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Fair enough, I was being a little facetious and did get the distinction you were making really. I do seriously think that armchair psychoanalysis gets...
May 21, 2020 at 09:39
I thought we were avoiding judging worth by hasty generalisations?
May 21, 2020 at 09:24
Indeed. Although a bit of armchair psychoanalysis might be thrown in for good measure...after all, we're doing everything else here from the armchair ...
May 21, 2020 at 09:08
The great thing about dismissing the 'labelling of behaviours as virtue signalling', is that you get to ignore the problems with virtue signalling whi...
May 21, 2020 at 08:30
So you're not going to either " me for expansion, justification an so on", nor " our fallibility", nor "treat others as equals by laying things out cl...
May 21, 2020 at 08:26
Yes, but all parties here have arguably done all those things (except admitting fallibility - I don't see much of that from either party). I'm not sup...
May 21, 2020 at 06:41
I wasn't talking about Communism, but yes, it's been tried. So's capitalism. Rising inequality, unprecedented suicide rates and it looks like we might...
May 21, 2020 at 06:22
Not entirely what I meant, but even so it would be a fraction of human history. Well, I'd be interested to discuss what empirical support you'd be usi...
May 20, 2020 at 22:08
I wasn't suggesting it as a guide, merely pointing out that the idea of humans "just being" some way or other is wrong. We are mostly whatever our cul...
May 20, 2020 at 20:50
You'll have to spell that out. I'm not an economist but I don't think it would wreck the economy, and I'm pretty sure at least a few people who are ec...
May 20, 2020 at 18:06
If modern hunter-gatherer communities are anything measure of how we used to live (which is, of course uncertain) then for the vast majority of human ...
May 20, 2020 at 18:03
OK. This intrigued me as it seems like a thread common to many disputes. Can you be more specific about the practices which constitute 'admitting one ...
May 20, 2020 at 17:22
That's the point of revolution (by which I mean a radical structural change, not necessarily 'up against the wall' red tides). It is because we are 'i...
May 20, 2020 at 17:09
You've started in the middle. From where did you get the capital to purchase the land, building materials and equipment? By what right did the person ...
May 20, 2020 at 16:50
I'm taking a little break from the forum for a while, but I would certainly read (if not respond to) such an explanation when you have the time. Just ...
May 08, 2020 at 06:20
What comes together? Repeating it doesn't make it so. I've just explained how what you're calling 'experiential processes' can easily be thought of as...
May 07, 2020 at 06:12
OK, This is just a repeat of what you said before. The argument consists on nothing but "It is so!" - and you accuse my reasoning of being childlike? ...
May 07, 2020 at 06:01
Oh, OK. Here you go. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002598 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0131 htt...
May 06, 2020 at 16:37
Well each of those things are completely non-mysterious activities of the brain. The whole 'what it's like' awareness mystery dissolves if you break d...
May 06, 2020 at 16:28
The comment I took issue with was declaring New Zealand's strict approach to be an indicator of the right course of action, without caveats. "The less...
May 06, 2020 at 16:18
You might do, yeah. Generally, if you were to repeatedly feel that way you'd probably stop rescuing damsels from icy lakes. If your imagined (predicte...
May 06, 2020 at 13:21
I'm not sure how. Thoughts are a publicly defined concept. A child has no idea what 'thoughts' are until they are introduced to the term, so you'd nee...
May 06, 2020 at 12:55
Exactly. So long as one gives it little thought, one is fine. The moment one tries to examine one's motives one becomes tied in knots. None of which h...
May 06, 2020 at 11:46
Indeed. And yet 'cold' does not encompass all that is subjectively bad, nor exclude any other feeling of subjective 'goodness'. Hence the example does...
May 06, 2020 at 09:06
Are you suggesting that someone who just jumped into ice cold water to save another person's life mightn't feel at all good about themselves? That the...
May 06, 2020 at 08:04
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Really, though? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/uk-to-name-scientific-advisers-on-emergency-coronavirus-group-sage Just because the gove...
May 06, 2020 at 07:53
So what would guide people's behaviour if not making them feel good, doing what's right? How does it make you feel when you 'do what's right'? Most pe...
May 06, 2020 at 06:48
So you declare dualism in your definition and then claim that physicalists have failed to answer the question you set within your non-physicalist fram...
May 06, 2020 at 06:41
So how did the seller get the item they're bartering?
May 06, 2020 at 05:05
For a start you've got two variables there with no indication of which one is responsible for the effect (early or hard, or both). Secondly, no one's ...
May 05, 2020 at 19:12
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It's not a problem... Really. No. Speculation on the property market, financialisation of property through banks offering lower threshold mortgages, g...
May 05, 2020 at 17:39
Nonetheless, I appreciate the effort. Here I get stuck. How do I know I've successfully attended to this 'awareness of the object' if I don't know wha...
May 05, 2020 at 17:24
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Speculation on the property market, financialisation of property through banks offering lower threshold mortgages, government incentives to support ho...
May 05, 2020 at 16:58
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Ha! I wish. I can't think of a single occasion where any of the work I've done, nor that of any of my colleagues has been either informed by philosoph...
May 05, 2020 at 16:18
What I'm struggling to understand is the distinction you're both drawing between A causes B and 'a description of of how A causes B'. What does 'a des...
May 05, 2020 at 16:11
That doesn't help, I'm afraid. It's not more clearly identifiable than 'conciousness'. You said it's not a behaviour, so it needs to be identifiable s...
May 05, 2020 at 15:54
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Probably would, but the issue with that proposition is not the conditional itself but the existence of the entity to which it refers.
May 05, 2020 at 15:34
OK, so what is the definition of 'conciousness' then, if not behaviour?
May 05, 2020 at 13:05
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The 2017 figures (your Wikipedia source) have not yet been summarised by the ONS and so may require interpretation. If you prefer up-to-date figures o...
May 05, 2020 at 13:04
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I'm not going to repeat all the work @"fdrake" and @"Benkei" have put in trying to help you understand the economics. I will, however link you their p...
May 05, 2020 at 11:45
Right. So why not adopt a behaviourist position as the simplest model? This seems to be the problem. You define thoughts as something ineffable and th...
May 05, 2020 at 11:24
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Why buck the trend now, you'd been going so well without any whatsoever!
May 05, 2020 at 11:14
As I asked @"schopenhauer1", what would an 'explanation look like? What properties of an explanation are missing from "neurons firing seem to cause wh...
May 05, 2020 at 10:50
No, he associated it with feelings "most" people have about the inconceivability of uncaused events. He claimed that it was the reason why God was use...
May 05, 2020 at 10:39
And what would such an 'explanation' look like? How would you recognise that some proposition constituted an 'explanation'? I ask because such avoidan...
May 05, 2020 at 10:12
Nah. It connotes a guy sitting on a cloud in charge of stuff. "God help us!", "God knows!", "Pray to God that doesn't happen", "God loves his children...
May 05, 2020 at 09:53
@"Banno" I'm finding it difficult to discern the issue you're focusing on here. Is it a) there are jobs which produce nothing of use, everyone knows t...
May 05, 2020 at 09:05
And there's an economic system that isn't? Again, do you have a system in mind where wages are paid on the basis of effort? I see your objection, but ...
May 05, 2020 at 08:18
Yeah, smaller countries tend to have higher indices of fragmentation because open space is at such a premium. I guess the CPRE must be a lot more powe...
May 04, 2020 at 13:01
Yes. The results from the widespread prevalence testing in Iceland suggest about 50% of those testing positive (for active disease) were asymptomatic....
May 04, 2020 at 12:31