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That’s a good point. I suppose future humans might use historical records to recreate a reality. I’m not sure what landscape non-human beings would us...

I’m skeptical of terms like “sensory input”, “experience” or “phenomenon”. I think leaving it at “reality is a simulation” suffices to make sense of t...

Nice thoughts. I think we also grew through a creative tendency, though I think it could be argued that destruction is a form of creativity or vice ve...

True, my senses do not receive all the data and my brain is equally as fallible. But when I give primacy to direct interaction it becomes more about h...

I think it’s safe to say that any racially-motivated injustice, whether institutional or not, is by definition not color-blind. If it was color-blind,...

What I mean is I do not believe I am some little being in the head viewing my experience, or that I am viewing any experience at all, but that I am al...

The idea of free will and God’s will are contradictory. If the universe is God’s will, God’s plan, we do not have free will. If we do have free will, ...

I suppose I hold a different conception of self. I think it’s more about reality in general, basically wether what we experience is real. I can access...

Thanks for that point, but I don’t quite understand. Do you mean that the simulation hypothesis only applies to sims because sims came up with it, and...

This might be irrelevant, but my only objection is that this sort of thinking assumes the computational theory of mind.

No one was making it about “hard working legal immigrants" Vs "illegal immigrants". But someone may find point relevant. Who knows?

I never said the time and effort spent going through the process is the reason one is allowed to immigrate. I was merely differentiating between those...

That’s a weird red herring. It takes much more time and effort to go through the legal process of immigration than to refuse to do so.

On the topic of illegal immigration, Trump’s opponents often conflated illegal immigration in particular with immigration in general, and using this a...

I get it, but I’d argue you’re equivocating between evil in the noun sense and evil in the descriptive sense. We cannot do evil any more than we can d...

It reminds me of that H.L. Mencken quote: “The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians—and the most diligent disseminators...

It’s a tacit defense in my mind. The idea that he is perhaps not evil because he had a family is absurd, especially in the context of him having murde...

No need to evoke “final solutions” in regards to public education. Families can supplement public education with their own training.

In the context of Laplace’s causation, how can the chain of causation begin without an anterior state? Even if the present state of the Big Bang just ...

Baghdadi had sex slaves and murdered innocents, including children. He led a murderous death cult throughout the Middle East, killing, maiming, enslav...

The go-to fallacy nowadays in political discussions and on social media is Bulverism

It was suicide. The guy blew him self up, but not before taking his wives and children with him. He was not only the enemy; he was evil. There is no c...

Leakers have given us their next hero in the impeachment saga. Lt. col. Windman raised concerns about Trump’s call. Here’s his opening statement. http...

I’m not aware of anyone proposing this, but wouldn’t this be an argument for free will rather than against it? A choice is, at some level of identity,...

There are many reasons to have children, for instance to have a family, societal pressure, to create lifelong bonds, someone to take care of and to ta...

I’m going with optimism on this one. We are in an interglacial period and we need the Holocene period to last, or else slip into another ice age. But ...

True, they weren’t comparable, but the dossier and the Russian dirt within it reached higher levels within our institutions, sowing the discord and me...

The US may have killed the Leader of ISIS. Good news. ISIS leader believed dead.

I love your honesty. I’d be weary of that test, however. Perhaps you’re not as biased as you think. For years, this popular test measured anyone’s rac...

Belief or reason does not automatically lead to good or evil, one or the other. We know of many bright intellectuals who turned to despotism and tyran...

That sounds more of an admission of guilt than a statement of fact.

That’s true, but contrast these connections to the ones in the Trump campaign, where every Russian was in some way “connected to the kremlin”. FSB age...

For any true believer, or anyone interested in a perspective contrary the sensationalism regarding Russian collusion, read this wonderful article by M...

I’m not passing off Arendt’s thinking for my own. I am simply using the word she employed here: Race-Thinking before Racism As for racial-colorblindne...

It seems to me that precision medicine will account both for racial and individual characteristics, without the need for race or ethnic categorization...

I think the problem are the categories. I think personalized medicine, tailored to the individual, is better than race-based medicine.

Neither can you banish racism by continually evoking it and applying it in our day to day thinking.

Crossfire Hurricane was started in July, before the standardized security briefing in August. In Barr’s testimony, this was just a general briefing, i...

Only in thought or by brute force and coercion.

I look at it like this. “Race-thinking” (Arendt’s term) leads to, by necessity, a hierarchy of races. The belief that the species can be subdivided in...

It would also be hypocritical to embrace allegations against the Trumps while claiming the Biden story is a conspiracy theory. I was just asking if yo...

I did not. In my defense, Judging people according to their character and not their race does not involve not talking about racism. It is simply to re...

And his detractors contend he is guilty, which is also false. It looks like we’re at an impasse. Did you believe Trump colluded with Russia?

Unlike, “stabbing someone in the face”, “collusion” is too vague. There simply is no law that criminalizes collusion between a political campaign and ...

No, that’s not what I meant. I meant I don’t trust the CIA.

I welcome disputation and “red pills”. They’re challenging, but act as a grindstone and thickener of the skin. If one never hears another opinion he m...

Philosophers often use thought experiments to test their intuitions, replete with fantasies such as zombies and trolleys.

Here in the United States prosecutors are supposed to prove guilt, not innocence.

Has anyone had that Nietzschean moment where you come down from the mountain, so to speak, and applied your philosophy to living and to the people aro...

Schiff's been saying for years that that there was an abundance of evidence of collusion, along with many other Democrats. https://www.washingtonpost....