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So our minds touch? Or is it our perceptions that are touching? I don't think it is. Materialism does have difficulties with incorporating all aspects...

Yeah, I know that. But I don't see how. Walk me through how I go from ideas of your body in my mind to interacting with and perceiving your mind, whic...

My fault, read too quickly. Used to hearing about some tribe that thinks/does things radically different. Anyway, for what it's worth, I used Google T...

That doesn't work, because minds aren't ideas. See where I edited my previous post right before you responded.

Yes, bodies are more than perceptions for a materialist. This depends on whether the materialist can make a case for mind being a part of a living bod...

I never understood how idealism justified this stance. I get that metaphysically non-solipsistic idealists maintain there are other minds, but how the...

We could also ask the Indonesian if rocks are made up of smaller things we can't see, taste, touch, etc which give the rock the properties it has.

Does it really though? If you asked this Indonesian tribe whether imaginary rocks are made up out of the same stuff as ordinary ones you stump your to...

There's other ways of noting that a map of London is not the city of London. I can't hail a cab while visiting a map of London. I can't bungee jump of...

Why are they meaningless? I fully understand the concept of Bernie Sanders being elected, just like I fully understand the idea of alternate history w...

The big flaw in his argument is using evolution and brains to make the case that what we experience is an illusion. Brains and evolution would be part...

Yes, in the future.

If GRRM had that as part of his outline for how the series ends, then yes. Otherwise, the truth value becomes determinate in the future.

Agreed on both accounts. I don't know that he ever made it over here.

Someone might have said about the various fighting clans in the past (Vikings, Mongols, etc) that if human beings kept doing that, we would have disas...

So you've adopted Landru's beliefs about science. *sigh* Are you really interested in QM, GR and thermodynamics because of their instrumental value? I...

I read Ishmael years ago. Profound reading, but I'm not entirely sold. Makes me wonder how a Kurzweil/Quinn debate would go. Quinn includes in the myt...

Can I still be evil, or must I gave that up to rule the world?

I'm a metaphysical realist because it's quite obvious that mind is secondary to bodies, to being born, to things in the world, to the effects of foods...

Except when they say they're lying ;)

I wonder if a precise physical description for genetics could be given, would there be any need for information? Is information a kind of heuristic sh...

They're being philosophical, which is fine, as long as everyone understands the distinction, although if a way can be devised to test different interp...

Why is it clear that any information is being transferred? Information seems like something that minds are concerned with, not physical processes. Inf...

Then the question is whether defining computation in a broader sense is meaningful. If every physical system can be understood as computing, what woul...

Keep in mind that we coined computation in the context of symbol manipulation and mathematical calculation, not nuclear physics or protein production....

We can say that, but I'm not sure how meaningful a rock computer is. I can't use it to do anything useful I would use a computer for. And how am I sup...

Something like symbol manipulation via calculation.

I suppose so. But then again, did we just make that up? Or what I'm trying to point out is that maybe brute facts are like infinity in counting. Infin...

I don't know. If it's brute, there's no explanation for it, right? If there's no reason why something is brute, then there's no reason for it to be br...

Interesting. Could there be different brute facts in other worlds?

I don't know whether every law is computable, I've just seen the claim that it is.

Real in philosophical context means ontological, not whether the term applies in some language game.

Does that make it real?

Better invisible pink than nothing at all. We have to keep Augustino's sensibilities in mind.

I see, so Satan helped create the best possible world. Always wondered why God let that snake into the garden. Now we know. It was necessary to maximi...

My new church will categorically deny that categorical is necessary for existence. That is the great lie the the followers of the false IPU (which OP ...

You've left me no choice but to leak this to the BBC, The New Trump Times, and The Daily Prophet (just in case). https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...

I shall write a book, alright. Detailing the abuses and lies of the original IPU church, and how it lost it's way. I will redeem myself by starting a ...

Weird how some forums don't show edited information. I must have changed it as you replied.

I am eternally damned! But I may have just coined an alternative IPU into existence. Maybe it will save me.

Autocategorical.

What sort of claims? Climate change, evolution, radiocarbon dating, QM, DNA, cell theory, the periodic table, the heliocentric model? What you stated ...

I read this science fiction story with a villain that sort of reminds me of you. This scientist had invented a time machine. He had a drinking buddy w...

I'm guessing that human beings have caused far more suffering from snakes than vice versa. And when it comes to suffering, snakes never cross my mind ...

The Invisible Pink Uniform categorically exists, and will judge all doubters most severely in the afterlife.

And 2:17 in the marathon is almost inhumanely fast. How many people out of 7+ billion could realistically run that fast (with any amount of training) ...

True, which isn't as true for shorter distances, which lends support to there being less of a gap over longer distances. Pretty much all athletic perf...

Makes sense. I'm only arguing that there is a physical difference that can often be seen in athletic events. This isn't a value judgement, just that i...

As opposed to hominid evolution over the past 2 million years? I don't see what the athletic training would have been for most males prior to the late...

Fair enough. And Serena is still better than 99.99...% of human beings who have ever picked up a tennis racket, male or female.