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True, but every argument starts with premises the reader is expected to likely agree with, otherwise it can’t get off the ground at all. A good philos...

The thing that a philosophical zombie, if it existed, would lack: the having of a first-person phenomenal experience, not merely the performance of th...

That is, again, exactly what I reorganized to do. Instead of starting off with attacks, I start off with the most boring uncontroversial common sense ...

I can’t speak for concrescence, but prehension and epochal make perfect sense to me without having heard them before, just based on their roots.

I’m only superficially familiar with with Whitehead. What neologisms did he coin?

One of the main things I was hoping to get was feedback on exactly where people got stuck like this, so I could know where I need to change it, take s...

Words are used different ways in different contexts, and acknowledging that isn’t abusing language. Many philosophers frequently use “consciousness” t...

The atoms don’t have separate experiences; their experiences are tiny parts of your experience, just like their behaviors are a tiny part of your beha...

What is to stop considering any thing as the subject? That’s basically the thesis of panpsychism: all objects are also subjects. Objects from rocks to...

A vice is a negative quality. What else would you call them?

It’s more that I would like to reach anybody who has any of those three vices. I want to spell things out as slowly, simply, and easily as possible fo...

For my part, I think in a completely sane world we wouldn't need a name for it, because phenomenal consciousness is a trivial thing about which there ...

Oh okay that’s good. I know the project management triangle is old but I thought your “brilliant” was sarcastic. I’m not just directly applying that s...

You seem less than earnest.

This thread isn’t supposed to be about me or my book, but whatever, if that’s all anyone wants to talk about... I’m only looking at form because that’...

The Project Management Triangle assumes that people would like their projects done as well as possible, as quickly as possible, and at as little cost ...

Sounds like basically the same reason who wrote your history. To make some minor contribution to the field. I didn’t find what I was looking for in my...

I think it’s important in many philosophical contexts not to argue over what the “correct” definition is, but to explore the relevant questions about ...

Most of what I want to say here has already been said by others, but just to be clear about myself: The original idea is not to actually assume bad th...

You seemed to miss the part where I was sucking it up and trying to heed his advice anyway despite being advised by ithers not to, until he commented ...

It was literally taught by many of my philosophy professors, and if you google “lazy stupid and mean” together with “philosophy” and “writing” you’ll ...

I think the delivery is very important. If anyone ever takes my maxim as implying that they’re not trying hard enough rather than just encouraging the...

That sounds pretty cool. And thanks, I'm feeling pretty good today. :-)

Well from what I recall from my religious studies classes, there doesn't seem to be much canonical mention of heaven (or for that matter hell) at all ...

That you said I wasn't trying hard enough, and directly in response to me referencing my maxim, admitting that maybe I shouldn't reasonably have had a...

An infinite string is only guaranteed to contain every finite string within it if it is truly random. If there are any constraints on the infinite str...

I think that‘s not necessarily a bad thing, if you’re up front about that fact, and put together something new and worthwhile out of the old parts. If...

From what I've skimmed of your website, a lot of the ideas you put forward are not unheard-of among philosophers and physicists, including especially ...

Just wanted to say @"bert1" has been doing a great job in this thread. Also to add, on my own account of panpsychism, mentality or experience isn’t pr...

Not familiar with Bergson, but I think I’ve had a similar thought: that the meaning of life is enjoying just being alive while you can, and then doing...

“Sad is like happy for people who are deep”, said a Doctor Who character once. I used to sympathize with that, I think because dark feelings in litera...

Thanks to Jamalrob and all the admins, and everyone who said kind words while I was gone. (Carlos, I have no idea where you found such animosity, I fe...

I came up with my own objection to rent and interest before ever hearing about the Old Testament version of it (or the contemporary Islamic equivalent...

It seems to me that he is saying that both “matter” and “spirit” are reducible to “information”. Your B is a subset of A, not coextensive with it. C (...

I have no objection to actual equity investment: you spend money on some endeavor in hopes of making more money out of it. All I object to is charging...

Personally I am opposed to an asset tax strictly speaking, but I am very very strongly in favor of a usury tax. Any money made off of simply owning so...

FWIW, I also think that UBI can be sold to even conservative people in a way that I was pleasantly surprised to see the recent $1200 CARES stimulus pa...

That reason aside, I think UBI and the existing tattered net can be integrated together rather easily. Just make UBI-payments-minus-UBI-tax count as i...

Thanks for that. I hope to have time to work on this a bit later tomorrow, so I'll save this for then. Also got the girlfriend finally reading/proofre...

If you give everyone an UBI of $X and then tax everyone ($X/mean income)% of their income, it is mathematically guaranteed to be revenue-neutral (and ...

I think my views are a refined version of pre-philosophical common sense views, shored up to withstand the attacks on that common sense that bad philo...

I don’t understand the distinction you are making. Can you give me an example passage from the codex that is too “personal” and rephrase it in the ton...

The audience of people willing to pay for something is wider than the audience of people willing to read something for free? That seems counter-intuit...

Are you familiar with Alfred North Whitehead? I think you would like him a lot.

Nobody in my close circle of friends seems to be that kind of individual. I would generally characterize that kind of individual as “philosophy fans”:...

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I spent the first half hour of free computer time I've had in days trying to adjust my work in light of your criticism and that's "not trying hard eno...

Sorry, I'm unlikely to have the time, energy, or self-esteem to participate in this. (Same situation with that video game fandom... I've barely had ti...

The big hold-up is that the rich aren’t going to pay the workers the same money for “less work” = fewer hours, so if the work can get done in fewer ho...