Bartricks

Yes, but in about 2 minutes time you'll say something that implies you think all causes are normative reasons. Well anyone can say stuff. Argue.

None. People are able to do immoral things. Like I say, you don't seem to be appreciating that this is a normative issue. You can't refute antinatalis...

I do not see that. That's a possible explanation of why we have reason not to kill ourselves unless we are in unending agony. But the point is that if...

We are all one in the East. If you fly there you will gradually merge with other passengers into a big ball. That's why lots of planes crash there. Al...

As I have to go away for a few hours, I will continue. I take it to be a conceptual truth that if event d occurs at time t1 then it is present at t1. ...

That's not what I said. I said that if I want something not to be produced by a robot but by a person, then something other than a robot - a person - ...

Yes, and what about eastern ideas? They're good.

It's all subjective :starstruck: Who's to say? :cool: Wikiwikiwikiwiki SEP SEP SEP wikiwikiwiki. :chin: Now, go away and let the serious discussion co...

:vomit: :eyes: :rage: :rofl: How anything know us do? Who's to say? it's a concept. What about eastern ideas?

But :scream: how :chin: do :rage: any :groan: of :shade: us :vomit: know :cry: anything? :worry: :lol: :nerd: :death: :party:

Have you read my posts?

There isn't a problem of interaction. Objects can cause events. Events are different in kind to objects. Thus clearly different kinds of existence - e...

The Origin of The Species by, if memory serves, Karl Dorwin

If I want a pot that has not been made by a robot, then the job of making me that pot cannot be automated

What about the property of existence? Surely two different kinds of thing can both have the property of existing? To deny this is to start out by asse...

If I have the property of having caused event p, and event p has the property of having been caused by me, do we share a property?

So, event d occurs at time t1. It is present at t1 then. It, the event, is present at t1. Yes?

What do you mean?

What point are you making?

What? Read the OP

So, to be clear, you think that if an event occurs at time t1, it can be present later? Again: that makes no sense. You seriously think an event can b...

Well it does, because if the present is that which can render the impression of the present accurate, and the impression of the present occurs at t1, ...

Because my sensation that event p is present will occur at t2, yet event p occurred at t1. Because if an event occurs at time t1, then it is present a...

But I also said that I am not a materialist. I think materialism is false partly because I think the present moment is where our sensations represent ...

Good, so we agree that in order for my sensation that p is present to be accurate, p needs actually to have presentness. Yes. No, I said that in order...

My view is that the present moment is when our sensations tell us it is. So, if I sense that p is present, that is default evidence that p is present....

What I mean is, if the event of p occurs at t1, would you admit that it is present at t1? It seems to me that you want to say that despite p occuring ...

So you think that present determines the past?

Yes, but even a pro-lifer is opposed to those. So, if abortions are available, why would one build artificial wombs?

If we have a sensation of presentness, then actual presentness will be that which is capable of rendering it accurate. But only something that is actu...

If it's not a person then yes, it doesn't matter - but then why be in favour of artificial wombs? Should there be artificial mouths built for teeth we...

My point was that if my sensation represents the event p to have presentness, then for that sensation to be accurate the event - not my sensation of i...

I don't see a lack of artificial wombs to be the problem. I see deciding to procreate to be the problem. Let's say a person freely decides to get them...

Well that impression of presentness is had of the events that our sensations are giving us an awareness of, rather than of the sensations themselves (...

Would you agree that we have an impression of presentness? That is, some sensible events appear to be happening now, whereas there are others that app...

ok, but why are you in favour of artificial wombs then?

I specifically asked you if it would be wrong for a woman to abort rather than transfer the baby to an artificial womb if one was available (see the c...

Why do you think it would be wrong for a woman to abort if there was an artificial womb available then?

Why not? Presumably you think it would be immoral to abort if there was an artificial womb available because abortion kills an innocent person who doe...

And if there was no artificial womb available she would not be doing something immoral?

Are you in favour of creating artificial wombs? And if one is available, would a pregnant woman who wanted an abortion instead be doing something immo...

Why? That makes no sense given I am arguing against such an account! Why would I need to defend the account I am attacking? Do pay attention - I am ar...

Where is your argument? All you have done above is once more insist that all causes are normative reasons - which they are not. Look, you don't seem c...

I just found a wiki page that said universes lack intelligence. Shall I paste the entire page?

But how do you know that you agree? How does anyone know anything? Scientists have discovered that your loved one is genetically a cat, even though th...

So you went with b.

That makes no sense. P zombies resemble us in every outward way, so there is no 'reply' that is typical of them but not us. And it wouldn't be a real ...

Presumably wisdom is not a synonym for omniscience? It seems to me that wisdom incorporates moral claims. That is, a wise person is someone who knows ...

I don't see the philosophical relevance of your questions. If you discovered that your house, which up to now you had thought was made of wood and pla...

First, Rawls does not reject desert but appeals to it. If you reject that a person deserves x, you are not rejecting that x exists. If I deny that my ...