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I don't like the sound of your friend, sorry. It seems to me quite possible that you could be someone else, and not just because, grammatically, the r...

I'm not sure what you mean by 'social justice has gotten to the point of ridiculousness'. Do you mean that society is ridiculously unjust? Or ridiculo...

I can't remember The Sophist (is that the right one?) very well from my A-levels, but I do remember thinking Callicles' arguments in favour of might b...

The quality of something is how it feels. EDIT: is the OP asking for a definition or a theory?

I posit my self-knowings at least twice a day into an old t-shirt.

If only confession were so popular absolution had to be rationed. Indeed, it's far less personally offensive. However I suspect it's a heck of a lot m...

This doesn't seem right to me. Doesn't genocide happen when one group is demonised and blamed for the suffering of another group? In which case the or...

Indeed

Sure, you could be right. I'm fairly new to the concept.

Indeed. If the spotlight is on anything at all, it's on.

Yes, that's my view I think. The content of consciousness admits of degree, but consciousness itself does not - you are either aware of something not ...

There is an assumption of functionalism here, that consciousness is something a brain (or whatever) does. We're not all functionalists, and functional...

I think you are wrong. Can you give an example of this? Presumably you mean more than just misunderstandings caused by different implicit assumptions ...

What a nice question. Defining these things in the abstract is not without difficulty. I'm not sure that we can define 'feeling' in any other ways tha...

Granting the religious assumptions of the OP, I think the solution to the paradox is to be found in the immanence of God. Our own horror of death and ...

The UNCRPD is definitely considered an authority and 177 countries have ratified it. So far only Ireland has yet incorporated it into law. It is influ...

Sure, but why would I follow such a rule? I would only follow it if I valued it. I will only act justly if I value justice. The value of justice must ...

I can't think of a philosophical way to disprove this, and creating an experimental conditions whereby we could even tell if mental states change with...

One human problem is 'What will I do?' Does your conclusion provide a practical solution?

I've had exactly your thought a few times and I haven't seen it expressed anywhere else. Not that I read any philosophy these days.

i don't think so. An incapacitous 35 year old is not a child. The UNCRPD section 12 distinguishes mental capacity from legal capacity, saying (in othe...

Panpsychism can result in more or less this view. Substance, if sentient (as some versions of panpsychism hold) entails a kind of omniscience, omnipot...

Panpsychism is one philosophical route to a kind of theism. I consider myself a theist but I don't follow any particular religion in a recognisable wa...

Ask if your neighbour has a spare room. :)

That was superb, thank you for the link. Very relevant to my work.

Yes, I think this is a good reason to think that consciousness is not a property of anything by virtue of its differentiated structure. I think the bi...

I'm a panpsychist who agrees with this conception of substance. If I understand you, of course, which I probably don't.

I'd really like to know if Hanover managed to make a paypal payment. I'm already stressed and tired and it would be one thing off my mind.

I'd hazard that most philosophers tend towards submissiveness.

I care about what women generally are or aren't. EDIT: Well, I care much more about what particular women are or aren't, but general information is st...

Have you talked with her about you taking a parental role? Would she want that? The tricky thing is, however in need she might be of some parents, you...

Could you give an example of someone having a belief in something supernatural that leads them to an inconsistency with other beliefs that you think t...

Yes, I think that's about right. But I'm not sure what physicalists think non-physical things are, except the set of things that don't exist. I suspec...

Check out Jim Sinclair's classic essay "Don't Mourn for Us" as an account of autism-as-identity rather than autism-as-pathology. Also, what Street sai...

I don't know. It's not necessary to know one is having an experience in order to have an experience is it? Do dogs experience hunger do you think?

I usually attribute some kind of feeling akin to excitement or pleasure to a dog when it wags its tail and jumps around in circles. Do you think that ...

Has anyone ever reported being a dolphin in a human body to the extent that they want surgery? If someone actually did, and we respected that, s/he wo...

It's certainly a good question. I do think there are possible answers though. I do not agree with the IIT theory of consciousness, but it might be a v...

I feel so guilty after I know myself that I have to do it again for punishment. After a while it becomes a very slippery slope.

How did you form your maybe just maybe opinion Hanover?

Well, I'm jolly glad we understand each other. :)

Nah, his advice isn't very good. Better not to hire if you don't need to, and not all DS relationships involve sex.

Indeed. I do not see the relevance of being 5'11", unless as part of an argument to say that Max Planck was infinitely tall or something, or couldn't ...

One thing that philosophy has taught me is that we only start to think when we stop getting what we want.

I identify with you I think. But you know your situation better than I do. I suppose I partly want to give you permission to do what you want. Sometim...

"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Dominant women are rare. Let her h...

I actually think this would be an interesting exercise. I struggle to maintain the distinction that apparently seems so clear to you, namely between b...

Dragons with victim mentalities

What andrewk said. A post is less ambiguous. A downvote could mean a number of different things: 'badly written', 'I don't like you', 'I disagree with...

Pillars of Eternity is what I'm playing now. Very good it is. Other fave games: Baldur's Gate Master of Orion 2 Battle for Wesnoth Total Annihilation