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Even more "absurd", it happens to be a fact. :wink: Parsimony cuts both ways, Rogue: why assume there is conscious stuff at all? There isn't any non-a...

Poor lil D-K troll. :ok: :lol:

How so?

Again. You can't answer clear, straight forward questions for f e a r that any attempt at answering on your part will expose your utter vacuity and th...

Why are you framing this physical-nonphysical dualism in physical terms of "causality", "energy", "conservation laws" etc? What warrants your assumpti...

What kind of "dualism" are you referring to – (ontology) substance dualism? (epistemology) property dualism?

So what's your (Heidi's) point? How does it relate to my previous post which you've quoted?

(Re: "philosophical suicide") And we're as good as dead whenever we stop. "The unexamined life is not worth living", is it?

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Again, you accuse me without evidence or argument, and when I request for you as I've done here to corroborate your criticisms of me by citing my own ...

The "how" is e.g. neuroscience (still in its infancy) and not philosophy per se, which, as Witty points out, may describe (i.e. map concepts) but is i...

It seems to me that philosophers don't "answer" so much as they raise (unbegged) questions of 'our political, ethical and intellectual givens' (e.g. a...

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Mind(ing) is what sufficiently complex brains do. That's a start ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/755060

Apparently, my reference previously to 'Peirce and Wittgenstein' is completely lost on you if you believe my criticism of your ill-formed question is ...

Read again ...

I don't see how my Peircean-Wittgensteinian "stance" relates in any (non-trivial) way to Joshs' p0m0. Your original question confusedly suggests so th...

"Physical" is derived from phusis in Greek meaning nature (i.e. growing); "physicality", therefore, corresponds to "natural" (in contrast to conventio...

What do you mean here by "justify ... occurrence"?

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December readings ... • The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III, Peter Byrne • The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy • Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy

Which "quote" is that? :roll: :lol: Of course, without any basis to "doubt" as my post history demonstrates).

Addendum to & :100: :up: "MWI" – information or reality or ??? :chin: https://youtu.be/kNAR74SWOho @"Gnomon", @"Benj96", @"god must be atheist"

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I don't know what you are talking about. I asked questions of one of Gnomon's posts. Your interjection (re: "entanglement") was a non sequitur, Ben. A...

You suppose wrong. Gnomon hasn't answered me yet. S/He won't, almost never does. S/He fears being exposed ... :smirk:

Your MO: you shit the bed, then accuse me / others of the smell. Like ignoring this: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/754305

Nope.

I'm sure I've missed that "force". Please cite where in any of the equations or formal models used in QM there is a notation for mind/observer (and no...

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Whatever floats your boat, Ben. The brain is a wholly classical physical object in which the smallest neuronal structures are three orders of magnitud...

Okay. :lol:

Have you ever taken a single university physics course? or read any substantial work on quantum theory by a (popularizing) working physicist? Expertis...

It's all Aristotlean "metaphysics" (in the background) through the 18th century.

Nope. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/638903

I don't find conflating Cartesian algebraic geometry with Newtonian (or Leibnizian) calculus insightful or relevant. Besides, scientists build on the ...

:up: I agree, but I'd moved past the eliminativists nearly two decades ago when I'd come across a masterwork on the neuroscience of 'consciousness' ti...

Nope. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/526924

There are folks who claim that a 'materialist paradigm' does not rationally account for everything – they are correct – so they dismiss and replace it...

A philosophy is to a grammar as a science is to a library. IMO as complementaries, while the latter without the former is unintelligible (or less inte...

I'm curious how you find Hudis' read of Marx's corpus. Have you read After Capitalism by David Schweickart? If not, I can't recommend it more highly, ...

Yeah. Often dismissed, never refuted. How would a p0m0ist / antirealist / idealist or platonist (or New Ager) even begin to address philosophical / me...

Here's a link to a TPF debate (and another link therein to a discussion of that debate) concerning the relative strengths and weaknesses of "substance...

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Ah, "the polls" ... https://www.thedailybeast.com/pollsters-have-no-fcking-idea-whats-going-to-happen-during-2022-midterm-elections ... my own "poll" ...

Is "Narnia" the negation of Earth? Are "dancing angels" the negation of pinheads? Or hallucinations the negations of facts? In the OP's poll, I select...