That's still straw men, are you doing it on purpose or do you not see it? Nowhere did I claim what you're implying I think. Risking that someone might...
I'm going to address some arguments for antinatalism that were mentioned in the beginning of this thread. This argument assumes that avoiding harm is ...
The problem is that in looking at brain activity or at observable behaviors of a particular being, nothing shows us that this being experiences anythi...
Definition of consciousness: a person's awareness or perception of something So no, looking at brain activity associated with conscious experience is ...
Well said. How do you look at consciousness closely? Measuring brain activity is not looking at consciousness, it isn't seeing what the person sees or...
I know very well what suicidal people go through. You're still not addressing what I said, your analogy wasn't suitable. You say that in order to leav...
The concept of energy is problematic when we say that it causes things, or that it is what matter is made of. If I launch a ball upwards and it decele...
He says: For wherever the repetition of any particular act or operation produces a propensity to renew the same act or operation, without being impell...
I would say he draws the generalization from particular instances that people habitually draw generalizations from particular instances. He's just poi...
Well, back then you would have assessed relativity and quantum mechanics based on what we knew then, and you would have said something like "it resemb...
Unironically I would give that as the most effective answer to all these questions (especially 9-10), or some other psychedelic like psilocybin. Or ra...
How about overlooking everything except the suffering the future person might experience, isn't that pushing an agenda? Indeed, the parents are actual...
I don't agree that it's a suitable analogy, because you don't have to go through extreme levels of suffering in order to leave. You can be fine and le...
I suppose by "evidential import" he refers to how significant an evidence is. He's basically saying that when we use a theory to make a prediction, an...
I'm not the only one to have claimed that, I do have first-hand experience however. You can use my personal report as a starting point to conduct furt...
I happen to think that's precisely why they choose them. For instance there's something about physicalism that suits you that you don't find in other ...
I used to be a materialist, and I see now how narrow-minded I was, so there's that. I don't know of many people who turned materialists later in life,...
I sympathize with your position, but you can't really discuss it with materialists because they disagree with your premises, but then you disagree wit...
I can leave the job if I don't like it. It's not like people who are brought into being are doomed to eternal torture. If they don't like the experien...
Life also contains positive experiences. Some people see their life as a net negative, some other people as a net positive. If you see negative experi...
Yea and people used to agree on many facts that are considered today as fantasies. You're saying that facts are decided through consensus, you're defi...
I think fundamentally he is talking about the pain he feels when he thinks about the fate of humanity, which he sees as ending in a bleak way. I disag...
And who says what the facts are? You? It wouldn't make life impossible, many people agree on plenty of things even when they aren't coerced to do so. ...
People who are blind and don't believe what you tell them, and people who can't read a thermometer and can't learn to read one can seriously disagree ...
As I said, you believe that feeling cold is relative, does that imply that no one agrees it's cold? No. Plenty of people agree on plenty of things. Yo...
Someone can tell you it's cold or hot too, that doesn't mean you will agree. What if I can't learn to read it? What you're saying boils down to: if yo...
Actually I would even doubt that. What if I'm blind, or I can't read numbers, or I can't understand how to read a thermometer? You may brush it off as...
That's not the point. The point is in their view the existence of dark matter particles is a fact, not a hypothesis. What's a hypothesis in their view...
No it does not in the mind of most scientists working on that subject, by dark matter they mean matter, as in something made of particles, I mean for ...
There are a lot of misconceptions in what you say, I attempted to explain them to you in the other thread but you don't seem to listen. Predictive mod...
Seriously? The Scientific American article was written by physicists Rhett Herman and Shane L. Larson, they both have numerous published papers in rep...
It seems like you're not making the effort to attempt to understand what I repeatedly try to explain as clearly as possible, so I'm not sure there is ...
Honestly I don't think this is a valid distinction. Here you are basically saying that fundamental physics isn't science. A theory is basically: predi...
How do you differentiate predictive modelling from experimental testing? In the stock market technical analysis doesn't take into account the fact tha...
In my first post I explained how a scientific theory can be not falsifiable if scientists decide not to falsify it, no matter the apparent evidence ag...
Electrons have no subatomic structure in chemistry, they are already subatomic. Anyway have you ever seen an electron? Has anyone ever observed an ele...
You're saying the existence of God is not a scientific question, based on some criteria, I'm saying that by the same criteria the existence of subatom...
That would make for boring art though, and there is already plenty of that around. I see philosophy as stories we tell each other, and I thought that ...
How do you address my comment about subatomic particles, are you implying scientists strictly control subatomic particles? That doesn't address what I...
Sadly it seems that you misinterpreted a lot of what I said. I mentioned several in my previous post, and I mention some in this post. My point was pr...
They aren't really my issues anymore since I have stopped assuming we see things as they are independently of us, but I think there are issues in beli...
But I think there is something you're not taking into account. If each brain has its own perspective, that not only depends on where it is but also on...
I mentioned above how that idea is flawed. Any observation has to be interpreted in order to say whether it is evidence of something. Scientists would...
It depends who you ask, different people give different definitions for science. I'll try to explain why as best I can. Many people have attempted to ...
It seems to me you're the one confusing things. There are some who seem to believe they have a "view from nowhere" about reality, a perspective-free i...
It all points again to the idea that we shape our own reality, that we do not witness an objective state of affairs but we are involved in the subject...
Something that is not the self. If there is only self then there is nothing that is not self, nothing separate from it, nothing independent of it, not...
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