No Khaled is a lot more tolerant than I am. You haven't said on what grounds. The simple explanation seems to be contrary to your hyper-individualist ...
If the limits of our language are the limits of our world, then those things of which nothing can be said, must be within our world... what with us ha...
Yeah, I think you're right, it was more a media (or possibly even just social) narrative than anything specifc. The pharmaceuticals were clearly more ...
I see. It's a serious issue, but glad to hear you're on the right side of it. No, not really. It's something of an urban legend over here that such pe...
The problem of people resisting vaccination, mask-wearing, hand-washing, social-distancing... Firstly, it's not medical advice, it's public health adv...
Thanks, those are form a bit later than the time period I was thinking about, but I can't find anything from back then, so I will take your word for i...
You don't happen to have those to hand do you? I'll Google if not, so don't go to any effort. It just clashes with my memory of the way that issue was...
As I said... ... I don't doubt that if someone wanted to make a moral case against (or for) masturbation, they would have no trouble framing it in ter...
Thanks... though 's latest effort doesn't quite match previous standards. ""... I don't get it... some sort of metaphor perhaps?... Like eliminativist...
True, but... What sources are you using for your impression of institutions being clear that the efficacy of the vaccines at reducing transmission was...
It's OK though because Pfizer's CEO has already made his five and a half million off of the peak share price hit as a result of claiming the vaccine w...
I agree. Seems a truism. One has to at least lift the fork. Your bullshit is that you've got some ideological dogma that literally anything a capitali...
I agree. I don't think a domain of facts absent a subject to have them makes any sense at all. I believe in an external source of facts, but that's ju...
Well I sort of do, yeah, insofar as one is interested enough to post about it on a public forum I think the least prerequisite effort should be to fam...
That's about the size of it, yep. If you want to draw conclusions about human nature and prehistory, I suggest doing some research on the matter might...
Ah! I see a cause for potential confusion between us (not that I think resolving it will get us far, but we might as well). There's 'objective' as in ...
I think that's very true. Like the fox in the hen house, it never evolved an off switch because it never faced a room full of trapped prey, it never n...
That it started some huge multiple of 2000 years is not 'in contention', it's a fact. The contention is only over the exactness of that multiple. That...
Putting the word 'surely' in front of your assumptions doesn't magically make them more persuasive you know. Yet... ...sounds exactly like a descripti...
And yet we lived for 192,000 years with virtually no measurable impact on the climate or global ecosystem, and in the last few thousand are in a posit...
Depends on which metric of 'Power' you're using. There's two poles; the number of people you can influence, and the strength of that influence. Is an ...
No. As Peter Hacker says Asking what it's like to sky dive is asking for my affect at the time, the answer is "It was great", or "it was really scary"...
I don't see how. Smashing the painting would be morally wrong. It would be wrong because doing so would make you the kind of person who could destroy ...
I think those who're concerned about moral systems are really concerned about influence, not rightness, They already seem to have a pretty robust (if ...
Yes, that's right. I want to ban tastes and emotions. I don't know why I didn't think of putting it that simply in the first place. What a waste of ti...
Yes, thats right, and if the dilemma were previously framed as which course of action caused most happiness, changing it to which causes least sufferi...
If we could choose the option which causes less suffering it wouldn't be an extant moral dilemma, it would already be solved (like no-one is wondering...
We've been through this - things like qualia, consciousness (in the sense of 'what it's like'), emotions as natural kinds, essences and forms (in the ...
What? I've absolutely no idea what's lead you to that conclusion so I can't even begin to answer the question. Eliminated how? It's a canon - a body o...
The part where certain mental notions get eliminated is the entire canon of cognitive science for the last few decades, do you expect me to reproduce ...
I was doing so well... Actually, I get what you're saying here. I think rejecting pictures wholesale might have been a little too extreme on my part. ...
What I said is basically the same as what you claim the 'default' definition is. A 'true' model is one whose outputs (in terms of predictions usually)...
Do you require this of all models then? If a physicist comes up with a new model of atomic decay do you say "that's all very interesting, but what is ...
I haven't even mentioned truth. Why would a model of how the mind works need to first define what 'truth' is? Di you ask all propositions to include a...
Well a) that undermines what you said "eliminative materialism fails at this challenge because it literally ELIMINATES its own emergence as a possibly...
Yep. If by 'noise' you mean something initially random that gets honed by selective pressure, then yes, it's possible. I'm not seeing the purpose of y...
So "it {your eliminative materialist model generated by neurons in your brain} all depends on what looks good to you"? Depends for what? the sentence ...
Woah, your usual project this has taken a rather dark turn. Now not only should we end the human race because too many people suffer too much, but now...
I didn't say you couln't measure it, I said it was nebulous and everything can be framed in those terms. Take any existing moral dilemma, then say 'we...
Do you have no other preferences? What gives your preference to not suffer it's superlative status? What constitutes it not being avoidable? If you ha...
Yes. The difference is in the quality of the model. If you have different criteria for what makes a good model, then different models are going to see...
Can you foresee any circumstance where the negative utilitarian position on an issue might, nonetheless feel wrong? If no, then no need for any moral ...
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