Yes. I think the analogy works up to a point, and bearing in 'mind' that talk of computer virus is itself an analogy from biology. But up to more or l...
Do you think your informational computerised view is much different? Are we machines? Are we infected by viruses? The very idea seems like a virus tha...
No disagreement from me. Social relations are a survival issue. Communication, and therefore truth, is a survival issue. But alas in humans, genetic p...
The topic would better be called 'Deciding what to be'. What to do follows from what one is. If one is Buridan's ass, one dithers and cannot decide. I...
I think we ought, but I think we ought to do so carefully, with respect for differing opinions. I certainly do not trust my (UK) government to do what...
I'm at risk of dying of cold because I cannot afford the heating bill. So I get a say. And I say that defeating fascism is expensive and costs many li...
The story is that the economy progresses to improve life for us all, and science provides the best solutions to all human problems. It now appears tha...
Because, of course, one is not normally interested in colour patches in one's visual field, but the latest dresses and trainers in the material world ...
Well I'd need to see that demonstration. But anyways, back to Hume, your fun video actually uses the term 'imaginary' to describe the colour constancy...
The optical illusion argument makes no sense to me. The illusion in the checkerboard illusion is that there is a checkerboard, not an imaginary checke...
No. it's not the objects that he denies, it's the reasoning. Of course there are objects; of course they aren't in the mind, and of course they are no...
Hume was not an idiot. He was certainly aware of sensory boundaries such that when one hits the nail into the wall with the hammer, it does not hurt w...
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water ... https://dailynous.com/2022/10/28/found-five-boxes-of-new-hegel/ There's never any good ...
He doesn't really need the tyranny of Nature here, does he? The sceptic is not admitting anything of any consequence. There's a bracketing problem her...
Just for fun and profit, here is Kant, who some where said that Hume's work 'awakened me from my slumbers', ripping off Hume big-style, The Critique o...
It might be useful to contextualise Hume a bit. His contemporaries were Voltaire and Rousseau; Thomas Reid was his antagonist -and friend. His inherit...
Always happy to read a bit of Hume. One the best. And by way of illustration, Modern developmental psychology follows and agrees with his analysis eve...
Your question is rhetorical and rather slanted, but here is a real alternative approach, not antagonistic to drugs where they can be helpful, that doe...
Well it can be more detrimental than that, in some contexts. No one really believes that disabled people are evil, but every Bond film has a disabled,...
Ok, let's try. I'll start with a personal anecdote. My daughter aged 4 was a highly articulate, outgoing confident child able to engage children and a...
No, I assume some of us will. If none of us do, your question of legitimacy has no application either. But I see you are interested in a form of dialo...
The problem is in your question. "legitimate" is related to "legislation" and so your question addresses the legitimacy of the legitimising process. T...
You chaps don't have to entirely invent a new frame for psychology alone. There has always been resistance to the reductive, chemical/mechanical medic...
The lesson I would like everyone to draw from all this is that a dishonest, amoral government must always fail in the long run because a society is fi...
Her only supporter is the Philosophical Zombi himself,Grease-Knob. Even in the Gory party, you need a bit more than that. But there is now cross-party...
In office, but not in control. There is a lively expectation that this thread will end in about 2-3 days. It may take a bit longer, but why would she ...
A right? Where do they come from? God? You get more and more desperately ambitious in your pronouncements. No, it is an insane suggestion that any man...
And as is happening right now to indigenous people in the Amazon, sanctioned ironically by the government, and as has happened on every colonised cont...
Shit, the appeal to justice? Let's invent a court and make with the justification - your private justification has no sway over me. But anyway, you li...
This. We are fragile, and so we are fearful. And of those whose fragility is exploited and abused, there are some who are destroyed psychologically. O...
Yes, but you are claiming that when you do it, it isn't the state. The divine right of NOS to his private army etc. Privacy is itself government - tho...
About the best imagined Anarchist society I've come across is Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed. But there's not much 'private' there, so @"NOS4A2" wou...
Who wouldn't? We live in the state of anarchy, in which there is no law, and in particular, no law against setting oneself up as a governor or mafia b...
The confusion that tends to arise is between what energy is and what the energy we use is. What we are concerned with is energydifference. The locatio...
This is called 'Bridge Song'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uRk9gFpQd4 It is about the Seeker and his Beloved ( the unnamed Sophia, Goddess of wisd...
Me too. A gun to the head is an existential threat. A threat to end existence. But this ... ... is not true. Weapons are only useful for making and ca...
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