Right, this exactly. Humans are adapted to an environment that doesn't exist anymore: the savanna of eastern Africa as it was during the Pleistocene f...
Yes, because by "behavior" I'm not speaking only of gross motor functions, but all of the stuff that our physical bodies do, including subtler interna...
I think this is on the right track. And further, I think that that kind of anxiety about the possibility of failure, the realization that everything w...
I agree. I hold that the relationship of philosophy to the sciences is the same as that between administrative fields (technology and business) and th...
What I meant was that the strict logical content of a sentence doesn't always include pragmatically implied information. Hence the examples about all ...
I am firmly anti-dualism and I find a usefulness for Chalmers’ distinction. However I do think the answer to the “hard problem” proper is trivial, and...
The notion of "incel" didn't exist back when I was younger, but I had what felt like a long period of hopeless-seeming loneliness in my late teens and...
I'm not really intent on participating here, but the sentence "the present king of France is bald" does express a proposition -- that there exists exa...
It seems like you didn’t read past that first line of my post, as the conclusion was all about finding a source of meaning independent of external fac...
Meaning is importance. Feeling like there is meaning in life requires feeling like you matter to the world, like you are valuable. Romantic love is on...
In case it somehow came off that I was saying that, I wasn't. I wasn't saying "exaggerations" as in the person calling something an illness is exagger...
That makes me think of the psychological hypothesis of bicameralism, according to which schizophrenia is a throwback to an earlier form of human menta...
This makes me think of a hypothesis I've been mulling over lately: are all mental disorders just distortions or exaggerations of aspects of normal men...
There's an old parable wherein three blind men each feel different parts of an elephant (the trunk, a leg, the tail), and each concludes that he is fe...
All that anybody ever sees is the world as it is, because there is nothing to the world but what it looks like. But nobody can ever see the entirety o...
I can only speak for California, but I know that Ronald Reagan (when our governor, pre-presidency) closed down all the state mental institutions there...
It doesn’t matter to you whether or not someone else’s observations match your own? Edit to elaborate: When it comes to figuring out what is real, peo...
Short version is suffering (phenomenologically, like as in pain) is bad, and nobody's suffering is any more or less important than anyone else's, and ...
Yeah I'm sure Elon Musk just works a few million percent harder and smarter than the average American. Sure, that conclusion doesn't follow necessaril...
That also sounds a lot like me. Honestly I think emotional empathy is a pretty weak justification for any notion of morality. I want to say to some pe...
Right, that's what made me think of the thought that I then posted. Like Wheeler's participation of the observer, on my view it is precisely our parti...
I guess I'm just seeing echoes of my past self in your self-description. There was a period in my philosophical development where although I had defin...
Right, I didn't mean to imply that anyone did. That's where the "useful idiot" part comes into play. They're making use of him, once he's there, but e...
One does not have to believe that all of economics is zero-sum in order to believe that theft is possible, nor that other forms of illegitimate transf...
This is how I’ve always looked at Trump. He’s a loud, attention-getting, useful idiot to the people in actual power, or rather worse still, the paid p...
From what you’ve said so far I think emotivist is the most succinct and comprehensive label for what you say you think, since it strictly entails nihi...
No worries. I don't need anything in particular in response. I wasn't originally even going to post that, it was just an idle thought I had somewhere ...
It’s because people generally cannot handle subtlety. Intellectuals discussing these things in detail should be acknowledging those subtleties, yes, b...
That reminds me of something I was just thinking about, with you in mind, earlier today. I was thinking about this thread, and about my own ontology, ...
Phenomenalism is all about understand things in general from an experiential, first-person perspective. Empiricism is specifically about understanding...
Emotivism is a theory of moral semantics. It's not just a theory that we use the emotional part of our brains when answering moral questions, but a th...
What does "physical" mean in that sentence? What is the metaphysical claim that (I presume you mean) empiricism isn't caring about there? I can't thin...
Is a person who was born with female phenotype, called “it’s a girl!”, raised as a girl, identifies as a girl, engages in all of the girl gender roles...
I think that the common error underlying pretty much all the positions I disagree with is assuming the false dichotomy that either there must be some ...
I believe the point is that the present system is forcing the people who actually run the companies -- the workers -- to accept the management prefere...
Not necessarily, no, but probably strongly correlated, much like sex and gender. Correct, though I want to be clear that my "bearing" concept is speci...
I've had this general thought as well. Parallel to it: preservation and suppression are the same thing, stasis, non-change. To preserve is to prevent ...
I think that a part of the problem is the failure (by everyone) to distinguish gender the social construct, like you're referring to, from feelings ab...
Extremely narrow wins are reasonably subject to recounts. Asking for a recount on a win by a single-digit number like that is not out of the ordinary ...
Physicalism is basically just monism, the view that there is only one fundamental kind of stuff, and all the apparently different kinds of stuff are j...
To my mind real and physical are as natural synonyms as moral and ethical. One is for description and the other for prescription. (And fun fact: “natu...
Ultimately it doesn’t mean anything different, because the supposed difference in kinds of things is a false assumption. But this applies equally to a...
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