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How are you defining animal? We have Shakespeare, Einstein, Bach, Language, Mathematics, Science, Internet,Psychotherapy, Computer Programming, School...
July 27, 2017 at 16:40
Sorry. Can you link me to these posts or quote them as I can't seem to find them. I am using homosexuality as a case where people are trying to subsum...
July 26, 2017 at 15:49
I think there is a clear difference between mechanism and sensation. It is possible to build unconscious sensors that avoid fire. You only need to mak...
July 26, 2017 at 15:29
It is a video not a photo. It is worth a look. Science is not just about facts but it can impose and support pernicious brutal theories about human st...
July 26, 2017 at 13:05
This video is worth a look. It documents the effects of scientific racism and the use of Social Darwinism to justify inaction during Indian Famines du...
July 26, 2017 at 02:17
Free will arguments are philosophical anyway and not scientific. I think science could only validly deny freewill when all behaviour and mental states...
July 26, 2017 at 00:35
That I not an explanation causal or otherwise. It would be great if natural selection had given me wings so I could fly to the shops. You make it soun...
July 26, 2017 at 00:26
Robert Sapolsky was cited earlier in the thread. "Most recently, Sapolsky has been reflecting on the origins of human behavior, starting deep in the b...
July 25, 2017 at 20:12
Filtering out a negative mutation is not the same as causing a property to exist like the posited emergent property of consciousness. Consciousness ha...
July 25, 2017 at 19:04
Evolutionary psychology modular theory of mind is very biased, where it likes to put basic traits in service of reproduction hence their puzzlement ov...
July 24, 2017 at 21:26
This is very controversial you are ignoring large explanatory gaps. I don't see how selction pressures cause anything? Causes and dispositions we know...
July 24, 2017 at 21:21
I though I said this earlier. Determinism is a popular position in academia where the mind is seen as almost irrelevant and consciousness epiphenomena...
July 24, 2017 at 01:31
Heterosexuality is required but what it requires is much more complex than homosexual desire. Homosexuals just need to fancy each other. Heterosexuali...
July 20, 2017 at 18:24
There is huge literature in psychology and philosophy of mind and neuroscience etc. Posting links to one thinker Stepehen Pinker as authoritative (Or ...
July 20, 2017 at 18:17
Consciousness is experience and awareness of surroundings. There is no explanation as to why we have experiences ( including dreams, pain and other se...
July 20, 2017 at 18:15
Harry H.You are conflating the benefits of a feature with a causal explanation. Saying wings aid survival through flight is for example an explanation...
July 20, 2017 at 16:14
I do not. I think in words. In what way do I think in any images and how can you know this?
July 20, 2017 at 16:12
This is another abuse of "hierarchies" "1920s, Belgian ethnologists analysed (measured skulls, etc.) thousands of Rwandans on analogous racial criteri...
July 19, 2017 at 18:41
I don't understand how natural selection can select something if it doesn't already exist. Hence we are left with the issue of how these emergent prop...
July 19, 2017 at 18:14
In "Meaning Purpose and Intelligence" (1944) Kenneth Walker quotes Julian Huxley. "The purpose manifested in evolution, whether in adaption, specialis...
July 19, 2017 at 16:31
Here is a quote from a paper by a group of evolutionary psychologist. ". One class of limitations pertains to phenomena that are truly puzzling from a...
July 19, 2017 at 16:16
Something is only a solution if the environment is consistent day in day out.
July 19, 2017 at 13:23
There is no reason for minds to exist. The only valid explanation is an explanation of how consciousness is produced. Consciousness is involved in num...
July 19, 2017 at 13:22
That is a irrelevant to explaining how consciousness is produced. Determinists and epiphenomenalists and eliminativists believe that consciousness has...
July 18, 2017 at 22:12
Biochemistry is the field that explains how body's are created. I don't see how evolution could give a causal explanation of the mind? The mind in the...
July 18, 2017 at 13:06
Huge numbers of species go extinct so it is not as though there is a natural force that demands life must go on at all costs. There is a huge range of...
July 18, 2017 at 03:24
The problem is not the mind body relationship but how mind comes to exist at all. Our minds are full of a huge range of things including awareness of ...
July 18, 2017 at 03:19
I have a degree in philosophy and psychology and I have had to read a lot of on the Philosophy of mind. I had to read Dennett's "Consciousness explain...
July 17, 2017 at 15:45
Here's what Dawkins says in "The Selfish Gene" "What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA Just as in the primeval soup, ...
July 17, 2017 at 13:22
Evolution consists of numerous claims not just one truth. The truth might be "some form of evolution has happened". A lot of claims recieve validity b...
July 17, 2017 at 13:03
Personally as someone who overeats I find the enjoyable taste of food a treadmill. (See obesity, tooth decay, heart disease) I think music is one of t...
July 16, 2017 at 22:13
One of the problems for me is my parents made me believe Christianity was absolutely true (by intimidation among other things) Abandoning it lead to a...
July 16, 2017 at 17:03
What I said is that evolution deflates the reasons we give for reproducing. What ever reason you have for having children by having children you are j...
July 16, 2017 at 16:42
All that exists after a parent dies is copies of some of their genes. I don't see any need to do that and haven't. If death is the end then when your ...
July 16, 2017 at 03:05
We were talking about creation and I am pointing out your parents created you. What is the difference between your parents creating you and a god crea...
July 16, 2017 at 02:57
What is the point of surviving at all?
July 16, 2017 at 02:47
But you are indebted to your parents in the same way. You only exist because of them. being created doesn't mean you owe a debt. I have argued this in...
July 15, 2017 at 17:06
Survival without an afterlife is temporary Religions are about eternal survival not just surviving so you can reproduce.
July 15, 2017 at 16:58
What is the point of reproducing?
July 15, 2017 at 16:56
I think alot of evolutionary claims have implications and are not just value free facts. In analogy, someone might tell you that you were adopted and ...
July 15, 2017 at 14:46
But in the evolutionary literature things are described in terms of adaptive pathways and adaptive "benefits". There is a hierarchy and a notion of de...
July 15, 2017 at 14:43
Dawkins writings are contradictory. I already quoted him here as calling us Gigantic lumbering robots. Saying we should some how transcend evolution d...
July 15, 2017 at 14:32
Explain the treatment of homosexuality then. Theorists are attempting to explain homosexuality as having adaptive advantage. They are not happy with i...
July 14, 2017 at 20:14
The spoon inherits a purpose but we don't. It doesn't randomly exist. What purpose could we be said to have? In a trivial sense someone can claim watc...
July 14, 2017 at 19:54
Despite modern technology our life is still about brute survival. Everyday we are struggling to stay alive. It is easier to fulfil basic needs giving ...
July 14, 2017 at 19:22
Design makes purpose and meaning somewhat inevitable. A spoon has a purpose and meaning for us. If we are here solely by chance and with no intention ...
July 14, 2017 at 19:08
This is not the equivalent to justify killing numerous people based on a notion of the survival of the fittest or justifying racism and forced sterili...
July 14, 2017 at 19:05
This is actually Richard Dawkins position especially in the selfish gene. "They did not die out, for they are past masters of the survival arts. But d...
July 14, 2017 at 18:56
This is What Richard Dawkins has claimed: "The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the ...
July 14, 2017 at 17:49
There are many planets that have no life on them and we still appreciate them. (We seem to be obsessed with Mars). I think harm can be objective but n...
July 14, 2017 at 17:48