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Yes. Again, have you a better plan to deal with subjective benefits and harms across a heterogeneous society?

Yes, and I've already made clear that saying every psychologist thinks the correlation is causal is not the same as saying every psychologist thinks t...

Yes, have you a better plan with subjective harms and benefits? Ignore them all to serve some religious ideology? Come and ask you? Why on earth shoul...

Quote me claiming that then. Don't piece together bits of my writing for your own convenience. Provide me with the actual quote where I say "just abou...

Because we live in a fucking democracy, for God's sake. S isn't personally responsible for making the law.

No. No psychologist worthy of the title would claim such a thing as I have already made abundantly clear several times. Psychologists are almost unite...

Whether that is the case generally or not is not subjective.

That's a subjective account. How long do you think it would take me to find a subjective account of hate speech leading to violence? Find a quote from...

But the ability to print the words 'I am conscious' isn't one of the things we ask patients to report, so why would that be indicative. I've already e...

Yes. That is exactly the alternative. The world is seamless sea of atoms (or waves, whatever) along what lines it is carved up into individual things ...

Great. So responding to being poked is what awareness is. Everything which responds to being poked is aware. Now we can test whether things respond to...

There is no 'tree' outside my house prior to me defining it. There is an entirely seamless continuum of atoms. I decide that some of them together are...

What are 'subjective experiences'? Depends what 'subjective experiences' are. Yes, if you define consciousness as the property indicated by these elec...

Great, well lets have the demonstration then. What properties does awareness have which sentient creatures demonstrate? Not by my definition of uncons...

Well, I'm not buying that just on your say so. How do we just know? What evidence do you have to justify that proposition? Are you suggesting there's ...

I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall here. 'Awareness' is just a word. You cannot say animals possesses awareness without first knowin...

And what is the property that 'self-aware' refers to? You can't prove nothing is conscious. conscious is just a word, it applies to a set of phenomena...

Depends entirely on your definition of consciousness, which constitutes a listing of its properties. Under some definitions, yes, we do have a way to ...

You're right, and I feel really bad about my rather flippant response to this comment of Terrapin's originally. I didn't follow through the full impli...

I think we might be talking past each other here. The "unwarranted assumptions" I'm referring to, as I tried to explain to Wayfarer, are about the ver...

Ah. So you'd also describe the 'hard' problem of rain (just because we only see rain when there's clouds doesn't mean that clouds are the only way rai...

Yes, but absolutely no-one is suggesting we ban all speech, so why the hell would you be arguing against it? The argument (check the title) is about b...

Exactly. The point no-one on the other side seems to want to answer. Normal cost-benefit analysis takes into account the uncertainty of a suggested ri...

But only if you make certain assumptions which are not necessary. Conditions which are necessary for consciousness appear to be located in the brain, ...

Why would you be talking about liberties when absolutely no-one is suggesting the banning of 'liberties' as a whole? We're talking about banning hate ...

See my now total of eleven linked psychology papers. My tutoring fees are quite reasonable, I'll forward you my bill.

Yes, there is a degree of evidence to show that video games and movies can cause violence. No I wouldn't say that every psychologist in the world thin...

And your evidence for your perfectly rational and not at all fundamental belief that our beliefs are generated somehow without causal antecedents from...

I can't. That's the point, and I'm sure you're smart enough to know that. Imagine if I contested the idea that people dislike being shot. It's certain...

Same sociopathic tendency as Terrapin. Why would you consider the benefit to society of being able to publicly say "Gas the Jews" is so great that it ...

Yes, but I'm arguing that that does not require absolutely convincing evidence of harm. It is sufficient, where the potential harm is great and the lo...

You mean my argument that there is a possibility hate speech might lead to increased violence? How does it not support that? You mean like my directly...

I'm not going to run an entire introduction to psychology course. The paper is aimed at those who do not hold irrational views on psychology. They are...

No. That statement says that there are few convincing studies. It is not a contradiction to then go on to explore what that small number of convincing...

Well no, obviously I'm referring to the entire rest of the document which details what can be gleaned from those few convincing studies, plus what can...

Both. The one which summarises the conclusions of numerous psychologists and cites their decades of research (which you are perfectly free to follow u...

Of course we can 'show' that it is. There's a correlation between hate speech and violence which just about every psychologist in the world thinks is ...

So why when I asked... ...did you reply Now you're saying that the only reason your argument works is because you believe in magical force which can n...

I said beyond wishful thinking. You've forwarded no evidence whatsoever for free will, so you can't now assume it's existence, and a full working know...

It's really this simple. As Khaled has already laid out. ABC and D collectively cause E. Take any one away and E will not happen. Regardless of what y...

Yes, and if we're studying someone else's consciousness they are 'other' to us and we are not the ones to whom the phenomena in question is appearing,...

Yes. That was the point I was making. No, I don't agree with this. You are not studying your own consciousness, you're studying someone else's. We don...

Also, on a related note, I'm not sure I can agree with this use of "self-awareness", "feels like something", "experience of redness" and "meaning" typ...

Yes, from outside. If other people are conscious then we can examine their consciousness from outside of it.

Again, justify is a subjective state. The fact that one person (requiring more information) is redirected by another only demonstrates that that secon...

But that's simply not the case. The evidence does not make "much more sense in light of the evidence". It may do to you, but the making of sense and t...

You are mixing logical with inductive reasoning here. Sufficiency and necessary causes are statements of logical propositions. Logical propositions do...

You are here applying a binomial distinction to a continuous variable. Justification is not a property of propositions, it is a state of mind of those...

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Here, Here, Here are the most famous ones. Here, Here, Here is some of the more up to date research that available without paywalls. Where's your evid...