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Well said, @"Vera Mont". I agree with pretty much everything you wrote there. @"Andrew4Handel" I want to respond to something you said earlier, and cl...

Nope, not what I'm saying.

Not the intent (which is 1st person, solely within their own mind), but rather the mechanism by which they are able to accomplish their deceit. Commun...

@"praxis" I would argue that it's coming from the same underlying root though. If nothing else, they are projecting about themselves, "Believe me and ...

I think the painter example is useful to think about for a minute. (By the way, for the record I'm only focusing on this specific example at the momen...

I was a bit surprised too. I agree, it is a good standard practice.

@"god must be atheist" True. Per @"RogueAI"’s comment this seems fairly incontrovertible to me… are there really folks here who would disagree? If so ...

Affirmative.

@"praxis" wasn’t doing so

I took this as "I am conscious, and I came into being in the Universe, so therefore the Universe is capable of giving rise to something conscious." Wh...

@"busycuttingcrap" Thanks, and that makes sense. Where would you recommend putting it?

Gotcha. Thanks for the responses. Didn't mean to cause any trouble or make anyone feel bad. Sorry if I did. I still think that issues of gender are in...

Such a big question, where to start. Lot of factors. I will say, though, that one discrete positive step forward we could take is Ranked Choice Voting...

I hope to create some thought-provoking videos on philosophical and social concepts. But I want to make sure I get things right before I put ideas out...

Huh. That's odd. Perhaps it's an extension of things we hear so much in the media nowadays about how we're destroying the planet, capitalism is creati...

Thanks for that further elucidation :) Biology is fascinating.

Replying to the OP here, I think of determinism like I do solipsism. Technically cannot be disproven, but not especially helpful most of the time. To ...

A slight correction to the human body fact (which is very interesting, isn't it?) is that our neurons don't get replaced. I wonder if replacing them w...

lol, well, don't sell yourself short, he might agree with you! I think it mostly depends on what you mean when you talk about "reality." We can shift ...

Good follow-up questions! I would say... There are 2 ships. They are different ships. I don't think many would disagree with those two answers, althou...

Thanks for the welcome! Although truth be told, I actually joined some time ago and made a few posts then...but I haven't been active at all since the...

Yes, I'd say so. I am generally speaking able to do the things I want, so that is a source of happiness.

I was specifically reacting to your statement that I quoted, where you said, "But that's not morality; that's merely doing good." That clearly shows y...

Can you explain your definitions of "morality" and "good"? It's strange that you dichotomize them like this.

I meant specifically with regard to your question. For example, letting anyone who wants to come in might be good for those immigrants, for the short-...

Sorry to persist in asking you to define things, but when you say, "best outcomes," what outcomes do you have in mind? (And, for whom?)

In your question, "Is the moral choice the right choice?" It appears that you are treating morality as binary; that is, something is 100% right, or 10...

Thanks for the response, and for that clarification. But I would still contend that my basic approach still applies. I'm basically arguing for a form ...

One possibility is that "mind" is a word we use to describe the sum output of all human brain processes. An (admittedly imperfect, but sufficiently il...

Because we as humans are bad at long-range, delayed-gratification-type things. If there is not a pressing need right now, other things will take prior...