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But philosophers are still unable to determine whether life is worth living or not.

Someone ought to say in response to Samuel Johnson: "I refute it (realism) thus" (as they press on their eye and create a double-image)

Which God is pragmatically the best? Speaking for myself, I would say the Christian God is pragmatically the best for at least the following three rea...

... which God are we supposed to believe in though? The Triune God? The Muslim God? The Jewish God? The Mormon God? Hare Krishna? Zeus? Thor? Apollo? ...

Um... those five items are of vital importance. If you don't know whether your cognitive faculties are reliable, whether you're dreaming, whether the ...

I fully agree that there’s something special about mind-body correlations. There's definitely something 'deeper’ going on than mere coincidence. There...

The argument for that premise is the impossibility/incoherency of the contrary. It is necessary to posit a transcendent entity that 'has' experiences ...

This is my argument: 1. Whatever 'has' experiences must transcend experience. 2. Human bodies (including my own) do not transcend experience. 3. There...

I fully agree - whatever 'has' experiences is a non-zombie. But I am arguing that whatever this entity is that 'has' experiences cannot be a human bei...

So can any of the p-zombies here refute anything I said in the OP?

You won't have much success, I'm afraid.

John I don't think that's correct. Consider the following two ontologies: Ontology 1: 5 visual fields Ontology 2: 5 visual fields + an independently e...

Darth, I contend that reality is structured in such a way as to privilege the existence of conscious beings (like yourself) precisely because God love...

Hey, TS, your response reminds me of the Mormon fundamentalists I speak with every now and then. “If logical reasoning fails to establish that Joseph ...

I think abandoning logical reasoning is the better of the two options.

... what the heck? I swear I've had these same exact thoughts before. I feel like I am reading my subconscious thoughts on the screen. But yeah, I fee...

No, it isn't. The idea that a human brain - which is itself a particular type of conscious experience - gives rise to conscious experience is a comple...

No, I cannot choose experiences. :C Perception/creation just happens involuntarily. I have no choice about which experience to create or whether to cr...

Here's how to reconcile them: Biological sense organs are nothing but a particular type of sense-perception. That was easy.