I don't disagree with much of what you say here, but you've switched from opposing frames to alternate frames, which is why I don't find much to disag...
Fair enough. I suppose I'd argue for it in terms of not creating new models where old ones are adequate. we already have a model of societal intoleran...
Really? You must be unaware of the campaigns here. Mermaids (a trans charity in the UK) are pushing for faster turnaround times and greater availabili...
You're asking for the cause of a description, not an event or state. 'Experience' is the description we give to the neuronal activity, it's not anothe...
Reasons are human-related (when distinguished from mechanics). If ask "why did you smash that vase?" I'm not expecting "because my arm raised, my hand...
On what evidence? What actions determine one is a 'Putinista'? Not official alliances. Not declarations of support. Not direct acts of support (arms s...
'Establish'? That would imply the default position is that it isn't (or that it's not being so has already been established such that I need present e...
You don't seriously think anyone is stupid enough to fall for that? Step 1. Define anyone opposing the centrist policy as a 'Putin ally'. Step 2. Voil...
On what grounds? I think gender surgery is still not easy to get in the UK, but I'm including any medicalisation of the problem, so puberty blockers a...
But to say it's arbitrary is to already frame it as requiring a reason (but lacking one). 'Arbitrary' doesn't make any sense in the context of things ...
Go on then. Differ. For what reason do you think they're not? You're just reverting to your preferred narrative again. this is pointless. Experts disa...
You showed you can. Not we can. Hence my example of gun ownership. The fact that you can hold those two concepts concurrently foes not prove society c...
It does, but 'pro-trans' (for want of a better term) positions are not the ones being labelled 'conspiracy theory'. Not all opinions are equal, and th...
I should add, that if you're keen, there's no reason why doing so might not be interesting nonetheless. Do you have a particular clinical study in min...
I don't necessarily think this is the place to discuss specific therapies. I assume everyone is broadly aware that alternative therapies exist. If you...
"Some adrenaline here, some dopamine there" is the experience of hunger. there's not the mechanisms and then something else. The car isn't an addition...
You're framing it as an error, or an oversight without arguing the case. Yes. I'm ignoring (largely) the role of the Nordic countries, the Eastern Eur...
I don't see how. I'm not sure what you 'seem' to be capable of is a very good measure for appropriate public policy. I seem to be capable of owning a ...
Well, Tulving's paper is here https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0003-066X.40.4.385 but it won't give you much of an insight into how it...
Ha! I wouldn't say we're replying to each other. Technically, maybe, but in spirit, no. There's two types of post from the pro-US contingent, either s...
What does it mean for a perception to be 'like' something? I really don't think this is the format for discussion of neuroscience in detail (I've been...
I took the questions in... ...to be rhetorical. Tone is not an easy thing to communicate in short written comments. If not, then...who else is being h...
Absolutely. I'm not saying changes there will be a panacea, I'm more suggesting it in the context of the distinction I've made in my reply above. We s...
I think we can all agree that there are three levels at which the problem can be looked at... A) Realistically, people are dicks and are unlikely to g...
Then why should I be required to prove mine to you? Seriously? You're suggesting that the most plausible explanation for the near criminal misconduct ...
The question simply makes no sense. What could an answer possibly be? "It feels like...?" What words could possibly fill the blank? Again, the fact th...
Exactly. And your qualification to unilaterally make such an estimation is...? Anyone who isn't frankly terrified of the blind obsequience to authorit...
No. I don't suppose they could. Nothing in which difficulty renders a poll about ceding territory which doesn't even consult the people living in the ...
In other words all the people who are likely to think otherwise. Imagine if Northern Ireland policy were decided entirely by consulting only the popul...
You have an odd approach here... Yet in your counter... ...all offered without a shred of proof nor even any argument. Then there's... (Referring to a...
Do we? I agree it's too connected to unravel with great accuracy, but I'm less sure that reluctant compartmentalisation is the only answer. A 'rough s...
I find this hard to accept. I would take issue with it on its face - junk food, for example, is as much a social issue as a medical one and public hea...
That's my poor wording at fault. I was attempting to engage with your argument at the level of public health policy. Policy will either promote or res...
... Christ almightly! Does everything one doesn't personally agree with have to be a 'conspiracy theory' these days? What's lazy is dividing every pos...
Yes, but that's not the debate here. For clarity (although it's been spelled out already) I'd prefer people not be encouraged to surgically alter thei...
Change and the form that change takes are two different things. Of course society will always change, that doesn't mean we have to passively accept an...
I thinks that's very likely. I think it's behind @"unenlightened"'s concerns (as I read them), which I share. Progress toward that end is hampered, no...
So? What has that to do with the counterargument I'm presenting? You argued that societal change had no ethical component because it's going to happen...
Yes it does. A number that can get a national law changed is a significant number. and you've no idea whatsoever how that campaign won the gains it di...
That's the target of my criticism. We are closer to understanding consciousness, it's just very complicated. Consciousness is no more special an issue...
Your claim was not merely that it has not been, but that it could not be, explained (likened to trying to reach the earth from the moon by car). We ha...
Another in a tiresome series of posts confusing the poster's personal inability to understand neuroscience with there being no facts of neuroscience t...
This is classic example of what I'm talking about. There's no 'argument'. Lough makes two points... ...and... These are both certainly possible altern...
Hopefully, we do. Debate, democratic action, constitutional consideration... the usual. As I've said above, I don't believe anyone is arguing that gen...
Who said it couldn't? People, as far as I can can see, are expressing their view that the change is for the worse. I don't read anyone expressing the ...
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