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Probably the only thing I mentioned that is unknown enough to even make remote the possibility of a designer is galactic filaments. To my knowledge, t...

Maybe it’s because the way we define ‘design’ differs. What did you think of my definition. I don’t think order implies a designer - part of that is b...

Firstly, I think you are equivocating ordered and 'design'. The way in which a designer makes designs, which are ordered, is fundamentally different f...

I tried in some other post and I'm not sure I did a good job either. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/176521

I think w I think what's more disorienting and freaky is the thought that nothing really validates our own collective existence. I mean everything is ...

Thinking of a 'designer' as best explanation is just availability heuristic. Irregardless of whether all designs at present have designers, there coul...

I think it has to do with how the meaning is encoded. In traditional language, a word's referent is a particular concept; even in the Wittgensteinian ...

Music has less precision than words, making it less useful for communicating certain kinds of information, eg. factual knowledge. Maybe that's why we ...

Being mean would be to callously speak or behave in a way that disregards the negative feelings your action trigger in another person. It's a moral fl...

I agree

^Maybe it's the same with just implicit recognizing, not just with words. To see a world of things is to already have categorized the world into objec...

I'm sorry some of this is just really subtle because it's easy to assume an 'introspection' involves a factual claim about your inner life 'e.g. 'I am...

So observing or recognizing yourself as having or experiencing certain internal states, emotions, thoughts. That's introspection correct? I think the ...

You don't think we occasionally confabulate, thinking sometimes we know how we felt or why we did a certain thing when in actuality the real reason, i...

I'm sorry I misunderstood the claim here. I still would say it's a method of obtaining knowledge not a source; the 'dog sitting on the lawn', that fac...

I wouldn't say introspection is a source of knowledge; all the knowledge comes a posteriori ultimately but it certainly allows for sifting through and...

Well I think the whole psychologism framing creates a dualism in posing the origin of logic being 'mental' vs 'physical' so I just took you saying 're...

You should read Quine's two dogmas. He makes a good case against apriori justification.

don’t you imply an inherently reliable physical reality by presupposing that things like common physiologies exist? If you argue organisms that have c...

It can’t be entirely nominal or else how could we even have common, reliable experiences at all? At some point there must be primitive referents to wh...

I think it’s clear there’s something observer independent that you measure when you measure the charge of an electron. The property or feature being m...

There are 2 assumptions you are making that are a bit problematic: 1. Determinism and ‘unfreewill’ are synonymous 2. Unfreewill implies reasoning is c...

Well I think here you're mixing up attention with consciousness. You're still conscious of the road and what actions you are doing, just not focused o...

It looks like you support your claim ‘we could function without having experiences’ by trying to decouple conscious experience from the actual mental ...

If you just want to know why we are conscious instead of a computer, well then that’s a tractable question for which there’s an answer. It would funda...

But this dodges the glaring problem of grounding. I agree it seems more than callous to deny basic rights, it feels disgusting, but that doesn't provi...

Probably the only thing that seems self evident is universal basic freedoms because there doesn't seem to be any morally relevant ground to say one or...

Well the thing is he is making an absolutist claim in the OP.

Well I simply think you cease being conscious of anything -- there is no experience at all at a certain point. You never become aware or know of when ...

You're presupposing enlightenment values -universal basic rights, universal freedoms- as your metric for superiority. As obvious as it seems, it still...

Sleep is analogous enough and I feel it's clear from that you drift away at some point -- you are conscious of your final awake moment and then cease ...

Maybe I should provide some more public examples in case no one is aware.. It's looking like this episode in particular is becoming more and more sens...

This is just pantheism. In a monistic system like Spinozas, reality would trivially satisfy the criteria for an impersonal God referent in that it is ...

^ The problem is, you are forcing the situation in a way to exclude any option of acting other than a prejudicial one. But -in actuality- you always h...

Well it’s an inescapably horrid predicament, and I think taking a lottery approach doesn’t do away with that fact. Maybe it adds issues in that it dis...

Ah, I was taking lottery in the more concrete sense of randomly selecting particular individuals to die vs finding ways to randomize the process in ge...

Ask for volunteers -there are already plenty of people willing to undergo assisted sucide and euthanasia or I’m sure others who’ve lived long enough t...

Well, because he has to live with those memories, even if we perceive him as a different person, he still is held accountable by his own psychology- h...

I think the question is, will my future self, in 30 years, look back and scream, or will he be content. If your ideal-self is not in line with how you...

I don't think mere honesty is etiquette. Just imagine this parent-child example: you've developed a bad smoking habit which you regret and you're one ...

I provided the alternatives to demonstrate that negative utilitarianism is itself just one of many theories, and that the antinatalist position depend...

I think my main problem with the argument is that bad/good ascriptions are not necessarily applicable to suffering or pleasure in themselves. Badness ...

I don’t even think there’s an empirical equivalent for nothing. Vacuum space is not empty. Whether there are things like quantum fields or whether the...

Well I think you mean uselessly or needlessly suffer here. I do not think people would agree with the bold if that suffering resulted in a net positiv...

I think you have to be careful with this. You mention in OP that unchecked rudeness is not what you advocate, but I've seen it all too often, in socia...

What makes you think it is not necessary to go through? I mean, fundamentally, the sort of satisfaction and enjoyment you get from enduring through a ...

It is an absence.

^To second poster, in what way have you experienced before being born? The closest analogy during life, coma and sleep, involve no experience. You fal...

Well so conferring new value via re-purposing is something different than instrinsic purpose/teleology. Are you implying here that the ends of things ...

Dfpolis, thanks for this OP. I still owe you a response in the other thread, I will get to it soon. I have qualms with the idea of teleology being int...