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I don't agree but in any case, the insight has stayed with Ori after he has sobered up. It's very odd to stipulate conditions which must obtain before...

I suspect not, as that is an entirely different issue.

What do you mean? You're not allowed to have insights when drunk?

That's a different question and much more easily answerable. There can be an explanation in terms of prior causes, a historical story. EDIT: Whereas i...

It is philosophy and it's not a delusion. No he isn't. He's asking why he is this one rather than some other one. He's not asking that one either I do...

I'd do a story in which something subtle didn't happen, call that thing Q. I didn't notice it at first. But it made me feel uneasy. Maybe I notice its...

Yeah, maybe. To be honest I don't know what it is. It struck me as the sort of thing a philosopher might say. Actually I suppose there is a sort of po...

That's all very well. But take the group of cunts. They're all cunts aren't they? They just are. Same with wankers, there's no non-wankers among them.

Hah! I think that's a legitimate win for Gus.

What it's the title supposing to means?

I'm one of those I reckon. I'll make up some shit about panpsychism and causes in a bit if I get the time. Basically forces are wills, maybe.

You mean my regard for others is ethically irrelevant? And which person I am is ethically irrelevant? If we divorce ethics from particular interests a...

I don't recognise this at all. What country are you talking about?

There are lots of different contexts, and for each I think there is a different answer. Advocates (not in the sense of a Barrister, but in the sense o...

Do they really?

OK, I've read you post a couple more times. I'm still struggling with it, not sure why! Are you saying that it's not just gender-the-social-construct ...

I think you're probably right. But I suspect some trans people will strongly object (not that I know that). When it comes to identity people can be qu...

Well, I'm not sure about that. From the perspective of someone who most of us would think is a selfish asshole, simply not being the kid in question r...

Turns out to be a rather fruitful turn of speech. I am grateful to counterpunch.

It's possible to get fucked off. As in "You better shut you're mouth pal before I really get fucked off with you."

I'm not sure I disagree. Which bit of what I said are you replying to? Sorry it's not obvious to me.

Thanks Dawnstorm for taking the time to explain all that. It will take a bit of digesting. It's interesting to get a sociological perspective. I want ...

Thanks for your help Dawnstorm. I still struggling to get the concepts straight (no pun intended). I'm stuck on the logical relations between the conc...

I don't think gender dysphoria is confusion. People who identify as the opposite gender from their sex have not made a mistake, as if they need to loo...

Banno be blasted, I'm going to look in some dictionaries to see if this sociological sense exists according to lexicographers. EDIT: Well that didn't ...

This is not an apt analogy. Narcissists and megalomaniacs are very different from people experiencing gender dysphoria. And complying with their prefe...

I have not heard that usage, not even once. At no point have I ever heard a man referred to as a woman because of the roles he performs. Do sociologis...

I don't understand the social property thing. Lets say we have a biological male who feels and identifies as male in Pfhorrest's sense of 'bearing'. B...

But matter and form have a relationship, no?

:nod:

Charitably, it's a boo word for a good reason: the interaction problem is rightly considered fatal to substance dualism. Less charitably, some think t...

Strawson argues that Descartes was not a substance dualist at all, but a kind of property dualist. I'm not a Descartes scholar so I can't comment on t...

I guess there's no sharp line between knowledge and opinion, but BC's post contained no argument or rationale whatever. He does this quite a lot. I sh...

On a philosophy forum you are not entitled to your opinion, even if it happens to be true.

I don't think it implies necessary truth. For example, the claim that there is some particular configuration of stars and planets beyond the edge of t...

I think you are pretty much right.

bert1's suffering is much more important than anyone else's, because I am bert1. Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me. Do it ...

What is a modern conception of substance?

The interaction problem is that if there are two substances that interact, they must have something in common by virtue of which they can interact. Bu...

Is there any difference between this and monism? (Or Unvocity for Street?)

I agree with you (more or less) but the standard rebuttal to this will be: "We're not claiming consciousness is 'injected into the universe' (which is...

TMF, what is the difference (if any) between physicalism and monism, for you?

Sure, I'll try. First I just want to question the assumption that consciousness ends at death. It's an understandable assumption, because we also assu...

Yes

At death identities change, but nothing happens to consciousness.

Because the fact that I am bert1 allows me two different perspectives to examine bert1's mental processes: introspection and extropsection. Whereas ot...

I can introspect myself, but others can't.

Thanks Apo, that's made things much clearer.

Just skimmed it, thanks Oliver5 for pointing to it. Very interesting and easier to comprehend than Apo. That's not necessarily an insult to Apo - mayb...

I don't know, and I still don't. It's a risk. I'll be pissed off if I go to a lot of trouble understanding your stuff and it turns out to be bollocks ...