Oh, and... The OP It is you who are off topic if you want to restrict discussion to Russia. Feel free to start a thread focusing on Russia's role, but...
This is a public forum. If you don't want unsolicited responses to your posts, then you're in the wrong place. Echo chambers of the type you're seekin...
You confuse what is said with what is understood. I don't have to talk about my disgust at Russia's actions in order to feel disgust at Russia's actio...
I'm not 'dishonestly' framing things the way it suits me. I'm doing so openly and honestl. The only difference between us is your dishonesty in preten...
It's like talking to children. It's been 'fact-checked' has it? By whom? and how is it that they have access to 'The Facts'? Has there been some break...
Basically, yes. Obviously lunatics are excluded, but since we're talking about experts here we can relieve ourselves of that burden at the outset.. So...
Absolutely. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that the nature of language is such that we cannot possibly be always deceived - against what truth would...
No. That's not what I'm saying at all. It's a common misinterpretation of all predictive coding models, they're models of how information is processed...
Which would still be external to the system under analysis. So your argument is "if we limit ourselves to speaking about the body... then we find that...
To be honest, I think talk of free-will and talk of CNS signals are from two different worlds and don't have much corroboratory overlap. We use words ...
disagree verb uk /?d?s.???ri?/ us /?d?s.???ri?/ B1 to not have the same opinion, idea, etc.: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/disag...
And the above is all about 'will' of course. We needn't even go that far. Your nonsense is shown simply by the first diagram alone. There is an extern...
Look at the diagram I posted above of the electro-chemical reactions at the skin surface in response to external stimuli. You've agreed that at one en...
That's exactly the point I'm making. It's you who keeps declaring that certain experts don't know, or understand 'The Facts'. It's you who keeps raisi...
Your claim... It's not. The reflex is caused by the hammer. Here's a nice user-friendly diagram of the various TRP channels at the skin boundary and t...
Well perhaps consider a little more tolerance and a little less childish pedantry. We're talking about the treatment of the article by the mainstream ...
Define 'completely' different. As opposed to what other type of difference? We determine what a thing is in our naming practices. We theorise that the...
Let's not pretend we're now having an actual conversation. You know full well that many experts far more qualified to judge than you or I think that d...
Yes. I think that's what 'something' means. It refers to the linguistic/cultural object we're collectively constructing. So 'it' is all about appearan...
I can't be. Not under those conditions you just specified. Now do you want to discuss the actual conditions which prevail in the real world? Or contin...
So you're not fine with how Sy Hersh's story has been treated. Good. We agree on that. I didn't ask you where one can read about Sy Hersh's story. If ...
If what you think you see is the same as what you actually see, then when, at the opticians, you think you see a 'W', but the optician tells you it's ...
There are no counter arguments. All you've said is that you think the yet-to-be born ought benefit from exactly the same moral treatment as the alread...
That doesn't answer the question. If 10 million people thinking something is the case is nonetheless unpersuasive, then why would you expect one perso...
It's lack of accuracy, in that case. No it doesn't. That's the point. Those two principles, in most people, apply to the living. They don't apply to t...
This is such a bizarre counter. You're saying here that virtually the entire human race thinking something is right still doesn't make it right, but i...
No @"Manuel" has it right here. You've spoken at length about wanting to find a 'community of catharsis' These posts are exactly about you and your fe...
I think certain types of progress (the type forming the bulk of Pinker's evidence-bank) are quite inextricably tied to exploitation since they rely on...
That's a ridiculously low standard for what qualifies as a lack of suppression "if you're not banned of in jail, you're fine". No wonder Western count...
I appreciate the apology for missing my moderation. I might have preferred a charitable assumption it was present in the first place... but we take wh...
Yeah. This is how it's gone since Covid. Literally any criticism of government policy (that isn't saying they ought do even more of the brilliant stuf...
Oh, and this from my first comments in this latest instance... Not sufficiently prostrate for you? Do I need to wax any more lyrical about how amazing...
Exactly. Saying "Oh well, they got a slot on Tucker Carlson" is not the same as a lack of censorship. Many eminent, qualified, and well respected acad...
I wasn't necessarily only using what you said in judgment. As you've pointed out in my analysis, my singular focus on the negative would belie any cla...
Social media creates narratives which tribalise groups dissenting from the preferred narrative that presents covid as a very, very dangerous thing tha...
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