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Why is it that when I look at you, I see a body with a brain, not your mind? If I wanted to find evidence of your mind, or your intent, where would I ...
March 19, 2020 at 15:05
How did you learn to ride a bike? What type of thoughts were involved? Didn't you have to focus on your balance, which in fine control over certain mu...
March 19, 2020 at 14:29
Citation? Logic is the same as reason. If you are using one, you are using the other because one formally defines the other. If you are being reasonab...
March 19, 2020 at 12:31
No, I'm trying to clarify what you are really asking in your OP. I asked (I wasn't asserting anything) if the brain and mind were doing the same thing...
March 19, 2020 at 12:18
The "stuff" is relationships, or information. Several of the questions presuppose the idea that minds can exist separated from the body. I ask, "What ...
March 19, 2020 at 02:01
Logic is an assortment of rules, or indicators, that define a type of thinking - reasoning. If you are using logic, then your are using reason, or bei...
March 19, 2020 at 01:15
Then the mind "thinking" how to catch a ball is the same as the brain "performing" mathematical calculations?
March 18, 2020 at 17:37
You seem to be conflating "performing" with "thinking". Does Justin "think", or "perform"? Is there a difference between "performing" mathematical cal...
March 18, 2020 at 13:29
Is this a true statement? If not, then how would it be useful to you or anyone else? If so, then philosophy wouldn't be personal because the truth in ...
March 18, 2020 at 12:55
Like I said in the rest of the post that you cherry-picked, if you don't like people telling you what to do, you're a Libertarian and don't even know ...
March 18, 2020 at 08:59
But if you're a socialist, you need others to tell you what to do. You need the govt to tell you to wash your hands and to maintain social distancing,...
March 17, 2020 at 13:22
:lol:
March 17, 2020 at 13:15
Start a new thread.
March 16, 2020 at 14:01
They are still free to try and tread on me, but then can they handle the consequences of their actions? This is basic human psychology and natural beh...
March 16, 2020 at 13:58
Proof? Lol. The proof is in the definition. If you don't understand the basic concepts of what you are talking about than what are you even doing disc...
March 16, 2020 at 13:52
You still dont get it. Libertarians arent concerened with telling others how to live. They only rule is "Do as you will but dont tread on me".
March 16, 2020 at 13:51
Really? Care to point out where you said that? All of which wouldn't matter if China had closed their borders first and didn't produce misinformation ...
March 16, 2020 at 13:42
Lol. Do you even understand what that means? It means that we don't need a bloated govt to tell everyone else how to live. A Libertarian is fine with ...
March 16, 2020 at 13:34
The implications is those that survive will be immune. Viral Vaccines are often an injection of a lesser form of the virus so that your body builds im...
March 16, 2020 at 13:19
There is no need to pretend. A Libertarian is both a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. Libertarians are often mischaracterized, which is proba...
March 16, 2020 at 13:13
I think I'll invest in Charmin and Cottonelle while I'm at it. The socialists are going to be so stressed out over the next 5 years, they'll have cons...
March 15, 2020 at 21:46
Sound like we'll have more opportunities to buy Apple and Microsoft stocks at discount prices. Nice! Sounds like a good reason for the media to fan th...
March 15, 2020 at 21:42
I didn't say philosophy of logic was a good or bad philosophy. I said that logic is what determines what is good philosophy or not. Logic is typically...
March 15, 2020 at 21:28
That's why I said, more specifically reasoning. If there was bad reasoning involved, it wasn't science that was being done. Maybe you're thinking of p...
March 15, 2020 at 21:26
No. I said socialist-in-liberal-clothes', as in a wolf-in-sheep-clothes, as in knowing you're a socialist, but trying top pass yourself off as a liber...
March 15, 2020 at 21:24
You mean like how the religious signal their bona fides to each other? I'd agree. Their hatred has reached a religious fervor. It's sad to have your m...
March 15, 2020 at 21:21
What I said makes no sense to you and what you said makes no sense to me. Are we speaking different languages, or what's the problem?
March 15, 2020 at 21:16
I asked my kids if they are suffering because they know there is suffering in the world. They said, "No. There is also happiness in the world that wou...
March 15, 2020 at 14:02
It seems that Trump has succeeded in getting into every socialist-in-liberal-clothes' heads. Trump is all they think about to the point where almost e...
March 15, 2020 at 14:01
What about apolitical parents, with no political party affiliation, having children? Without the younger generation, who is going to pay for your medi...
March 15, 2020 at 13:54
Logic. Logic may be defined as the branch of philosophy that reflects upon the nature of thinking, or more specifically reasoning, itself. Logic is pe...
March 15, 2020 at 13:47
I wouldn't know, I dont see the world through some political ideology. I view human nature scientically, not politically.
March 14, 2020 at 18:59
Apples and oranges. You're comparing diseases prior to the advent of genetic engineering with those after, where viruses are created intentionally for...
March 14, 2020 at 18:54
Should we be punishing the workers along with the corporate heads? I think it was quite clear that the negative consequences will be brought upon thos...
March 14, 2020 at 18:43
Thanks to the mass hysteria the media is causing, people are unecessarily flooding the healthcare system. When 95% of the tests are negative for coron...
March 14, 2020 at 18:28
I'm selling leaves in a ziplock bag for $10.
March 14, 2020 at 16:43
The reality is: https://nypost.com/2020/03/12/heres-why-the-coronavirus-death-rate-is-so-high-in-italy/
March 14, 2020 at 16:04
Did you even read the link I posted?
March 14, 2020 at 16:01
...Says some who doesnt even do a basic Google search before posting ignorance like this. I did a Google search for "coronavirus vs other outbreaks" (...
March 14, 2020 at 15:44
So Schopenhauer questions our mind's picture, claiming to have no reason to believe that the picture is valid outside of it. Then Schopenhauer goes ab...
March 13, 2020 at 13:18
If by "panpsychist", you mean that I believe everything from atoms to the universe is conscious, then no. I think we should clarify the distinctions b...
March 11, 2020 at 02:23
I don't know. What does it mean for something to be material as opposed to information? Why not just say the mind is made of matter? If you only know ...
March 11, 2020 at 00:06
idealists have the problem of anthropomorphically projecting themselves onto a world that isnt composed of just ideas. Its information all the way dow...
March 10, 2020 at 22:37
You have it backwards. The hard problem is the product of the dualists own making by positing two different substances with no means for them to inter...
March 10, 2020 at 22:16
The problem is certainly obvious between the macrophysical and microphysical (quantum mechanics) world, but this could simply be ascribed to our ignor...
March 10, 2020 at 15:59
The illusion is that there is an appearance of something that is red that seems to have the quality of redness, but it doesn't? I don't get it. What i...
March 10, 2020 at 14:53
Right, so you use the concept if words to refer to other concepts for the purpose of communicating concepts. If "prudence" exhausts what it is to be y...
March 10, 2020 at 14:25
We don't just have eyes. We have other instruments (senses). While each one provides a different experience (seeing you is different than hearing you)...
March 10, 2020 at 12:30
Illusions are misinterpretations of sensory data (mirages). I still don't get what exactly is being claimed the illusion is - the sensory data being i...
March 10, 2020 at 10:40
Can something that is never used have a purpose? Can something that doesn't have a purpose have a use?
March 10, 2020 at 10:28