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It’s the reason why such an organism can jog, and the reason why other organisms, like invertebrates, cannot. The anatomy determines the full range of...

That’s exactly what it means. The adjective describes the thing, which in the case of an organism is wholly physiological. It does not nor cannot desc...

I like that. Personally I think the hard problem occurs only when we speak about the abstract. For instance, the hard problem asks how physiology (the...

The adjective “conscious” describes the organism, which is physiological. So why would we even approach anything non-physical with the word? I believe...

It’s evident, to me at least, that a person is conscious for biological reasons. For instance a strike to the head can render someone unconscious. The...

I haven’t conflated anything. Serious analysis of the drive itself and the contents therein contradicted everything they claimed about it. That’s just...

I’m not sure why you’d defend misinformation and censorship of that sort unless it’s because you want to dismiss and minimize the information therein....

Testimony has also confirmed, as have multiple news outlets and forensic analysis, that the laptop was legit, contradicting what has been said by so-c...

Him dining with Burisma executives, for example, and this while he was heading U.S. anti-corruption initiatives in Ukraine. Hunter was jet-setting aro...

It is relevant because Joe Biden knew about it all and lied to everyone that he did. He lied about it in the debates. Had that info not been censored,...

Exactly. There was no point in censoring it. But besides the crack smoking and hookers, his laptop showed that from 2013 through 2018 Hunter Biden bro...

Your lot censored the NY post in the lead up to an election because they were so scared of the truth. Good look.

There is a reason the news, the politicians, the lawyers, the state, the experts, and the whole authoritarian gang are regarded as little more than so...

We don’t have hungry, sad, or sleepy atoms either. These adjectives describe the organism as a whole. That’s what the word “conscious” does. We’re jus...

Personally, I don’t think brains are conscious. But I do think organisms are. Organisms are conscious (or unconscious) because that’s what their physi...

All the physicalist needs to do is point to the physiology and say: “that’s why”. The answer covers every question from “why is it alive” to “why is i...

Pretty much everything and for its own sake. For example, I don’t need to posit spirits in a thing in order to find value in it.

You can start by valuing the things that are there instead of the things that aren't.

Well, we've looked and there is nothing of the sort. Where does that lead you?

Start from what is there and see where it leads you.

I’m aware of what he is being charged with, most of which has been brought by people who have campaigned on putting him in jail. I just want to know w...

Advocates for consciousness have built a theory from the top down and then wonder why it is without grounding. Conscious experience, mind, the soul…it...

What did he do that was illegal?

It’s a good thing contesting an election is part and parcel of democracy. At least they didn’t furiously change election laws in the lead up to the el...

None of those are dictatorial, authoritarian, or anything of the type. In each case it’s a weird leap from one premise to the other. Unfortunately the...

One cannot be both his own slave and his own master.

There are too many fallacies of definition to rely on dictionaries. For instance, they sometimes use in the definition itself the word to be defined o...

I said he was convicted of sedition.

He did get on Twitter and told them to be peaceful and go home, to respect law enforcement, etc.

Surely it does matter because you’re trying to conflate two different crimes and laws.

Seditious conspiracy is insurrection and rebellion? Then why didn’t they get charged for insurrection and rebellion?

Those cases also don’t show that it is self-executing, especially since that section has rarely (if ever) been litigated. What has been litigated and ...

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under ...

He has not been found guilty of any such thing.

Well, no, the constitution doesn’t mention sedition nor seditious conspiracy.

Like Eugene Debs. He was convicted of sedition but was nonetheless able to run for president from prison.

It doesn’t. The section speaks of insurrection and rebellion, not for some witness tampering crime.

How many were charged and convicted of insurrection?

The cases you cited were clearly about slavery, and the violation of voting rights, not about section 3. The “self-executing” as it is described in bo...

First they would need an insurrection and insurrectionists to give comfort to. But no one has been charged with insurrection, so it’s kind of moot.

It was my understanding that Congress can repeal an amendment with another amendment, which it has done before.

They wouldn’t have the power because they would be barred from being in Congress.

Yes it invalidates state voting qualifications or procedures which are discriminatory on their face or in practice. It doesn’t invalidate Congress’ po...

Guilty according to who?

On the other hand, the 14th amendment does confer the power to enforce the provisions to Congress, so one can assume correctly that that power belongs...

Section 5 entails that Congress has the power to enforce the provisions of the article. It doesn’t confer that power to anyone else. So why assume som...

I’m talking about the 14th amendment, section 5.

It doesn’t say that any court has the power to enforce the provisions of the article. It says there in plain English that those powers are left to Con...

I suppose yes because the 13th amendment also grants “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”. No state or feder...

Think about Reconstruction. If state courts were to decide what constituted an insurrection, and who was guilty of it, the southern states could say t...