Harry Hindu

It is still going on today, building on what came before - thanks to the two-party oligarchy. Ridiculous. If it works for a hundred people here and a ...

It appears that you are agreeing with me, if only the person wasn't under 18? How were they able to determine that it was disinformation if the "perso...

You see? You and I would make a good team as President and VP, with me as Pres of course :cool:

Sure they do. They want the government to "fix the problem" of gay marriage by defining it as a union between a man and a woman. The Libertarian's sta...

Or let the 1st runner up be VP and the 2nd runner up get to be Sec of State to make compromise part of the system. I would rather have citizens vote r...

This is what I was thinking, and is a typical argument made against free speech, made by people that don't understand what free speech is, and make th...

So the problem is that some people are gullible and stupid, not free speech. The problem is that one view was allowed to fester without being challeng...

It seems to me that it started before that as your general label of all conservatives being racist is a symptom of the problem, not the cause.

This cannot be completely true because there are people who have views that are the antithesis of what their family or friends hold. I'd be willing to...

Agreed. It depends on the type of election though. Presidential elections require the entire country to be involved. We could certainly shorten the le...

What I mean by tribal is that certain groups close themselves off from other competing ideas, essentially creating a bubble where their ideas are neve...

The level of polarization today is not what it was 30-40 years ago. What changed? It seems to me that the rhetoric on the left and right has become mo...

They are only poorly defined because authoritarians have used these labels as a means of manipulating the population. As NOS4A2 said, For instance, wh...

I never said they were. I said that what is left in the party (Dems and Reps) are extremists. States are still composed of opposing parties and modera...

Correct. When the moderates leave your party all that is left are the extremists. When people of a certain political persuasion leave a state and move...

What you are describing is an authoritarian theocracy that has it's followers enthralled by their religion. This is typical behavior of a mass delusio...

In this sense they have turned their politics into a religion where non-believers are pawns of Satan, and anyone that questions the party is a heretic...

Not just the sharing of ideas, but the freedom to criticize and question what others say, and reject or ignore it. Who on this forum would instantly j...

Again, the importance of some behavior is a projection of your mind and some goal you have. Importance is a value judgement and the universe does not ...

If the mind is a fiction or illusion, what does that say about our understanding of the world given that we can only refer to how the world appears to...

For communication to occur (the primary function of language-use) it would do the speaker or writer good to understand the language understood by thei...

How does the relationship between energy and matter play a role in the nature of the wave-particle? Einstein showed that matter and energy are the sam...

It bugs me too. It's as if neurologists claim to have direct access to what it is to be me as "just chemicals" when they are only aware of this via th...

Every thing behaves differently than other things. This does not make living beings special. We are merely talking about degrees of complexity, or cau...

Then what actions are you attempting to coordinate with this assertion? It appears to me that you are attempting to inform others something about the ...

It isn't conscious because there isn't a working memory establishing a sensory information feedback loop. What I mean by "working" is a system whose b...

But you are only aware of me in the same way you are aware of anything. I don't understand how you can question the nature of everything except other ...

Yes. The map is part of the territory.

Possibility is a projection of our ignorance of the facts. Either CDs and books can randomly spawn into existence or they cannot. Even if they did. Th...

How does this apply to rocks "as-it-is-in-itself" and the atoms they are composed of "as-they-are-in-themselves" and the structural arrangement of the...

Does this entail telling others how to live their lives or what they can and can't say, or what they can spend their money on or not? You sound just l...

Political discourse is inherently unobjective because it is rooted in ethics. Thus is why Libertarianism is the default position for those that unders...

Yeah, something there that has the properties of hardness and porosity, among others that allow us to distinguish it as a rock instead of a chicken fe...

Then what is the rock? Just another idea?

You can say that about anything, not just minds and their ideas. Rocks are not independent of the processes that makes them rocks. I wonder if you cou...

Hardness and porosity do not exist independently of the rock either. So what is the point? Properties do not exist independently of the thing they are...

You're saying you do your research into candidates but don't understand their differences? :gasp: https://paulwbriggs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads...

What I was responding to was, If you view third party candidates the same as voting Republicans, how much further left could you be? Just don't confla...

If ideas are real then how can you say that they do not independently exist? Do ideas exist independent of rocks? If rocks do not need ideas to exist,...

When it comes to free speech and women's rights I would say the Democrats share more in common with the Republicans than independent moderates.

The erosion of democracy starts with limiting free speech, which has become the mantra of the current incarnation of the Democratic party. What is so ...

If it isn't idealism then it must be some form of panpsychism. Minds are not fundamental. Information is. Minds are one of those complexities that ari...

I wouldn't expect any different from an extreme leftist. When you're so far to the left, everyone else is right.

I wouldn't give up hope yet. The independent moderates outnumber the Dems and Reps and the numbers are growing. The moderate middle is the group that ...

I would say that the terms have come to be MIS-used, or used to manipulate liberals into giving their support expecting the liberals to forget all abo...

It depends on what you're talking about. The social nature of humans cooperation and altruism evolved naturally without any politics involved, unless ...

Thinking the world is physical is what creates the mind-body problem and humans have been grappling with this problem for a very long time. Scientists...

As I have said. The problem is in thinking the world is physical. Abandon the term. It's useless and just muddies the waters creating the hard problem...

I never said, or implied that it did. That would be confusing a Libertarian with an Anarchist. A good Libertarian understands that doing whatever one ...

But how do we know that there isn't something it is like to be the robot? If the robot reacts to the world the same way we do, how would we know wheth...