Isaac

So according to your... ... the government are fully entitled to the products of all that labour.

We live in large enough societies that your actions will affect people you don't even know and will probably never meet. Most of what government does ...

That study shows that humans might be predisposed toward belief in gods and afterlife. It makes no mention of children at all. If you assert something...

So, no studies then?

So? Do the children concerned believe that these gods, angels, and demons are material objects ideas? Believing something exists which, it turns out, ...

You're perfectly free to spend the money you own in whatever way you see fit. 20% (or whatever) of the money in your wage packet is not yours, it's th...

I was talking about the government. It's illegal to steal cars. The government makes the overt threat that you will be forcibly imprisoned if to take ...

The re-signalling of the (filtered set of) neurons associated with the original signal. But you don't think that's what they are. Hence my earlier dis...

Here... You'll have to be more clear about what you think is missing. I don't see how this follows at all. I've been quite clear with Luke that I'm tr...

I don't see what difference that makes. That's a different matter altogether. Not liking what a government is doing and not liking governments are two...

I just answered that.

I was talking about child development - as I thought should have been clear. The cultural affectations that adults later see value in appropriating ar...

Your working memory rehearses the connection between these signals and various areas of the brain dealing with sematic content of one sort or another....

Those two are the same thing as you've still not answered the question about how to establish rightful ownership of property without law. Nothing is t...

I've seen no support for the assertion that you know your own conscious experiences, nor have you even suggested a mechanism by which you could (witho...

Signals from your nociception system. I've already been through this. This is not how 'awareness' is ordinarily used and I see no reason given for the...

Well yes, but it's not as if such a position is adopted on a whim. It is (has been) exhaustively argued for. What is your alternative by which we coul...

I never claimed it was neutral. It is, however, the default. You're born a physicalist (or at least you are one by six months, which is the furthest b...

At issue is not the right, but what constitutes your property. Is everything you acquire by any means yours simply by virtue of having laboured for it...

Irrelevant. Physicalism is the default starting position.

OK. I'll try... Property is only defined legally, everything you own you own by the concession of the government who ensures you are protected from th...

Do you intend to answer any of my points, or just whinge?

Ah. So theft of inheritance is fine then?

Yes, I agree in principle, but remember, you've not made your case that people only pay taxes because they're forced to do so, you've only assumed it....

So if I take your car it's morally wrong for you to try and take it back if I don't want you to? God, it's like discussing with a three year old.

You may be right. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43587224?seq=1

How would you show that? In theory, yes. But a model which gives us six out of every ten is better than one which gives only five. Materialism only ne...

What would an explanation consist of that's missing from the materialist account? Let's say (for the sake of argument alone) that the materialist expl...

Absolutely, but not only that, it ignores that the market-valued income they currently enjoy is arrived at by a market which already assumes taxation ...

Yes. Not completely the same, but I have an end of life plan which involves refusal of medical treatment and assisted suicide in the case of terminal ...

Well, it would have been a bit silly of me to say so if an empty (rhetorical?) question were enough to counter it. In a world where people would not p...

Ah yes, a Wayfarer classic. "You don't agree with me, therefore there must be something you're not understanding". Have you even considered the possib...

I don't follow. You keep slipping in words like 'you' as if they referred to something other than the brain that I'm talking about. If 'you' is just, ...

True of all property. So what's special about taxes?

It's not nitpicking, it's central to the whole issue. What constitutes property is defined by law. 20% (or whatever) of your wages legally belongs to ...

Oh right. No you've said it twice it's definitely a fact. Let me try that "I have a hundred pounds in my pocket ", "I have a hundred pounds in my pock...

Because material forms are shared-world objects. It's been unquestionably established that what you're aware of cannot be the material object (your aw...

Technical talk (pace David Lewis) - words used to describe something which do not form part of ordinary language and apply only to the subject or fiel...

You do realise that being able to easily knock them down is pretty much the definition of not robust? So your answer is "No, I couldn't"

As usual you're confusing 'agreeing with' with 'recognising'. Are you serious? You're in a philosophy forum and you're seriously just going to outrigh...

You people are so funny. So if I just drive your car away without any force or threat of it (just because you happened to have left it unlocked) that'...

The second part is just a technical definition of the first. Why not? Why does being aware on one aspect mean that you automatically should be aware o...

You didn't ask where the public referent fro the expression came from. You asked why people said it. Not all words directly refer. That's not possible...

"Hammering a nail whilst distracted caused the pain in my thumb" "The hammer hitting my soft tissue caused the pain in my thumb" "Some collection of c...

I've just shown that. If you have a lesion in part of your cerebellum the thing you think of as awareness of your arm clearly isn't. You're obviously ...

The last part of the system I described to Luke

You're aware of your arm movements aren't you? Well, they're signals from your proprioception system through your cerebellum. All I've done there is g...

You are aware of them. Awareness of a thing and knowing what it's technical name is are not the same thing.

What a stupid thing to say. If it's legal, it's not robbery is it? That's the point. Robbery is taking something you don't legally have a right to tak...