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Do you know what ICE stands for? Do you head to the streets, riot in the Canadian streets, when they deport illegals and foreign criminals? Back when ...

Americans live there, work there, and have to deal with this violence every day. Why won’t these insurrectionists stand up for them, and not the peopl...

See? Defending criminals and endorsing violence in the streets. You’d make a good blackshirt.

Protesting? They are blocking streets, lighting fires, waving foreign flags, and making “trans autonomous zones”, all to defend those who defraud the ...

Fascists were always out in the streets protesting. Why don’t you guys just do a little putsch and be done with it?

This is exactly what they want. They know someone is filming. They know it riles up the rest of their cult, that they will hold vigils, make t-shirts,...

That something is the your body. After all, it is the only object under discussion in any of these matters. Rather, It is the nominalization of abstra...

That’s just not true. When someone has severe hypothermia they can get so cold that their blood rushes to the surface in a last ditch effort to warm t...

If humans don’t see light why do we have lightbulbs? It’s interesting stuff, sure, but it is not sufficient to give me pause because humans have looke...

I do not say that. I have only said that we are in direct contact with the air or atmosphere. That is the medium through which the soundwaves travel. ...

No, but you would have direct contact with the medium through which the waves travelled, the air. The air comes from and is a feature of the mind-inde...

You’re right. “Information” is a verb-to-noun derivation. There is no referent. If I was to be more precise (and careful) I’d say “The molecules in th...

Alright, perhaps we’re talking about different things. My understanding of the problem of perception is whether I can directly perceive the mind-indep...

Speaking of idiots, the Danes are sending troops to Greenland, ready to die for their monarchy and the last vestiges of their colonial empire.

I don’t see how absorbing light into the eyeballs counts as indirect. Maybe you can explain it. It’s hard to grasp for me. Experience is the medium? I...

No, I said the light comes from distant objects and afford us information about distant objects, not mental phenomena. My other point was we directly ...

I don’t know whether eliminative materialism or true or not. What I know is is that none of the things you claim are there are not. So why do you beli...

No, it’s clear from what I wrote that we interact with the environment around us directly, not indirectly. For instance your eyes are in direct contac...

It’s not inconsistent because the rest of the world is full of mediums through which to view, hear, and smell distant objects. Dealing with those medi...

We’ve looked and nothing of the sort has emerged from brain activity. Everything does in fact indicate that any given environment and things we can se...

But it doesn’t seemingly do that. Rather, it looks like objects are already colored.

Projected outside beyond the body. That’s not what science believes nor is there any evidence for that.

Then what are you coloring and shaping if not something in your skull? Are you playing with the light in there?

But you color it and give it shape, no? even though you cannot reach it?

Then what are you watching when you point your eyes towards distant objects?

I don’t doubt we view things from a certain place in space and time. I just doubt that we’re watching things occur in our skull.

Does this biological organism have anything in his body called “phenomenal experience”? “Color”? It means there is no mediator constructing imagery in...

Like I said, whatver it takes to keep the fantasy alive.

You knew this but something something Hitler.

Indirect realism tries to explain its own theory with a cascade of morphology, usually by way of verb-to-noun or adjective-to-noun nominalizing. So wi...

She dedicated it to him upon winning it. You didn’t know that?

Did Vemeer dedicate it to him and finally give it to him? Then the analogy is a stretch, but I guess anything will keep the fantasy alive.

The sour grapes who live over there wouldn’t give it to him if he stopped world war 3, but they would give it to Obama for actually nothing. That’s ho...

Looks like Trump has a Nobel Prize, and the Euro and Aussie pols do not. What have they been doing with their time in office, I wonder? Probably makin...

Right, you’re stuck in metaphor and analogy. You cannot describe perception without falling back on the first-person reports of medical conditions, ge...

The suggestion that you're watching your own mental activity is the Cartesian theater in a nutshell, my friend. How can you be a realist if mental act...

Seeing something is when the visual cortex is active in the right kind of way. One needn’t have any eyes for this. So when you see something without e...

Now that we know seeing doesn’t involve eyes, where do the objects of perceptions appear, and how are you looking at them?

Then how do those cortexes see?

Is it your position, then, that sensing doesn’t involve sense receptors?

Dreaming and hallucinating is not “seeing”. There are no eyes or receptors of that type in the brain. That’s just the figurative language of someone w...

I’ve never seen a color in my life. This is because colors are adjectives. I have only ever seen colored things, like apples. And the reason a green a...

Individuals have different bodies and never occupy the same position in space and time. One might have degeneration of the retina and so is unable to ...

So then no medium, it’s just that you view the world as if you were sleeping or on drugs?

If there is no visor or screen, through which medium are you viewing an apple indirectly?

It was part of a larger argument. Their direction and the fact that they interact with the environment allow anyone to explain how we can see an apple...

Senses have a direction that tends toward the outside of the body. It’s why we have those holes in our skull where our eyes, nose and mouth are, so th...

I dispute it because none of us have seen, smelled, tasted, or heard our brains. Sensing is an act of the body, no doubt, but the things or objects up...

The “object of perception” is the entire periphery and environment. That is what we see. An apple isn’t an “object of perception” because that would e...

The entire Venezuelan diaspora is cheering, while anti-Trumpism, in cahoots with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, wag their crooked fingers. That...