I would argue that sounds like a performative contradiction. You say you believe one thing, but you act like you believe another. Which I guess is not...
It could be easily dismissed if it wasn't for the fact that you constantly assume that you have free will whenever you act - even when you're just thi...
Well, my observation is that in any debate about free will, it's easy to list things that free will is not about. It's much harder to communicate what...
The obvious counter-question to this is what "free will in a meaningful sense" is supposed to be. There are people that argue that the essence of free...
I guess it's because your approach didn't suggest an ethical statement to me. When making such a judgement, I wouldn't consider the chances of success...
Who is the "we" here? Are you talking about what conditions for support the US or EU population might find acceptable? Three times. He attacked Crimea...
There seems to be no conceivable motivation to attack Poland. So this must be posturing. The question is who the addressee of this posturing is. Proba...
I do have to wonder how you think a criminal trial works. According to you, the only way to convict someone would be to get a confession. Judges "read...
I've always considered the problem with Pascal's wager to be that it considers "belief" to be free, or at least not a major cost to the individual. Bu...
I can't really comment on the merits of theories on the early universe from a physics perspective. I don't have the requisite background. But in terms...
To me, the Copernican Principle is just that - a principle. It's not a physical law that's based on observation. It's more a method of inquiry. The pu...
And if we expand our limits past the "initial conditions", we're forced to once again address the age old problem of the infinite regress vs the uncau...
This seems to imply that if only "the West" would stop meddling, wed have a stable world of equals. If history is any guide, international relations d...
Ok, I don't follow you here at all - how is quantum physics not part of the physical universe? But what if nature already includes free will, it's jus...
I think this is because of a deep seated conceptual difference. What I say will not make sense to you if you approach it from a position of materialis...
How do you know the brain is part of objective reality? I do believe there is one, but the physical world is a model of this objective reality created...
Because, as I pointed out, it's only there that we circle our observations back to their point of origin. What does it mean to say that thoughts occur...
Given that "the brain" is also a thought, this would get us stuck in a circle. The laws of physics are a collection of human observations. But since f...
I would argue that North Korea has very different reasons for banning western media. The US is not banning specific messages, it's banning a specific ...
That's not quite what I mean. I don't want to make the boring "arguing about it on the internet won't change anything" argument. I want to ask what ad...
It's a pretty well tread argument. But why do we want to know whether international "law" is actually law? Would anything change about international r...
What does "not committing to a belief" here mean? Is it the quasi performative (because internal) act of open-mindedness? The reason I'm asking is bec...
Strong compared to whom? To their less traditional compatriots, yes. Not strong compared to, say, Vietnamese family structures. Western culture is ext...
Family ties are weaker in the "Christian West" than anywhere else in the world, possibly as a result of the catholic church's ban on first cousin marr...
But what if I simply make the procedural requirement part of the definition of the term "law"? Noone says the definition for a law must itself be a la...
Completely random, but because I saw a video about that yesterday: the "speed of light" isn't a speed limit in the traditional sense. Objects can have...
Just how old are you? We know because we know the physical properties of CO2. Death is inevitable, yet we don't drive without seatbelts or brakes. Doe...
Nothing, really. Empirical science does not strictly speaking make a claim to represent basic ontological reality. That is itself an interpretation an...
And that would generally be true, if the rate of change is slow enough to allow ecosystems to adapt. But imagine what happens if 90% of all remaining ...
Well Things are already being done. Just not nearly enough things, though we're slowly getting better as the catastrophes are becoming more obvious. E...
Why wouldn't they be? Is your impression that current governments around the world are on average very good at dealing with medium to long term crisis...
We don't have a governing system whose goal is to determine what services are required though. LIke yeah it would be cool if we could simply expect th...
What theory of mind do you ascribe to? How does an intention form, and how does it then get to have physical results, and how do these then in turn ag...
Well, stuff that is impractical for the individual might not be if it was coordinated by the community. A simple example is avoiding to drive the car ...
Interestingly, when I tried to reverse the why game with a child, they came back with a very simple answer: "because I want to". One could take that t...
Kinda hard to say since no-one knows what the tipping points are exactly, but I think it's unlikely enough will be done to avoid very serious climate ...
I think the text perhaps suffers from not differentiating between different aspects of civility. The historical connection between the rules of "civil...
I think it's an interesting example to show the variety of different approaches that are possible in dealing with a problem. Historical studies often ...
Some people are aware, some are deliberately deluding themselves, some are being fooled, and some don't know. I think the problem is ultimately one of...
I don't think the notion of "fairness" makes much sense here. All war tends to terrorize the civilian population where it's fought, so I think a gener...
I think the most common problem with the logical fallacies is that people interpret them as informal language and use them in informal debates. Howeve...
Didn't they move all those behind the Urals? Also I think the Soviet field armies were destroyed twice over, but were replaced regardless. I think it'...
Literally just a few Paris Taxis away from victory :wink: In a way, Germany had won a war after the Munich agreement without firing a shot. Versailles...
I don't think that follows. I am being told something, about the way the bot works for example. The message still represents something, it's just not ...
That's simply the definition of the word, isn't it? A message is communication, and we don't consider a bot to have a mind that would communicate with...
Messages aren't physical. When we communicate, I'm really just talking to myself, that is I'm imagining what a mental model of you is saying. Nothing ...
There is nothing further to adress. You haven't argued that there must in some way be a representer, only moved language around to argue that when peo...
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