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Not really - I don't engage with threads that have 'consciousness' in the title because right at the outset they invariably conflate consciousness wit...

Well that's somewhat out of leftfield. If they have brains sufficiently similar to ours, then it would seem a reasonable inference to make, for our br...

Well, it doesn't follow from it being true that I should be able to give an example. But meh. As for an example, the claim "God's existence makes me f...

I would like to point out that you are wrong. There is no dispute that to be conscious is to be in a mental state of some kind. And a mental state, is...

Well, I doubt that. But no, not necessarily. Whether God exists or not is a metaphysical question. But it does not follow from that that everything th...

No. First, why do you think you know more than me about this? Why do you assume that I'm the confused one, you the enlightened one? The Piaget stuff i...

You're not making your earlier claims 'simpler', rather you are asking different questions. To make it simpler for you - you earlier made ludicrous cl...

I do not understand what you are saying. "If the existence of God is a metaphysical question" - "the existence of God" is not a question. Does God exi...

It's off topic. Plus the fact you put "proof" in inverted commas tells me that not only do you lack credentials, but you also lack the humility that s...

That would be off topic. The point here is that whether a god exists or not is a question in metaphysics, not maths, or science, or psychology (and th...

Er, no. That's a metaphysical claim, and it is false. Those expert on the issue of whether God does or does not exist are metaphysicians. But it does ...

But I clearly do. And unlike you, my knowledge is not gleaned from Wikipedia pages and youtube videos.

A god's existence can be proved, and God's existence can be shown to be more reasonably believed than not. But the point here is not whether it can or...

Note too that someone who was one justified in believing that God exists might, through encountering arguments against that belief - arguments that th...

Well, I don't agree with that. To 'demonstrate' the existence of God an argument is needed. And it is metaphysicians who are in the business of discov...

There are lots of experts on the question of whether God exists, so I don't really know why you'd say such a thing.

Those are not equivalent claims. Someone could know that God exists, yet not be an expert on the question of whether God exists. For example, someone ...

No, I meant 'metaphysicians'. That's why I used that word. It too has a Greek origin.

erm, is you understanding English be? Are you fluent being? McTaggart - whom you've never read - argued that time is unreal. That doesn't mean I think...

The thread isn't actually about what it takes to change sex.

Experts on whether a god exists or not are metaphysicians, for it is a topic in metaphysics. Not all metaphysicians are experts on whether a god exist...

I didn't say it was true of all definitions, for some concepts we have created by creating a definition. But there is no philosophical debate to be ha...

Yes it does. Who else is an expert on it, then? You think a biologist is an expert on whether a god exists? Have you read The God Delusion? If you hav...

Okay then - Gauguin: "art is either plagiarism or revolution". False, of course, but the point is that now we know that Gauguin sought to define art a...

Because some people here are trying to formulate definitions of art, and I doubt they all own art. And many artists are philosophically minded and hav...

It's a bit gibberishy because this collection of words "ability to project reflect instantaneously their time, which can only be cultural" doesn't mak...

You should defer to experts as a general rule, so long as they are talking within their area of expertise. But when they're not, then you shouldn't. S...

So when you said "art is a cultural mirror" you meant 'art is art'. Well, I think we can all get on board with that.

And that's false too.

Just false (and a bit gibberishy). I still don't know what a cultural mirror is. And I don't know what this sentence means either "their ability to pr...

Well someone's doing a media degree, aren't they! First, you're confusing what causes something with what it is 'about'. Art is not caused by culture,...

You're repeating the same mistake. You don't need a definition of consciousness to know what it is. You are conscious right now, yes? That - that - is...

We differentiate first, then we search for the basis upon which we differentiated. And so we know what is art prior to having a definition. Thus think...

I'm afraid I am unsure how I know that about Gainsborough - I think I must have read it in a book somewhere or heard it in a documentary or something....

Yes, I am describing his likely conscious states at the time he created his portraits. But his portraits themselves do not express those conscious sta...

Too cheap to be art then. Art is expensive.

How much do you want for it?

I also didn't say that. So again, well done for paying no attention whatsoever. I think time is real. I don't think it is relative. I think the idea t...

I do not know what means. That's not necessarily true - take my Gainsborough example. He didn't like painting portraits, and so there's a decent chanc...

But he did not intend to engage them aesthetically (anticipating that they may be engaged aesthetically not being the same as intending that it happen...

What if my intention is purely to make money - I couldn't care less if the work is aesthetically engaging, I just know that people like my drawings an...

er, yes I did. Here: Here: And why are you pointing me to a Stanford encyclopedia entry? The question is have YOU read McTaggart? You don't know your ...

I do not follow your meaning. I think we do indeed know art when we see it. Or rather, we know it when archaeologists see it. So, some seem to think y...

You are thinking, it seems to me, that the options are either that there is some definition of art, or art is whatever the king says is art, or what a...

But you don't seem to appreciate that overcoming the prejudices of the age is 'precisely' what my test is designed to do. You also don't seem to under...

Intentions have content - so an intention to do what? If it is 'to make a work of art' then it is circular in the same way as 'a dog is something that...

They see if it seems to them to answer to the concept of art. We already have the concept of art. It doesn't come from definitions, rather we try and ...

No, not really. First, one does not need to know anything about Van Gogh the man in order to be able to recognise his works as artworks (indeed, very ...

So it is circular - you've referred to the concept under analysis. The word 'art' needs to be removed, otherwise the definition is circular. My point,...

We just use contemporary archaeologists and either see, or imagine, how they might classify what we're looking at if they dug it up. That way we see w...