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So how does this account for lying and manipulation? Or someone putting on a front to appear acceptable? How about all the times we wonder to ourselve...

I don't see how dreams fit with this approach. Your body is normally paralyzed during dreams, and your dream content is usually imaginary. You're not ...

So naive idealism? Ancient skepticism would have a field day with this approach. The stick appears bent in water. The honey appears to taste bitter to...

I'm thinking it was for aliens in the Andromeda galaxy 10 billion years ago.

So technically speaking, a p-zombie would have to be a sociopath, although they probably would behave normally, statistically speaking.

At least p-zombie Jesus wouldn't feel pain on the cross. In fact, there were Docetists who argued that Jesus didn't suffer.

Alright, so a p-zombie would be the functional equivalent of the first since it lacks awareness.

Well, what if the only universe that existed was the p-zombie one? Then physicalism would have to be true! I swear that sometimes Dennett and friends ...

He's the real question. Would Jesus die for p-zombies?

You never imagine or dream red stuff? At any rate, I'm sure you've experienced pain. You probably don't have experiences for some of the time you're a...

You've never experienced red or pain or love? Sorry to heart that!

That obviously happens in many situations, so it would seem to be a problem for idealism, not materialism. The materialist would just say our sensatio...

You mean qualia? Because "awareness" or "self reports" are not considered consciousness by philosophers like chalmers, since they can be defined in pu...

Someone yells across the canyon. You can hear the voice echoing off the walls. Do you think the experience of the echoes convinces you the sound was p...

I think if you had reason to believe someone was just acting as if they loved you, but didn't, and the relationship was based on the belief in mutual ...

I seriously think we should examine the world we experience and use that to guide our reasoning, instead of just reasoning from first principles. Scie...

The problem is evolution acts on biological entities. It's the reason we have the theory. To explain how there are different species of life forms ove...

What if your reasoning is flawed? What if your premises are faulty? One should start with a scientific understanding of the world, since it's built on...

That's one interpretation of QM. Decoherence, Many Worlds or Pilot Wave would probably say that macro-scale objects do exist out there independent of ...

So what is the fitness consequence of my actions if it's not a snake? What makes evolution the proper account if we can't say there are real snakes an...

Has philosophy settled the question of what truth is? Last I checked there were several positions still being argued for. Unless the deflationary one ...

But there is also a subjective idealism that rejects objective reality since they don't locate ideas in the mind of some supreme or universal mind. It...

Best way to drink it (minutes brewed, cream, anything to eat with it, etc)? I'm not Aussie or British, so forgive the ignorance.

There's no reason an extended object in space needs to be indefinitely divisible. Atomic theory would say atoms making up the object are indivisible. ...

So I have to do homework in these threads now? I can't just react?

They don't have the shade of gray in common? Let's try a harder one. Do two electrons have the same charge in common? Is the problem with the phrase, ...

Do you have an explanation why there are philosophers who disagreed with Berkeley's arguments to this day?

They don't seem self evident to me. What then?

So to do philosophy, one must start by assuming idealism is true? This argument has turned into sophistry. Nobody is forced to accept Berkeley's premi...

So I reject that premise.

I said I disagreed that sensations only resemble other sensations. Why must I accept that premise?

I didn't quote you? I didn't assume the truth of idealism. I said Berkeley's idealism is internally consistent.

The things which are responsible for your mind having something to assimilate. Also that which you ends your experience. How does Schopenhauer account...

So if one doesn't accept Berkeley's "self-evident" truths, one is guilty of dogmatism? One wonders why all philosophers aren't idealists then!

I would disagree there. Sensations resemble physical things, or at least real things which are not always sensed by some mind. Because we have real bo...

You're right I don't understand the point of what Schopenhauer is trying to say. It doesn't explain the end of experiences, and how we have objective ...

Yes, and it's this sort of implied idealism I was wanting to criticize. If there is no perspective outside our subjective experiences (like God or the...

So Berkeley's version? I said in another post that's consistent. God keeps covid in mind as an idea. I'm an atheist, so I don't find that very convinc...

There's only kind of idealism? Tell me what it is then, and what it means for covid to exist for an idealist.

Depends on the idealist and what is meant by "covid exists". I would ask you how covid exists outside sensible experience and it not be material/physi...

That covid is a theoretical explanation under a materialistic framework for pandemic experiences. This isn't my first idealist rodeo on here. Granted,...

Do you include viruses in the sensible world outside experience which cause human sickness and death?

I agree that sort of idealism is consistent. It's not that different from Berkeley's God in the Quad argument that God keeps everything in mind, so of...

I'm not a materialist (solely) because of consciousness and abstract objects, but the the problem with idealism in the modern world, is our scientific...

I get that. I'm saying that it's odd that we have all those visual representations of mental processes that are said to be explanations for our experi...

But COVID isn't just the symptoms people experience, it's the explanation for the pandemic, and why millions have died. It's also not just the experie...

But then I'd wonder about the chemical makeup of paint, and the atomic structure of the canvas. Many of those things exist outside of human experience...

So how do account for evolution, geology and cosmology? Were there always some kind of minds around to have ideas of stars forming, mountains wearing ...

I'm not sure about Ryle's assessment of the University. Take the emergent complex behavior of ant colony and apply that to human social structures. Th...

You can visualize with your eyes closed. The images don't come from your eyes, they come from your imagination.