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(In wanting a sabbatical from debates, this will be my last post for a while, I think.) In thinking about the evolution of language—which has many exa...

A more recent US president now renowned about something to do with head underneath tables can be famously paraphrased as asking, “What is is?” This ca...

Thank you :razz: :blush: All the same, interesting research you've pointed out in previous posts, such as that of direct brain stimulation.

First, let there be a distinction made between suicidal intentions and altruism—simplifying this by overlooking our inevitable various degrees of igno...

You raise a good point. But I find that it doesn’t need to be evidenced by very complex arguments. We know of our own happiness or assuredness—to not ...

To further confuse the issues: Someone says, “I’m feeling happily excited,” and this sentence has a proposition to it such that its underlying meaning...

So as a self acknowledged Taoist of the form you’ve just prescribed, all reasoning is an illusion to you (see the link Ying posted: it's made up of wo...

I don't recall Heraclitus ever mentioning that. Oh well. As you say ...

Thank you. A very nice reading.

and: To me the Taoist quote implies that the Tao is that which returns us the the last mentioned "non-being", such that the Tao which is mentioned, or...

I’m presuming something was lost in translations with this last sentence. Take the relatively well known Buddhist concept of Nirvana. It is not made u...

Doing a Nietzsche thing by saying something intended for no one and everyone: even if politely replied to, a series of ambiguous declarations assumed ...

When animals express themselves—such as a rattlesnake’s rattle—they do so without intention? If someone answers yes, a large bias is showing—if only i...

:joke:

Ah. :blush: Groovy. My bad, Sapientia.

Appears not, Sap. Care to explain. Or need I from where I stand.

I hit a nerve, did I? Good to know you haven’t yet decided whether or not my loved ones do.

So, like, if God where to hypothetically be blessing a particular nation, what’d he/she/it be intending in relation to all those other ones? This one ...

In biology, an individual’s conformity to environment is specified as acclimatization whereas a populace’s conformity to environment (to that which is...

When thinking about this my preferred subject has been fire (I forget where I first read of the parallel): it can be “birthed” of heat or sparks, for ...

(palm to the face emoticon) Got it. Wasn't being sarcastic, though. I really did like the post's contents; "thumbs up". :smile: ... I'm off the the ni...

I was being humorous, in my way at least. I agreed with the contents of your post and communicated/expressed my agreement with you're post's contents ...

So a person's smile, a dog's growl, and a snakes rattle are all linguistic? Some might disagree, such as those who uphold that language is properly sp...

What's that got to do with all behavior being communicative to any other being that has a even a remote similarity of behaviors?

So it doesn't go unexpressed, :up:

Try expressing this to all the research that goes into non-verbal communication, ya know, facial expressions and the like. Whistling down the wind.

No, this is clear, and I agree with this. Nevertheless: I was wanting to avoid directly addressing the issue of agency. Autopoeisis is a nice way of e...

(Saw creativesoul's post just recently; all the same:) I didn’t use the word “expression” but “state-able”, i.e. being expressible via language. Commu...

I already did: beliefs of what is aesthetic to individual works of art and belief of what God is. Art can inspire revolutions due to its conveyed aest...

Obviously describing what a non-propostional belief is via linguistic concepts could not evidence such belief being possible, since it would be here l...

Well yes, in part. Where the partial disagreement emerges from: I hold that motives acted on are often non-propositional beliefs ... and that all of o...

Uhum … (strictly propositional) beliefs explain but do not (always) determine actions A person might act in ways contradictory to their propositional ...

I'm in agreement. While this isn’t a formal argument, one could I think devise an argument against BIV along these lines for example: BIVs are a possi...

Ate my pet chicken once. Brought it home from the countryside and it stayed on our first floor balcony. When I came back a few days later from my firs...

Going by the orthodox qualifications of evolution which you’ve stipulated, evolution necessarily in part consist of self-replication. Can you provide ...

I'm not familiar with Cusa, but I find myself interested. Thanks for bringing it up.

I so far find the concept of possibility to be very obnoxious. To me it seems to be equivocated all over the place within realms of philosophy but, li...

Darn it, going back on my word about not posting today so as to make this one exception (imperfect me :cool: ): Going by connotations, I’ve always und...

Man, there some degree of uncertainty everywhere if you look for it intently enough. We do our best to map out the reality we live in all the same. Th...

Eha, I'd argue that we are the most behaviorally plastic species on earth. The only genetic component to ethics, for me, would be our innate self-inte...

Cool. Haven't been keeping up with the research on this. So its nice to know. Personally, I most associate Neanderthals with "those who threw flowers ...

I’ve got a better one: organic-molecule nano-technology robots that make use of nucleic acids in combination with proteins … make these “robots” compl...

To me, you're missing a crucial term here: some. To lump all scientist together like this is might be a disservice to scientists as a whole. Akin to: ...

from the article: 1920's might not have been as advanced in artificial insemination as 1980's; I won't push the issue though. I'd like what you've sai...

Don't know about the first issue you bring up. But with this one ... one professor during my university days said that given our genetic similarity it...

It wouldn’t be yet. But given an environmental obstruction between the two variants, eventually further biological evolution would bring about two spe...

Yes, but that value will greatly increase with time ...

The heck is that supposed to mean??? (Insert emoticon scratching it head) You mean our kids don't inherit our genes? (BTW, Congratulations to, and for...

So, are you saying that it's not true that the X-Man mutants have variation between them, even though they each have a unique genetic mutation? More s...

Howdie, T. Mutation, if it doesn’t lead to death, leads to one form of natural variation. Darwin hadn’t yet learned about Mendel’s work on inheritance...