And the thing with this kind of speculation is that we have a near a perfect historical case study as you're ever likely to get. In 2014 Russia did st...
Do you understand the difference? I can disagree with those comments. They are opinions, speculations based on a selection of facts. It is not reasona...
That's a representation. Those objects in the thought bubbles are representations of apples. I think this simply misunderstands what the words mean. W...
Yeah, sure we do make progress. What matter, I think, is how. Did those campaigns succeed just by continually banging the drum, or was it something el...
I agree. And if the US, and Europe are any example, those 'ways' will have caused more death and destruction than wars and annexation. The record is i...
It's remarkable that you think you can write this. Do you really read that back and think others would read it as anything other than self-serving del...
We're sometimes wrong. What exactly is missing in that theory such that a new theory is required which posits phenomena for which there is no other ev...
I can see that it's your preferred explanation. I don't see any argument as to why it's the best. You seem to have introduced an element into the hypo...
Again, all you're showing evidence of is responses. Why is it, do you think, that when shown the actual dress in normal lighting conditions the overwh...
From Pew... ... I don't call that 'not winning'. And this is just 'stricter laws'. With most gun deaths being handguns, we need a lot more than 'stric...
True. The underlined bit being what's now happening. Yes, but nowhere in there is this mysterious 'experience of red' that keeps being mentioned. Ah!,...
I don't see how. I see it like this... 1. There's a need for gun control so we campaign for it saying things like "the only difference between the US ...
You know this how? Why would your personal conclusions about the function of your brain (or mind, even) be treated with any more authority that your f...
Yes, that's right. Of course nothing would get said that way, but just like we can use language to talk about language, we can also use it to talk abo...
It might well be 'mostly' disingenuous. It's not about the dismissal (God knows I can't preach about being summarily dismissive of stupid positions!),...
No. You can see five different colours there. That they are all shades of 'red' is something you were taught by the culture you grew up in. different ...
Again, none of those comments say that 'red' is in the brain. They're talking about colour (in this case, the neural responses associated with subject...
It 'mentioning' those things is not sufficient to carry your argument. You need to understand what the paper is showing, its a technical subject. You ...
The experiment tested the differential stimulation of the V4 and V01 regions. It found their activity was correlated with switches in sensory feedback...
Well, for a start both those claims are demonstrably false. learning new things about an object changes the priors our lower hierarchy cortices use to...
From that thread... Literally the first thing you say. So - in a discussion about the state of the nation's mental health (in the broad sense), you th...
This is just an assertion. People respond to colour. That's not the same as them seeing 'red' unless you concede that 'red' is indeed a wavelength of ...
Yep. I was asking what those grounds actually are, in this case. I'm aware they will only ever be those grounds which 'seem to one to be grounds' but ...
No one is arguing that, as far as I can tell. People are just raising the perfectly legitimate issue that having kids (or adults) who are pushed to th...
Right. Your terminology is bizarre. You're referring to the fact that people can simultaneously hold contradictory beliefs and that one of those belie...
What could we call that thing...? If only there was a word for the thing in the world which I can make furniture out of, climb, get fruit from, paint ...
Why not? It means that I'll reach for the word "red" if asked to describe the colour. Yes, that's right. The meanings of words change. Before there wa...
I don't think there's such a thing as a 'red appearance'. Apples appearing red, just means that I think apples are red. My estimate is that they're re...
That's what I'm enquiring about. Why is it a mistake? If an object can have the property 'reflects light with a wavelength of 700nm' why can't we call...
You're assuming that things can only rightly be one way. Is that an assumption you can justify? Can an apple not be both red and 'reflective of 400nm ...
But can they see trees? Do you? Leaves fall from trees in autumn. Do leaves fall from what you see in your dreams and hallucinations? I can build furn...
Surely things must appear to the scientists to be the way they now report them to be; otherwise why are they reporting them to be that way? Things are...
Again, this begs the question. If you assume the possibility, you are not investigating it, you're simply declaring it. There's obviously a difference...
Well, the dictionary has... ... so pretty much the definition comes down to intent, and one-sidedness. Neither intent, nor one-sidedness can be proven...
Straw man. You said... ...that is the quote I was responding to. Russia's border wars are a tragedy. It would have been better had they not had them. ...
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