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As Evander Holyfield can attest to, many do have a plan for when they are punched in the mouth – and can cope ethically enough even when their ears ar...

Rascal that I sometimes am, I’ll question the weirdness of so doing. As a commonly known example: a snarling dog with hairs on end and bared fangs see...

Was just doing online research on the topic and, as you can guess, Wikipedia has an entry on it. Here's what it says: Neither endocannibalism nor exoc...

From my former studies, the rarity of protein doesn't play a major role. Their spirituality however does. It bears heavy on the notion of consuming - ...

:razz: For the record, I was addressing it in terms of slavery. Doesn't that beg the question, though: how does anyone discern virtue from vice, kind ...

:grin: Yes. I find a deeper truth in this then might many others. Needless to add, if one takes it metaphorically rather than physically. Something to...

Nicely worded. I find it hard to envision how it would not be. From patients with terminal cancer, to risks incurred in sports/activities such as rock...

Take away the reality of emotive, consciousness endowed subjects that interact. What remains of ethics? Nothing. Ethics is thus contingent upon this r...

I've embarked on Wittgenstein discussions before. While what you say makes sense, it to me runs counter to Wittgenstein's own words which I'll re-post...

Yes to Husserl and cohort not finding such questions irrelevant. In this context, “object” can have numerous equivocations. One’s own consciousness ca...

For the admiration of skill and stamina within a context that safeguards against what would occur in real life combat where nothing is barred. For exa...

I take it that greater intelligence, for example, endows an animal with greater awareness regarding what is and could be. Conversely, in the absence o...

While acknowledging other’s rather complex interpretations of Wittgenstein, here’s what the guy actually said in his own words: Note that the most pri...

Hm. I fallibly know that unicelled organisms are aware, as are fungi and plants. Needless to then add, as are all lesser animals. Interesting issue fo...

And yet when a lion does its thing and roars with a certain tonality in a certain context, we non-lions get the gist of what its conveying well enough...

Shoot. Any time.

Degrees of awareness rather than divisions between. But these degrees relative to our surviving closest evolutionary kin are so astronomical in magnit...

Seems to me to be the case, yes.

Not one bit. I rather take issue with the notion that the linguistic expression of "my pain" has no relevant referent (this as per the beetle in a box...

In absence of @"Banno"'s reply: I believe it nullifies the importance of the beetle in a box argument - for, in this argument, if it isn’t linguistic ...

Can a languageless animal experience uncertainty? In my experience at least some of them can. When in any way uncertain - such as when there is hesita...

Last I recall the toreador is supposed to bring about a clean kill in the lesser animal, rather than one of excruciating suffering. That said, when ha...

Here’s a rephrasing of what I was saying: Mistaking the pleasure of watching well played-out combat sports for the pleasure of bloodlust is on par to ...

My first thought is, could anyone accomplish this positing without the use of their awareness? Take away awareness in general and the very possibility...

In other words, everything bar awareness and awareness-contingent givens. What would that be though? One should minimally add to your reply conceptual...

I don’t find anything disagreeable in the comment linked to. Thanks for it. I’m just struck by, I’ll call it the awkwardness, of physicalism being in ...

As the "creator of the world" you mean? No. Tried to simplistically illustrate what I'm positing via the analogy to geometric points. More concretely,...

Right. Of course. Independently of me, or of you, or of any other individual sentience. But would they in any way occur in the complete absence of any...

:up: Thanks a bunch. I'll check it out.

I believe I've already accounted for this in my post via some, as of yet to be clarified, form of panpsychism. I do see where you're coming from. My o...

I am interested. Cheers. Right, I'd say. Nor does it yet seem to me to touch on the quantum leap, to so speak, between a bundle of inanimate molecules...

Awesome. Thank you much for the explanation. I guess I'll be needing to read into the physicalist version of panpsychism, then. This with primary inte...

I'll add the following: It works quite well, true. As does QM. But because there are disparities between the two, we know that at least one of the two...

Maybe I'm not as well versed on this topic matter; still, I don't find a necessary conflict between the idea of panpsychism and the idea of radical em...

To further illustrate this point: emphasis is mine

Picking up on this: Its utterly reasonable to me to claim that when the unique self which I am will cease existing, all my personal loves and idiosync...

Then why oh why reply to me this way: I.e., What was it in my initial post to you that you disagree with? But I guess like I previously said, never mi...

Well, in that case, never mind. I can only then presume you in fact agree that such a thing as fist-person points of view occur in the world, hence ac...

Ah, the vicarious pleasures of watching other life struggle, suffer, and die form a safe distance ... maybe with popcorn ready at hand. Not so taboo n...

No doubting that.

You’ve managed to spur my interests. And how is a fictional first-person point of view an innocent ignorant assemblage of words? That we can all under...

Psychopathology turned into an artform. This artform affectively speaking only to … psychopaths. Not inscrutable by a long shot. Still, this gives no ...

The context would be your own being in the world, for it addresses that which is "first-person". But I too am getting tired of this rather dull subjec...

Alright. What about "an occurring first-person point of view"? Do you deem that phrase to be reified or paradoxical? If so, I'm curious to find out ho...

You sound as though to say that words can't, or at least don't, refer to real givens. Consciousness is a word, yes. So is Earth, no? On what experient...

If you - or anybody else - as an occurring first-person point of view want to question the reality of your own occurrence as a first-person point of v...

Fair enough. To try to clarify my meaning: “artifact” as word to us means/signifies the following concept: “an object that was made by some person(s) ...

Saw it, and I've re-read it. Here's my own current take. All (created; human made) form follows function - with "function" being in this context a fan...

I don't mean to pester but to better understand: How do you discern artificial from non-artificial in definition (1) if not by that which is artificia...

Think back to what we were all discussing in terms of differentiating art from non-art - this irrespective of its aesthetic standing. In order to be a...