I think that's only true though if there's some within-frame theoretical support for the notion that "it cannot be bridged", which I think is lacking....
Yes. So I'm asking, how is that any different from make-up. Because if it's no different, then you have your answer. Women (mostly) in many cultures w...
Wow, you really don't pull punches with your bigotry do you? Now you know what their 'best interests' are better than they do? Have you got any justif...
This is the question that I think is ill-formed. How could we tell if anything is impossible? There's nothing peculiar about consciousness (as it's de...
The argument (a philosophical one about epistemology) is that this is the approach which is best. the one which yields the most useful, accurate answe...
Good. Then perhaps avoid the suggestion that their condition is in any way the result of their own stupidity and simply campaign to give them higher w...
Since we're speculating on motives (and apparently this is a proper topic for philosophy). Here's my counter to Nagel. Opposition to scientific explan...
In what way? What makes it an essay on Philosophy. It makes claims about how humans think (their motives in this case). So what makes that a topic for...
Is the latter claim supposed to be an example of this sharply formed, evidence-accompanied type of claim you're wanting to advocate? "Your blah blah b...
I wasn't asking you if you thought it was relevant (I pretty much assumed that), I was asking about the understanding you have of people who differ in...
I really don't see how specificity is a defence against describing an alternative view as 'evil'. The accusation is not one of bigotry, it's of hubris...
Seriously? What world are you living in? Which of the 'fact checkers' seek out Rupert Murdoch? Which teaching establishments ask Meredith Koch for an ...
That's fine, I don't deny that, but then from within the definition of consciousness used by the protagonists here, there should still be a set of suf...
It's not about 'mongering' it. I'm just saying that one could render exactly the same level of mystery about how it is that legs result in walking, or...
Is it? Why? (by which I mean why is it clear?) It's not at all clear to me. Legs don't always walk. I wouldn't say "my legs are going for a walk", I m...
Indeed you were. None of which is the modus operandi of school and none of which is the 'teaching' of critical thinking skill. Schools take thirty chi...
But it's not 'only' that. You described one of the alternatives as "evil". You regularly frame disagreement as your interlocutors "not understanding" ...
Policies don't happen in isolation. They're part of a national strategy. Of course you can pick one single policy and show it was not particularly har...
Does this not strike you as slightly messianic? Do you not think others feel the same way about their own cherished beliefs? Yet here you are deriding...
It's got nothing to do with differences in education between rich and poor. The rich get a crap education too and then walk into board-room jobs, not ...
That would not really be appropriate to this (or perhaps, any) OP. As I've probably made quite plain before, my models relate to narrative building as...
What is? That's begging the question. The evolutionary frame (in my example) comes first so that we can ask - what's the benefit of being conscious - ...
Because unless you're wildly hubristic, it might just indicate that you're wrong. I realise for someone with your who that would be difficult to compr...
Yeah, and far from recognising such approaches as being instrumental in the rise of populism we've seen these last few years, these people have, since...
Yes, a pretty sorry history, particularly in psychology, where just about everything has at one time been justified because "...that's what we evolved...
Yes, that's indeed the point. I find something quite offensive in people who have not been taught critical thinking skills (presumably getting by on t...
Yep. Me too. Still the total toll of death and misery is higher. So you're talking about an entirely hypothetical approach to foreign policy not shown...
OK, what you're saying makes a lot of sense, but I'm having trouble applying it to the 'Why?" and "How?" questions that were posed originally here. If...
It's the modelling assumption of the aggregated function of our nervous system, so I suppose the 'physics' would be action potentials, ion channels an...
Odd. I would have thought if one were going to make a public accusation such as you've done, that checking first to see if it's actually true would be...
Exactly. Because we all have criteria for when we think that inappropriate (past experiences, offense, context...). We don't always extend charity bec...
There are obviously conservatives who support the movement simply because they see it as the most self-interested political means to secure more wealt...
As I said, it's not one single response. It is one of a number which accurately respond to the state of the external node. Anything which doesn't is e...
I didn't limit the description to overt responses. They are both parts of the brain typically responding to external stimuli and outputting responses ...
I'm not (sorry, that is). It's exactly what I expect given my provocative approach. I was pointing out the hypocrisy in your complaint about antagonis...
You're missing my point, it's not that we must look at this from a functional point of view, that was just an example, it's that we must look at this ...
No it isn't, because your 'pointing out' was in direct response to an attempt to take those victims' lives into account in determining if such strateg...
And note again here who are to blame now for the Republican voting blocks... Why, it's everyone's favourite scapegoat... The poor. If only they could ...
No the suggestion includes (3) that we should therefore teach them to do it. That does not follow. No it isn't. It is exactly the point. There are thi...
Whether the EU is safe, or whether you're happy are not the question. You claimed soft imperialism was 'better'. If your claim now is only that Europe...
No. Simply declaring it doesn't have anything to do with subsequent activity is begging the question. I'm claiming it does. I'm saying that, since we ...
Indeed. We can just let this conversation stand as an excellent example of how to apply critical thinking. When presented with an idea which questions...
So no answer then? So much for the importance of critical thinking. you take the unquestioned trope that important things must be taught through publi...
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