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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna21679 No shit. Gas prices, inflation, Afghanistan, Covid…one wonders how anyone can retain any confidence in this...

Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” is back in the news again, this time as real and authentic, and not the Russian disinfo Biden propagandists made it ...

I would disagree. The contact of a needle and a pain receptor causes pain.

I would agree. The other person causes his own actions. The act of hearing my words, processing what I said, and recoiling in horror are the effects o...

It’s hard to believe because humans are largely incapable of running such a scheme. The current state of affairs is largely due to their incompetence ...

I don’t believe that, though. What I do believe is that they often don’t like to hear it.

I don’t know what you mean.

Yes. The implications are dire for many people, especially the censors.

It’s magical thinking, I’m afraid. No causal link can bridge the thought and the event. But magical thinking is quite common. Tell anyone that their w...

Zelensky is banning opposition parties. Weird. “ For Life, Shariy Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, State, Progres...

The war has been going on since at least 2014. Ukraine has been fighting its own people, (those Ukrainians the west likes to call “Russian-backed sepa...

Conscription is morally wrong for the same reason forcing anyone to do anything is morally wrong. But it is morally right to defend one’s family, comm...

That’s silly. But it’s also silly to “consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern”, to stockpile bio weapons, in labs in Ukraine. ...

The bio-weapons labs…er…bio-defence labs in Ukraine should be investigated. Any facilities designed to “consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of...

It’s an age-old battle. The idea that things can be measured and detected is anathema to those who posit things that cannot be measured or detected, s...

I do disagree. By virtue of physics, a woman cannot make a man want to do anything, let alone possess her.

Is this projection, or does some poll or study suggest any of this is true?

I also heard it described as an anti-child grooming law. I guess it all depends on how you look at it.

And?

Only the hypostatizing tendency of human thinking, strengthened by the desire to explain one’s experiences, can explain consciousness as some other ex...

“Biological research labs”. Russia claims they are bio-weapons labs; America claims they are bio-defence labs. One way or another, I’m sure American t...

We are more than brains. To see just how much more than a brain you are you could subtract the average weight of a human brain from your total weight....

One can tell if someone is unconscious if they are unresponsive. The man acting unconscious is still conscious. He wouldn’t be able to act if he was u...

This reminds me of the Orwell essay “Through a Glass, Rosily”.

I’ve seen people knocked out, but never a brain knocked out. People are far more than brains. When speaking of qualities or states of a human being, s...

Philosophically speaking, I think it does. I think consciousness is a flawed concept to begin with, but to leave out the rest of the body in its manif...

Nothing called “consciousness” comes from the brain. What comes from brains are chemical and electrical signals, all of which require the rest of the ...

My own reservations towards solidarity is that a “common interest” isn’t a sufficient substitute for individual interests. Rather, it attempts to put ...

The conscious being itself produces “consciousness”. These are the things that are or are not conscious. Brains and nervous systems are only parts of ...

We often treat actions with noun phrases. Even the word “action” or “process” are nouns, but not persons, places or things. Maybe this confuses us—it ...

It’s definitely a form of collective punishment. Some big video game producers are even removing Russian sports teams from their games, just to show h...

I’m all for neuroscience, but any thing that can be described as conscious are invariably more than brains and nervous systems. One can point to a con...

How much does a jog weigh? When a man goes for his morning jog he’s not reaching for something like he would a morning cup of coffee. He’s just using ...

“Mind” is simply another word for the body. It’s about as physicalist as you can get.

I can’t, only that it came out exactly like Nuland wanted. In the end, it all hinged on Biden’s final word. So it’s not odd to me that all this reache...

What is true is that Victoria Nuland and the US state department helped organize the government. In regards to Tahnybok, she said this: “ I think Yats...

Upon a little reading, it’s not so ludicrous and insane to say far-right Ideological forces are a motivating factor in the war and in Ukrainian politi...

I remember watching Oliver Stone’s “Ukraine on Fire” a few years back. It tries to explain the start of the war, I think, from a pro-Russian perspecti...

When considering the human body, its activities, and what it expresses, nothing called a “thought” can be found there. There are no sentences or image...

Ukraine does have a far-right problem, and has for some time. That’s why the argument that because Zelensky is Jewish there is no such problem is sill...

"We are now deploying the NATO response force for the first time in the context of collective defense," Stoltenberg told a news conference on February...

Yes, I don’t get the Nazi angle. But upon briefly looking into it, Russia and pro-Russia forces have been using antifascist rhetoric and evoking the w...

The Azov Battalion was incorporated into the national guard of Ukraine, though. The UN has accused them of atrocity and war crime in the past. I would...

The man claims he’s invading Ukraine to stop a genocide, and I’m not allowed to ask if there is evidence for it? Utterly unhinged.

I was asking for evidence for Putin’s claim, so you can keep you conspiracy theories to yourself.

Yeah, the airport is required to create an “air bridge” in order to bring in more troops. What I don’t understand is why they’d let CNN film them, pot...

The costs of such a maneuver are so dire that one wonders the point of it. If I try to put myself in Putin’s shoes, the only reason I would take such ...

Either Putin has went looney or he is convinced a genocide is occurring, like he says. Is there any evidence for his genocide claim? I don’t know why ...

But then we look and find out that there is no dualism, that the subject is also the object, and seek other ways to explain it.

I think it's true, in a sense. The "general will" of Rousseau, and other collectivist musings, such as in Hegel and Fichte, could be read as justifyin...