Yeah, I certainly see the issue. I don't subscribe to the difficulty myself though. I think something as simple as time passing is actually a far more...
Fair warning - I can't quite make sense of what either of you are saying here so this post is in part a fishing exercise to clarify and may well end u...
Not sure if you're asking me or Tom, but what I meant by it was directly in response to the talk about preferred pronouns. The idea being that there's...
Yeah, I have some sympathy with that view, although there are some aspects I'm not so sure on...another thread though maybe. So when I see a mark on m...
Not as a given, no. 'Burden' and 'deal with' are both human cultural concepts. You might equally have to 'enjoy', 'allow', 'endure', 'relish'... There...
Ha! I should have worked that out shouldn't I? Spot on. I can't remember the paper, but one interesting aspect of recall (in addition to the examples ...
Yep, I think we all agree there. I agree. Do they? I've not encountered such an approach. What would it look like, to say that experiences originating...
I don't think so. That two different experiences have two different causes doesn't seem to me to imply that one cause must be non-physical and the oth...
Yes. Obviously. The sequence of pitch, timbre and rhythm is different for different words and our neurons are capable of responding differently to the...
Right. Then as @"khaled" and @"Kenosha Kid" have already laid out, there's no contradiction to be examined. You (in common with the vast majority of t...
Good call. I used to tell my students that far from being the detached, dispassionate scientists we might expect of our biologist or physicist cousins...
Do you have references for this? It's not something I've read any research on. Likewise for this. Well, not if your references are true, no. Most pape...
I don't know what you could possibly mean by 'the power of the brain' in this context. Are you the kind of person who insists that it's not the gun th...
I don't think something like justification applies to circumstances with such complex origins. I think the word applies to actions or beliefs so makin...
Exactly. The question here is that gender neutral pronouns fix a problem which causes psychological harm to people and it's a simple fix. So why the r...
As @"khaled" has alluded to above, this is categorically not the case. Humans are not motivated by sensations of dis-ease, dissatisfaction, pain, or s...
Well, this conversation has taken an uncomfortable turn for the pathological. Are you saying that you can't tell the difference (even colloquially) be...
It claims to. By what measure do you assess that it actually does. Again, that it doesn't is not evidence that it doesn't need to. It depends, I suppo...
Absofuckinlutely, you go for it! And when your incivility has finally worn down those unknown people on the internet who just don't happen to 100% agr...
Yes there is. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304395909004564 Yes there is. https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/...
True, but not always thereby a sensible question. It seems highly implausible that you actually have a song playing in your head. There doesn't seem t...
Indeed. Though as ever, I'm intrigued by what you think an answer to "why is it that brains are conscious and kidneys aren't?" would be like. For me t...
Not the sun, no. You seem to have this odd default position that either all things are caused by minds or no things are, I can't understand why you wa...
No, I don't think that follows. You asked me if planets, stars and galaxies would still be there if minds ceased to be. There are clearly lots of phys...
Civility, as an obligation, is completely redundant if it amounts to nothing more than how you'd prefer to behave in any case. If we only act civilly ...
That's the theory, yes. They wouldn't be 'planets', 'stars', and 'galaxies' of course - those are human ways of interpreting the sensations we assume ...
How are you deciding that those things are the properties of physical things without begging the question? If you treat 'physical' as a category of ex...
Ah, sorry about that. BPS lets me see everything on account of my charming personality (and possibly my membership) I forgot about the paywall. It was...
OK, to give you some leash, the answer to the question as posed is probably Kant. So likewise, if I may - your second example vs. https://bpspsychub.o...
I'll concede to the latter, but not the former. You're right, if I had no other route I would just guess and as such Kant's guesses are as good as any...
Ah. Well then neither (or both equally useless). The first I didn't understand and so could not possibly make use of even if I thought doing so might ...
Well, I wouldn't go that far, we've got some very strong theories, but yeah, I don't know everything there is to know about how the brain functions. W...
Are you unsure as to whether or not you have ideas? If the answer is no it follows that you must have some means of detecting them. My money is on the...
... ... I don't see the contradiction. If I have 'an idea', is not some part of my brain sensing that? Or are you suggesting that only two or three 's...
Possibly true. You should read Grabe, I think she'd be right up your street. True, that anonymity of online discourse also allows multiple personaliti...
Ha! Just noticed this^ (I don't always get notified of replies for some reason). I'm touched that anyone even noticed I was gone. I've been a bit unwe...
Quite a lot, yeah. Most popular theories are based on the social capital costs of available identities (after Henri Tajfel) - polarise the range of av...
That's right. It's kind of where I was going. If the measures necessary are not popular enough, then protesting to persuade a democratic government to...
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