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What you lack in wit, you more than make up for in incomprehensibility.

I believe they arise from brain states. They are a perceptual dimension no different than the five senses. But what they are perceiving is internal. O...

It does seem strictly unknowable, like some kind of uncertainty principle of bullshit.

The last "metanarritive" to fall is the future. This knowledge is now pervasive. Is this late stage postmodernism, or are we now in some new, eschatol...

There MUST be published papers written with this thing.

Any chance of an extension? I just saw this, I've been itching to try writing again.

[reply="skyblack;569147" If only you knew what a joke you've been! Shoo, joke.

But these things rot from the head down. Scientism, secularism, humanism all began with the intellectual elites. But postmodernism is way past that st...

I don't think they caused it, but I think they quickly embodied to a parodical degree what they described: discourses on Truth revealing themselves to...

Communism untethered to a metanarritive?

Well, this one didn't age well .

:lol: :lol: :lol: Calm down tough guy!

This is why I wouldn't says that thinking is *perfectly* voluntary, only that we have substantial voluntary control over it, in a way we lack with our...

Yes DK, your arguments are just too devastating, to the point that I had to call in some favors from the moderators to edit your posts, and I can vali...

This seems plainly untrue. I feel grief. I desire to be happy. If the desire *was* the feeling, this desire would fulfill itself immediately, I desire...

Thank you DK. Well said, and apology accepted.

I don't know if it is meaningful to talk about acting voluntarily without a desire or aversion of some kind. If an act fulfills neither I don't think ...

Well played, sir!

Good riddance, Dunning Kruger!

It does, if you weren't so wrapped up in your own variety of idiocy you might see it. I'll try once more: You claim: "Emotions are involuntary since t...

You are confusing the issue . Your boss barks at you, "think about tomorrows meeting!". You can obey if you choose, because you have at least has a hi...

My hand is under the "jurisdiction of biology" and I have control of it. So is my spleen, and I have no control. And so is my heart rate and.blood pre...

This is utterly at odds with everyday experience. We can say to ourselves, "I will now think about tomorrow's meeting", and then think about tomorrow'...

The walls of a hole are made of something too. A hole is a way that a surface can contour in 3d space. Nothing mysterious.

To me there is nothing puzzling about holes. Holes are a topographical feature, the opposite of hills. If there is a hole in a ground, the ground is s...

How about shapes? Shapes can't exist in isolation. They must be molded from something. Holes are properly thought of as shapes. Their only distinction...

Their appearance is certainly an illusion as well cannot perceive them at all without "projecting them onto an imaginary plane" Both objects and proce...

If you are going to argue by analogy, the analogy has to at least make sense. Time seems to move from past to future. Distance having a length does no...

This argument presumes that time is only the instant we are currently experiencing. If this were so, I agree. The cough ofa fly 10000 years ago may ha...

Certainty and uncertainty are not binary choices. Nothing is truly certain. Any knowledge you gain from experience may be contradicted by new experien...

Yes, so for instance your apple glyph can be encoded with some number [0, N) where N is the number of glyphs in the fruit language. This number would ...

I think your premise is right, some but not all metaphysical questions are in fact simply language questions. But it is interesting that you have your...

Of course not, grammar merely reflects it When referring to a single, definite apple, we say "the apple". The point is, "the apple", once established,...

Hell of an album

Thanks, that was clarifying. I'm in Portland now, so I can readily imagine a coffee table book for hipsters called "13". In it are a collections of ph...

The dream person exists, but mistaken about its identity: it is in fact the dreamer.

Any of them. "13" might mean the tokens, it might mean the integer 13, it might mean 13th day of christmas, or an order to buy 13 pounds of chicken fa...

Just consider the numbers "13, 13" as they appear on your screen. Are they two different numbers, both classifed as "13"? Or the same number? You are ...

No more "woo" to say that two numbers, i.e. "13, 13", are the same number. Two different things, classified as "13"? Sounds woo to me. And consider th...

Using my own words against me? Rude! Re: the Wizard of Oz, I'm not so sure the naming of it is just semantic (I'm also very sure I don't believe every...

No. You can divide things into groups on any basis whatsovever. These divisions may be more or less relevant, more or less salient, but thats a far as...

You keep referring to these appearances and impressions as if they had evidentiary status . Despite your bald assertion, it is in fact a tautology. If...

Same. However you treat numbers, numbers are one thing, sets of numbers are another. You can't treat these the same either (even the degenerate sets {...

Is the problem that "things" and "concepts" are being lumped together? The number of things is finite, and the set "universe" contains all of them. Bu...

I'm not sure this makes sense. The word "life" cleaves reality so that some things fall on one side, some things on another. And there are things wher...

You phrase it is as if I were saying bears and apples could not interact. I am saying that the material and immaterial; better, the physical and non p...

It seems simple enough. Religious claims are epistemologically invalid to the atheist. If moral claims only originated in religion, they would be simi...

How would a panpsychist explain the incredibe fragility of our consciousness? All you have to do is apply a moderate blow to the head, or administer a...

Between the non-living and the living there also seems to be an infinite gap. Panpsychism is a modern vitalism.