Andrew4Handel

I think you are failing to grasp the definition of objective and subjective in the sense used with knowledge. This definition from Wikipedia is helpfu...

I know that there is music other people like that I absolutely dislike and no amount of majority preference could convince me it was good or make me l...

The point is that the bent stick is not in the external "objective world" Just because people can agree on some subjective states does not make them l...

It seems that logic is in the human mind and they create structures in computers that behave based on the operation a human wants to achieve. The prog...

There is substantial evidence that consciousness is internal and subjective. Illusions are one example. How can you mispercieve the external world if ...

I am not sure what you are referring to by the "I" I am using to describe the subjective of experience. The person having experiences and not their se...

Information is a problematic notion. You are invoking the notion of mental representation it seems. This kind of information requires a preexisting su...

Personal consciousness is literally the only access we have to reality (or our awareness of a reality). It is hard to imagine describing something wit...

Another consciousness issue is "What is consciousness a property of?" Consciousness is not property described by other fields such as the study of ele...

When I am around young children and babies I see no evidence that they are relying on me for a sense of identity or perception or volition. I don't se...

Is science describing world with or without consciousness in it. I feel like facts are undermined until we can locate consciousness and know how we ar...

I find consciousness of non humans puzzling because I think consciousness requires a self/subject to be subject to experience but can't imagine an ani...

Before you are born is the period I am referring to. If I start to exist there is the question of how I start to exist as that person. Bodily there is...

I have no idea how I became conscious and that is the mystery. Are you saying we are unconscious until we interact with people?

You could not be anyone else now but you could have been someone else and been born in another body or era or gender. I am one of 6 children I am cons...

I think there for I am am. As soon as I experience I am aware that I am and can reflect on my own existence along with the content of a a thought or p...

Is this your actual theory of consciousness? I have not heard a theory of consciousness arising because of mimicry. I don't see how mimicry is a causa...

The reason it is hard to imagine being a bat is because whatever experiences they may have are private and directly inaccessible. The issue here is ho...

I don't know what you mean. You will have to explain more. If you mean our personality can be shaped by others that maybe true but that is not conscio...

I neither hate nor love Trump. I suppose taking both extreme positions could lead to an impasse.

I have just found a nice quote from Derrida. "A decision that did not go through the ordeal of the undecidable would not be a free decision, it would ...

Find a solution for. Or sway the argument predominantly towards one side.

I have never seen one of those in the UK. What is puzzling me about an impasse is why it can't intellectually be resolved. Of course I think I am usua...

Arguments can be resolved by force I suppose. I think that is the case with gay rights and abortion legislation. I think force might be better than an...

I suppose evidence will eventually prove a point. It seems to me if both sides were agnostic then they could agree on uncertainty but that is not usua...

That's frightening. what would life without discrimination be like?

I think a good case here is homosexuality and the ex-gay movement. I almost can't even find the words to describe it. One of the main reasons I left C...

I suppose you could ask the individual what is paining them. Then you can look for common responses and see whether they suggest societal malfunction....

I don't mean wrong in the moral sense but wrong in terms of harm or malfunction. Any illness relies on a notion of malfunction it seems.

I agree. What would you consider killing the messenger? I would say something like excessive medication and self based therapy or marginalisation, or ...

People who have congenital pain defect or lose their ability to suffer pain suffer a lot of injuries. It is clear that we need physical pain for survi...

Pain becomes more of a mystery than it already is when it serves no purpose other than to distress and demoralise us. the pain as a signal theory is p...

One interesting claim is that mental health improved during world war two and it is suggested that the increase in community spirit and the feeling of...

I don't remember saying all mental pain is always caused by society. What would make a stronger correlation is when there are high levels of mental di...

Maybe these emotions are linked to advanced cognition? I wouldn't describe that video as nature in harmony though. I think the reason we don't live in...

But that isn't true. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2XnQ4HKSVc

The only reason I can think of to explain people having children is a fear of death. It may seem like a form of immortality to people having children....

There are millions of academic studies. You have cited a few dozen.

No entity has rights. Rights are fantasies

But you are trying to impose a similar status on animals to humans. You do seem to have an inaccurate view of nature because you seem to be implying t...

https://veganbiologist.com/2016/01/04/humans-are-not-herbivores/ Humans are clearly omnivores and you can happily make that claim just based on the ev...

Why do you why do you say "someone"? Can we not stick to talk about killing animals for food? There are lots of reason why we a won't kill a fellow hu...

Even if you think I have strong moral opinions that does not mean I believe they relate to existent moral facts. What I have been saying is more like ...

I would say I had preferences rather than a moral stance. I don't think moral ideas can be non natural because that stance is meaningless. I am not su...

You can take an ethical or moral stance on anything without it revealing an underlying moral truth. There is only so much intuition could tell us. I h...

I don't think we need arguments to justify our behaviour. Does any other animal provide arguments to justify their behaviour. Anyhow I did not specify...

I said we shouldn't disregard our nature. Disregard means ignore or place little weight on. Meaning we should take into consideration what we actually...

In relation to what? I was just making a general point in relation to my opening post concerning how close to nature a behaviour is.

I don't think we should disregard our nature.

The first of these images of the pigs in wire cages has been used on the internet in a misleading way. This was a picture from China and the pigs were...