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...
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 ...
The great thing about dismissing the 'labelling of behaviours as virtue signalling', is that you get to ignore the problems with virtue signalling whi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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? ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Indeed. And yet 'cold' does not encompass all that is subjectively bad, nor exclude any other feeling of subjective 'goodness'. Hence the example does...
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...
Really, though? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/uk-to-name-scientific-advisers-on-emergency-coronavirus-group-sage Just because the gove...
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...
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...
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 ...
It's not a problem... Really. No. Speculation on the property market, financialisation of property through banks offering lower threshold mortgages, g...
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...
Speculation on the property market, financialisation of property through banks offering lower threshold mortgages, government incentives to support ho...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As I asked @"schopenhauer1", what would an 'explanation look like? What properties of an explanation are missing from "neurons firing seem to cause wh...
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...
And what would such an 'explanation' look like? How would you recognise that some proposition constituted an 'explanation'? I ask because such avoidan...
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...
@"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...
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 ...
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...
Yes. The results from the widespread prevalence testing in Iceland suggest about 50% of those testing positive (for active disease) were asymptomatic....
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