It's just confused. If I have a million dollars in the bank, and yet I also owe a million dollars, I do not have nothing. I have a million dollars in ...
Well, I get something from that, but what I get is about your intelligence, not about my argument. Have you been putting money in cornflake packets ag...
I addressed this in the OP. One view about sex is that it is wholly determined by your physical features (of which the genital view would be one). My ...
Having now looked up who those people are, I think the best explanation is that race clearly does have an essential historical component, whereas sex ...
I do not know what a subjective opinion is (aren't all opinions subjective, in that they are made of subjective states?). Do you mean that opinions ab...
No, there is no necessary connection between the two, as your subsequent comment acknowledges" My whole point is that the toilet issue is irrelevant. ...
You're not addressing the example, though. Someone who thinks that your sex is determined by the chromosomal structure of your cells doesn't think you...
But they could be changed. So someone who thinks sex is determined at the chromosomal level does not think that sex can't be changed, just that it's r...
Why would I get back to you when a) you don't know your stuff, b) you think you do know your stuff (thus providing another depressing example of the t...
If I say "banks are indivisible" and you reply "cornflakes are indivisible" then you are not addressing me. Sinking in yet? If you mean by 'consciousn...
No, I am using the word 'mind' conventionally. It is conventionally used to denote the object that bears our conscious experiences. The philosophical ...
ah, well as we're giving advice: don't be dishonest. Don't say you're familiar with the literature when you're not. Reading a Stanford Encyclopedia pa...
What are you? Dishonest, perhaps? I mean, you've said you're familiar with the literature. Yet you can't answer my simple question. By 'familiar with ...
Er, yes, obviously I have a problem because it is false. Baby steps. Consciousness is a mental state. Mental 'state'. That means 'state of mind'. A 's...
No you couldn't! That's a 'different' argument because it has different premises!! All you can conclude from the fact there are states, is that there ...
Well, you are not very familiar with the literature are you? I asked you a question that anyone familiar with the literature would know the answer to....
No, I am describing a principle known as 'the principle of phenomenal conservatism'. Like I say, it underpins all inquiry. You the one confusing the d...
Ha, 'complexity' indeed - no, I have pointed out repeatedly that buying meat in the supermarket is not equivalent to taking out a hit on a cow. That's...
Just to be clear - your position is that doing X knowing that Y will be a consequence is the same as intended Y? And that the distinction - the well k...
No, it is a well known distinction - it is embodied in the doctrine of double effect - and a foreseen consequence is 'not' intended. No amount of fore...
No, what you're doing is declaring an act to be intentional, when it clearly isn't. As whether an act is intentional or not can often make a radical d...
It is not a 'proof', but 'evidence'. Appearances, whether sensible or rational, are prima facie evidence of the reality of what they represent to be t...
Er no. I never said "consciousness is indivisible". I said my 'mind' is indivisible. Mind. Not 'consciousness'. Consciousness is a 'state' of a thing,...
How does that follow? If the steering mechanism in my car fails, then I lose the ability to steer the car. That doesn't mean I am the car, does it? I ...
No it won't. Disintegrate into what? You're assuming that the mind is the brain. But it isn't. The mind is indivisible, therefore simple, therefore im...
I do not deny that doing things to the brain affects what goes on in the mind. That's not in dispute. But it is fallacious to infer that from the fact...
No it hasn't! All science has shown - and this is hardly recent - is that events in the brain affect what goes on in the mind. If one thing affects an...
Er, no. I literally just told you the ways in which a mind - which is a thing - differs from nothing. And you then reply that I am making a thing out ...
Still not sure I'm following you. Can you define 'exactly' for me? And that little dot that followed it - . - what does that mean? And "That's" - can ...
What do you mean by 'how'? And while you're at it, what do you mean by 'can'? Oh, and 'we' - what do you mean by 'we'? 'Discuss' - I think we need to ...
No I don't. Will you be dead in the future? Are you dead now? Is your answer to one of those different from the answer to the other? Actually, don't b...
Depends. Let's focus on one thing at a time. We're talking about commissioning something. That requires an intention. If I buy some meat, I am not the...
But you're not addressing my argument if you change the meaning of the word 'mind' to your favoured interpretation. For instance, let's say I say "ban...
No - sigh - completely wrong. Foreseeing something is not the same as intending it. If I jump out of a building to escape the heat and flames I forese...
Why would I explain any of that to someone who doesn't know the first thing about how to argue and just issues ignorant, arrogant pronouncements? You ...
Nothing is not a thing - there's no serious dispute about that. I mean, it is there in the word itself - 'no-thing'. Nothing. Not a thing. Nothing. Th...
No, if I buy some meat I am not thereby commissioning someone to kill a cow. Even if I foresee that someone is likely to do so, that still does not me...
You still blurting out pronouncements? There's a stack of evidence that the mind is not the brain - I presented one piece, there's plenty more - and n...
Thinking is not a brain process. It is a 'mental' process. A process that minds - and minds alone - engage in. Whether minds and brains are one and th...
Nothing is not a thing. So saying it is indivisible is a category error. But even if nothing were a thing - and it isn't - and an indivisible thing, w...
Yes, lots of them do. Mine does. Yours does too - I mean, you're thinking right now, and those thoughts have a mind that is having them, namely 'your'...
Do you think it is true, or false? I mean, so far you've failed to address yourself to my question. So I'll ask it again: If I am dead in the future, ...
That's not how the word is traditionally used and it is not how I am using it. It means 'that which bears our conscious experiences". So, it refers to...
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