ChrisH

"Mental phenomena" are brain states. Brain states are objective aspects of our world. Claims about brain states are objective claims. Did you understa...

No. Your reactions are objective facts - they're not dependent on anyone's opinion. No. It's an objective fact. You appear to be confusing two differe...

No. Your personal tastes are dependent on your physical/emotional reaction to consuming anchovies. There's an objective fact of the matter regarding y...

Seems to me that if you wanted to build an AI which was emotionally stable, morally consistent and receptive to external guidance then a precise simul...

No, this doesn't make sense. It's not the case that whether or not X likes orange juice is dependent on whether or not X prefers to like orange juice.

I've always assumed that 'objectively true' means true regardless of anyone's opinion/preferences. That's why "X likes orange juice" is an objective c...

I don't think so. Whether or not you like orange juice is objectively true or false.

I think you'll find tinman isn't using the term 'free will' in the same way you're using it.

In the universe I observe, all moral justifications follow emotional responses.

When we stop being shocked, Trump and his followers will have won.

I want to know what's going to happen next.

You're just reacting to disagreement with personal insults. I don't know if you missed it but in a response to andrewk I said: Which is clearly at odd...

I think you'll find many disabled people who don't agree with her. Her voice should be heard but it should not be taken as the voice of all disabled p...

All I've done is say that I found the Stella Young article totally unpersuasive. LikeTiff you seem to take the position that any disagreement with Ste...

I haven't made any interpretation. I've simply said that I find her arguments unpersuasive (not compelling).

Your question makes no sense.

I've reread everything I posted in this thread and am at a complete loss as to how you could leap to such an uncharitable interpretation.

I'm finding your arguments confusing. I say again, who has suggested that Stella Young should not be listened to?

Who is making the argument that anyone (or any group of people) should not be listened to?

In my view no one is qualified to speak on behalf of anyone else on this particular subject.

Who here has argued that those people's beliefs/wishes should ever be ignored?

I mean Does not follow from . The greatest indignity most of us will ever encounter in our lives is found in those days/months/years approaching our d...

I assume by "compelled" you meant that you found the arguments presented persuasive. I didn't. She is undoubtedly the foremost expert on what it means...

I did give consideration to the opinions presented in the article, I just found those opinions utterly unpersuasive. Stella Young summed up with: This...

Strange. I had completely the opposite reaction to the Stella Young article.

You asked how the two propositions were different and I suggested one possibility. If what I said were true, then it would seem that moral proposition...

Emotional commitment? It seems to me that sincere mathematical propositions have no emotional component whereas moral propositions , if they're sincer...

Then I'm afraid you've misunderstood compatibilism. The claim that X is compatible with Y does not entail that Y must be true.

Pierre-Normand may not be a compatibilist, but this doesn't necessarily follow from the fact that he's not a determinist. Compatibilism is simply the ...

Strange. The link worked when I made the post but it now appears to be unavailable. ETA: It seems to work now. Here's an alternative paper which makes...

Apparently, prediction from within our universe is not possible. This paper explains why - Determinism and the Paradox of Predictability. from the pap...