I should also have mentioned that writing principally to help you make a superintelligent AI in your basement (so to speak), skirts extremely close to...
Use the concepts, explain them, engage with other users about other debates. Write OPs that present an issue in a detailed manner with open questions ...
Users should or users can upon request? "Users should" sounds incredibly difficult, I've had some experience with a "users can" framework while develo...
I know it wasn't exactly what you said. I wanted to raise that point because the discussion you and I are having could be read in a similar vein. Deta...
Naw, it's why I wrote "on that basis alone". We have plenty of similar-ish threads, as you say. Phenomenology uses introspection as well and that's su...
Personal reflection on your own thoughts and experiences is not, on that basis alone, philosophy of mind. It is conversational in tone and almost devo...
Yeah that seems sane. I'm just trusting your coordinate transforms though, since I assume you will have copied them from a source. Edit: you might wan...
Yes. It's from the popular work Loving Hands Are Everywhere: Deferred Touch and the Public Eye, it makes a case that human sensory faculties are dispe...
I started reading Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) by Marshall McLuhan today. It has an eerie prescience. I learned that it is the or...
I don't think it's a theorem in PA, it's a theorem about PA. PA + some additional axiom could make cons(PA) a theorem, but that wouldn't be a theorem ...
It's quite difficult to tell what your ideas' relationships are to ordinary philosophy positions. Every variety of realist and anti-realist would agre...
I read that book (Practical Ethics). It's really not that bad. In fact the discussion uses very similar premises to the abortion argument. I found his...
For me it's a particular set of cultural theory tropes. They're generally working in paradigms like "subtle realism", "new materialism" or the less ne...
Singer's argument for abortion being permissible is very clear cut. So long as a being has no preferences, a being who has preferences regarding the f...
You cease believing in objective properties, that's one of the steps to the conclusion. You don't. If I read your remark out of context, and didn't kn...
Och, I've made it. I imagine you've never had the pleasure of interacting with these people, so you're able to do the sensible thing and see "science ...
@"fishfry" The annoying bit isn't recognising that stuff is discursively mediated, the annoying bit is saying that because it's discursively mediated ...
It's sort of true. The move also denies that eg 2+2=4 is true. It's just valid as a statement of mathematics. The medical equivalent I saw was that......
Writing papers in social science. Though I've not seen the specific attitude for maths, I've seen the attitude recently for medicine. Medicine is what...
That's the contradiction though. There are two ways in which we could fail to understand something like fundamental reality, the first of which is the...
You've ended up understanding things with concepts which you've prior stipulated as being unable to understand with concepts. That is the rub. It's a ...
Sort of. Expecting to understand the thing in itself is like expecting to be able to bake a unicycle. Personally I don't enjoy Kant's phenomenon/noume...
Roughly - because the first entails that the judgement only applies to perceptions, whereas the second entails that judgement also applies to the thin...
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