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Absolutely. It's certainly an interesting take, I'm just not sure I fully follow how you're getting there but... This sounds like exactly what I mean ...
November 30, 2022 at 06:40
None whatsoever. And if I did (was the sort of person who cared what flag flew over my parliament) I would be a monster to expect thousands of people ...
November 30, 2022 at 06:12
The subject was people acting as a mass (an electorate, or a nation) these make changes via instructing people. The government does not simply will a ...
November 29, 2022 at 17:46
I don't follow. It seems the strength of regulation isn't at issue so much as the content. If one regulates, say, incitement to violence, one can do s...
November 29, 2022 at 17:42
Before I get into the substance of what you've replied here, I need to clarify something at the outset. Are you here posting what you conclude must ta...
November 29, 2022 at 17:08
Nope. Indeed it doesn't. It is, yes. That's right.. Other irrelevant facts about my post are that it contained 114 words and doesn't once use the lett...
November 29, 2022 at 13:34
I may, but only 'deadly' in the sense that further expansion may lead to more war. Since the ;deadly' we'd be avoiding by concession is also war, I ca...
November 29, 2022 at 13:05
But what could possibly constitute such a 'focus'? Things appear to us as they appear to us. If you look harder you don't get to some 'more real' vers...
November 29, 2022 at 13:02
Doesn't make any sense. Since 'Ukrainian' is not a natural kind, it's not a subspecies, or a genetic type, Ukrainians will always be controlled by Ukr...
November 29, 2022 at 10:10
The problem is that if I cannot communicate to others in a democracy, that is an absolute. I cannot do it. Propaganda is not an absolute. One person's...
November 29, 2022 at 07:14
I think this seems similar to... But I don't see how either are more than... --- If I claim "I seem to have a memory of my childhood house" it doesn't...
November 29, 2022 at 06:48
But it's not really about correspondence with an image you already have because it's the same spelling no matter what font it's written in. It's simpl...
November 29, 2022 at 06:48
Yep.
November 29, 2022 at 06:47
It didn't ought. I don't think the question of who governs what territory is a moral one, any more than what hat I ought wear today is a moral questio...
November 28, 2022 at 13:34
Yeah, could do. We talk about neural nets as having likelihoods of leading to certain reported mental events (or behaviours) because they're so prone ...
November 28, 2022 at 13:28
So now Russia aren't a threat to the West, and Putin is a master strategist who doesn't make massive blunders? I wish you guys would get your story st...
November 28, 2022 at 07:22
It has been looked at just how likely it is. By experts in their field (as cited previously) and by, for example, @"boethius" above. They reach differ...
November 28, 2022 at 07:20
You mean like 'pictures in the mind'? It's complicated (isn't it always?). I certainly seems as though the parts of the brain involved in creating men...
November 28, 2022 at 07:17
I like this. If I understand correctly, you're expressing a multiple-model interpretation as being a synthesis of all possible models (an exclusion of...
November 28, 2022 at 07:16
No. No. The sensory experience at (2) is constructed from words and the concepts they define. That's just episodic memory, not semantic memory, and it...
November 28, 2022 at 07:16
Perhaps numbers were a bad example afterall, being famously infinite, and here I'm trying to give an example of a finite data set. In my example, one ...
November 27, 2022 at 08:38
I don't know. I made a modest career doing my damnedest to eff it. But maybe...
November 27, 2022 at 08:37
Well, they are, in that I experience them in a lab, but they're not in this narrative - the one we're talking about here where we're discussing how ex...
November 27, 2022 at 08:37
I'm still not following how you've jumped to 'awareness'. Why does the dog need to be 'aware' of bones and biscuits in order for the category {stuff t...
November 27, 2022 at 08:37
People disagreeing with you doesn't make them illogical and delusional. I've shown quite clearly that normal intelligent and informed people think tha...
November 26, 2022 at 17:50
I don't follow how you're making the jump from the particulars constituting concepts to 'experiences'. Why must the particulars be experiences? Say th...
November 26, 2022 at 17:41
Yes. So the problem I saw here was that violating international law is not in defiance of "the West/NATO/US" because "the West/NATO/US" have little re...
November 26, 2022 at 14:43
OK. So these sources who argue... ...what efforts did you take to 'triangulate' their pronouncements with those of experts offering contrary views. Ta...
November 26, 2022 at 11:38
Yeah, we've just got through demonstrating that to be bullshit. You can't provide a consistent criteria you use to judge who to trust. You dismissed R...
November 26, 2022 at 11:01
That's a restatement of what the narrative is, not an explanation of why you choose to believe it. Also, Ukraine is not a victim. That's a category er...
November 26, 2022 at 10:37
There's nothing to rebut. I completely agreed. Russia broke international law.
November 26, 2022 at 09:32
Probably, from past experience, when pushed you'll end up claiming it only says that Russia exists, or that people sometimes think before they act. Yo...
November 26, 2022 at 08:29
This is interesting. I'm not sure quite how best to answer using the terms you're using. But I'll have a go. The way I see the relation between extern...
November 26, 2022 at 08:18
I don't know anything about canine psychology, but if it works anything like human psychology, the association of a word (or any noise at all) with an...
November 26, 2022 at 08:09
I'm curious then as to why... Perhaps you could explain the origin of Putin's concern when, as of 2020, more than half of those leaving Ukraine chose ...
November 25, 2022 at 19:22
Possibly, not always. Many of the issues are the US's failure to ratify laws others have taken on. So? So? Back to the same transparent strategy you u...
November 25, 2022 at 18:18
Absolutely. I'm ultimately a realist, which means, for me, the social constructs aren't just random, they are constrained by the external states they ...
November 25, 2022 at 18:18
I'm not sure I fully understand what this means, but why would you think there'd be a lack of internal disparity. We have many different inputs, many ...
November 25, 2022 at 18:17
So? And? None of this nonsensical verbiage alleviates your error. You said that... How is it a problem that Russia are violating international law, wh...
November 25, 2022 at 12:45
It is. Your quote...
November 25, 2022 at 12:41
How did you identify that the sensation was a 'colour sensation'? I don't think anyone 'doesn't have experiences'. I said earlier that experiences are...
November 25, 2022 at 12:39
So are you prepared to say plants have experiences? I can get a spectrometer to respond one way to green light and another to red. Did the spectromete...
November 25, 2022 at 08:57
So has this been done? It doesn't seem much of a point to say that an experiment could show what you believe to be the case. As I said before. Plants ...
November 25, 2022 at 08:51
You said... I asked... You replied... Now you're saying there's no 'the'. So which sensation did you learn to associate with the word red as a child?
November 25, 2022 at 08:46
So 'red' is a social construct. From where do we learn that the wine and the post box are of similar enough colour for the experience they produce to ...
November 25, 2022 at 08:39
That's language. You were denying the role of language. I was asking how this 'generalization' was carried out absent of language or socialisation.
November 25, 2022 at 08:30
How?
November 25, 2022 at 08:07
Funny your keen anti-bias radar missed... 'Genetic fallacy' here? or is it just when your opposition say it?
November 25, 2022 at 07:20
Here's the US attitude to 'international law' - From https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/americas/the-u-s-makes-a-mockery-of-treaties-and-interna...
November 25, 2022 at 06:58
Babies respond to different wavelengths. Plants do that too. Do they have 'experiences of red'?
November 25, 2022 at 06:39