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@"MonisticIdealist", so you're more or less going by the tenets of Levine's explanatory gap / Chalmers' mind conundrum, and that I can't deny the mere...

I wouldn't say incompatible, at least not in the sense of contradictory. It's just that neither seems to derive the other, hence why Levine called the...

Seeing an object is not an object, rather it's an occurrence. That's one possible category mistake.

I'm thinking the naïve direct indirect thing can be misleading. Suppose we categorize perception like this ... the experience ? the experienced (non-i...

Whereas this article, strictly speaking, commits mind-reading (and ad hominem), it seems fairly obvious that Trump is an opportunist and a bullshitter...

Here's a story by Jeannine Nicole (3873 words): I am a Covid ICU nurse in New York City, and yesterday, like many other days lately, I couldn’t fix my...

Others are already them, in fact, everyone are themselves, it's quite common. :) Say, you can't experience someone else's self-awareness, since then y...

Seen on the news yesterday ... /uploads/files/qd/z246h2rmv4z8kotf.jpg /uploads/files/gg/l8ud3eai5beeg49e.jpg What to do when you can't differentiate a...

Sometimes indeterminate forms come up, like 0 / 0. In arithmetics, it doesn't really mean much. In some cases, in calculus, it can. Best not conflate,...

Sure it does, especially how we're talking about it here, other times, events, occurrences, you name it. Actually, I'm not sure it's coherent to go al...

Now you've jinxed it. :D

, speaking of things at time t does not mean removal of context. Velocity or momentum or some such vectors (at t) depend thereupon. It's not like we h...

Well, no. ? = 3.14159... 1/3 = 0.333... Sure, the righthand side has unending digits, but don't confuse the representation and the number. (y) It's al...

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Take two hypothetical scenarios for something, in one it's still, in another it's moving. Physics can differentiate the two at time t by different mot...

If you're going by the integers or some such, then no. They're closed under subtraction (and addition). Adding and subtracting any two integers gives ...

I guess solipsism and the gap are related, proving one impacts the other. I wonder if, say, Searle's "Chinese room" and Jackson's "Mary's room" are im...

A different way to illustrate the problem (the explanatory gap / mind conundrum) could be to ask: Can you derive what a bat's echolocation is like by ...

So, by the above, sufficient reason derives an infinite past. Let's try a third application of the principle, an anecdote attributed to Wittgenstein †...

Side note on ?: There's an anecdote attributed to Wittgenstein showing how an infinite past seems uniquely counterintuitive. Wittgenstein overhears so...

As to "1", I suppose we may proceed from self-identity? Wherever we deem some such, like we talk about and point at things every day, we say there's (...

, by "everything" I meant the lot, existence, it all, the complement-free, hence mentioning the composition fallacy, giving "everything and then some"...

All or nothing...? :brow: (n) Delineate means finding pre-conditions, exceptions, something like that. The point was that I found a bit odd. There you...

, not jettison, just delineate. (E.g. there can't be anything (else) that's the reason for everything.) I'd say causality is an event-relation, a caus...

, well, you maintained sufficient reason, so that did away with a t=0. But then simpler, though, when adding an extra cause (of causation)...? Seems m...

, isn't that a wee bit unparsimonious, extravagant, composition fallacy'ish?

, yeah, whole books have been written about the curious "nothingness". But "nothingness" isn't something, isn't anything at all, but absence. So, also...

Is this a good time to post an ad for your friend? /uploads/resized/files/rm/g1pc7pco5y9ojlvs.jpg

Here's an old Danish poster from 1918 (attached), so just over a century ago. Let me try translating: /uploads/resized/files/ht/jzb2r888o3588mc6.jpg M...

Pollution made COVID-19 worse. Now, lockdowns are clearing the air. Beth Gardiner National Geographic Apr 2020 NO2 down in various areas, in the range...

With all these demands for definitions of words using other words, more words still, we're going to run out of words in the dictionary. What'll we do ...

The two are different categories. Conservation is a temporal invariance in the first place. Where does seeing your food go after supper? The experienc...

Really? :) There'd be more time than time? My comment was really just about sufficient reason, much like the opening post but analogous, deriving a co...

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that it all had a definite earliest time, or "time zero" as it were. By free, perhaps lax, application of sufficien...

Mind is "immaterial" in the sense that thoughts (for example) are occurrences. There's no conservation involved, like there is with the food we eat. M...

More along the same lines... Sagan: Carl Sagan’s “Baloney Detection Kit”: A Toolkit That Can Help You Scientifically Separate Sense from Nonsense The ...

The US apparently have a problem with childishly defiant adults: Florida Pastor Arrested After Defying Virus Orders Patricia Mazzei; The New York Time...

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Did Gates get it right? Here's what Bill Gates once said we needed do to prevent a crisis like the coronavirus, and what we need to do to stop the nex...

Dude, disaster in the works. Some have apparently hoarded toilet paper, we grabbed some coffee, but is it enough?

The crazies have their own "news bulletin" out. ISIS issues travel ban on fanatics and tells them to ‘put faith in God’ to combat coronavirus Niamh Ca...

He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them Jack Nicas The New York Times Mar 2020

Maybe someone had nightmares? /uploads/files/6w/csgjha7nm1p97b5k.jpg

My 2 cents on this fine Thursday evening. Depending a bit on what's meant by "moral reality", why would those two together be exhaustive? FYI, Carrier...

Unconscious patients can now 'speak' with brain-computer interface tech Elizabeth Rayne SYFY WIRE Feb 2020 Assessing Time-Resolved fNIRS for Brain-Com...

Yo , you're back. :)

What a f*kin circus, pardon my French. Those 3% of scientific papers that deny climate change? A review found them all flawed Katherine Ellen Foley; Q...

If you can pass moral judgement on rules in scriptures, then they can't define morals. Since you can, they don't. Conversely, such rules may just have...

I call bullshit. "the truth"? If, in your head, you have accountability to an imaginary friend rather than your fellow people, then what should others...

Check the comment above (doxastic logic). You may believe (even know) that exactly one of p or its negation holds, B, and yet not believe either one o...