unenlightened

Sorry, I posted the same link twice instead of a link to my previous thread. I've edited it above, but here it is again: https://thephilosophyforum.co...

Links are provided in the thread I linked to, if you are interested.

The current psychobabble rather agrees with you, that depression is an adaptation to traumatic experiences. This is actually in line with physical ill...

That's a fact and always has been, but whether it is women who are imposed upon or men who are deprived and dependent, is decided otherwise than as a ...

Ok, I don't have the book to hand, so I'm going to use some of the wikipedia material and quotes. If there is other stuff you want to look at put the ...

1. Mr Normal's winning the lottery is very improbable if caused by chance. 2. Mr Normal's winning the lottery is very probable if God causes him to wi...

Carbon fibre and non-biodegradable plastics to replace steel and aluminium wherever possible, ie cars planes etc. Insulate buildings until they are en...

It's the beginning of insight. Don't go looking for a new pair of rose tinted spectacles, instead look through the gloom of self for the jewel of life...

It's not quite true; the winners will be those far away and not involved - China and the US maybe, and S. America and Australia. But Russia can gain a...

It makes a change from 'mad' and 'idiotic', but it's not an improvement. When I was in primary school the insult of choice was 'spastic'. Ah, the good...

Explains a lot! The trouble is you proper Americans have forgotten how to shout loud enough at these foreigners to let them understand. Every schoolbo...

Ukranians are good people like Americans are good people. We know Americans are good because they speak English. Good people always support good peopl...

Trolls to the left of them, idiots to the right of them, Volleyed and thundered. But all joined in the hymn of the new world order: and you can too .....

Because it's the only aspect of communication that can be mechanised (along with spelling of course.). Otherwise you would have to have good communica...

For example, if you took both names, then after a dozen generations you'd have 4096 names. One has anyway to be in one tribe or the other. There was a...

Yes, that seems quite natural to me in a matrilineal society. A man's children are those born to his sister, rather than to his lover. His lovers chil...

I stand corrected. Twice. That's right, we are speculating and imagining. The global prevalence of patriarchy makes the evidence thin to the point whe...

Yes, except that collaboration is controlled. Not all control is coercive. I'm trying to imagine, without being totally utopian, how a a post-industri...

https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1106&context=historical-perspectives

Yeah, that makes complete sense, probably.

Ah the subtle philosophical distinction between food into me and me into food. The solid version of the distinction between drinking and bathing.

What's the difference between everything and reality in total? It's a classic example of a cunning arrangement of words that a philosopher thinks can ...

Why do you want to contrive a scenario that might justify torturing a baby, or any one? If the bad man is doing bad things, the good man will try to s...

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Well the theory that all our theories are wrong, must be wrong, because if it were right then not all our theories would be wrong. Therefore fairy dus...

It's a question about how fairy dust works. So that's a 'no'.

5 X 37. Bloody amateur numerologists. :sad:

There is no light coming from the future, only from the past. You say 'looks' but it is not observation but imagination. The trick to anticipation is ...

Propaganda, advertising, special pleading, rhetoric; Wiki. I certainly don't want to shut down the discussion, but point out merely that it is not lim...

Well this is my understanding of a non-consequential morality. One does what is right with the understanding that it will usually fail; that no good d...

'Good luck with that.' he ironises. Perhaps a (non-consequential) moral principle is what you need, lacking omniscient foresight? Perhaps a free socie...

I am simple minded; I define 'forwards' as the way I am facing, my eyes being at, in, or on my face. I cannot see where I am going in time, but only w...

M'kay. :mask:

Eyes in the back of your head is it?

Time does move backwards; or rather we move backwards through time. You can tell because we can see where we've been, but not where we're going.

Not just nationality, but every form of identification is necessarily divisive and leads to conflict. See Swift's parody of the Big-endians v the Litt...

Personally, i have to beat them off with a stick; but I don't actually hate women at all. :cool:

Reminds me of Wittgenstein's characterisation of philosophy as "engine idling". We do philosophy to tune the engine of consciousness, but then we want...

I imagine God the programmer. In the beginning, God wrote the program of the world, and Ran it for a day, and was dissatisfied, So She halted the prog...

Because I am a qualified painter and have spent 7 yeas in a Monastery prayerfully listening to God, I happen to know that the other day he stopped tim...

It's all talk and no trousers on this site. Your dogs will give you much better advice, and probably hold you to a higher standard.

Whether consciousness emerges or intrudes is rather the question of the thread, and your claim that neuroscience has answered the question whilst stil...

Do you distinguish between consciousness and its contents?

Firstly, Blah-blah-blah neural networks. Secondly, it's an analogy. I am not reporting the actual thoughts of game characters. The lesson is that with...

I have incontrovertible evidence that this thread is the product of my laptop. It appears on my screen as a result of complex processes that take plac...

I'm not playing it. I'm urging others here not to play it, and you are playing a feeble point scoring game against me. Don't bother.

Is this not the whole justification of the legitimacy of every government - that it enacts the will of the people, or at least acts in their best inte...

Yes indeed, and propaganda is part of encouraging the troops, etc. But we are not playing the game here, we are discussing the game being played.

At which point of grandmaster gamesmanship, blame is inappropriate all round. You lose the world championship - it's not a sin to be the second best p...

I blame the parents.