We talked about this 5 years ago! Probability calculations are based on models and intuitions about situations. In this case, disagreements are not ab...
Eh, possibly necessary => necessary is reasonably easy to argue against. I don't like it for the above stated reasons. That lets you conjure up the lu...
First quibble: it isn't demonstrated to be any particular god, just an entity which satisfies G. The only thing which makes it god-ish is that G is as...
I've never liked this one. Possibly necessary => necessary doesn't seem, to me, to be an adequate model of what a Godlike "necessary being" would look...
@"Andrew4Handel" - you were warned about remarks like this before. Consider this a second warning. In the interest of understanding, the specific mode...
Depends on the context? Sometimes someone really won't know what they're doing. And sometimes it'll be a case of misunderstanding your interlocutor. S...
What is it like to employ a motte and bailey fallacy. I think it feels like this. 1 ) I believe X. 2 ) Another person tries to show X implies Y. 3 ) I...
I know the feeling. Nowadays I have what I call the "Internal Twitter". It's a kind of intrusive bad faith interpretation. If anything could be constr...
How young do you think it should start? I remember starting it at 6 for other cultures and religions (we had India and Islam at that time). Seems abou...
We've had this discussion before, and it proved impossible to have it in good faith. So I shall leave it. This may come off as patronising, but I prom...
Vague thought splurges. I think so. You do get taught about religions for the purposes of normalising them and the people who practice other ones. You...
I don't think it was bad of you. This is a Philosophy Forum and you were clearly acting in good faith. I think it highlighted the context sensitivity....
Didn't Contrapoints do a bunch of work to show what the bailey was and what the motte was? I remember that they've previously shown that comment to be...
I have some idea of the link between the unstructured activity of 1968 students and the tendency toward bureaucratisation. Just a speculation though. ...
ChatGPT 4's one was much more thorough. I spent a bunch of this evening playing about with 3.5's censor. After some finagling I managed to get it to d...
Me : What are the commonalities between the Lovecraftian entity "Azathoth" and Bishop Berkely's comments on the persistence of entities? GPT: There ar...
ChatGPT (3.5). I've read your chats with 4 here. Yes! I tried that with the book "Conflict Is Not Abuse" by Sarah Schulman. It could rehearse the usua...
It shows an impressive breadth of knowledge on technical topics. I got it to come up with a plausible research program (I know it's plausible because ...
@"Jamal" @"Janus" Yeah, figs are pretty great. Especially in porridge. A good reason to imagine p-zombies is that they illustrate differences between ...
Perhaps. That's just about H. though. If you're engaging with other strands of thought I believe you've got a responsibility to translate into a more ...
My guy I think this is still Heideggerese. I'm just going to provide the obligatory "concepts are seen as present as hand rationalisations of blah bla...
I get the opposie impression. But honestly I can't be bothered going through Chalmers or secondary literature to decide what's right. I imagine they h...
True! I think it would also apply to brainstuff and brain behaviour though. You see (neurons arranged in some way), it makes it more likely the organi...
That's not the negation of the version of physicalism/functionalism which gets attacked. If the position is "consciousness is necessarily explainable ...
Because I want to have my devil's advocate cake and eat it too... Assuming you don't want to beg questions, you also need to suppress the intuition th...
Aye. I'm not exactly trying to defend the ideas, just gatekeeping how they're argued against. I'm also not strongly committed to what I've written. I ...
I imagine you'd have to be wary of expecting a functional definition involving, solely, body and environmental states. If their arguments go through, ...
They're stipulated as true. But they can err in their expression of their intended concept. Like sets and unrestricted comprehension. In that case, wh...
I just wanna provide pushback on this linear definition->theorem->proof characterisation of mathematics. As Lakatos highlights in Proofs and Refutatio...
I think this misses a step. If you don't already agree what consciousness is, roughly, then it's difficult to ask discriminatory questions one way or ...
@"Mikie" @"Fooloso4" A) Largely non-cognitive, spontaneously improvising flow state within a mastered skill is the same as B) readiness to hand + disc...
I should have been clearer. There's another two reasons I think of that any proposed account could fail: internal inconsistency, category error. As fa...
Eh, being able to articulate the problem entirely, or even partially, in functional terms is also contested. You don't need to deny the idea that the ...
I know this wasn't addressed to me. But I can think of two possible requirements you might want from this? The first demands a bare bones functional a...
Makes sense. Construing the debate as unfounded is also part of the debate unfortunately. See "Quining Qualia" by Dennett and Strawson's responses to ...
Also @"Isaac". I don't like default position chess when the grounds of a substantive disagreement isn't established. I think it's a responsibility of ...
Thank you! While I think this is a desirable state to be in - self consistent, self critical, accountable - my gut reaction to these quotes is that th...
I imagine the latter, but I can't draw a strict line between that and philosophy. I read Heidegger, I don't lose the Cartesian goggles unless forcing ...
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