justification of it.

I'm just thinking that to meet your needs we'd have to clear an area for you, which you could farm or hunt and gather or whatever, so you could live u...

Would it indeed? Hmph! If you manage to make the venn diagram no one is going to agree with it! Interesting idea though. It's making your philosophica...

You've set up the discussion nicely, but to be clear, is this thread intended to be about water, consciousness, emergence, or all of these?

I think the problem is pretty straightforwardly resolvable by adopting an meta ethical relativist view. From God's point of view, there is no evil. In...

Do you consider yourself an anarchist?

How do you feel about you meddling in the lives of others? (Whatever meddling means in this context)

I'm not sure of the topic, but it seems that individualism is likely contrasted with the morally imperative global-co-operation in order to solve worl...

NOS, I may have missed it, but did you give some kind of definition? This is interesting but I can't get a firm grip on the concept. What are we discu...

Indeed, and that is one objection to consciousness being a process. We seem to agree that consciousness being a process and consciousness being indivi...

I think this is the most persuasive of your three. It contains the fewest assumptions perhaps, or at least the assumptions are intuitively self eviden...

That's all very true Un. I'm not condemning myself in a particularly self-hatey way I don't think, and I don't mean to advocate that. I should try bei...

Realisations of my own evil were for me a relief. Sometimes an awakening. Generally a positive experience. Catching glimpses of my own pretentious foo...

Undemocratic governments are worst. Corporations next worst. Democratic governments least worst. At least you can periodically fire the last category.

One huge advantage to some kind of field theory of consciousness is that it solves the binding problem.

Is there something it is like to be a man?

David Packman is the perfect male I think. What is it like to be David Packman?

Also, what if transhumans, or post humans, don't do what we want them to do? Then transhumanism becomes an evil, and joins the long list of species-le...

I'm just not convinced it's a desirable end. I'm new to the concept though an there are lots of variants and complexity. I often think we should have ...

Pearce is sticking around for an impressively long time. Most guest speakers do a runner after a few posts. I'm finding transhumanism to be a very int...

The scientific method forces agreement without trying. Philosophy does not have a method that can do that, except perhaps in very tightly defined logi...

I think they've probably been solved. We just lack a method to publicly force agreement unlike science. I know people still keep denying scientific fi...

Many thanks for your excellent answer. It's taken me a while to get back to it. :nod: Indeed. I hadn't thought of that specifically, thanks. That's in...