Andrew4Handel

Are we really imagining someone else's experience or just remembering our own experience? When I was involved in the care of my seriously disabled bro...

I suppose my hypothesis would be is that "we will never be able to fully define memory or map it onto a single brain region" Or: "All mental states ha...

One issue that arises in the study of memory os the wide variety of types of memory. Muscle memory is considered part of playing the piano or riding a...

I had a late diagnosis of autism and that is a condition it seems where people see and experience the world differently to other people. Initially the...

I think the term objectively better is problematic. I don't think values can objectified. And I don't think you can get an "ought" from an "is". I thi...

I think the suffering and fear involved in dying is bad. If the death process was truly painless you would think believers would commit suicide to rea...

The mind-body problem could be renamed the mind-science problem. We are very familiar with our minds and bodies but science is best at explaining the ...

The surprising fact is that all we have access to is mind. We cannot know what anything is like independent of mind. Things you think are physical mus...

But Ryle is creating a straw man because no one thinks like that. In the UK we have The Open University where you study from home. I think most people...

As Judged by whom? Is it irrational to oppose all of the above?

I think morality as we now think about it has religious connotations and is about moral ought's and things we should do to be a good person or get int...

I think quibbling about definitions takes up a lot of philosophy. I think somethings existence does not rely in any way on how it is defined and it ei...

Gilbert Ryle taught Daniel Dennett and they both seem to be consciousness deniers which is a time wasting position. I think Descartes was right that t...

Can you cite a paper on this. It seems contradictory. Awareness is opposed to the unconscious. The only way I can understand it is to say that there a...

I think that there is a fundamental problem in defining something like the self in that it is not clear what it refers to and it seems to be down to t...

It is immaterial in the sense it is not correlated with anything physical and in the sense it is not objectively visible or in a one to one relationsh...

I think that if humans died out and all that was left was our artefacts then our artefacts would be evidence of us and the explanation of their origin...

But it has a specific function and serves an essential purpose just as much as a pen does if not more so. As I say I still think the no design positio...

That is not true though. A computer has numerous purposes and not one specific purpose and apparently unlimited potential. A pen can be used to sign a...

No it's not.

I am referring to intelligent design by humans which is intelligent design. Whether the whole or reality is intelligent designed is another issue. But...

It is not really a fundamental difference. What we do know is that intelligent design exists and that is all that matters to allow intelligent design....

If a creator does not need a creator then there is no infinite regress of creators. The believer in a creator does not need to say where the creator c...

Surely strawberries only consist of atoms? or maybe there is some other unknown component of strawberries that gives them their juicy red succulent st...

So you don't deny that computers are intelligently designed then?

Here is the logic: God created the universe therefore God must have a creator. Hence. Humans created the piano therefore humans must have a creator.

I live in a house, in a city. I am typing this on a smart phone. So yes. I see intelligent design all around me all the time. Are you denying the exis...

No.

People ask where is the evidence for design. Well it is all around us. Humans have designed/created/invented millions of artifacts including the compu...

I would like to hear the explanation of how a strawberry emerges from atoms.

I think people conflate emergence with dispositions. I have the the disposition to be angry but not all the time and only under certain circumstances....

I am mainly concerned with the question of whether someone's descendant can inherit guilt. It is a common theme in religion with the original sin and ...

Is any case clear cut? Do you think throwing money at the aforementioned countries will benefit them. Those three cases you mentioned are controversia...

I don't know what moral logic is. And I don't know if all ideology has a moral component. Camus seems to just be highlighting that what motivates peop...

Why does my opinion matter? I am citing Camus on the power of ideology to motivate versus science. I think evil is something that makes life hard to l...

Camus in Myth of Sisyphus says that few people will die for the sake a scientific truth but people will die because they judge life to not be worth li...

You didn't cite any of the article. It is very long. The mystery is when the emergent property is not predictable or when the concept of emergence is ...

Emergence is a mystery rather than an explanation. Why should A emerge from B?

But should they benefit from a crime someone else committed?

Privilege is advantage and who you're parents are determines what advantages you inherit especially inheriting money. It does seem to be a minority of...

If someone feels a wrong doing has been done and wants financial compensation they would have to make a case for it. But who should pay? The American ...

I am mixed race my dad was Afro Caribbean and My mother is Welsh and some of my ancestors may have been slave owners. My mother's mother initially dis...

The current situation is a result of past actions such as redlining in the USA and inherited privilege. As well as false notions of just dessert, fals...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/slavery-reparations-evanston-san-francisco-sheila-jackson-lee-b2272142.html "Louis Weathers didn’t k...

There is now increasing of the intergenerational effects of trauma including effects on the genes. Epigenetics. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/201...

I think the idea that science adequately explains things is probably an illusion or complacency in the same way some religious people believe there re...

What is the meaning of existence? How did I get here? How should I act? I think questions arise at least partly through discontent. Would we have any ...

I am beginning to think that philosophy is a cry for help trying to make sense of the world we have been thrown into.

I believe that the human situation and the human being are one of the big puzzles. Our cognitive capacities including our ability for self awareness a...

The laws of physics may be the only possibly scenario under which matter and life can exist. I think the problem with fundamental unknowns is that the...