It seems to me that objectivity precedes subjectivity, or that the objective is a prerequisite for the subjective. Take this statement that you made: ...
I'd say that values develop out of our goals. It isn't the values that motivate us, it is the intent itself that motivates us and values develop from ...
My point is that or intentions (it doesn't matter if they are known to us or not) are determined by external factors, as they change as the state-of-a...
Here's another term that is I believe is related: "Nature" Is one's nature one's being? Reality, existence, being, nature and actuality all seem to re...
I don't see how having no control over what we decide makes our lives pointless. Most people who believe in a god as omnipotent designer, which implie...
I don't see a difference. If our decisions are influenced by the world, then they would be influenced by external mechanisms, as that is what the worl...
What is a "will" and what does it mean to be "free"? Most philosophical discussions go no where, and we end up talking past each other, because the te...
In philosophy, it is always someone "just saying it". What Chalmers is "just saying" shouldn't be taken to be more than what I am saying. We're both s...
There are many horses saying many different things - most of which aren't falsifiable and should therefore be given and equal amount of weight which m...
It seems to me to be the complete opposite - that qualia are meant to show that all information is third-person. It is the attribution of the first-pe...
What post-human civilization would create simulations of waiting in a doctor's office for hours before being called into the exam room? or of waiting ...
...and what you agreed with. So, we agree on one thing - that there is a false dichotomy between physical things and mental things, therefore dualism ...
So materialists and idealists are one and the same and have no idea that they have been arguing for the same thing all of these centuries? And that ne...
Then why do you keep making claims about how there is a distinction between my mind and other minds (more than one mind)? You keep veering off in diff...
So when a doctor opens your skull and looks at your brain, then why does he only see a brain and not your mind? Why does his mind experience a brain i...
But that's the thing - If the notion of "substance" is vacuous, then any point you attempt to make about a particular substance is vacuous (my vs. oth...
But then the idealist has to explain how it is that the universal perceiver doesn't need a perceiver themselves in order to exist. It really is no dif...
Yes. Time and space. What separates this mental phenomenon from that mental phenomenon? I don't understand the question. I understand physicalism as t...
That isn't all you are saying. You philosophers don't seem to realize the implications of what you are saying. There is always more to what you are sa...
Nope. I said that we never experience other minds, and you said we can. I then repeated myself and said that we can't. So no, we aren't talking past e...
Then why don't I experience your mind instead of your body when we touch? Are our minds touching when I read your words on this screen? How is that di...
So what is your point? - That any idea that is funded is hogwash? - That making any explanation for ours and the universe's existence is a waste of ti...
How do we know that we are scared if not an awareness of our own physical characteristics - heart beating faster, adrenaline rush, the need to run, et...
Wrong. It has plenty of evidence. You are just to frightened to look into it. It is religion and unfalsifiable philosophical claims (which would be mo...
"Magic" isn't a scientific term. However it is a term used by the religious. Magic is the basis of all religion, actually - not science. Mutations hap...
The difference between life and non-life is quite distinguishable in the extremes, as when we compare a rock to a human being. As we move further back...
Then we are all just experiments? Humans are simply the current fancy of some intelligent designer and when it grows bored it will eradicate us in fav...
But what would make some variant useful under the CEM, if not great environmental change? It seems that you are arguing that mutations crop up as the ...
Hoffman has his interpretation of the behavior of the beetle and I have a different one. The beetle is just expressing its sexual orientation, rejecti...
Natural selection. Organisms are shaped by natural selection. Planets are shaped by natural selection. Sand gets it's shape from natural selection. Na...
People remember famous scientists more than famous philosophers because the famous scientists are the ones that changed our lives and how we think abo...
I don't think "Bitter" is the correct term. "Angry" would be a more relevant term for me. If the last election didn't prove it to everyone, then I don...
That's the way I read it. I think Mr. Irreductionist would need to clearly explain what it is that is missing from Mr Reductionists explanation. Many ...
Ignorance, and the correlating bliss, is the primary symptom of a having a delusion. Do you want to have only wanted beliefs to be blissfully ignorant...
It isn't consciousness that is the illusion, but the feeling of "looking at" things - the Cartesian theater - the subjectivity - that is the illusion....
Yet, where else did you get the idea of God from? You are right in that you were born an atheist. It is only after hearing about god and had it reinfo...
THAT is the primary problem - that you, and every other believer in a god, do so as a result because it feels good and gives you purpose. This is the ...
Observe how he uses the behavior of the beetle to show how we could be inaccurately perceiving reality. If we aren't perceiving reality accurately, ho...
We could say the exact same thing about religion. Religion has been conceited with itself for thousands of years - to the point of murdering non-belie...
Its not scientists' job to show that God exists. The burden is on the claimant to show that it exists. If I claimed that unicorns exist, or that Elvis...
Like I said, nurturing your children is part of the procreation process. You children need to develop into viable and social offspring in order to say...
I don't see it as asking much of anything of one's children. The way I see it, the burden is all in the parents. They are the one's that must produce ...
"Kneel! Is this not simpler? Is this not your natural state? It is the unspoken truth of humanity - that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of fre...
Estsblish relationships with others and find one that you are willing to live and die for. Then procreate with them, creating more that you would live...
Detecting a face is being aware of the face. You are only aware of something that you detect. There is an infinite regression of awareness. We are awa...
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