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Tell me, I was never any good at math. My point is, every point on the line can be mapped to an edge of the cube. What about all the points in the res...

Does this kind of reasoning really work? Since at the same time, r=.xyzabc... <-> p=(.xyzabc..., 0, 0) and r=.xyzabc... <-> p=(.xyzabc..., 0, 0.0...01...

You are allowed to disagree with a person's beliefs. You are not allowed to disagree with a person.

You seem to be deeply missing the point. Descartes did not merely pretend ED. He supposed ED, and lo and behold: this supposition is as consistent wit...

Our right and left are not defined in terms of a larger context. We have the context built in to our bodies. We have a built in forward: this is where...

A nice principle, achievable only by ending the practice of factory farming. Otherwise there will always be $1/lb wholesale slop.

The problem with vegans is that these annoying people have the gall to point out that one of our great pleasures is in fact morally unsupportable. Wor...

But this is not true. Your right side and left side of your body is identifiable independently of your location. The notion is unconnected to your cur...

No, I don't actually post here that often. The article is good, iconoclastic and well written, right up my alley.

Why would the OP, writing in defense of Naive Realism. believe this?

Depending on how closely you are attending to something else, you can see the sunset, and experience it fully, only somewhat, or not at all. The bandw...

Not really. In my reading Level 1 and Level 2 both treat what I call Experiential Seeing. They ask, what is it? And how does it arise? I am distinguis...

Part of the problem hinges on the word see. 'See' is used in at least two senses. Process See: To 'see' is a process whereby light reflected from an o...

But I just demonstrated that is not the case, with the hologram example. These are hypotheses which are not worth arguing.

Not surprisingly, as we presumably live in the same world, share the same human nature, and the same broader culture. These are conventions, not facts...

We perceive the chair and the car. We just don't perceive them as they are. It is the nature of perception that it necessarily an illusion. 'Illusion'...

You can doubt that the liquid in the cup is water only if your working hypothesis is that there is a cup and liquid. This is not certainty, in the fac...

True, and so there is room for The Matrix/Philosophy 101 style doubts. This absence of independent verification is why these doubts cannot be disprove...

Not so. Imagine a hologram of say a city from an overhead view. It is illusory, there is no actual solid, miniature city in front of you. But if you h...

1. You presume that we can say nothing about that which we cannot access directly. 2. We are dealing with them, but indirectly, via an illusory interf...

An illusion is that which is not what it appears to be. Perception itself is an exemplary illusion. Not at all. Qualia are the elementals of our wakin...

So then we have a dualism. What we see/taste/touch, and what those consist in, for us. As physical objects, we bounce around the world as well as any ...

No, I am assuming nothing. Perception is an illusion, in that the sensory phenomena that appears to inhere to the world, the experiences of the 5 sens...

Perception is an activity, not a thing. But, this activity consists in the construction of phantom things in the mind. These phantoms look, smell, tas...

Lawyers are real, perceptions of lawyers are also real. While causally connected, they are not the same thing. Not least because, the perception is no...

But not the naive variety.

QED, except that no one is arguing there is no plane. The point is that blips, "plane"s, and planes are three distinct things. Therefore, when you see...

True.

You are missing the point. The fact that they can make any claim about the plane at all is because of the correlation between dot and plane. Were the ...

If the dot moves north and the atc says the plane is moving north, this is because they have a justified belief in the correspondence between the dot'...

One world, with many different aspects which can be colloquially referred to as "worlds". You are being lawyerly, I guess. Words are real, perceptions...

They are indeed crowded. But perceptions are more mental events rather than objects filling the brain with clutter. The bandwidth of these events is q...

"A sound" might be a perception (experience, qualia), or a physical event. The former is in your head. You can know many things without direct access ...

It should not be so difficult to understand. The abolishment of naive realism ("naive", because that is how we start out in life, prior to philosophic...

Please try to read more carefully. I was contrasting "loner", whose condition is voluntary, with an "outcast" whose isn't. I hope to avoid ever making...

I do insist on such a definition. A loner voluntarily prefers solitude, for reasons you might consider healthy, unhealthy, and every gradation between...

No. And the distinction is moot, since I was clearly talking about loners, not merely the state of being alone. A loner, by choice or otherwise, spend...

A loner is someone who prefers being alone. Do you have a more substantive point?

Great OP. To "true" in "false" I would not add "unknown", but rather the entire spectrum of degrees of truth and falsity in between. Not one of the op...

It is simply too easy to dress up ideas that are at best half baked with difficult language. Much easier than actually coming up with novel ideas and ...

also plausible. Then the minimum claim is, "Mary learns a way to experience red".

that's fine, I have no problem accepting that. Maybe perception is uniform across people, maybe spectrum s can be inverted or swapped around, maybe hu...

So is a loner who finds deep meaning and pleasure in creation, in nature, in their own thoughts, inherently a failure, compared to one who spends all ...

Whether or not you accept that red is 750nm light (I think it is true, in a sense), Mary learns what it is like to experience red. Just as you can lea...

Both perspectives are absurd on their own, only a synthesis of the two can arrive at a humane ethics. Consequentialism is absurd because consequences ...

There are high level aspects of brains and computer that are analogus. For instance they might be the only general information processing machines in ...

My point is that it is not inexplicable for a being to create something lesser than itself.

"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" C.S Lewis

But aside from parents, anyone who creates, creates things that are less perfect, or at least lesser, than themselves.

Thanks to all for reading! As a fun exercise I' will submit this to this short story contest: https://www.tckpublishing.com/2021-short-story-awards-co...