Sure, but you’re still mistaken about at least one of those things, so you know it can’t be the case that all of them are true at once, and the range ...
It is easy to ground a disproof of something: just show a contradiction. E.g. if A = B and C, and you can show that B and C are contrary to each other...
Thanks. Though @"Olivier5" has already been participating extensively in a more recent thread where I expound on that far more greatly, and generally ...
Covid aside, I do think laws requiring clothes are puritanical and unjustified, and I’ve sometimes imagined that a great protest against victimless cr...
A “concentrated mind” (one under high pressure) is not necessarily a good thing. I know in a work environment I can get much more work of much higher ...
If I act upon a rock, it reacts: if I push it, it moves, if I shine a light on it, it reflects it, etc. That demonstrates that the rock is receiving i...
It's the only thing it could possibly mean if it's all that's supposed to distinguish a real human being from a philosophical zombie that is absolutel...
I've not failed to separate the concepts, I've intentionally drawn a connection between them: the only thing that phenomenal consciousness could be if...
On my account, a rock with phenomenal consciousness is just an ordinary rock, and a rock without phenomenal consciousness would thereby cease to exist...
No, that's backwards again. That tiny, trivial difference is the entirety of the supposed difference between humans and zombies. Eliminating the suppo...
I don’t need any cuddling. I don’t like Biden but if I was in a swing state I would vote for him anyway and not have any guilty conscience about that....
Because in comparison to all of the functional differences between a human and a rock, that difference between a human and a zombie is tiny. Take the ...
A zombie can do all those things, but supposedly it's conceivable that despite doing all that it would not actually experience the things that it does...
It seems like you're somehow understanding everything I'm saying backwards. Take a human being, in concept. Subtract everything about them that a phil...
The trivial thing that zombies still lack, after all of their functionality that gives every appearance of them being conscious to a 3rd person observ...
Yeah it was the sudden descent into meme posting that made me think he was beyond reasoning. At first I thought he might be someone who could be reaso...
That particular quote was not made under oath. The one that was made under oath was in the present tense, after the affair had ended (and hence was tr...
That is, I think, a positive aspect of the pseudonymity of the internet. There are ways that everyone deserves to be treated, and ways we bias our tre...
Which requires that they have brains and sense organs that function just the same as ours, and so can “see”, “hear”, etc, in every functional way — a ...
Saying “you can't have something without a first-person perspective” is exactly my kind of panpsychism. If you can’t have something without it, everyt...
Or else we are zombies ourselves (which eliminativists would say), but yes basically. I only say it's incoherent because I hold that you can't have so...
That sounds pretty much right. It sounds like we have different understandings of what a metaphysical claim means. As I understand it, a metaphysical ...
:up: :100: The state has power and it is going to use it. We should be doing things we can to limit its ability to abuse it. But also, meanwhile, it g...
And if you don't vote, and Trump wins, have you not then contributed to that even greater failure? That's the situation we're facing. Fail a little, o...
I'm surprised to hear you of all people asking for a justification to physicalism. Aren't you hard-core all-there-is-to-the-mind-is-the-brain? In any ...
No, I claim that strong emergence is like magic, and so impossible. So phenomenal consciousness (like anything else) cannot strongly emerge. But if it...
The issue of weak vs strong is precisely the issue, so we can't leave it aside. Well, strong vs weak, and access vs phenomenal consciousness. I think ...
In the ordinary sense by which rocks and such don’t seem to have minds or experience (but a philosophical zombie does at least SEEM to), I don’t say t...
Propositional logic is basically algebra with words and so should be teachable to kids who are also learning algebra. Following most philosophical arg...
I thought Nietzsche, Hobbes, Mackie and Rand were obvious for their egotism/nihilism, but I don’t see how someone like Singer who wrings his hands ove...
I’m arguing against the possibility of zombies, on the terms of people who are arguing for them. They construct their zombie argument whereby no matte...
Feeling bad doesn’t make anything better. One can completely acknowledge everything that’s wrong with Biden, and also see that voting for him is tacti...
If it could happen without “magic”, that would mean it was something that could be built up from non-conscious processes, and so would not be whatever...
Right, I forgot about that, sorry. Brain just went "W lost the popular vote in 2000" -> "W presidency was not won by popular vote", so I scanned backw...
On my account zombies are not possible. That's a large motivator behind panpsychism, to eliminate the possibility of zombies. Edit to elaborate: Take ...
It may be hopeless, but I'm trying anyway (that's literally my motto and the core of my entire philosophical system), and buying time gives more oppor...
Looking at the map on that link I just posted, I just realized how very very close that compact is to taking effect. If any ONE of the following state...
No states do that yet. There is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact where a bunch of states have agreed to do that, but only when there's eno...
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