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Everything has a function, in the sense meant by functionalism, which is different from the sense you seem to mean. A function in the sense that it re...

That’s still the wrong way around. I’m not saying a right necessarily exists where a duty exists, but that a duty necessarily exists where a (claim) r...

That suggests that that notion of “free will” is not a useful one, and probably not what ordinary people mean, what the term was coined to refer to. L...

I think you read Hot Potato backwards; he’s against the 1500s attitude and applauding me for also being against it.

You all miss the point completely. Nobody has any problem with the behavior of human brains (weakly) emerging from the behavior of their constituents ...

Well, it is conceivable that in principle one could have a duty that is not toward another person, in which case one would have a duty while nobody ha...

The only reason (no pun intended) that reason is different is that the ordinary cases we refer to when we talking about someone acting "of their own f...

The "hard" in "hard determinism" signals that it is a view that holds determinism to be both true and incompatible with free will. The hard determinis...

Heat is only weakly emergent. Heat is an aggregate of ordinary motion. If you model the motion of all the particles in a physical system, you model al...

Dennett is famously not a hard determinist but a compatibilist. That's the whole point of "Elbow Room".

I would think that for a hard determinist, there would be no question about how to live your life. You’ll just live it however you live it, because it...

Necessity is not sufficiency.

As I understand it, it is somehow provable that there cannot be more numbers than the surreals.

Rights say nothing about bureaucracy. Do others have a duty not to punch you in the face? Is it wrong for them to do that to you? Then you have a righ...

It says that there is a first person perspectives that is had, but that having that is not mysterious or metaphysically weird, something that only hap...

Functionalism only addresses the easy problem of access consciousness. Critics then ask “but what about the hard problem of phenomenal consciousness?”...

Political liberty is not the same thing as free will, of either a compatibilist or incompatibilist sense. Those are three separate things.

Liberty rights are only one kind of right. Just as important are claim rights (your right against being punched in the face, for instance). There are ...

Can’t be given anything by someone who doesn’t exist. Also, rights aren’t the kind of thing that can be given, by anybody. And an unenforced right doe...

Ordinary functionalism explains what is different between human brains and your socks. All that’s left after that “easy problem” is some mysterious me...

I didn’t say that, I said the other way around. Rights are analyzable in terms of duties.

The causes involved in the process of reasoning. Reasoning is still a causal process.

Whenever one has a duty to another person, that other person has a right, specifically a claim right, because a claim right just is a duty owed to you...

A reduction in the potency of certain causes, freeing up other causes to be more effective, yes. As I said earlier: and

As I said, not everything has the same effect on everything. A stack of paper may blow away into total disorder under the effect of wind, but a stack ...

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Everything has an effect, but not everything has the same effect on everything. Having free will does indeed consist in being unaffected by certain th...

Those would be the surcomplex numbers discussed above, numbers of the form (a + bi) where a and b are surreal numbers. And as there are extensions of ...

I’m not talking about free will vs determinism, but about incompatibilism vs compatibilism. The free will vs determinism argument only applies to inco...

To be fair, the kind of free will Syamsu is on about is weirdly popular in the literature. It’s basically what incompatibilists think free will is abo...

When I fantasize about have double majored in CS and phil (“software engineering” wasn’t a major yet then, and was covered under CS) I imagine I would...

I agree wholeheartedly and wish I had double majored in philosophy and computer science (which I had considered at the time) instead of philosophy and...

:up: :clap: Also: same response to basically everything else you’ve said in this thread, which were mostly exactly the things I was going to say.

A purpose doesn’t imply that something was created on purpose. Things that just happen to exist by chance can still be put to a purpose, or serve a pu...

Something maybe relevant here: there was an actual experiment done where people wore goggles that flipped their vision upside-down, long enough for th...

Nah, I’m plenty concerned with its practical applications. My interests started with practical things and then got more and more abstract as arguments...

Thanks!

No worries from me. I can’t do the split myself, a mod has to, but I think StreetlightX has helped out with that before.

Should maybe the disgression about Gnomon's philosophy be split into its own thread since some people are still coming to this thread to talk about th...

Nope. Guess you still don’t get it.

Is it not more accurate to say that some surcomplex numbers are surreals, or that there is a complex extension of the surreals? Speaking of which, I n...

I’m not super well educated about continental philosophy, but I don’t see how those are antitheses of each other. Can you explain for me?

That rule is self-contradictory, so that kind of “number” can’t exist. But you could define a new kind of number — not the integers — which satisfied ...

Or any other form of unearned income. This entire project begs the question by basically saying "What if we treat all income as earned income? Therefo...

Probably. I'm in a rush to get to sleep. Someone will set me straight by morning.

As I understand it, the surreals are not only between all the reals, but also beyond them. They are basically the reals, which are all finite numbers,...

Thanks for that recommendation! I’m not clear exactly what two things he is a third way / synthesis of though?

That doesn’t appear to mean what I’m looking for in this thread, but it is a great word that describes both Kant and another of my favorite philosophe...

That's not what the state is, that's what the people is. The state is a monopoly on the use of force. You can have a people without a state, in princi...