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I'm fairly confident you didn't miss ... ... given the comments you read. Passive-aggressive diversion and disguised insults doesn't make your case. (...

Naïve, uncritical, gullible, malleable, credulous, "seeing faces in the clouds", ..., philosophically or otherwise? Not sure I understood your comment...

Then we'd be talkin'. (y) (there cannot be a separate explanation for existence, since then that explanation would then not exist, but that's peripher...

, even if knowledge was reducible to "information", or qualia was, then that does not entail all is reducible to "information". There's a whole class ...

Well, for one, while on his sofa at home remembering back, he wouldn't need an oxygen tank. :)

Suppose some such super-being has really important particulars to tell everyone, perhaps wants to befriend everyone, as claimed by a few out there. Gi...

, the suggestions I made were listed in the comment; maybe others made further suggestions that you somehow attribute to me. Still waiting for you to ...

Make what case? Waiting for you to make yours. But then ... Don't put words in others' mouths. :down: There isn't that much we know exhaustively, and ...

Af far as I can see, you're the only one that don't understand typical use of "value" (e.g., as in variables that may take values, like some/any propo...

Don't think this works, . Imagining standing on the Moon ? standing on the Moon. The memory ? the remembered (as you also noted).

What wasn't particularly interesting was noted in the comment, which isn't the same as this thread. /uploads/files/t6/v7ejykhtbdhflw50.png Ad hominem ...

Not really. There really isn't much to it. If you'd read it as-is, that is. (if anything, it's perhaps more interesting that you see it as another opp...

A fifth term you've now confuzzled up well and good? :) There's the English language, and its use of the word "value". Everyone else understanding sho...

@"3017amen", I don't think atheism is in a business of coming up with ad hoc answers to anything, it's just open-ended anything-but theism. You may ha...

You can't be serious. "Based on those samples we calculated an average value of so-and-so." My young nephew and niece understand what's meant in the E...

Is it worth mentioning that the mind conundrum (Levine, Chalmers) does not derive a contradiction? Physicalism (or maybe speculative realism or whatev...

Really? And yet you understood it fine? And well enough that you could, say, go look up annual carbon footprints and such...? (I could start listing e...

, in the interest of avoiding equivocation and ambiguity, can you differentiate the uses of the word "value" in these two sentences? :) "We calculated...

Isn't that already presupposed in your sentence (regardless of whatever span of time)? Also, there couldn't have been a time when there wasn't anythin...

Are you telling me what I was on about with my own comment...? Odd.

Who knows; not exactly a trivial question, certainly not something that can be answered in a couple comments on an Internet forum. :) We're not omnisc...

This line of thinking reads (to me) a bit like the perceiver was somehow apart from it all. Self and other aren't identical, yet both are parts of the...

We can escape the evil dictionary by pointing at what we're on about. In some cases anyway, like, say, there aren't any running elephants in the dicti...

You're now confusing quantity, predication, measurement, property, ... Confuzzlement has roughly gotten worse with each comment. :confused: Start over...

... or of anything/whatever, hence the utility of a calculator. Say, a set of my left ear, that soccer match, the Moon, and the experience of vanilla ...

, I'm vaguely familiar. Hoffman is just re-casting age-old idealism (mental monism) in the image of a couple odd theses of his. I suppose, if you real...

Confusing quantity and predication (as well)? Try differentiating, see what happens.

, regarding Davies, I meant a tad over the top, immoderate, a bit much, on occasion (but certainly not throughout). Regarding the Information thing (p...

You zoomed in on the wrong word, . :)

And hence, by your line of thinking, neither on ... But that's fine I guess.

(y) Conspiracy theorist died of coronavirus after trying to catch it at Covid party to prove it was a hoax (Jimmy McCloskey, Metro News, Jul 2020) Dar...

:D Since 4=2+2, 2+2 and 4 are interchangeable. Doesn't matter if you write y=3x+2+2 or y=3x+4, though the latter is a bit shorter. Which, by the way, ...

Paul Davies goes a wee bit overboard on occasion, . Jus'sayin. :) Besides, whereas the Information thing (capitalized) is interesting enough to pursue...

Nothingness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Over 12,000 words. Much ado about nutn' it would seem. Nothing (Wikipedia) Just under 2,000 words. A...

, in analogy, driving ? the car, walking ? the legs, ... Sure, the car and the legs are involved, but there's a category difference. Mentioned observa...

There's something other than everything...? Odd. :) No known phenomenon has ever been best explained by the gods or supernatural magic — could literal...

:D "2+2=4" ? 2+2=4 ?

, I'm going by observations, the rest are just suggestions. Without the head (or body), no mind occurs, mind seems localized to head/body. Yet, mind i...

Maybe, ? Observations suggest that your head is more clearly spatial, and mind more clearly temporal. spatial object-like body: left to right, top to ...

What about, say, The Matrix (or Bostrom's thing perhaps)? Solipsism? Dream thought experiments? Intangible hobs that can control the weather? (Heck, A...

Howcome, ? If someone wants to talk, only to refuse to tell about what, then what are they wanting to talk about anyway? Be it Shiva, "the greatest", ...

Both. And...

I suppose, defining x could be predicating x that x is (uniquely) identifiable? Otherwise, the only option may be to show x (which would be existentia...

Einstein's sentiment was roughly that a- and theist fanatics alike weren't his cup of tea. (And, if anything, he personally preferred the label religi...

A Nixon Deepfake, a 'Moon Disaster' Speech and an Information Ecosystem at Risk Jeffery DelViscio; Scientific American; July 20, 2020 Anyone that didn...

Won't do. Nothing new. Sure, we already know, including your re-response to Banno. And, say, it's not like some to whom wearing such head gear would b...

So, ? Don't stop there, as if that's the be-all-end-all conclusion. As posted by : Notice the ethics part as well.

, I wouldn't call 180 Proof clueless. I'll just suggest that 3017amen's passive-aggressive comments and general tone sets an attitude in the thread. (...

Abstract quantities (is the phrase)

You guys still chatting about whether 2 + 2 = 4 or 2 + 2 ? 4 ? :D Maybe putting it to a vote could be interesting — in The Lounge, though. Typing 2+2 ...