And the world would be different without humans and their minds, so I don't see how you've made any sensible distinction between what it means to be s...
I included "logical" because you mentioned "rules" where 22 people are following some rules. So minds follow rules that we call logic as 22 people fol...
So what? There are many attributes and properties of things that do not exist independently of the thing itself. We don't say that the ripeness of thi...
The world is independent of a map as well so this does not really get at what it means to be objective vs subjective. You seem to be trying to make a ...
In this sense, consciousness is the presence of colors, sounds, smells, and feelings and the thoughts that categorize these sensations into logical id...
None of this explains what it means to be real. What property of counterfeit money, mirages and arguments are we are comparing exactly if not the caus...
What's the difference? If you are saying that something comes from the actions of something else, or from some other process that is in a different sp...
Exactly. What does that even mean to not have determinate existence until they are measured? It sounds like confusing the map with the territory. They...
I don't think the issue is causation. The issue is in thinking in dualistic ways, as in material vs immaterial, physical vs non-physical and objective...
Then what is missing exactly if we know the way they see the world? But I asked what a "thing in itself" even means. It sounds like a misuse of langua...
I don't understand the point you're making here. Providing real-world examples would be helpful here. The hard limits would be the limited relevant in...
This has been addressed already. Do you believe that playing violent video games leads one to shoot up schools? Should we ban violent video games, or ...
Again, the goal will determine the level of accuracy (information) that is needed to accomplish the goal. All other information is irrelevant, not mis...
To say that animals see things differently than we do implies that we know something about how they see things. We sense things differently using diff...
This is probably true because the Republicans are more religious and have a history of rejecting evolution. Scientists (and doctors) don't do themselv...
People here don't seem to realize that censorship and free speech are a double-edge sword. Start censoring one political side that you are not on soun...
In a society "governed by the people" and a Constitution designed to be amended, it is just a case of the will of the people to make such a change. Th...
Yet the gadget works 99% of the time, and when it doesn't we find out the problem and issue a recall or release an updated product. The macro world an...
Axios is a left-leaning source of information. It seems to me that both sides engage in misinformation equally and reject science when it is political...
You seem to be forgetting that languages can evolve and it's use can be arbitrary. We can always add more letters to the alphabet and we only communic...
You speak as if you are getting at things as they truly are, or are you saying your statement is only true to a degree? If the latter, then how do you...
How do we know that we have incomplete knowledge if we didn't already know what was missing? If we come to the conclusion that something is missing th...
It seems to me that the ability to question authority would limit news organizations from propagating lies because they would be shown time and again ...
It's when we forget that language is used to communicate something factual about reality to others that we become bewitched. Just because some sentenc...
It's a combination of free speech and questioning authority. It seems to me that a man that shoots his way into a Pizza Parlor to rescue nonexistent c...
It seems that the obvious solution to the existence of misinformation is more free speech, not less of it. Ideas should be exposed to criticism by def...
This works if you equate one mind to one goal. It seems to me that I have one mind with many goals and many options to achieve each. If you did have t...
In Steven Pinker's book, "How the Mind Works", he defines intelligence as "...the ability to attain goals in the face of obstacles by means of decisio...
It seems to me that part of resolving tensions in what you want is resolving what you can or could do. You speak as if everyone has split personality ...
Well, my point was that a lone wolf or farmer is less of a threat to a lone sheep with fangs and claws. It is only when the wolves or farmers organize...
What does one mean by "free will"? Does not "resolving its own inner tensions" involve limiting the amount of choices one has going forward vs being "...
The solution is realizing that we are not sheep, or at least not just sheep. We are sheep with sharp teeth and claws (2nd amendment), or maybe just ca...
...like in everyday language-use because we typically use language to inform others of some state of affairs in the world whether it be what is on the...
It seems to me that it adds nothing because it would be redundant. In making statements about things, you are implying that the things you talk about ...
If we can explain the workings of the universe if a logical way and logic permits us to acquire some truth about the universe, does that mean that all...
That's a weird assertion considering that the definition of "choose" is to decide, according to Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesa...
...which is what I was doing in suggesting that we look at how other animals make decisions. If how animals make decisions is similar to how humans ma...
To think rationally is to use (valid) reasons for your actions. If an animal can learn new information that it was not born with (instincts) and use t...
The capacity to choose isn't just a human condition. Other animals make choices too. Computers make choices by running software with IF-THEN-ELSE stat...
You're assuming that free will is part of the human condition. I'm saying that it likely isn't. It is commonly said that God exists too, but I'm sure ...
This seems too anthropomorphic to me. The difference you are talking about is one between the rules of representation humans have selected in the scri...
Seems to me that 2. is a contradiction. If your act is for the sake of the good how can it be something bad? If not, then intending something bad for ...
Having a true understanding of the human condition would come first and from that extrapolate whether our actions are free or determined. I don't want...
Language evolved from a theory of other minds. Animals have learned to anticipate other animals intentions by observing their behavior and learned to ...
It all reeks of a misuse of language. Where is the "we" relative to our colors? What use is the word, "directly" here? How does it help us understand ...
Why do you enjoy running into the hard wall of the hard problem? You keep posting scientific studies while ignoring the science of quantum physics wit...
:grin: I wasn't offended - just asking for your reasoning for saying what you did. I don't understand why we would need to escape determinism, or why ...
What if I said that the tomato appears ripe? Do we really need to make it clear whether we are talking about the appearance or the tomato when talking...
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