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The "dualism" referred to in the OP and (mostly) discussed throughout this thread is substance dualism. I assumed that is also what you meant by "dual...

:roll: We're still waiting for the disproof of Noether's theorem (e.g. a "perpetual motion machine"). Aka "woo-of-the gaps" (via false dichotomy due t...

:smirk: I got carried away with a (Jayne Cobb) partial quote from the movie Serenity. :snicker:

The argument is not sound because, unlike the universe & bodies, there is not any public evidence of "souls". I enjoyed nBSG as a more adult, grittier...

This seems overstated. There's a difference between 'working assumptions' and well-defined, or determinate, 'concepts'. Belonging to the world to begi...

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You sound like one of those "landing men on the moon" nay-sayers from 1950s, frank. :smirk: :point: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/health/fda-lab-meat...

Cries of a wet toddler because the adults can't decipher her babytalk. :yawn:

I prefer naturalist which covers them both. (I also prefer atomist to materialist.)

If you don't mind, please explain why you are, if I understand correctly, a "material-immaterial dualist". :razz:

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Strawman. I have not made any claims about truth-values, but you have. I took issue with your claim that Planck units are "fictitious"; I claim instea...

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No. No. What "theory"? From our PM exchange earler: You might find this post interesting: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/756516

The issue, lil D-K troll, is whether the principle of the conservation of energy is COMPATIBLE with 'five-sided triangles' or 'conscious atoms' or "an...

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Once again, sir, you're barking at shadows of strawmen. Woof woof sophistry. :sparkle: :sweat:

The more things change, the more things stay the same. Change is constant but progress is an illusion. Direction without destination. Homo Viator – no...

Dictionary definitions are uninformative. If that's all you,'ve got, GLEN, then your phrase "materialist source of consciousness" is empty.

I didn't predict a "blue wave", just the complete absence of a red one. I thought the Dems would hold the House – close but no cigar.

All the cleverest quantum woo-woo speculations (e.g. pseudo-scientistic / idealist reductionism to faux-holistic "non-local purpose" or some such :rol...

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The so-called "Fermi Paradox" also fails because its assumption that we (e.g. mid-20th century "scientists" like Fermi) would, or even could, recogniz...

Addendum to ... Almost three-quarters of women, it's been estimated, voted for the Democrats in the midterm elections. Murica ain't "Gilead" yet, bubb...

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I still don't know what you mean by this.

Your response seems disingenuous. On the one hand you claim that Planck units are "fictitious" and then on the other you claim that "falsity often wor...

Is this what we're looking for? What does that even mean?

Thanks for the precis. From my studies of Marx decades ago there doesn't seem much new or applicable to the real world in Peter Hudis' account. Schwei...

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Addendum to :nerd: part one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MSo6s_xrj4c part two https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mpWMnlMIWAU https://thephilosophyforum.co...

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Oh, I'm sure to you, kid, my comments go way over your head. Worse for you being so incorrigibly dogmatic too.

Anthropocentricity here is clearly unwarranted. At least in mammals, as far as I know, feedback from the peripheral nervous system is integral to cent...

So it's your position then, MU, that the Planck constant is not (and any other constants derived from it e.g. Dirac constant), in fact, a fundamental ...

Hey, I'm not trying to persuade you, kid, just help expose your witless vapidity as a public service. When I'm bored I troll D-K trolls like you. :raz...

The argument is unsound because one of your major (implicit) premises is incoherent (re: category error ~ attributing physical properties to nonphysic...

No. Non sequitur (strawman assumption).

And your point is?

Such an argument would suffer from your faulty premise, MU. Planck units are approximative metrics and are no more "ficticious" than e.g. yards, inche...

:100: Noether's theorem and symmetries in fundamental physics and ... :fire: :up: Also, philosophically since Spinoza's refutation of Cartesian dualis...

So "zombies" would say too. Again, merely anecdotal. The 'problem of other minds' remains.

No. However, it's your position on "consciousness" that's at issue, Rogue, so let's get back to that. Non-anecdotal evidence that you or anyone else o...

What does such a redundant modifer even mean? As compared to 'not really real' or 'unreally real'' :roll:

Not non-anecdotal evidence; besides, that's what a "zombie" would say.

Don't hold your breath.

In the main, I don't think so. Science solves problems (re: fact-patterns, phenomenal processes, computations), philosophy questions – with grounds – ...

"Indefeasible reasoning" denotes systemic use of deductive inferences. That e.g. axioms are variable is a feature of deduction, not a bug or exception...