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So you could be Bitter Crank, at least logically, or perhaps grammatically. You've just said so.

But couldn't you be a different one? Why aren't you Bitter Crank?

I heartily agree with the OP. We can be social, without being obsessed with fitting in. Check out: https://angryautie.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/the-ins...

I think time is more about reality-as-discontinuum. In time one thing happens after another, change and differentiation is essential for time. By cont...

Intuitively, space is the nearest physical concept I have. I'm not sure but perhaps quantum field or some other concept like that would do just as wel...

Hi Weeknd I'm a panpsychist and you raise some interesting points in your OP. However I'm not clear from your OP how exactly panpsychism seems in cont...

Is there something it is like to have a dream? Of course. So we are conscious at least in that sense.

Loud Hands, a collection of bits and pieces by autistic self-advocates, including the famous one by Jim Sinclair Don't Mourn for Us

It's heartbreaking because the kid is cute. Forget about the kid and people you can't help. Find some obnoxious shit who needs to learn some lessons a...

Blimey!

I've studied pornography quite a lot. I haven't yet gathered sufficient data to form any reliable conclusions, though.

#5 in mine

Didn't seem very nice to me.

I agree it is laboured and awkward, but it is quite evocative too. It might be that I would get used to the style and it would seem less laboured and ...

Thanks, but what play was it?

Regarding definitions of consciousness, looking in a dictionary and deciding which one you want to talk about might be a good way to avoid simple misu...

I really like the 7 mile bridge one. Cavacava does some really nice impressionist stuff.

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In reply to OP: Yeah. I got very upset at university when compatibilism came up. It was plainly just a (not very) special case of determinism and seem...

Perhaps Michael could embrace a kind of linguo-idealism, whereby the existence of anything is language-dependent. (At times Banno seemed to espouse su...

He certainly was special.

I guess a realist might argue you could have a hole in a hole. Just because we cant tell where the bigger hole stops and the smaller hole starts, it d...

At least the Americans' attitude to capital punishment is getting more progressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o8R8AJD9nE&feature=em-share_video...

If Ronnie Pickering (who?) had had a gun we may not have ended up with this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dcv6GKNNw Actually I'm sure Ronnie ...

I expect people to do philosophy, and be philosophical, on a philosophy forum. Whether that's the same or different from the rest of the web is of no ...

How is it possible to correct a question?

Was it? How do you know?

I don't care what most online discussions are. This is a philosophy forum. Doing philosophy is exactly an exchange of of information and viewpoints. T...

Indeed, you did say 'try to win'. And I said: "What constitutes winning?" Which you ignored. This is classic NT behaviour.

What constitutes 'winning'?

The essence of arguing is listening to and responding in good faith to points people make and questions they ask. What you are describing is not argui...

I've watched the video now, thanks for linking to it. It's a great look into an autistic person's life. I did wonder if she was hamming it up slightly...

In which case they are not doing philosophy and have no business on a philosophy forum. Well, that's just psychotic, or at least rude. But we can addr...

Sure. This shows that there are two groups of people with different cultures, needs, abilities, etc. The narrative is that autistics are deficient on ...

Indeed, I agree with you.

I used to find the rudeness on the old PF very upsetting sometimes. I wonder if Paul had implemented a kind of laser option that shot out of users web...

Indeed, I was wondering if Mars Man had made the long journey home to the red planet. Although I found him infuriating he did have some redeeming qual...

She looks OK to me.

Are you pining for Mars Man?

It's us or her, Wayfarer. I'm not having this half-arsed commitment to philosophy, whichever forum it's on.

The absence of eyerolling is indeed a major plus. I think jamalrob has set a better tone than Paul did. I love the monthly reading group, even though ...

One method of dealing with challenging behaviour is distraction. We should talk to ISIS about, say, global warming, road safety, poisoning bees and ma...

Sure. My statement was very ambiguous. What I was getting at is that philosophy hacks away at the foundations of our world view in a rather inconsider...

I voted for the 'get rid of them completely option'. Philosophy is naturally anti-social. But I guess being philosophers is not all we are, so I'm not...

I like the way the tree on the right shares its lines with the rock below.

The view you expressed is perfectly understandable. It's the standard view. Autism is generally (but not universally) thought of by non-autistic resea...

:) You'd get boo'd off the stage for that at Autscape! For many autistics, myself included, NT interpersonal communication seems dysfunctional and deg...

I enjoyed your sympathetic treatment of this, Street. Life would be better for autistics if more NTs were as understanding as you are here. There has ...

WikiLoopr makes it easier. 'Mangle' gets stuck in a different loop. But all the other ones I've tried get stuck at ontology and philosophy. I find tha...

22 for 'plank'. 'Murder' is the record holder so far.