Donald Trumps win is a symptom of that problem, not the cause. Maybe Trump can actually start mending the problem! A Hillary win would have just been ...
Congrats to POTUS Donald. J. Trump!! I cannot believe the madman actually did it haha. What an incredible achievement! With almost the entire world ag...
Isn't a miracle just something which doesn't have a naturalistic explanation? Claiming its a fallacy to invoke god to explain something which doesn't ...
I don't think there would be this conflict because for the scientific instrumentalist, scientific theories are simply not truth-apt. He doesn't not 'b...
It's bad philosophy to just arrogantly assert things are right or wrong without argument or justification, which you have repeatedly done in this thre...
How can you be looking directly at the (physical) world, when your sight is equal to a particular brain state? It's like you're saying that we look th...
And yet you accuse others of not having an understanding of "phil 101" ideas! You seem to have a naive realist understanding of perception and people ...
How can your perception be located as the state of a physical brain, and yet somehow you're directly perceiving the world outside/beyond this brain? H...
I don't see how you can state that consciousness is literally equal to the state of a physical brain, and yet you directly (or at least non-representi...
There is a misunderstanding of what I mean by "world around you". So there's a physical world, with a physical brain state. And then there's the "worl...
I could see a case being made for laws against screaming "ALLAHU ACKBAR I HAVE A BOMB IM GONNA KILL EVERYONE" in the middle of a crowded plane ride. W...
You seem to be asserting scientific instrumentalism so on that view it wouldn't make sense to call science educated guesswork because a guess is the t...
I didn't imply that. I even said "equal to the state of a (physical) brain". Even if that was what I was saying, there's more ways than just physical ...
Yeah, most creationists seem to subscribe to scientific realism, hence the conflict. I'm just saying it's not mandatory, and you can resolve the confl...
Because if you take scientific instrumentalism to be the case, then you wouldn't 'subscribe to evolution'/take evolution to be true, because scientifi...
If consciousness is a brain state then everything that is consciousness is a brain state. You know about your body (including your head) and the world...
I don't agree at all. Also a lot of people don't seem to get that if consciousness is simply the state of your brain, this means that the body and the...
I just want to point out that this conflict only arises if one subscribes to a non-instrumentalist view of science. If you take scientific instrumenta...
Actually I take what I said about a subject of experience back. Because then what am I saying, that there exists a non-experiential subject of conscio...
I don't really grasp how the Buddha says there is no self, and yet you come back to the world in the next lifetime, and what you come back as depends ...
What I mean (I think) by me coming into existence again, is the same 'subject of experience', experiencing again. My present experiences all have this...
I'm not so sure about the worth of pessimism. Whenever I think about all this stuff, especially how suffering greatly outweighs pleasure, and pleasure...
So if I whipped out a hammer and brained your baby to death in front of you, you would have serious difficulty saying my actions were morally wrong? S...
1. There was a time in the past in which I (presumably) did not exist. Prior to my birth there was no me, my experience, my brain, anything. 2. I pres...
It's hard to talk without using pronouns. I'm not really thinking I'll exist again as this human, or personality. But even if there is no subject of e...
There's two options, either I existed prior to this lifetime, or I didn't. I don't claim to know either way. But the point is that either way, reality...
To the OP, why are you privileging the truth of your religious experience over the truth of your non-religious experiences? What's your justification ...
Your hypothesis would hold if there was a convergence of observations (eg, memories, weather reports for that day, snow which doesn't appear fresh bei...
Dawkins has just replaced the biblical creation story/Genesis with the theory of evolution. When the two are in completely different domains. When you...
Hangovers Having your pets die Having to follow laws even when you don't want to, under threat of state sponsored violence/oppression Knowing that you...
Just to preface I also share your anti-natalist persuasion. Having children is blatantly immoral. That said, I'm also a fairly happy person. Sure I fe...
Some relevant (and shocking) stats and information can be found here: http://www.amren.com/archives/reports/the-color-of-crime-2016-revised-edition/ A...
If consciousness is produced within a brain, then the brain that's producing your present conscious experience cannot be the brain you believe is with...
This is the entire issue in a nutshell. People, especially feminists, seem to find it impossible to view women as actual individuals rather than some ...
God damn that is some intense mental gymnastics you've got there! Why are people so afraid of facts? Black people get caught driving stolen cars more ...
Thomas Metzinger's I take Thomas Metzinger's work to be reductio ad absurdum argument for why its wrong to explain consciousness scientifically. If yo...
So I am aware of others pain before I'm aware of my own? This seems crazy. Other people's pain exists beyond what I can access, so how on earth is the...
Heidegger tries to dissolve the problem of other minds through his analytic of the experiencing self (Dasein) claiming Dasein always is being in (the ...
It seems that for Heidegger, the existence of others is neither an objective or subjective fact. Heidegger tries to sidestep this realist notion by an...
But Dasein can't 'step beyond' Daseins fundamental ontological condition (being-with) and claim objective facts about the world. The existence of othe...
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