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What?

I don't. If what you say is to have any impact at all it ought at the least be factually correct. Our senses and scientific instruments can detect tim...

The "state" is a nationalistic notion, and so comparatively recent. The government is better defined as those who claim and are given a monopoly on th...

There's that odd word "exactly" in there. We can compare feelings.

I've no clear idea what you are asking.

Avoidance. We understand what it is to ask if your phone is the same as mine. We can bring the phones out and compare them and make a decision one way...

"Are your feelings exactly the same as mine?" is not a question? The load is treating the beetle as a subject when it ain't.

Hmm. So you are saying that we can measure time but not detect it. With a straight face?

Indeed; if you wilfully misunderstand the notion of time, you can convince yourself that there is a mystery where there isn't. Our senses and scientif...

As for Bergson and Einstein, a good analogy can be made by translating their difference into spacial positions instead of temporal positions. Bergson ...

I didn't say change is time. I said that you are wrong to claim our senses and scientific instruments can detect time.

You simply avoided the point: our senses and scientific instruments can detect time.

I talk a lot of folk misappropriating language; it's something that Wittgenstein pointed out, and well worth paying some attention to. But consider ag...

We're all linguistic philosophers now.

"It seems to me..." is not an argument. Curiously, the time of each of your posts is shown directly under them. Further, I'm writing this after you wr...

The cancelling of live concerts, of course. Watched Steeleye Span yesterday - paid tickets and everything. But the drums just aren't loud enough. A co...

I think that far too simple. Have a look at around §48 of Philosophical Investigations, but read "token" for "simple". What counts as a token is depen...

Well, if you think a token is an experience, one of us is wrong. But to be clear, there is no one understanding of the type-token distinction. It's a ...

I'm thinking that we've reached the end of what is doable here. Seems there is something underpinning the misunderstanding. "Experience" is being trea...

I prefer a tea.

Look - even your spelling checker knows that I am instrumental.

Ah. Some folk here may think tokens are a type of experience or qualia. That would explain the weird digression. Fuck.

Here's what you said: If there are two of them... SO here's another example of tokens:You agree? Suppose you and I are both looking at that sentence. ...

Yeah - I don't see a point in continuing. Think in my last post, 'cause you missed it.

As I said, you are not following the discussion.

I'm not writing it again.

"Rose is a rose is a rose" The first "Rose" is one of three tokens. We both see it. Are you saying there are two of them? 2 people, one token.

Yep; so it is possible for two people to share the same pain-token (ugly - but others insist on this terminology...) QED...

Nor I, yours. I think it possible. That's all that is required.

Did you see the end of the argument: DO you agree with that. too? If so, ...and we are back to post 5, after an interesting journey.

What?

Token.

I notice you are not interacting with the discussion.

That's not an argument. It's clear that this conflicts with your preconceptions, nothing more. That's about you.

Of course. Hm. I don't see that this helps you. Perhaps Salinas felt the pain just as his patient did. You need something much stronger.

Yeah, I live a half-day in your future. The first link will not open for me. The quote you cite does not support the contention that Synesthesia can b...

I don't think there is anything mystical here, as the word transcendent might imply. It just seems that Salinas can feel a pain in his foot, and in hi...

All the type-token distinction seems to do is to change the words being used. Is Salinas experiencing the same token as the patient? Or is it a pain o...

SO... you have a preference for irrelevancies that are well-documented. FIne. You don't have to be here. Take a break of you like. In between posts I ...

Glad you are amused. SO we agree that synesthesis is different to empathy. "...it would be impossible to feel the pain of another unless one were psyc...

Yes - and is at pains to differentiate empathy from synesthesia, describing how the synesthesia supports his empathy. They are not the same. Ah, the t...

Just to be clear, the contention is not that Salinus does feel another's pain; it is that he might; that it is possible. It is enough to show that it ...

The contention is that another person cannot feel your pain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9va-GPDLnmU A video - even easier to understand than the ...

Yes!

Me either, sometimes. I’m updating the system on the laptop I use, cooking dinner and watching a Steeleye Span concert, so concentration is laps. Anyw...

...isn't that my argument? Are we now agreeing?

- a family resemblance.

Then triangulation or radical interpretation or whatever you prefer. It still has: ...as if there were one experience of looking at a red apple. Does ...

Meh. That's about you. While you have a decent understanding of aspects of science, your background in philosophy is pretty restricted. I don't think ...