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@"Banno" @"Wayfarer" The missing foghorn between your ships passing in the night is that Banno thinks that idealism entails solipsism, unless I have m...

There is also inertia which has nothing to do with motivation, and is more biological/neurological than psychological and requires different remedies....

Maybe in some cases but I have no idea and less interest. Philosophy is tricky enough without taking an interest in people's motivations. It drives me...

Is it possible (conceptually) to be aware of your own awareness, and nothing else?

Haven't you said the exact opposite of this in the past? Sorry to play spot-the-contradiction, I'm sure you can clear it up. I can't remember where, b...

What does that mean? I don't think we have an equivalent in the UK. Presumably you can be a registered republican and still vote dem if you want? Is i...

Thanks for explaining. I think I've only ever really heard right-wing populist rhetoric. (I'm in the UK not S. America). I too perceive a divide on li...

Thanks, no doubt you are right. But what is the upshot of that in terms of the poll?

Oh you're absoutely right about that. I'm asking in the wrong place! That's really interesting, thank you. Actually I don't think I would. It really n...

These statements are very interesting, as they suggest that allegiance is to party not policy or personality. I hadn't considered party loyalty (like ...

Yes, that's how it seems to me. And promises are policy, even if they are not credible or detailed.

Do you think that's because they don't believe he's as much of a scumbag as the corrupt dems and justice system make him out to be? Or is it because t...

But that would be insane. Trump voters are mostly not insane. Therefore that explanation is false. It seems to me more credible that Trump won more on...

Thanks, that's interesting. I'm interested in your perception of Bernie Sanders. He comes across as strongly anti-establishment to me. Is that your pe...

Yes, I think Berkeley and Wilde are great writers. Hume is famous for his prose (e.g. On the Standard of Taste) although I find it a bit overblown mys...

I like brevity and clarity, but not all writers want to be brief and clear, and that is their prerogative. It does not necessarily mean they are confu...

That's really interesting thanks. I can understand that appeal. Do you see both major parties as a kind of pro status-quo, pro establishment interest,...

Oh, you got there first. Yes I suspect this is exactly right.

Hah! No, just the simple vague stuff. "I'll make you better off, we'll stop giving away American money to foreign counties, you can keep driving you c...

I think Trump may have won on policy. I'd be interested in what persuaded you.

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Understood, thanks

What sense of 'explosion' is being used here? Destruction or multiplication...? What is LNC? Sorry, probably should know. Oh, Law of Non-Contradiction...

But it is one explanation. If we want to answer the question "How is it that when I drink alcohol (a physical thing) a mental thing results (feeling d...

Things that affect the body affect the mind. For example, drinking alcohol changes what we feel. Construct a long list of such examples. Inference to ...

Yes, doing what is good is doing what someone else wants

Yes I looked. It's not a single concept. Clearer concepts are submission and respect.

It's not a very clear concept.

Yes, I'm generally not a fan of the 'can do anything' version of omnipotence that just leads to paradoxes.

I'm not sure what worship is.

I don't know, but maybe because in doing so it would cease to be God. If God isn't made of parts (as dogma has it) it has to do things wholly. So mayb...

Yes. Let 'God' refer to the red cup in @"Banno"'s cupboard. If there is a red cup in Banno's cupboard, then God exists.

Yes, I'm aware of the dilemma. But human suffering is only evil for humans, not God. No skin off his nose.

I'm not sure God is in a position to like or dislike anything, because it is omnipotent. God can love, or annihilate. Perhaps only finite powers can l...

For an omnipotent God, there can be no evil, because nothing can be against God's will. And evil just is that which is against will.

That's presumably not the definition operative the OP.. Perhaps the OP could clear this up.

Emotional bonding with animals.

Such as what?

I don't actually think it's a stereotype any more than saying all human beings like food, or something. I don't know any autistic person who who doesn...

I suppose the after life for an autistic person would be a world in which perfect steam engines ran exactly to time according to a really clear timeta...

If the only evil is suffering, as some might feel, then antinatalism is a perfectly coherent position. For me, there are other evils than suffering, s...

That you made a mistake

I'm not an antinatalist, but x has to exist before it can suffer.

I think that's an oxymoron, no?

I think that's a pretty good definition. It leaves open the conceptual possibility of consciousness with no content, which some find absurd, but I'm O...

That's not my view, but that is exactly the view of emergentists. Emergentism just is the view that consciousness arises in some circumstances and not...

It's not at all clear who you are arguing with here, either on this forum or elsewhere. It's very generic. Names?

While of considerable practical utility, this does not help us with developing a theory of consciousness. I have actually heard of that. But these are...

I don't think @"apokrisis" meant it as a definition or criterion of demarcation, but of he did then it's of little relevance as an explanation of cons...

You won't find @"apokrisis" theory in a dictionary. It's not what we mean by 'consciousness'.