Banno

It's the pants.

Thinking with his amygdala again.

:rofl: 'cause there's all them other sorts of tautologies.

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The argument for this?

Yeah, it's true.

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SO far as we can tell he is still using it.

Your error here is to do with reference, not knives.

But more to the point, what is it about 'mercans and Crocodile Dundee?

??? Are you willing to claim that this is not a knife? https://video-images.vice.com/uploads/1483068863071-Dundee.jpg And perhaps more interestingly, ...

Meh. Seems to me that you are assuming the cartesian divide, when you should be demonstrating it.

Rubbish. This is a knife. Therefore we know what a knife is.

Here's a container. It has a pressure of around a hundred thousand Pa. Reduce the pressure continually to zero. It has a pressure all the way down. Al...

Why?

The demonstrative presented by a famous Australian ought to have settled that. You gotta learn to listen: "This is a knife".

Well that will save you from having to think.

So back, if we can, to my objection to panpsychism. We have a clear idea of what it is to be conscious, as opposed to being unconscious; but that's no...

Then the point is moot.

To be candid, my suspicion is that you have panpsychism were you should have embodied cognition.

Can you set out why you think I am committed to emergentism? I suspect it would be revealing.

It's stuff we want to say, up until we say it and it is revealed to be nonsense. Or gets posted here.

Don't pass it to me.

Meh. It's the root cause of metaphysics, hence... ...and the aim of philosophical analysis is to show them the error of their ways. The alternative is...

When all else fails, change topics.

Isn't ethics about what one ought choose?

Because there is an alternative. The fact of hunger gives way to the choice of stewed vegetables or stewed babies... or potato chips.

Your point is sound. @"Qu King"'s argument is egocentric.

This thread does not strike its participants as a misuse of language? Here's a scale for assessing consciousness... Where do atoms rate? Are you going...

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Ok, so it is for you in some way fundamental. We could change tack somewhat and discuss the difficulties with that.

Did I say that making shit up was a bad thing? I've nothing against it, provided it is honest toil. But I will take issue with those who pretend the s...

Here, @"Qu King", you see a style of philosophising that we in the trade call "Just Making Shit Up".

So what? Why is that important? Again, only because you give it import.

Some of the things that resonated... An Australian style of philosophising that is argumentative but without rhetorical excess. Realism. A disdain for...

Why that? So for example why not take a Stoic approach to death and cultivate acceptance of it as a necessity of life?

Such as?

Nuh. Potato chips matter. I've run out of potato chips.

The point of my reply is to show you that the notion that nothing matters cannot be maintained with any degree of coherence; and further that what mat...

You wanted to do some philosophy. What did you expect? So what? Why would that elevate it above eating potato chips? After all,

So... you are undermining the premise of your title by claiming that your consciousness is more important than potato chips. QED.

I guess so. It's a prejudice I might have developed by watching too many SBS documentaries in which a French archeologist digs up a stone tool and fro...

It sure does. But you give no reason to desier the preservation of your own life. You simply drop it in, arbitrarily. Do you think you can choose just...

But the captions are in French...

That's bullshit. You just made that up. As if you could just choose what really matters...

That's a refreshing change. So many here base their opinions on what they don't know.

Yep. Someone's gotta pay for all this.

I find it very difficult to give serious consideration to any intellectual with a French accent. I find it hard to hear them over all my "bullshit" al...

This is an appalling thread. But obviously, that doesn't matter.