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The problem with this is that the world is more than individual perspectives. Science describes a world independent of that. We can't sense most of wh...

As Chalmers and Nagel have argued, the red sensation is not part of any objective explanation. Rather, it's either a label ("red light") or the known ...

You asked whether it was a part of metaphysics. I was explaining to you how it is. Whether you find it interesting is irrelevant.

It’s a question of whether objects having parts is coherent and consistent with physics. If not, then complex objects don’t exist. Kind of similar to ...

Even if we say red sensations are relational, we're still left with the problem of explaining how the neural activity which produces them does so. So ...

The hard problem arises here because we have sensations of a world which is different from our objective explanations of that world. Red isn't a certa...

I somewhat agree with this, if we grant Dennett's arguments for quniing qualia. However, you do seem to be espousing illusionism in this paragraph. Wh...

Khmer Rouge's cultural revolution: It only cost about 2 million lives or 25% of the population of Cambodia. Of course that's one of the worst case sce...

I wonder what that makes Frank Herbert. His Dune saga has the oppressed become the oppressors as they wage a holy war. But it was setup by the oppress...

Everyone has something to lose as long as they are alive. Wars have collateral damage, and they can disrupt food supplies. They can also result in eve...

There's a big difference between pushing for changes within current institutions, and wanting to dismantle them in favor of new ones, which often mean...

I should have specified in terms of funding and global reach.

The US has massive geographical advantages with two large coastal areas on the Atlantic and Pacific in addition to the Great Lakes and the Gulf. Plus ...

True, but then this doesn't explain why we think a modern scientific account of the physical world is better than some previous mythological or metaph...

Because Occam. And I think Quine. But mostly because it seems the more complex, everyday stuff is determined by the micro stuff.

Aren't their truths about individuals? I can say I'm angry, you can say that I don't look angry. I can reply that I'm holding it in. Surely there is a...

You do this by influencing public opinion or those in power. While it's true that we can critique the morality of public opinion or those in power, if...

Usually in philosophy, one is not hemmed in by an either-or. People are frustratingly good at finding alternatives. There are many approaches to consc...

As opposed to laboring for yourself to provide for your family? Let's say at the end of your labors your children inherit enough to start a bakery. At...

Doing something that disregards someone else's well being, to the extent you're in a position to be responsible.

It all depends on what's meant by being "selfish'. Someone could say you're being selfish by staying inside playing video games instead of going out t...

No. When it harms others.

I feel like positivism is misguided and can't support it's own claims.

The problem with this line of thinking is that it justifies society telling you what you can and can't do with your own body, depending on what societ...

Assuming we know what "physically real" means. As for effects, we can say the existence of categories of particulars in the world is an "effect" of un...

There's plenty of posits in science which are not empirical, like quarks. They're used to explain the empirical. Thus the debate around scientific rea...

More like people started congregating in permanent villages, giving rise to the city state. Once people have permanent digs, ownership becomes more me...

Or those who think metaphysical arguments are meaningless dismiss logical arguments because they don't feel like those arguments are discursive. See h...

There's entire SEP articles on various metaphysical positions explaining what is meant. But every attempt at explanation gets dismissed by those who t...

I believe they take basically an anti-realist stance regarding ontology. Yeah, the world exists without us, but no, we can't say anything about that w...

I'm not sure how. At least the Cylons from the recent BSG and Replicants from Blade Runner were synthetic biology, not electronics.

So, did Peter not notice his lack of eating, pooping, peeing, sweating? What about sex drive? If his innards are a bunch of electronic circuitry, then...

Right, but I wouldn't be saying that i know it's raining outside, but believe otherwise!

While I could say, "It's raining outside, I don't believe it", I couldn't actually be saying that truthfully.

Sure, but let's say Johnson kicked that rock to prove it was solid against atomists claiming it was a bunch of atoms and the void. Then low and behold...

I like the two related examples: Samuel Johnson's kicking a rock while hollering, "I refute it thus!", and Diogenes walking away from an argument clai...

I certainly believe that I know Moore was full of shit waving his hands around, thus the common phrase, "hand-waving an argument away". Now tell me I'...

Yeah, it does seem like a sleight of hand. But it does also play into belief versus knowledge and certainty, so I could see where it's a jumping off p...

It can be uncomfortable for you and even personally wrong, but some people want causal sex, and that's fine for them. Or at least, it's for them to de...

Do you really think there is some kind of consistent coordination amongst the super rich and politically powerful? Do Soros and Koch brothers and Puti...

Regularities are a strange concept. A always follows B for no reason is very odd. It's strange because there are plenty of times where C does not foll...

Or I don't. But I believe I do. So therefore I think I can say something true about myself.

I don't believe there is life on Mars. But let's say there is. I can truthfully say that I don't believe there is life on the Red Planet. But I'm wron...

I thought McGiilicuddy does know it's raining. But McGilicuddy is referring to MacIntosh's not knowing and thus not believing. MacIntosh can't refer t...

It's true that MacIntosh doesn't believe it's raining, but that's because they don't know it's raining. So there's no reason for MacIntosh to make suc...

Relativity is just as objective as Newtonian physics, but because the speed of light is a constant (which is an objective measure), space, time and ma...

This is "Man is the Measure" in modern garb. Problem is that all the findings of science over the past several centuries from astronomy, geology, pale...

Good thing feudalism got replaced by capitalism. But I supposed a society could be structured around there being no substantial property ownership. We...

Or writer, artist, entertainer. Plagiarism is a thing, and I don't want the hard work of some to be copied by others without compensation. That's why ...

The hand waving is happening on the side claiming there is no meaning.