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:) Desperate times I guess.

Maybe. It's not just about rape though. It's about things like climate change, which is more important.

A third party might make sense in some situations. But isn't not voting also an evil choice? Not voting affects the numbers.

It's a really horrible situation. I can't see any non-evil practical choices though.

Isn't he still the better of two evils?

OK, but it is more physical-evidence-based than philosophy, no? And that difference is enough to explain why philosophical disputes can and do go unre...

Sure, that's fair enough. But the arbiter of what makes a scientific theory, model, paradigm, or whatever, true or not, is still evidence, which is ob...

The scientific method, eventually, forces agreement in a way that the philosophical method cannot. Physical evidence is public, and appears (more or l...

It appeals to my panpsychism. I didn't want to mention that as 180 and I disagree sharply on that, and I was enjoying being able to agree with him on ...

I like this. Seems intuitively right.

Thank you. :)

Is there a prohibition on any conspiracy theorising, or only on excessive ridiculous conspiracy theorising?

100% There must be big conspiracies. Knowing what they are is the problem.

Ah OK. I see what you mean.

Environmental factors are part of the causal story, no?

GCB nothing to disagree with there. And to answer you rhetorical question, of course they should.

I'll read it. Prompt me if I forget. You won't know if I've forgotten or not but that's epistemology for you.

Have you read any panpsychist literature?

Any developed panpsychist view needs an answer to the combination problem. Micropsychists are particularly targeted: how can lots of individual consci...

I like the cover. Looks like it was wrestled from a Lich and you're about to level up big time after reading it.

It explains why anything at all is conscious. It might also explain why anything at all happens, if everything that happens is a result of intention. ...

Good question. Possibly Tononi's phi. I like to think of the IIT as a theory of identity rather than a theory of consciousness.

It would, but identity would not. The units would change.

It's right to ask panpsychists for positive demonstrations of course. But it is also interesting to consider what the 'default' position actually is. ...

Sorry, maybe I've misunderstood. If the exam is the cause and the anxiety is the effect, then the exam is cancelled, then we have an effect without a ...

I don't think you meant it that way round.

Yes I got one just like that. He quoted some bible stuff at me. I've PMd Baden.

Panpsychism predicts that stuff happens. Things do, verily, happen. Panpsychism is confirmed. If panpsychism were not the case, nothing would ever hap...

Does Darwin have an interest in this topic? An what is Darwinian materialism?

Existence is a property, it's just not what is wrong with the ontological argument.

It would have been so easy to look these up before posting.

This is a rhetorical question.

I've never come across a panpsychist saying a whole must be conscious because some of the parts are (although no doubt there will be such people, I ma...

That's another possibility, although it's a non-standard concept of God. That's interesting, but I think beside the point. I think your theory of good...

I hope he stays. Best way to react to moderation is to treat it as valuable information about the values of the forum and adjust accordingly. He can s...

As a regular user I am glad the mods took action. I was considering reporting his stuff.

That's true

No contradiction follows from people having different values though, even if one of those people is God. Evil is always evil-from-a-point-of-view.

Whatever exists that seems evil to us must be good from the point of view of an all powerful being, otherwise it wouldn't exist. No comfort there for ...

Is this a question about law? If so moderate proselytising is warranted in most countries where human rights are respected AFAIK. I think people shoul...

180, are you approving of Pfhorrest's panpsychism or of his functionalism regarding the content of consciousness? Or both?

A human whose brain has been removed has lost its identity, and therefore cannot be a subject, it seems to me. I think identity is what comes and goes...

I don't think it is right to say phenomenal consciousness is located in the brain, but I think identity very likely is. It seems to me that when peopl...

Pigliucci's article is a poor one IMO. I would probably have asked him about a premise to a different argument for panpsychism (which he doesn't addre...

Wayfarer might be making a distinction between being and being-something. Unformed vs formed substance, or something like that. I prefer not to use 'b...

This interesting, and I think I understand your point. In the analogy, phenomenal consciousness is like incompatibilism - a coherent and meaningful id...

In short, because panpsychism is the least problematic theory of consciousness. I can rehearse the arguments if you want me to. The point of my commen...

I didn't mean to imply that at all. Sorry if I was not clear. I was simply making an analogy between space and consciousness. Being spatial is not the...

What Maw said.

Particles are conscious in exactly the same way humans are. Particles have experiences. Humans have experiences. In so far as they both have experienc...