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Big shout from the rock massif

I think you could answer this question perfectly easily yourself.

Oh, it's a great many more times. Many many. Nowhere near halfway yet.

It obviously depends upon how the bin feels.

! The height and depth of human (and inhuman) experience dismissed. Cool! Feelings are sufficient for marriage, murder, the whole range of human activ...

But transgender =/= transsexual as you assert. It just doesn't. They mean different things. You can attack the distinction on the basis that it refers...

By whom? A cursory bit of googling will turn up overwhelming evidence of different usage.

Sexual orientation is a different thing again.

It seems to me the most useful place to start when determining gender is to consider how the person feels. I don't see the value of the social constru...

Because they are contingent on a subject's will, whether that will is a human, animal, rock, Reason or God. I don't recognise this at all. Mind you I ...

2 seems clearly false to me

I'm a quasi-god-mongerer. That means I monger God in a quasi way, not that I monger quasi-gods, although maybe I do that as well. Anyway, this forum i...

There's nothing wrong with selective readings of holy texts. I don't know how many Christians are not homophobic or misogynist, but I've met plenty wh...

This is too general. Christianity is not homogenous enough to say it is homophobic and misogynistic.

A mark of our free will. A mark of our freedom is being free from unwanted constraint (I guess, off the top of my head).

Yes, I have a choice. I've tried to make the situation precise as we need. Yes, it is idealised and perhaps unrealistic, but I'm trying to keep things...

I've got a hazy idea of what you mean. Could you apply that to my example so I can see how it works? EDIT: Is it that my choice is determined, because...

Let's say I have a choice between having a chocolate eclair and a jam doughnut and I don't mind which. However I somehow manage to choose one. Is my c...

I think any account of consciousness arising from severally non-conscious stuff is conceptually doomed. And we don't need such an account, there are o...

I'd like an answer to this too. I don't know much about Hegel.

Nay, it is idealism that is the default. The burden is on the realist.

TP, we have reached agreement! There should be some sort of official PF thing for when this happens. Like a flying pig gif or something.

That's one way to get to the self, yes, to infer it. But I think we can also do it, as it were, reflexively. We attend to a phenomenon, and then delib...

OK, so there's the phenomenon of a tree without there being a phenomenon of self. That is, there is awareness of a tree, but no awareness of self. So ...

OK, thanks TP for explaining it again. To my mind, the following is a straightforward contradiction: The bolded bits contradict each other. There are ...

I'm not sure. I don't think I understand what you mean by it, and I have read all your posts in this thread. Typically 'ontological' is contrasted wit...

This is too brief. I have no idea at all what point you are making, I really don't.

TP, I want to understand you. However, I am struggling to do so, as apparently others are also struggling. Misunderstandings are generally the fault o...

So there are just trees in empty space, or maybe there are just tress with no space around them at all?

Also, what fdrake said

If it's not separate from anything else, then how is it still itself? Identity depends upon separation, no?

I'm not sure philosophy is as big a subject as it might seem - the same issues come up over and over. Obviously there's a heck of a lot of books and y...

But a spatio-temporal location is insufficient for the appearance of a tree, it seems to me. You need to have an apparatus capable of distinguishing t...

So is there a reference point when there is just a tree?

There's you isn't there?

I don't think there is one. Maybe universal rationality (rationality common to everyone) is as close as you get.

Don't you need to be conscious before you can feel anything, including fear?

Sorry Terrapin. I've just had to deal with some child protection social workers and was in a bad mood.

Shit or get off the pot Terrapin. Socrates would be murdered here just as in Greece for being an annoying shithead.

B isn't it? Oh, A as well. EDIT: I somehow missed the 'NOT'!

My identity would be destroyed. Brains determine identity rather than consciousness, I think. Perhaps by integrating information (Tononi/Koch). I thin...

Consciousness has nothing to do with brains.

Indeed. The assumption that consciousness arises at all results in this very difficult problem.

I'm happy to accept this idea if it is right, but I don't understand it. How could it ever be known that 'it doesn't have to', because even if there i...

Schzophr, I'm interested in whether or not consciousness is a state of being, but I'm struggling to understand this offering, sorry. I suspect others ...

Yes, I think I see what you mean.

I don't think you need much science. The science is still interesting in its own right of course (not that I'm an expert on it) it's just that I reall...

Ok, thanks that's a nice clear answer. I'm not agreeing with Henri in general, but it seems that your claim that the universe is law-driven is a figur...

What does 'law' refer to, for you, in this context?

I don't understand the context. Do you mean "What happens after physical death?"