But still, a contract is not a house. It is best not to blur the real/imaginary divide. Even though Imaginary things do exist, and have real consequen...
What bizarre, magical thinking. As if, *poof!*, a newly minted promise, shiny and golden, floats down from The Land of Ought. The promise exists in th...
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It depends on whether the "habits" we have built up over a lifetime are adequate to the situation or not. If the particular situation which requires j...
I finally read it. Good story, though probably not the one I should have read atm. Me and @"Baden" are both struggling to poop out our stories for the...
:up: I would be interested in seeing you work this out. Myself, I think consequentialism is the answer. But, a consequentialism that takes injustice i...
Because RubbishAI lacks every feature that would otherwise make this language appropriate. In most contexts we make extremely fine taxonomic distincti...
But that is just making it easy for yourself: all else being equal, you should not violate someone's rights. Instead, what if we modify the original e...
The prevailing view is that the more "primitive" a people, the more complex their language. This is true of "primitive" people today, and presumably o...
I would say, if your claim were true, it would be a revolutionary finding, and upend our notions about what it means to be human. Hence, forgive my sk...
Until recently, only humans could "accept", "consider", or "hold as an opinion", and it has been generally presumed that these are always accompanied ...
I think it would believe that "pain" denotes the cluster of behaviors that it and we engage in when injured. So long as it is engaging in these behavi...
This parallels what I experience. I think you might underestimate the inner monologue. After all, I am guessing that animals can think visually as wel...
The relevant definition in Webster's is "something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion". This to me doesn't entail subjecti...
I'm not convinced that "belief", unlike "conscious", entails inner life. But the larger point is, your "cheating" here: You can disqualify the stateme...
They would of course never say that, and may be naïve to the notion of computer algorithm. Something inside their heads causes them to say things, jus...
The misunderstanding is once again yours. If you ask a p-zombie, "will the sun rise tomorrow", they would say "yes, I believe so". By definition they ...
"p-consider", "p-belief" is all the informational operations of "consider", "belief" without the conscious part. Like how a computer-vision program mi...
You are free to not count that as belief. But you cannot use that to then logically conclude that "I consider myself to be a p-zombie" is only true wh...
It is a thought experiment, it is an open question whether it is believable or not. But this is a different matter than having a real life p-zombie ta...
I think p-zombies may believe things. They have the capacity to record and analyze information the same way we do. There is just no concomitant phenom...
I find it very hard to believe. But I can believe that there are differences in neural architecture such that for some people this qualia talk makes n...
I've never been able to access that, interesting that it comes so easily to you. What I write is always rehearsed and constructed in my head, rather t...
It's very easy to pick our young, or the young of our pet species, and say "Its just true! We shouldn't harm them! Like, obviously!" But why a puppy? ...
Suppose a good friend comes over, whom you know to be a strict Kantian. The Gestapo know this as well, and question him regularly. He notices a yarmul...
For instance, an example that came up in one of your other threads: Would you lie to the Gestapo about Jews hiding in your house? I'll read it when I ...
Neither deontology nor consequentialism seem to fully match our intuitions, since you can construct cases where either violate them. An approach that ...
I spent about five minutes on a writing forum recently. It was a "workshop" for fantasy/sci-fi novel writers. The first thread I clicked on, some guy ...
Why should one thing I believe be accounted for by another? My subjectivist view on moral realism does not account for the particulars of my moral bel...
You are right. I thought I was just adopting your terminology, but there is a difference. What I meant, and what I think this whole thread has been di...
No. And I'm really beginning to doubt you truly understand the distinction between normative and descriptive, or an ethical and metaethical theory. Yo...
Of course. I would only bother to write dross if I needed money, and the dross would provide it. But the dross market must be tough these days. Otherw...
I don't know how anyone ever wrote anything without word processors. You want to rearrange something? Get some scissors and tape, buddy. I see nothing...
Are there moral facts, and if so are they objective? I believe there are, and that they are subjective. You believe they are objective. The goal is a ...
No, I can't say that I can see how I'm toeing the line. AFAICT everything I have been saying has been descriptive, not normative. These are your quest...
Yes, people often do listen to their conscience. Conscience is just how one's moral sensibility expresses itself to ourselves. "Listening to one's con...
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