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:up: My two pennies worth: in short answer to the question: yes, it does. In terms of practical accountability, the ontic (un)reality of free will doe...

This edit of yours is irrelevant. The issue is one of whether or not the mind itself is strictly constituted of quantitative energy - such that each c...

I gave a link in that post to Aristotle's notion of energy, which is qualitative, and is where our modern notion of energy stems from. I'm guessing yo...

One cannot rely upon conservation laws to make successful predictions when no awareness of conservation laws occur. Therefore, if the trustworthiness ...

Presuming a lack of equivocation, your arguments are a tad bit circular, but this goes deep into foundational theories of physics that today are so co...

We’re in agreement. For my part, I find that those who uphold scientism then throw babies out together with the bathwater, so to speak: e.g., allowing...

Absolutely not! All scientism would necessarily collapse—not all of science, if any. The article linked to in the OP espouses an opinion founded on a ...

I intend to be away for a while. Just wanted to take up @"Harry Hindu"'s position a bit. If so, then "survival" would be the telos (goal) which govern...

To clarify, if you mean something other than "conscious intentionality seems to be true but it is not", please further specify the way in which you ar...

I'll translate: If, as you say, intentionality occurs in the unconscious mind, why then conclude that conscious intentionality must be illusory rather...

Establishing the reality of first person conscious experience via tautological means, as in "if I am conscious of X then ipso facto I am conscious of ...

I'm fascinated by teleology, especially as it applies to psyches, and have found little to no metaphysical investigation of its possibilities and mech...

Suppose the law of identity intends to specify that that which appears, or stands out, or else is, cannot at that very juncture be anything else but i...

If I am conscious of X then ipso facto I am conscious of X - i.e., my conscious intentionality regarding X is not illusory, nor a mere seeming, but br...

To me, blindsight evidences that one’s awareness as a total self (i.e., a total mind/psyche—if not also a total mind-endowed body) is not always unita...

For what its worth, it the second option, a change of wording, which can serve to clarify what is semantically intended.

The "Plato was wrong" gave me a good friendly laugh. Not planning on staying long on the forum, but maybe I'd partake of another thread. Out of fun, t...

Lightly touching upon this topic, I can see this argument working for what I discern to be non-universal universals, like redness, but not for cosmica...

True. I was in part thinking of things like poetry, which is all words and therefore saying. But I can see how one could argue that poetry shows as we...

While that sounds like a good idea, I'll comment anyways. It strikes me that so termed universals can range from being cosmically applicable - thinkin...

Ah. Pacifies me a bit. As to the latter, isn't that what a majority of art does (... well, at least historically)? Though I'm trying to avoid directly...

Off the top of my head, a question to all who disagree with the validity or utility of an internal-external divide: That which is accessible to a sing...

Q: Why are idealists, optimists and people with "hope" so depressing? A: For the same reason that sad songs say so much to so many … this at least som...

Could be.

So to you individuals have no say within a society? To me, societies don't decide or feel; individuals do. And when the decisions and feelings of indi...

As a counter, if crime is injurious, and if the individuals that make up a society don't like getting injured, then reducing crime can only be pro-soc...

OK, Nazi Germany had the structure you speak of with the iffy point being that of "bounded by morality". The Nazis certainly viewed themselves as mora...

First off, my bad; just double-checked and I misspoke: They were still pretty popular among voters, though. "Died" doesn't seem to be an adequate term...

That military arrangement or whatnot was democratically voted into power (this by the majority of the people). So your argument doesn't hold.

A society.

A crime within some societies, yea, OK; but a crime against society? How so? Off the top of my head as source, the movie “Freakonomics” makes the case...

Just caught that edit of yours. "Totally" might be too much. Cheap enough carbon recapture technology might be on the horizon. The catch is that we'd ...

:smile: Only cool people have the nerve to say this of themselves.

To clarify: ... unless the global warming thing actually is someone's hoax. I doubt that, though.

Does this have anything to do with the "Who's the fairest of them all?" cat pic? :grin: I'd replace the "is" with "should be". The less hunger, strife...

Man, Hanover’s stuff hasn’t received any credit. As we all kind’a know, apocalypse is the Ancient Greek term for “uncovering or disclosure (naturally,...

Hey, who isn't slow sometimes? :razz: Reminds me of a song lyric: "slow like honey, strong like music" :wink: As to the resolution, I do wish the worl...

Yea, I agree that this is the ideal which we ought to be striving for. Unfortunately for those who hold such perspectives, the world is currently beco...

In which case, I'll point back to this post. Hey, seems like you're a decent person, so good luck with your endeavors of figuring out what equality of...

It started with "equality of value" ... not of mathematical notions of value, but of "degrees of importance" ... not being deemed by you a proper grou...

OK, but if different humans (which will be different by definition) will be deemed to have different degrees of importance, how does one prevent justi...

Well, I'm referring to state sanctioned laws. As in, what aspects of the US constitution should apply to only some USA citizens but not to others? Som...

Should I gather from this that you don't believe in democratic principles? All variations of autocratic systems will not have all humans of that syste...

You still haven't answered my question.

This is equivocating "the degree of importance given to something" with mathematical notions of value. To then rephrase, on what grounds should all hu...

Haven’t read the entire thread, but equal in what sense? Equal in height, in gait … I suspect that “equality” is here shorthand for “equal in value” …...

What critiques would you have for these definitions (all leading up to those of “cause” and “causation”): A given (n.): a term serving as generalized ...

For someone who gives great emphasis to language use, you have a strange means of expressing yourself. While I think I happen get what you mean by "an...

Forgot to make this explicit. That which is deemed as food will be desirable, and thereby good tasting (as contrasted to pleasantly sounding or the li...