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Sure, but that computer is made of stuff that can be described perfectly by more mathematical abstractions... such that the computer itself might be a...

Majority doesn’t make right, but it shows that this isn’t some crazy new idea of mine that needs to be conclusively proven before we can move on. It’s...

Jobs are created by people who have needs, and something to trade for the facilitation of those needs. In a reasonable world, entrepreneurs would crea...

That is similar to my kind of functionalist panpsychism. On my account, everything has whatever is metaphysically necessary for conscious experience, ...

The fact that YOU don’t agree with one point isn’t reason to halt the entire discussion that wasn’t even supposed to be about that point just to waste...

What's physical or natural is what can be checked against empirical experience. The supernatural therefore definitionally makes no difference that any...

Basically, if when you arrange a bunch of physical stuff, suddenly something metaphysically new starts happening that's not just a sum or aggregate of...

So does everybody. The difference, among those who even take any action to do something about it, is between saying "we shouldn't put up with this! we...

I wouldn't call panpsychism mainstream at all. The main ideologies seem to be "materialism" (physicalism) and Cartesian dualism mixed with neo-Platoni...

I take those, prescriptions and evaluations, to be more or less the same thing: the impression of opinions with world-to-mind direction of fit. I gues...

That is THE big thing to factor in, and the problem that gave rise to this whole thread. Not having an answer yet isn't the same thing as there being ...

Panpsychism isn't necessarily non-materialist (assuming by "materialism" you just mean "physicalism"). One of the biggest contemporary proponents of i...

A pragmatist one, especially hinging on the concepts of speech-acts (different types of which I plan on discussing over the course of this thread), wh...

Why is that a problem? I actually get to more or less that conclusion myself (that the universe is an abstraction), in the form of mathematicism. In t...

The broad sense is just the sense of “a statement that is correct” in any sense. The narrow sense is the sense of “a statement describing the world, t...

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If we take “fact” to mean something broader than a description of reality, then I would agree that there are non-physical facts, and moral facts are a...

It’s relevant because it’s the difference between them that you cited. If you can’t describe what that difference is, then it seems like a non-differe...

Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks otherwise: I’m not going to bother answering your long list of arbitration questions because it’s an obviou...

Thank you for reminding me that this thread is not supposed to be about me and Isaac yet again arguing about my entire meta-ethical system, but rather...

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They also aren't actually doing any of the work you listed, they just own the businesses that employ the people who did the work. The production of th...

Those are the employees of the entrepreneurs, not the entrepreneurs themselves.

Someone who starts a business venture, which typically in our capitalist society operate for the benefit of the entrepreneurs and other investors, wit...

Not entrepreneurs, but people whose surplus value the entrepreneurs siphoned up.

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Because they’re non-sequiturs. Do you know what that term means? It means they have nothing to do with the topic of conversation. Some of them are not...

You asked a bunch of irrelevant and poorly phrased questions, and you want to take the fact that I don’t give enough of a shit about you to engage wit...

It’s not about you “wanting“ them to be so, in that sense. I’m asking what would a “moral prediction” even look like? What is the thing you are lookin...

I said everything I have to say on the topic in the OP of that other thread and you didn’t say anything in refutation, just brought up nonsensical non...

I did. Because you asked before. There’s a whole thread about it still on the front page.

I voted “with philosophy” but the philosophy is pretty pragmatic and also kinda humorous: because nothing can’t exist, for there is no possible world ...

No, that’s a way of saying YOU don’t understand metaphysics.

No, that’s what listening to others’ reasons is, which I advocated and do. You’re talking about whose word is gospel: my own or someone else’s. My act...

What bad experiences? As I said, I never had a particularly strong break away from religion. I don’t feel angry or bitter about Santa Claus either. Th...

Moral claims aren’t in the business of trying to predict anything, so it’s not clear what you would even want from them to be the equivalent of “able ...

Thanks @"Echarmion" for joining in, you’ve already said most of what I would have said in response. Consider the negation of that. “I care about what ...

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Entrepreneurs create businesses, human social organizations that use wealth (or resources generally) to do something. The successful ones do something...

Opinions of any sort are inside your head, so by your reasoning anyone who is of the opinions that objectivism is true (i.e. anyone who thinks objecti...

Perhaps the missing piece of ethical sciences is what dissuades philosophers from entrepreneurship, if indeed they are thus dissuaded, which sounds pl...

Never mind evidence for the existence of God, how about evidence against the existence of him? Hello Problem of Evil.

Yes, a biased opinion is a wrong opinion. We can know someone is biased if we know of some reasons, some point of view, they are not accounting for. W...

Seriously, just stop this. You’re arguing in bad faith.

Even if that was true, which it isn’t, how do you decide where to stop and say “this is the last turtle”? How do you know your God is the last turtle,...

If you want to argue in bad faith, you do you. I’m out.

You’re not even making the littlest sense anymore. Everything is a non-sequitur. I’m out.

Depends on what you mean by “dying”. Is someone dying of a terminal disease that later gets successfully treated “not really dying”?

But you’ll also say that graphite is contingent, no? And is that energy contingent or not?