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Harry Hindu

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Adherent of Ganja God, Shiva.

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I have a Monocle of the greater Space and Time.
Some would like to get my Monocle, try'n use it for a Crime.
No success in that Category, you see
It derives naturally from the Sublime
And that's where I broadcast Me.

- Telekinetic Walrus and the Pride of Ions

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Name-Calling

September 13, 2017 at 03:59 9 comments General Philosophy

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In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
Sure. They could have been high on hallucinogens. Religions might have been founded on the ideas of insane or high people. I didn't use the word, "fun...
November 06, 2025 at 16:06
In: Transwomen are women. Transmen are men. True or false?  — view comment
Are you trans? If not, then are you saying that you know better than the trans person in this instance? And is it that they are just "wrong", or are t...
November 06, 2025 at 15:33
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
But this is how YOU used the phrase. I already understand the difference between "normal" and "natural", which is why I offered to use the term, "comm...
November 06, 2025 at 14:04
In: First vs Third person: Where's the mystery?  — view comment
The last sentence is reiterating the point that I made that the third-person view still occurs within the framework of the first-person view. You also...
November 05, 2025 at 14:33
In: Writing about philosophy: what are the basic standards and expectations?  — view comment
If arguments depend on the speaker’s social or historical position, then we lose the ability to evaluate them universally. Philosophy then risks colla...
November 05, 2025 at 12:59
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
Honestly, Peirce’s enactive–semiotic theory sounds nice on paper, all fancy talk about signs, objects, and interpretants, and how the mind is this mag...
November 04, 2025 at 15:35
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
You have to know the programming language to understand the distinctions between what you want to happen vs what AI wrote. Vibe coding only takes you ...
November 04, 2025 at 14:55
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
I appreciate the advice, and it is valid in many cases. I like to do computer programming as a hobby. I'll use AI to sometimes vibe code, but I have t...
November 04, 2025 at 14:30
In: Writing about philosophy: what are the basic standards and expectations?  — view comment
The amount of evidence that supports it. Every philosophical idea without evidence is just as valid as every other idea without evidence. Yeah, I thin...
November 04, 2025 at 14:02
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
It wasn't the just the same post. It was the same sentence "more normal for Nature". If you don't like the words you used, then would you prefer, "com...
November 04, 2025 at 13:48
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
This is to just say that sometimes doctors can misdiagnose, or that the tend to diagnose you with something you do not have to make a profit. You prob...
November 04, 2025 at 13:34
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
You're not telling me anything I didn't already know. I said this myself already. Yes, different people may have different reasons for identifying as ...
November 04, 2025 at 13:28
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
So it’s not just me who gets the dramatic ‘Oh ’? I feel… cheap.
November 04, 2025 at 13:19
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
Thank you, Frank, for being frank. :smile: It's nice to see that not everyone here is delusional.
November 04, 2025 at 13:11
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
Think about how one alters one's speech when speaking with specific people. It's not making any more sense than what I said before (to me). It just ma...
November 04, 2025 at 12:53
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
The feminist movement has fought for equal rights for women - for them to be able to do the things that men were normally expected to do - like voting...
November 03, 2025 at 14:12
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
Sure, the views of a society can have causal power - whether they be representative of reality or not (religion is a prime example). The fact that the...
November 03, 2025 at 13:39
In: Writing about philosophy: what are the basic standards and expectations?  — view comment
Exactly - to prevent the participants from talking past each other. Right - don't cherry pick or else you're responding to a strawman. These philosoph...
November 03, 2025 at 13:18
In: First vs Third person: Where's the mystery?  — view comment
Yeah, that was my point - you already knew how to read - which means you already have stored information to interpret the experience. But you can only...
November 03, 2025 at 12:59
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
I entered my idea into ChatGPT and asked it to reword it in the most unnecessarily complex manner possible - like how you talk. So if you're saying AI...
November 03, 2025 at 12:26
In: Transwomen are women. Transmen are men. True or false?  — view comment
You must be delusional as I didn't see any children participating in this thread saying such things - just full grown adults that do not value logic a...
November 03, 2025 at 12:21
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
L-O-Fucking-L! YOU are the one that used the phrase "normal for Nature". I was merely using your own terminology. If normality has absolutely nothing ...
November 03, 2025 at 12:19
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
The hypocrisy is yours as I'm sure you would not like me putting words in your mouth that you did not say. Pathetic.
November 03, 2025 at 12:15
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
The Cleveland Clinic is a medical center for humans, not other species, so we are talking about humans. Your argument can be used to assert that sexua...
November 02, 2025 at 13:39
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
Yet you posted links to articles online as if it would support your premise. You're simply picking and choosing the things you want to believe with no...
November 02, 2025 at 13:23
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
You give up so easily when things don't appear to go your way (Banno?) I thought it might be the same for you. If you really read what I posted then y...
November 02, 2025 at 13:16
In: Is all belief irrational?  — view comment
Geez Louise, guys. This is making a mountain out of mole hill. Can, "I believe" and "I think" be synonymous. Sure it can. We often precede statements ...
November 02, 2025 at 12:57
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
Exactly. Which is just saying that there's the biology of sex and then there is a society's expectations of the sexes, and it can differ from culture ...
November 01, 2025 at 19:03
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
Then don't expect your cherry-picked posts and strawmen to deserve a response.
November 01, 2025 at 18:09
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
So you're saying you were born with the knowledge that 5+7=12? Maybe I should rephrase the question. How did you learn addition - what it was, why you...
November 01, 2025 at 18:03
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
That is not what I am saying at all. If you've read all my posts you would have seen that I have said that a man can wear a dress if they want, but th...
November 01, 2025 at 17:23
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
Well, yeah I did have a visual of what the limerick was representing, but then integrated that with the rest of what you said which led me to then thi...
November 01, 2025 at 17:14
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
And from where does it generate, and using what information? Information. So is it an image or isn't it? An visual experience can be defined as an "in...
November 01, 2025 at 16:53
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
We can't perceive the entire world. We only perceive our local environment and infer that the rest of the world/universe follows the same laws. The th...
November 01, 2025 at 12:47
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
I don't know. It was a question, not a statement. I said there is nothing inherent in the scribbles that explains why 12 would come after the = sign i...
November 01, 2025 at 12:37
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
Ad hominems and cherry picking posts is all you got.. You lose. I win. ...mental illness, social illness. It's still an illness. Maybe you didn't noti...
November 01, 2025 at 12:29
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
There are, and it requires a second, third, fourth, etc. opinion, or however many it takes because if it is a mass delusion, and the other person is a...
October 31, 2025 at 17:53
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
There is. Gender isn't a role like an actor or actress in Hollywood where the role is fictional, segregated from reality. Gender is more of a social e...
October 31, 2025 at 14:41
In: First vs Third person: Where's the mystery?  — view comment
Doesn't the experience of the pamphlet include the information received from it? It seems to me that you have to already have stored information to in...
October 31, 2025 at 14:29
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
Yes, but still divided up in your mind depending on your present intention (goal in the mind). As I said before, "It’s our focus, intention, or interp...
October 31, 2025 at 14:13
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
Memory stores information - whether it be who won the Super Bowl last year or what habits work best in which conditions (the past). All you are doing ...
October 31, 2025 at 14:03
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
Philosophy tends to do that - leading you to question things you took for granted only to find out the reason you take it for granted is because the i...
October 31, 2025 at 13:13
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
It seems to me that we might already be where you don't want society to go. We already have subservient agents in the animals we have domesticated and...
October 31, 2025 at 12:59
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
Thank you for patiently clarifying. Agreed. Now, how would we go about deploying these properties in a machine composed of electric circuits that proc...
October 30, 2025 at 13:07
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
That is my point - that it is only in some mind that they are identifiable as different thoughts. The world independent of thoughts does not make any ...
October 30, 2025 at 12:56
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
Well, now you're talking about different minds, not thoughts in the same mind. So yes, I would consider thoughts in different heads different thoughts...
October 30, 2025 at 10:52
In: How LLM-based chatbots work: their minds and cognition  — view comment
This is just more of throwing our hands up in the air and saying, "I don't know how human beings obtain their unique, inspirational and novel ideas, b...
October 30, 2025 at 10:48
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
Look a little deeper and you might find that the boundaries of any thought or process are determined by the present goal in the mind. The boundaries a...
October 30, 2025 at 10:26
In: Can a Thought Cause Another Thought?  — view comment
You were the one that used the word, "isolation" and I was simply trying to get at your meaning of your use of it. I don't know - that whole block of ...
October 30, 2025 at 10:12
In: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on Gender Theory  — view comment
But why is schizophrenia a mental illness? Why would anyone link trans to mental illness if there were not some type of similarity between being trans...
October 30, 2025 at 09:51
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