This is a really good idea. Except the underlying problem is humanity, and problems don't generally solve themselves. I rage against the inhumanity of...
No. the whole thing is a manipulation whereby it becomes the reader's fault if they fail to obey or fail to give 'good reasons'. If you want to kill p...
Yes, I would not respond. There is no 'reason' not to kill people that isn't obvious unless one is oblivious. Another forum? Complain to the moderator...
I'd delete the thread. It's not like the chap's going to not kill if I don't; it's not like my relationship with them is going to persuade him of anyt...
There seems to be a slide in the meaning of tolerance. As if to tolerate your objectionable views means not to even try to disabuse you of them, on th...
My faith is not of the dogmatic kind, but more of a decision. To believe in justice is not to fondly imagine it prevails already, but to commit onesel...
It doesn't follow at all. Being authoritarian does not entail being right. Every politico from left to right thinks they are right, and they can't all...
My laptop has foresight. It tells me it will shut down unless I plug in the charger, and then if I don't, it shuts down. But I suspect the intention l...
Or it might be something shallower. My story is that there are a number of genes that 'mean' amongst other things 'more pepper'. And also possibly som...
You're getting a bit too recursive for my wine-addled brain. I am suggesting that in order to have an unconscious one needs a consciousness. What are ...
Interesting stuff. I might point out, because it is not clear in the thread, that selection, in the short term of plant breeders and so on does not re...
I have a tooth extracted because it is an inconvenience to be be suffering pain. I feel this language is loaded, and my comparison is also loaded. I t...
What is "a thing's identity"? There is the thing, and there is the way we talk, and then what else? It looks to me as if you want to reify the relatio...
My wife changed her name. I don't see the problem; we agree that Pluto hasn't changed, so we - meaning they - have decided to talk differently to make...
Yes. It's one of those zen type questions that cannot be answered by the imagination or by a theory, or by knowledge, because these are the fragments,...
There is a real difference between natural and artificial stone which is reflected in the price of a slab at the builder's merchant. One can loosely d...
There is a sense in which it is an obvious truth, that has probably never been made explicit in quite that way. Not that it's an either or thing quite...
There is precedent for maladaptive evolution in sexual selection. I think of the peacock's fan, an evolutionary pain in the butt, that happens, we are...
This is quite untrue; as your own reference states: "Socially mediated traditions of behaviour, although known in many species of animal (see, for exa...
You are simulating well enough to fool me. ;) It's a test for responsiveness, and that is all you ever have. All you have are my posts; I hope they ar...
I don't remember mentioning qualia. I did say that I regarded consciousness in the full human sense to be being aware of being aware. This surely make...
That. Actually, Corbyn clearly is the greatest orator around here at the moment, one who re-enchants a wide range of the disenchanted, my decrepit sel...
In common parlance, which is where I deliberately started, the word 'conscious' is used in relation to humans and higher animals, and is not clearly d...
The story comes to us from a book; it is a teaching story. It seems to teach that the story, nor the book are valuable, but that the value is elsewher...
For the record, it's a statement about fitness regimes. Personally, I find declarations of meaninglessness applied to well used phrases a bit suspect....
Well you understand it in the context of physical training - crossing the pain barrier; not being self-indulgent. One 'pushes oneself' necessarily fro...
The cruelty thing. If you are foolish enough to hire a personal trainer, you expect him to push you to do things you are reluctant to do, to hold you ...
No, burn all the second hand inspirational psychobabble peddled by folks who don't practice what they preach. But only the best disciple should burn t...
Yes, that probably wouldn't work too well. But it might be possible to stop the car without switching off the engine, or to stop the rushing chatter o...
The pupil teaches the master 'presence'. What the master is saying shows his attachment to the past, contrary, presumably, to the very teachings he se...
That's a very enlightened if somewhat old-fashioned position. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates. My unenlightened and mo...
When dealing with a casualty, the first-aider will typically squeeze an earlobe quite hard to see if they respond to pain. A response is taken as evid...
I know I am sometimes mistaken too. I have the evidence. I just painted the garden wall, thinking it was going to continue dry and sunny, but now it's...
Not at all. I'm giving my opinion. But evidence is evident to consciousness; evidence of consciousness is evident to consciousness. Therefore consciou...
Not yours. Why believe the evidence that the evidence is not to be believed? This is what consciousness consists of: the interiorization of itself. Th...
Is asking questions truth conducive? It depends who you ask, and it depends whether the question is sensible. Is it sensible to ask what questions are...
Just because he talks bollocks doesn't mean he's grown them. But the suggestion of this thread has been that testosterone fuelled politics is somethin...
One might say that experiences are the content of consciousness. One might then continue that one can (or even that one necessarily must) experience c...
Dimensionality. https://cdn.okccdn.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/1x1/425x1000/0x0/0x0/0/16059808680195318709.jpeg Here is a two dimensional constr...
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