Er, no. My mind is not a material thing - so it is not located in space. It is not my body. Not my brain, not my hands, not my spine. Body is in study...
No, I pointed that out. Blah di blah - irrelevant. Do try and focus. That's an incredibly rubbish example (and example of 'what' exactly? What are you...
It is not a 'set of faculties' - what does that even mean? Whose faculties are they? I have sight. I am not sight. I have touch. I am not touch. I hav...
Irrelevant. I mean, what are you trying to do? I have said that I am a mind. You've then said that this means a mind wrote my posts. Yes, it did - min...
Bartricks: "The David is a large marble sculpture in Florence" Strapon: So, if I say "I am going to Florence to see the David, I can substitute 'large...
'X' stands for some obviously wrong act. Rape is wrong, yes? Don't be dumb and say "how do you know?" That's a different issue - that's an issue in ep...
What are you on about? I, a mind, wrote this. I, a mind, am in a state of thought, the content of which is that you haven't a clue what you're talking...
What are you on about. I, a person, am my mind and I interact with the sensible world. So causation takes place between my mind and the sensible world...
Is that what you're working with? Listen Halfy, physical things can be divided. Minds can't. Therefore minds are not physical things. A mug half full ...
So if I recognize Tim because I've got a photo of him, Tim must be a photo?!? There's how one grasps and uses a concept and then there's what the conc...
So imagine you don't know whether I want to take heroin or not. You're just not sure, though you do know that it is highly addictive. You just inject ...
Clearly. So you think if it is impossible to get someone's consent to do x, then it's ok to do it? Okay: so if Tim wants to rape Jane - so, he wants t...
The word 'concept' and the word 'idea' are synonyms. And mugs are not ideas. Think of a mug. That thought is an idea. It's not a mug. If you don't bel...
You're sure I have 'a research' for that? What does that even mean? Do you mean 'evidence' for that? Is that you, Peter Ustinov? No, I argue that it i...
The consent argument is a good and highly respected argument. It is default wrong to do something to someone else without their consent. That doesn't ...
Okay, so all surveys count for nothing. You should contact universities and tell their researchers to stop[ doing them. Witness statements to crimes c...
By my reason. Anyway, you've missed the point. I derived an ought from an is. Here, again: 1. If Xing is wrong, then we ought not to do X 2. Xing is w...
No they're not. 'Concept' is another word for 'idea'. Mugs are not ideas. We have the idea of a mug. But the mug itself is not an idea. Likewise for t...
Just do some research. The childfree are happier. You seem to be misusing the word 'logical'. Having children is wrong. It's not wrong because it make...
He coined the term 'naturalistic fallacy'. It doesn't refer to the supposed fallacy of deriving an ought from an is. Just saying. (I have read him). I...
What would that show? Again, doing things to the brain - such as removing a bit - clearly affects what goes on in the mind. That's not evidence that t...
And there's that argument again. Same one. A change in the brain causes a change in the mind. That does not show that the brain is the mind. Christ. W...
But our reason represents minds to be positively indivisible. So, not 'not obviously divisible' but 'indivisible'. To see this, just consider me. Do y...
What an ignorant and irrelevant thing to say. First the ignorance: do a bit of research. Are the childfree happier than parents? There are lots of stu...
I don't follow you. Our minds clearly causally interact with the sensible world. That, by itself, doesn't tell us anything about what kind of a thing ...
I didn't mention any of the premises of your argument as your argument is poorly formed, semi gibberish. It also contains a premise that contradicts t...
Again with the confidence. You're not classically trained, right? So get a big hot humble pie and stuff the whole thing in your mouth and let me take ...
As ever, your argument is flagrantly question begging. Minds causally interact with the sensible world. That much seems clear to everyone. But if the ...
But on what basis do you think this? You have agreed that we cannot go from 'a is correlated to b, therefore a is b' and presumably would agree that '...
Reasons. I think I have reason to believe I am thinking, and that I have reason to believe that thoughts cannot exist absent a mind to think them, and...
Well I certainly think it is wrong to procreate, at least in normal circumstances (stupid too, but I will put that to one side). To procreate is to im...
I don't think that's true - we can be certain of more than that. But you said that this was the essence of the problem for physicalism (which I take t...
I don't follow. Whether brains are physical objects or the mental activity of another mind (as, say, Berkeley would maintain) is left open by their ex...
So, you think I don't think straight, right? Your evidence for that, I take it, is that I don't think like you, yes? Shall we review your brilliant th...
No, Murk. With your 'mind'. Baby steps. Minds think. Thoughts are 'mental states'. A mental state is, by definition, a 'state of mind'. So, you though...
What if God told you to commit suicide? What if I contain a deadly virus that will die with me the instant I die or else infect others and spread like...
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