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But there's no 'whereas' there. There's nothing contrary about claiming the 'primacy' of the mind over the 'independence' of the source of what we kno...
June 15, 2022 at 07:32
Here are some papers you might be interested in Short Term Exposure to a Violent Video Game Induces Changes in Frontolimbic Circuitry in Adolescents T...
June 15, 2022 at 06:28
That's the conclusion, not the evidence.
June 15, 2022 at 06:23
Yes, it's an interesting debate. Personally I disagree. I think that these anti-social tendencies are not desires which need sating (like hunger) but ...
June 15, 2022 at 06:22
... is not in any way opposed to... One talks about the constituents of that which causes our mental experiences, the other about how we come to know ...
June 15, 2022 at 06:09
Yep. I might update my belief about the content of your hand to make it better fit other beliefs (like those about your intentions, character etc) Exa...
June 15, 2022 at 05:28
You do indeed get it. We ought not be the sort of people who can hear cries of distress and not feel like we should respond. Yeah, I'm fine with that ...
June 15, 2022 at 05:22
In the first part of this syllogism you take the 'seeming' from my comment, but in the sequitur you're referring to 'evidence'. I don't see 'seeming' ...
June 15, 2022 at 05:04
Yes. To a degree. You can test this quite easily by asking me to bet on whether you're holding a phone or a small pig. I'd put more money on the phone...
June 14, 2022 at 19:28
I depends on the thing. The feeling you might be inclined to describe as "not understanding something" is rarely as empty of sense as the expression s...
June 14, 2022 at 19:09
Well, my dictionary has... Seems to hinge on "equipment". Oddly 'equipment' is defined by 'tool', and 'tool' as a 'piece of equipment'... So, I'm goin...
June 14, 2022 at 19:05
Not really, no. It's the attitudes of the humans considering it that interests me at this stage. How easily we become wedded to our castles in the air...
June 14, 2022 at 12:44
So if I'm lying in the street screaming in pain, you perform an autopsy first to check I've got the right 'guts' before showing any compassion? Good t...
June 14, 2022 at 05:06
Good job I'm not an American then. Depends what you mean by 'know'. We always make a prediction as to what they are, we're never 100% sure. We 'believ...
June 14, 2022 at 05:05
How would you know? That's the whole point of making decisions based on ideology. Until you reach the end of your life and look back on the whole thin...
June 14, 2022 at 05:01
We can very well believe in its texture and weight. It's not at that level of processing that these 'columns' are dealing with. All you're getting at ...
June 13, 2022 at 17:38
Yes. I believe it can, yes. To the degree I think is relevant. We find the same with things like destroying objects. One only needs two circles for ey...
June 13, 2022 at 15:30
Yes. The idea that Putin might have invaded Ukraine as a strategic move against a growing anti-Russian right-wing element or an expanding Western mili...
June 13, 2022 at 12:22
This is completely the wrong way around. It's not about the object of suffering, it's about you, the one enabling/tolerating it. We should not even al...
June 13, 2022 at 12:09
...because?
June 13, 2022 at 11:57
Indeed. On a rational level, neither do I (though I have serious reservations about the usefulness of such a distinction). My main concern here is the...
June 13, 2022 at 08:58
Far and away the most important question. Ignored twice now so I thought I'd bump it. We should be asking ourselves whether the AI is sentient at an a...
June 13, 2022 at 07:27
Exactly. The main problem I see with this attempt to separate out belief from prediction is that there's no special category remaining for belief to b...
June 13, 2022 at 06:30
All beliefs are supported in hindsight.
June 13, 2022 at 06:01
I'm not sure what I can do about that. We often believe arguments made by people more powerful than ourselves. Sometime this is appropriate (if their ...
June 13, 2022 at 06:00
Any reason why not?
June 13, 2022 at 05:56
Not an easy one to reference. It's my conclusion mainly because of the strength of alternative hypotheses for how we are influenced (and thus leaving ...
June 13, 2022 at 05:55
Well short of reading Milgram ('Obedience to Authority', if you're unsure) - where he states... ... A good article (if you have institutional access) ...
June 12, 2022 at 11:13
Yep. That's the line of thinking. It revolves around the idea that social group membership and reward has become so compartmentalised in these broken-...
June 12, 2022 at 10:54
Not only read both, but taught classes on them. I think their influence is exaggerated. Take a look at Milgram on Arendt and see what you think. I'm n...
June 12, 2022 at 10:49
Oddly enough, I think the focus on education is the problem, not the solution. But I agree with the prudence. I didn't say they had no part to play. H...
June 12, 2022 at 10:33
If it wasn't your politicians, it'll be your parents, your work colleagues, your wife/husband/significant other... Advertisers may be responsible for ...
June 12, 2022 at 06:22
But how do you know they've betrayed truth? You personally are not expert in the matters they pronounce on, so in order to come to believe they've bet...
June 12, 2022 at 06:10
I believe this may be the objective the OP had in mind. Personally I can't see the sense in defining away a word. If we confine beliefs to those matte...
June 12, 2022 at 05:58
Literally every scrap of evidence I've ever read has shown the opposite to be the case. What ethnographies are you basing this on?
June 11, 2022 at 10:00
I don't understand how you're connecting trust and truth here at all. I might trust implicitly someone who is not telling the truth. The two seem unre...
June 11, 2022 at 08:33
Seems so. Amusing to see just how far people will go to maintain their narrative that NATO are the good guys. I wasn't expecting a full on exculpation...
June 11, 2022 at 08:25
No. Absent biasing factors the coin will not land at all. Some force has to cause it to land. That force will be biased to one side or the other. We j...
June 11, 2022 at 08:23
Yes. I have no problem with the notion that the SS was a morally repugnant organisation because it facilitated the genocide of millions of Jews. As ha...
June 11, 2022 at 07:27
Ah, well in that case, for your info. The SS were an organisation composed of several administrative and operational units. So are we back to judging ...
June 11, 2022 at 06:57
What are NATO then, robots?
June 11, 2022 at 05:26
...is always contradicted by... ...this is something we can never know but be absolutely sure exists. Something absolutely must be biasing one side or...
June 11, 2022 at 05:21
You're not. I can't think where you've read such a thing into what I've written when I've mostly been arguing the exact opposite - that belief is dyna...
June 11, 2022 at 05:02
Basically, stories. We're quite easily fooled by stories, so whilst a social group seems indispensable for the construction of many complex beliefs, t...
June 11, 2022 at 04:59
Russia's claim is that the independent nations of Donetsk and Luhansk asked for military aid. And are now, after a successful mission neutralising Ukr...
June 10, 2022 at 18:39
There is nothing in the UN charter against voluntary uniting countries. As such it does not rule against expansion. The government one votes for is an...
June 10, 2022 at 17:30
Then his point should stand uncontested. A country definitely has a legitimate right to expand. There is no law preventing expansion. A typically ludi...
June 10, 2022 at 16:30
If depends on from whose perspective. Probability is a measure of uncertainty. From an objective perspective there's just a 100% chance the coin will ...
June 10, 2022 at 16:11
That's not how probability works. If I'm 100% certain there's a 50% chance, then there's a 50% chance. If I'm 80% certain there's a 50% chance, then t...
June 10, 2022 at 11:29
So, let me try to understand where the line is for you. "I believe there is a God" is a statement of belief, right? What about "I believe there's a 50...
June 10, 2022 at 06:25