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My point was people do not just create monoliths out of nothing. It was a metaphor not a history lesson, so treat it as such.

True. I rarely post anything anymore because I find it too much bother wading through trivial responses. If this sounds arrogant I don't mind. It is j...

Thanks for comments. Will get to this asap. VERY busy lately.

The Egyptians didn't build the Pyramids first. They started out small and built upon their know-how and expertise over time. It is really just that si...

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I think it is deeply misguided too. As you may have noticed I get a little concerned when philosophy ignores scientific evidence, or is simply ignoran...

Like every word in any language it is context dependent. It just so happens that this particular term can be used in common parse to mean quite differ...

Well, a cognitive neuroscientist is happy to talk about conscious and unconscious contents. The word consciousness refers to both. There is leeway. Th...

All good points. I think if we are looking at what we mean by 'belief' then we need to distinguish between beliefs held in the face of evidence and be...

How so? How can you believe something if you are not consciously (as in the agent) believing it. That seems to fly in the face of how we use language ...

The paper seems to be trying to push philosophers away from classical models of cognition. My point is that most neuroscientists dropped that idea lit...

I very many cases, yes. There are more subtler forms that could be called 'emotional content' that cannot easily, or cannot be pinpointed. All evidenc...

Then we had no reason. If you do not know why you did something what makes you think your justification for something you did means anything? We can a...

I am talking about both. The main thrust of my point being that the evidence provided by science is sometimes too easily left on the sidelines. There ...

No. I imagine there is something to looking at physical evidence. I am sure someone with a materialistic stance would hold that view though. My mistak...

My point was although these terms are referring to the same physical item it is referring to it in different states. All of this does remind me of a d...

Are you going to ask for the conceptual distinction between Hesperus and Phosphorus too. I am not being facetious here, maybe there is value in this? ...

This from the link: Is gibberish. No neuroscientist would pay any real attention to what is being said here because it is so wide of the mark. The hid...

So you are asking about what consciousness is then? I have no answer for that.

Everything that is consciousness is directedness. Ergo, there is always emotional content. What we feel is driven and what is driven is felt. You beli...

I guess it does help for open discussions. Would've helped though. What may end up happening now is a back and forth simply to understand why this per...

Reading lists are helpful BUT when claims are made in-texts citations should be used.

This is a fact rather than an idea. Reason and emotion are not discrete entities. This is a hurdle it will probably take several more decades for peop...

Is this a vague finger pointing at 'hidden-hand'?

Would have been nice to see in-text citations to back up the claims made. I find the interpretation of Nozick to be taken at a stretch to say the leas...

I am confused as to what is meant by 'Radical Individualism' especially in relation to Nozick? I was expecting to see some mention of 'the hidden-hand...

This is very much a focus on university level undergraduate philosophy papers and how they should be written. What has to be kept in mind is that this...

I have not read this fully yet but a quick skim brings up some trouble I have found recently when reading philosophy from a broad spectra of authors. ...

Berlin's point was that Negative Liberty is better than Positive Liberty. He was warning against authoritarianism dressed up as the pursuit of liberty...

I am 100% riffing here. Just want to see what ideas people can come up with.

Abrahamic hang ups then. We all know about the Olympics. I just do not see this as a front runner. Important in modern society? Yes! I am looking unde...

You seem somewhat bothered by something. Not sure what it is. Anyway, you can have the last word. Bye have fun

Yes. Trans women are a special case of males though. The reason trans women are trans women is because they are trans women. They are not women. They ...

I wrote in plain English. It shouldn't be too hard to see how you sidestepped the main thrust of the logic. For the sake of clarity, if there is no di...

It is the right word. It is not the only word though. I am interested in the subconscious aspects here in relation to secular and non-secular rituals.

Yes. Not now though. That was probably a matter of convenience though as it was the only place to get hot water. I think we are getting off track thou...

Now. Not always.

I am not sure what nudity has to do with this. I think that is more or less Victorian era hang up. btw I only get naked when I go to the toilet becaus...

I am looking at this over the span of human history. From some brief investigations it does appear that washing and toilet facilities were kept separa...

Interesting thoughts. What strikes me is the integration of 'bathing' and 'waste disposal'. It seems like an unlikely combo, where one is refined and ...

It is almost as if you are answering without reading. Nvrmind.

If the playing field is level. That was my point. If there are women's, men's and unisex categories, then I think it is worth arguing that women's onl...

I think you missed my point. How well are these laws enforced? It is a little more important than being able to use a toilet I feel. So you would take...

Well, I think it would be right not me make someone in a fragile state feel unnecessarily vulnerable as it would exacerbate their suffering and length...

The tennis thing is low hanging fruit. Leave it alone. Anyone with any kind of sense understands that there are clear physiological advantages for tra...

I think it is reasonable to understand that women who have suffer severe domestic abuse from men may feel somewhat uneasy about being around trans wom...

Women do that for us to save us the bother thankfully! :D

I was asking a question. You didn't answer. No problem.

What is your point. I simply said anyone can dress up as the opposite sex and enter another toilet. If you can literally not tell the difference there...

You do accept that the difference is as good as universal though? There is far less than 1% difference (to the point where it would be described as st...