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So you have no knowledge of qualia that you can illustrate, even though you assert that you are acquainted with qualia. That comes off as quite conven...

Right, you’ve gained knowledge of qualia through your non-judgemental acquaintance of it rather than by gaining knowledge of it through a description ...

Direct awareness as knowledge, as contrasted with descriptive knowledge, sure. I’m just asking if you can afford me some of that knowledge that you ha...

You’re acquainted with qualia but do not know about qualia. This troubles me. I’m just trying to figure how one can agree with the first premise.

So which is it?

Is a quale a property of experience or of mental objects?

If you are you ought be able to describe a property or two of each.

I’m just saying that you’re not acquainted with mental phenomena. We’re so unacquainted with mental phenomena that we cannot even describe one. If we ...

You treat them and speak about them like they are objects. If you are acquainted with an object it can be explained further.

You can name them.

We experience experience. We are aware of awareness. We are conscious of consciousness. Yet we are unable to describe a single quale, or any of the me...

It’s a source-hood argument. If his action is not determined by anything else, how is it compatible with determinism?

My own test is simple: if the action originates in the agent he is responsible for it. He willed it. It cannot be otherwise. Given that we are our imp...

I showed you a connection between the very wealthy and the political class, and you bring up Trump. That’s something Biden would do.

What challenge?

Does you always speak in questions?

It relates to the very wealthy and the political class, a connection you’re now trying to disguise.

I’ve spoken about the influence of dark money on the previous 2 federal elections, and it seems to favor one particular side. You might want to looks ...

I don’t believe it to be the case either. The metaphysical judgement sets the grounds for the moral judgement. That’s why I said it sets the grounds f...

I don’t think it entails nihilism and fatalism, but it does set the grounds for them. Though I’m sure many people are content with the implications of...

No matter his politics and affinities, his mere presence among the effete political class is enough to expose the scam. Look at them go.

The only thing an educated person can do politically is glorify and aggrandize the state, or disguise their statism as social and political philosophy...

At best we're describing the activity of the body from the perspective of the body, an organism who is forever peering outward, towards the world, and...

I am content being just and moral, and yes, helping those who I think need and want help. Welfare certainly isn't equivalent to charity. Welfare is si...

It would be effective to kill them, but effectiveness can often be immoral and unjust. So utility is not any kind of goal for me.

And what lies downstream?

The jargon of it all is largely nonsensical. We can’t experience states of the brain and its activity or else we’d be able to describe with some degre...

It’s a weird formulation and I’d be wary of any direct realist who accepts it. I refute it because “distal objects” are constituents of the world, not...

I’m not wondering about sympathy. Having feelings is the very least one can do. I’m wondering if you can be just in your redistribution. Personally, I...

You sense sensations, then? At any rate, it’s closed system. You wouldn’t know anything if all you could ever know was yourself, but I suspect that’s ...

There are people who deserve prospects and those who do not. Someone who has become impoverished through no fault of his own, for instance, deserves h...

There we have it. Dualism.

To me, politics is the application of ethics to power and monopoly. What is right about political correctness is that we ought to treat people with re...

I think I understand your position. I suppose each position can be viewed as degrees of realism. If I am to use the aforementioned phrases (as it is, ...

If someone’s lack of prospects was the result of exploitation or injustice, and not, say, by choice, then I would gladly accept a set of principles th...

I would not because it is immoral; such an arraignment is premised on the exploitation of those who accept the principles. The arraignment is also unj...

Thanks for the explanation. A question arises regarding the misguided notion of naive realism, that to perceive a real object is to perceive the world...

I’m not even aware of his arguments. Got one on hand? If the video’s title was “Trump exposes Pecker” I might be more inclined to watch, but I’m not g...

Yes, to me, internally representing the world begets a representation of the world, something that represents, models, or stands for, the environment....

The condition of the body, I presume? I’m curious because as far as I know representations prohibit us from seeing the world, and I’m interested in ho...

“Watch this propaganda as delivered by this anti-Trump cabal.” Projection indeed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeidasTouch

A fundamental law of anti-Trumpism is the continuous presence of a racket composed of privileged but panty-waisted group of beneficiaries working behi...

Why would the brain represent the world to you if you weren’t to view the representation?

I would confer with others or seek more information otherwise. If they see the same thing it is a good indication I am not hallucinating. I certainly ...

If both hearing and hallucinating are the activities of the auditory cortex, and the voice is merely the product of this activity, there seems to me n...

You can tell me what you mean by “hearing” and “voices” and I’m willing to adopt your definitions. If you think hearing doesn’t involves the use of ea...

The claim “I hear voices” in the case of hallucination is not true, though. It’s not that I demand that you should make true claims, implying some res...

I’m fine with them saying it. But I’m not fine with the indirect realist saying it, especially if accuracy is any concern. What would be your motivati...

A voice, though, is the sound released from the larynx. To hear a voice is to have that sound affect the ears. Since neither of these things and event...

“Hallucinate” would be a better verb than “see” when comes to such events. “I am hallucinating voices”, for instance, doesn’t imply that the sound of ...