We'd have to know if there are other universes, wouldn't we? Scales are comparisons. If there is only one then your question is incoherent. I asked yo...
We can share feelings because we are members of the same species, but we are also individuals that have goals that can conflict or work together. All ...
We cant see emotions. We see bodily responses and facial expressions which some people can fake or hide. So what is it that mirror neurons are mirrori...
Are you saying the universe doesnt exist, or has no properties (which is the same as saying that it doesn't exist), independent of our perspective? Ho...
Isn't this the current situation? When have humans ever had a true moral code that was applied equally to all citizens? It seems to me that if you hav...
Uh, a plank scale doesnt have a perspective. Senses exist on our scale, so perspectives only exist on our scale. That isn't to say that the properties...
What scale is anything without objects that have scalable properties? I dont get this subject/object distinction. Subjects are objects themselves with...
Just because something is relative doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Morality would be the relationship between multiple individuals or groups goals...
Was this quote before or after he wrote The Selfish Gene? In the selfish Gene he explains how altruism evolved naturally. He also doesnt seem to under...
I dont see how that makes moral relativism absurd. All you did was explain what moral relativism is. It is different for every person and social group...
We don't need delusions to be happy. We don't always lie to ourselves. We do expect the truth as being lied to makes us unhappy. It is only when the t...
Because youve complicated a simple issue. Like I said people with different identities come together to support a single idea that they share. When a ...
Sure. Politics is a branch of ethics and since there is no objective morality then there is no objective, one-size-fits-all political system. In this ...
Just one political scientist. They don't all agree. If you're only interested in the idea of one political scientist and not the rest of us "internet ...
It's the other way around. Your definition is not good at all. Your definition is way to general. If identity politics is just politics, then what use...
Neither do I. How about looking up "identity politics" in the dictionary? Identity Politics per Merriam Webster: So identity politics has to do with e...
The planet has undergone numerous changes which includes cooling and heating without any help from humans. If humans contribute to environmental chang...
So this is another of your threads where you are only interested in promoting your version of things and all other versions aren't normal or important...
I agree that "unnatural" is an incoherent term. If it is part of the universe, and the universe is "natural", then anything that happens within the un...
Well, taking tests, arguing on the forum and playing Trivial Pursuit are all actions too, but it seems to me that I can just sit here and know things ...
No it doesn't. It requires a definition of determinism that implies prediction-making. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/determinism Determin...
Sure. A system is an assortment of interacting parts - like neurons, people or universes. Free will is an illusion. If you predicted that it would bre...
Right. So, complete prediction of the closed system in not possible, but that isn't to say that the universe isn't deterministic in that the states-of...
The universe would be the closed system. If there are multiple universes, then the Multiverse would be the closed system. In other words reality itsel...
Sure, if you can't make a coherent distinction between the two causal events then I guess we are done here. Sure it is. You can't make a good argument...
Again, there is no difference between predicting the outcome of 1000 coin flips or 1000 billiard collisions. We are still talking about predictions ba...
Equations are derived from and exist only inside minds - just like probabilities. Then solipsism? I don't see a difference between an outcome between ...
Only if you're a dualist. For a monist there is no difference. It's all causal. Yeah, this went over my head. Can you give an example? It seems to me ...
It seems to me that if you are making the case that something is the case because something else is the case, then you are making the case for determi...
If I were to write a complex computer program for the behavior of a human-like robot, there would most likely be bugs that would need to be worked out...
So, what can be the case is only what you can understand, or know, it to be? Sounds like solipsism to me. Before God created humans, the universe was ...
This doesn't account for the instances where we can be wrong about our identity. There are no accidents in a deterministic world. Genetics AND upbring...
The problem wasnt hate speech. It was the abolishment of free speech that allowed a particular ideology to gain hold and fester in the German mindset....
Science is based on logic and empirical data - the same things that you use to figure out the answer to every problem you ever had. What other method ...
You keep referring to our cultural inclination to think of the sexes in a certain way which is no different than how one thinks about the existence of...
Exactly. There's nothing inherently more masculine ir feminine about how someone wears their hair or what jewelry they wear or what kind of clothes th...
That is subjective. If she expects others to respect her views, then should respect others that may not share her view that being female is ultimately...
It sure is strange making demands of others when what you are arguing against is others making demands of you - like conforming to some way of dressin...
Your car, which a relationship between a combustion engine, wheels, tires, drive train, etc. is to the left (another a relationship) of your body, whi...
And those two somethings are other relationships. How is that any different than saying that there are two particles that make up another particle? Th...
I never said it was relationships of nothing. Pay attention. I said its relationships made up of other relationships. Particles and objects is your mi...
The current understanding is that all particles are made up relationships between smaller particles. The particle that is your body is made up of a re...
Feelings aren't made of particles. The mind is made of qualia, which are the most fundamental parts of mind. Particles don't even exist. What we refer...
How is asserting that everything is either "physical" or "mental" not just hand-waving themselves? What does it mean to say that something is "physica...
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