Isaac

I agree, but I'm quibbling over what 'voluntary' means in the light of other individuals manipulating the environment within which that decision is ma...

Sure, but you have a car, yes? A house? Else you've certainly no concern about taxation if you're so frugal. The point I'm making here is that what we...

What about your money? Any land you think you own? Possessions like boats, cars, buildings...? Only if you're better than them. As I said, the best ha...

Not at all. Many individuals are capable of the sort of hacking, or deception needed to extract money from a bank account. It happens all the time, it...

The problem with the argument @"Tzeentch" and @"NOS4A2" are putting forward (as I believe we've discussed before) is that property rights are not intr...

Yes, that's right, but only if a sound argument were given finding flaw in every single premise. That seems incredibly unlikely. Not so with a philoso...

Not at all. If one can question some of the ideas in a tradition (and find them flawed) it follows that one can question all ideas in a tradition (and...

What do you think is the biggest barrier to such a solution that we (the Western electorate) could actually do anything about? In other words, if you ...

I didn't say 'rejects', I said 'questions'. Except, it seems the tradition that holds that some traditions are wrongheaded. That, apparently is the ex...

Yes, indeed. What distinguishes, I think, a 'good' definition from a 'bad' one as a precursor to a discussion, is that the good definition is encourag...

My wife's a child psychologist. It never ceases to amaze me how people can be so certain of what they think they know that they simply cannot conceive...

Why do you think that? Yes, that's basically my point. If we want children to develop critical thinking skills then absolutely the worst thing we can ...

I did. No citation has been offered. That people do is not an argument that they ought, nor that they must.

One could. I was asking about why one would. You've not provided a single citation in support of your contention that we ought teach critical thinking...

Cited? Do you what a citation looks like? It isn't "watch a documentary". No one has 'cited' anything, just repeated tired clichés as if they were fac...

I have no idea what you're talking about. I try not to have too low a limit, but sometimes your responses are so lacking in any kind of rational struc...

Yes. I addressed that. Are you having trouble understanding what I've written?

I said he's no more declaring them... Saying one thing is another does not deny meanings in the way you're implying. If I say a hat is my favourite it...

It will reward you, I think. Good policy. Remarkable how far that can can get one in life...

Yes, the critical response here has been searing. I'm overloaded with quality evidence-based arguments like "watch a documentary" and "That this can h...

Have you tried obviously polemic political diatribes? Works for me. I'll have a quibble that might yield an extra page... Merely saying it is so is no...

Yes. And I'm clearly stating that your claim of 'handwaiving' is not a "sharply formed, evidence-accompanied type of claim" and so fails your own requ...

Yes, yes. But to understand it you'll need to have done a lot of preliminary reading on Free Energy principles and understand a little of basic neuros...

He's no more 'declaring them to be the same thing' than I'm declaring light to be the same thing as switches. I'm explaining how/why the light comes o...

Do you care to share it? True. I didn't say it did so necessarily. It sometimes doesn't even do that. Again, care to share your reasons? I asked about...

This is too often ignored in place of thinking about actual words or the formation of speech. The notion of identifiable concepts, objects with proper...

Yes, but the only measure anyone is giving for conceivability is their own ability to conceive it. What would that evidence consist of?

Yes, but we're not talking here about the possibility, we're talking about the actuality. Chalmers' actual failure to conceive it. Not its impossibili...

Who says we don't have them. The argument is about the kind of thing they are, not whether they are. It's about whether 'experience' describes a set o...

Do you have some argument in favour of that conclusion, or is it just a foundational principle for you? To me it seems clearly about capability. I wou...

Is that unusual? I've never heard of any cogent explanation for how long chain polymers are made. I don't find that at all odd, nor do I think it carr...

I don't think so. I could be conceived as a set like S={all the notes}. Is a set the same kind of thing as an orchestra? It could be conceived, as som...

A similar pattern is emerging here of conflict between a person's individual mental capability and some metaphysical implication. @"Janus" want his/he...

Why? There is an entire canon of neuroscience around consciousness. Papers and books by the truckload. Are you seriously saying that a reasonable burd...

There is a difference between... ...and... The former is about the state of the field, the latter is about your personal knowledge/grasp of it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378437122009475 Does that sound like a remotely clear physical understanding to you? Are the u...

That's exactly it (though I've floated this exact idea with @"Michael" in a previous thread and it didn't have any impact then either). On what ground...

Your personal incredulity doesn't constitute an argument. The land grab of Crimea was relatively harmless (relative the Ukraine's governance of the re...

Then I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the next one. There's usually one a month, they come along between the 'direct/indirect realism' one a...

Indeed. Which is why I referred you to the title of the OP. The position is "Neuroscience cannot explain consciousness" I don't see anyone arguing tha...

Isn't it just! Graduate teaching is often different because the students have volunteered to be there, it's in a subject they've chosen to pursue, and...

The questions are simple. 1. How did you learn critical thinking skills sufficient for you to vote the 'right' way (in your interests)? 2. Why is this...

Yes. It is. Some trauma in the body.

Read what's written, then reply.

I couldn't possibly say seeing as the whole thing seems to be taking place in your imagination. Back in the real world. You advocated the teaching of ...

Thanks for the detail. Yes, I see the issue if changes are being made without the knowledge of the person whose image it is. I'm not sure I share your...

That's fair enough. Can we have a reason why it cannot be (not 'isn't', or 'would prefer not to' - 'cannot' is big word here)? Coming back to satisfac...

So? You haven't countered the point that some land grabs are relatively harmless. some economic power grabs are devastating. there's nothing about ter...

Really? This is a hidden feature not openly declared?

Mostly telling the working class how stupid and bigoted they are and how they need more 'education' so that they can stop doing/saying such stupid thi...