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Good. It’s no surprise, then, that his opponents are abusing power to keep him out of it. If a cabal of corporate and activist interests didn’t work b...

I thought he would be president awhile and that would be the end of it. But his opponents took a piece of Clinton campaign disinformation and conspira...

Trump’s a folk devil. The scapegoating has become so bad that his opponents’ behavior has led to the state of the world we now see today.

No it isn’t.

Nope. He’s the one being persecuted.

I’m sure you can read Trump’s mind, knowing his wants and desires. Tyranny is cruel and oppressive government.

Just reasserting the obvious because there seems to be a few people cheering this kind of tyranny.

Nope. I just checked and found out it’s a parody account. What a dupe.

A wholly biased special prosecutor who displayed his bias in his tweets, and all for a glorified paperwork dispute. If justice is supposed to be blind...

Biden and the deep-state going after their political opponents once again. I’m sure none of it is to distract from Biden’s bribery scandal. The US gov...

The fundamental features of any animal is its anatomy. Anatomy is a direct one-to-one ratio with all behaviors, capacities, abilities, etc.

We are conscious when we sleep for the reasons you stated. We still hear, see, feel etc. even to the point where these sounds and sights might show up...

I would say so. I would say that if you lose a finger, you are exactly that much less conscious than someone who has the same finger. You no longer ha...

I can accept that distinction, but I think it’s a distinction without a difference when it comes to dualism. It seems to me property dualists have mer...

This is naive theory of consciousness. You are unable to connect your “inner life” to your inner biology. You can’t see or feel past your senses to wh...

If we do not assume “inner lives”, like Chalmers does, consciousness can be reduced to biology. In fact consciousness and biology are one and the same...

Perhaps it should be called the hard problem of biology, but then it wouldn’t have that nice spiritual ring to it.

I cannot assume inner lives because whenever we take a peak inside there is nothing of the sort in there. What we can see and what we can confirm is t...

The law of identity, the fact that I’m here and you’re there, the fact that you do not have a single cell I have, proves there is nothing about us tha...

I do agree, but I do not need to add mental properties. Their biologies are different. Their positions in space and time are different (the principium...

There is an irony in atheism insofar as it is a theological position. It both requires study of theological arguments, epistemology, metaphysics, and ...

I'm just confused by the statement that "there is something it is like to be such-and-such". It refers to the same thing too many times for me. There ...

My own view is this. We do need to use something, and that something is whatever physical thing the word “conscious” describes. That thing is the obje...

Which one?

A panpsychist like Chalmers might disagree. “Conscious experience”, to him, is fundamental after all. It does not supervene on the physical properties...

There is nothing it is like to be a football, then?

I suspect Dashiell was a behaviorist, but I suppose he would be eliminativist today. I never liked Nagel’s formulation because it seems to me to apply...

What am I not grasping? Like any grammatical modifier the word “conscious” lends us information about another word in the sentence (say, a man) and th...

I'm not interested in pursuing anything irrelevant. If Chalmers doesn't think consciousness is an object, element, aspect, or entity, then why does he...

I picked up the entire 1957 Americana Encyclopaedia collection at a garage sale, all 30 volumes. They came with a very nice cabinet. What is this "som...

I have merely established that I am conscious. The term "conscious" describes me. I exist, sure, but we have not established the existence of anything...

Are you coming to a point here, frank?

Yes I am.

Thanks for the lesson, but I'm pretty sure I wrote "electrometer".

Why?

I'm pretty sure you can directly measure electrical charge with an electrometer. I think you're right, and I'm sure there is much internal sensing, li...

Can we measure charge?

Laws have been quite terrible and oppressive throughout history. So I’m not convinced they’re necessary, let alone to be desired. They are often enfor...

Herbert Spencer has a great little essay on this called The Great Political Superstition1. He makes the decisive case that political authority is nons...

I assume (maybe wrongly) that most people are raised by women in their "formative years". This suggests the influence of the mother at a time when a h...

Colonization is a fiction too because tribes had no governments and thus nothing could be stolen.

I’m not sure why. It doesn’t follow that because I reject abstract entities I ought not to use abstract language. I remain aware the term ‘organizatio...

The mistake is conflating society and government. Government is compulsory while society is largely voluntary. Remember Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. T...

I don’t use the word “gender” anymore unless it refers to grammar. Better to abandon the term, I say, and stick to “sex”. It basically clears up any c...

Money is just a medium of exchange. We could use jumping beans if it makes you feel better.

Note that no one can do anything other than pooh-pooh his criticisms and try to attack his character as if they knew the guy, and all to defend a syst...

I think it’s a superstition that only man in the form of a state employee can enforce contracts and tender and pave roads. That being said my own stat...

Not if you’re a sole-proprietor and self-employed. It didn’t last long. The Gov burned down their makeshift homes and sent them packing. I wouldn’t ev...

I can’t remember the last time I’ve spoken to someone in authority or any leaders but I interact with people every day for work and pleasure. Imagine ...

Imagine starting your arguments with “imagine” all the time.