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Back more on topic... I like that line of thought so much I’m planning on majorly expanding the last chapter of my philosophy book to address it, this...

No, and that’s kind of the point. If you have no experiential knowledge of anything like color, the only way to get it is to experience color. Whether...

That is the entire point. What something is like to experience cannot be described, other than comparatively with other experiences. You fundamentally...

And those are still experiences of color, and if they had not had them, they would not know what it’s like to experience color. As I said before you k...

When you imagine yourself running, you have memories of running or at least similar motor functions with which to generate that mental image. When you...

Hallucination etc are still experiencing it. Like I said, you could use third-person knowledge to recreate a first-person experience, so Mary could su...

That is roughly the same point I am making, so thanks.

Well I agree that Mary could not know what it’s like to see color no matter how much other information she had. You have to undergo an experience to k...

My sex example is meant to make more clear what the Colorblind Scientist example is trying to get across. And it’s not so much question-begging as it ...

Or every physical system at all, as in my physicalist panpsychism described earlier. There is a first person what-its-like experience for everything, ...

That is a very good way of describing the “mystical experiences” that I have had, and just as I earlier in this thread described how I’ve observed suc...

That is a good point. I was imagining those who would answer “not at all” as being those who feel no confidence in their own philosophical studies whi...

You know you don’t have to be confined to the false dichotomy of either the mental reducing to the material or vice versa? Back in college I found mys...

Thank you for the opportunity, that's exactly what I'm here for. :)

Just curiosity about the demographics here.

@"god must be atheist" already covered this as far as Tolstoy is concerned (I was just summarizing the video for those who don't want to watch it), bu...

I agree that the first distinction is a useful one to make, but thought it was so self-explanatory as not to be worth mentioning. For the latter disti...

I think this is an interesting kind of... inverse, maybe?... of my view on supernaturalism. The way I would define "natural", everything is necessaril...

The bit that I actually typed out in this thread is just the very start of my moral framework; it's just the reason not to give up and fall into nihil...

TL;DW for the Tolstoy vid: the most important time is now, the most important person is the one you're with right now, and the most important action i...

"Morally right action" is synonymous with "thing you should do". So whatever you think is morally right is the thing that you think you should do, and...

http://geekofalltrades.org/_photos/2019-10-17-MOTP-Flowers-and-Cozy-Dell/IMG_8934.jpg On my evening walk tonight I was reflecting on this whole debate...

I recently wrote something very similar to that as part of the final chapter of my philosophy book; something like "If nothing mattered, then it would...

Depends on what you mean by "purpose" and "put here". I don't think humans were put anywhere on purpose, but something doesn't have to be made by some...

I agree completely, and to save @"dazed" the reading of my whole philosophy work I linked earlier, maybe I should just paraphrase the most relevant pa...

Yeah the solution I think is to replace the lost principles with new ones. I am firmly of the opinion that there is actually an objective morality to ...

Not me. I got into philosophy specifically because I was interested in the most general and fundamental parts of everything else I was interested. For...

The problem with the racism = power + prejudice model is that it rules out simple racial prejudice from the referents of "racism", whereas I'd expect ...

I wouldn't characterize "what I consider to be philosophical ideas" as "basic epistemology". As I've listed several times here already, it includes a ...

I'm not sure why I was tagged in this response? I'm not arguing against any of that. Sounds like that's all meant to address Hallucinogen, whom I was ...

Given that outcome is the product of ability and opportunity, if you assume there is equality of opportunity, then differences in outcome are indicati...

I think there is a trade-off when it comes to knowledge, of both reality and morality. On the one hand, the better we know what is true and what is go...

I'm still waiting for an answer to my earlier question for the people who consider themselves “against colorblindness”: is treating everyone the same ...

I'm guessing you're one of the people who voted option #3? If so, thank you for explaining your manner of thinking, that's exactly the kind of thing I...

Yeah, this whole argument seems to hinge on a supposed right of retribution that one is waiving in being merciful. I'd argue instead that there is no ...

I don't disagree; that's why I said it would make an an enormous practical difference in how to live one's life. But though how to live your life in p...

I don't think that's necessarily true. Those things make a significant practical difference in life, in the same way that scientific and political que...

Thank you for giving some concise and to-the-point questions, as requested. However, I disagree that those are questions that would not have been aske...

The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel gives a kind of neat narrative overview of how the whole field has unfolded over time. On a much ...

The fourth option should cover that. Saying that atheism is an incidental consequence is not saying that it is of consequence. Being of consequence wo...

A system of morality that doesn't have anything to say about marriage and divorce implicitly considers them morally irrelevant. Just like a system of ...

Kant may have been religious sure (but see the rest of this thread since), but his Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals never says anything like “...

The actual scriptures predate the Christian philosophy I'm talking about, which as other have mentioned adopted a lot of Platonist and Neoplatonist th...

The same (or analogous) is true of all modern states and equally a (major) problem, but nevertheless I am still glad to have some government rather th...

The relationship of the medieval Christian church to education strikes me as analogous to the relationship between modern states and government. I’m a...

The philosophical tradition that gave rise to modern science passed down through a phase of Christian heritage, sure, but it also predates it, at leas...

I don’t see where you’re coming from with this whole “atheists don’t have systems” thing. For myself, my philosophy is extremely systemic, probably mo...

FWIW, I was raised in a religious family (evangelical even) but grew out of it along with Santa Claus etc, and it wasn’t until early adulthood that I ...

That is historically true, but not relevant to the point at hand. We are asking if you buy into the theist message or not. There’s a special term for ...

This is turning into a debate more about terminology than the topic it’s meant to convey. I’ve clarified what I meant by the terms in the question, an...