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So? Still no answer. I'll let you give the last word for now, since this isn't supposed to be a chat room. But it'll probably still not be an answer.
July 01, 2021 at 03:00
FTFY. But: ...means fake belief is introspectively indiscernible from real belief. Hey look there's a squirrel doesn't change what this means. It's be...
July 01, 2021 at 02:57
Your defense of premise 2 doesn't erase the conflict. You're stuck again. Try a re-spoon feed: Did you read it this time? Sure. You reach in your pock...
July 01, 2021 at 02:48
No. But I think "of course we know" appeals to introspection. And you're way too busy trying to ask me stupid questions to bother answering the one I ...
July 01, 2021 at 02:19
Bartricks... this is trivial. If 'belief' is introspectively indiscernible from belief, and: ...then 'belief' that you're aware is introspectively ind...
July 01, 2021 at 01:59
Quite the opposite apparently: ...assuming having a 'belief' that you're aware means you aren't aware, we wouldn't even be able to tell, at least thro...
June 30, 2021 at 11:21
No. Awareness can refer to either a state or an ability; and what I'm asking is specifically about introspection (not generally about faculties). The ...
June 28, 2021 at 10:13
Slightly wrong in the vision department, but workable. You can have a faculty of vision without seeing anything (hypothetically), and you can also lac...
June 28, 2021 at 02:18
Already provided. Here's the re-re-spoonfeed of it. So two is the latest count of the number of times I referred to it again. I even rebuilt the link ...
June 27, 2021 at 18:44
Ah, I see. You'd rather crow than address the inconsistency.
June 27, 2021 at 18:37
You just worry about this unresolved incoherency for now. This is the latest post there. We're well over a dozen posts into the reply 1 (before we get...
June 27, 2021 at 18:30
Already stated, multiple times. Your premise does not follow from your arguments.
June 27, 2021 at 18:11
Yes; just a typo... corrected.
June 27, 2021 at 18:06
A peahen is an agent. Peahens have sexual preferences that guide the evolution of peacock tails. According to Bartricks's definition, sexual selection...
June 27, 2021 at 17:58
Apparently so. You're just now grasping that I'm not talking about what you fantasized I was. That is incoherent. It's a tangled mess. There's no such...
June 27, 2021 at 12:41
But a hallucination is not a belief; it is a fictive percept. A person with Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) for example experiences hallucinations, but ...
June 27, 2021 at 00:50
This really confuses you? I'm aware that I have thoughts. Whether or not the thoughts are awareness, being aware of thoughts is in and of itself aware...
June 26, 2021 at 12:15
It's the same essential objection as the one three days ago. Okay, but why is this too tedious for words now? You've spent 10 replies on this: In repl...
June 26, 2021 at 03:25
Sure there is. Incidentally, you just quoted my description of why it's incoherent, yet failed to address it. The visual analogy is not analogous. Van...
June 25, 2021 at 11:47
Nope. You made that up. That's incoherent. Introspection employs self observation and implies self awareness. This is so muddled I can't interpret it....
June 24, 2021 at 11:16
No, which is why I didn't say you were committed to that view. I said you claimed something you didn't mean. And yet, you are distinguishing them. Tha...
June 23, 2021 at 16:52
Because: ...your claim ipso facto introspectively discerns two things (belief and 'belief') you claim are introspectively indiscernible. Because: ...y...
June 23, 2021 at 14:11
LOL! And round and round and round we go! Sure I do. Indiscernible means not able to discern. Introspectively is an adjective, meaning by means of int...
June 23, 2021 at 13:55
Yeah yeah... Plantinga is a total amateur. Ahem... ...and that means, well, what it says it means. So you just said something you didn't mean. Maybe y...
June 23, 2021 at 11:38
Nope. It has something to do with your allergy to conceding even that which would benefit you, for who knows why. Yes, it did. Exactly as I said last ...
June 23, 2021 at 05:44
There's the gaslighting that has zero chance of working... ...and the fantasizing, right on cue. Might I suggest an approach that would work a tad bit...
June 23, 2021 at 03:35
In the quote I underlined. This one: ======vvvv ^^^===== It's right there. It's underlined. Introspectively indiscernible means not able to discern in...
June 22, 2021 at 23:52
A purer form of True Scotsman fallacy I have never seen. Of course not. By your own admission you cannot even introspectively tell if you know things....
June 22, 2021 at 21:12
But our species shares a gene pool.
June 20, 2021 at 22:04
I smell shifting the goalpost here. I also smell black and white fallacy here. You're quite a dramatic little fellow aren't you. Observing one person ...
June 20, 2021 at 05:52
That would have been who I guessed you meant. Not sure why you're asking me this question. What is the antecedent to "it" there? We were just talking ...
June 20, 2021 at 05:05
To intentionally use the pun, science has made controlling for all sorts of errors in personal accounts a science. Scientific observations would emplo...
June 20, 2021 at 04:28
It is by definition an anecdote. I gave you the definition. What part of that definition does not apply?
June 20, 2021 at 03:29
Science does not rely on anecdotes. Yes, I'm seriously claiming I cannot always tell. Okay, but that does not entail that science has to rely on anecd...
June 20, 2021 at 03:24
In the definitive sense: That doesn't sound very scientific to me. Using your eyes and ears to tell you how reality works is what nearly everyone does...
June 20, 2021 at 02:58
Having such surgeries is scientifically possible; but since when is bodies wanting to be things scientific? Not always. That sounds anecdotal, not sci...
June 20, 2021 at 02:09
Okay, so how do you tell?
June 20, 2021 at 01:58
Let's walk through this. Presumably, sex is a matter of chromosomes (it's not exactly; but that's close enough for government work). So let's call a p...
June 20, 2021 at 01:51
Your argument. I have mentioned that several times BTW. Okay. So what backs up that claim? Wrong!! See above. My problem is with your argument. Your c...
June 20, 2021 at 01:27
It's your exact logic! You have a problem with Garmin that you don't have with Bartricks. If you cannot do something as simple as substitute tokens, a...
June 19, 2021 at 17:14
Not really. it's premise 1: ...that you're trying to argue for. But you're giving a particular argument that alleges to do so. That this argument supp...
June 19, 2021 at 17:06
Yes. But: ...the destination was not trying to communicate with me; likewise for the Garmin. If you're going to use the argument, it has to be the arg...
June 19, 2021 at 14:15
Still no answer to my question. Maybe I can get to this through another angle. You see, here you're obsessed about making a point that messages have t...
June 19, 2021 at 12:52
No no no... you stopped too early. You stopped at your message point and didn't relate it to awareness (remember premise 1?) So let's not stop and han...
June 19, 2021 at 05:49
But aren't we aware of it? You've spent your entire OP, and a big portion of this thread, trying to argue that an agent must intentionally create a me...
June 18, 2021 at 23:23
You do realize you're trying to pass off the rehearsal of prejudices as reasoning. Can there be moving without a mover? Can there be burning without a...
June 17, 2021 at 11:52
...given you've chosen to open this can of worms, what does that make 250 stone me with my 15 stone cat?
June 17, 2021 at 04:43
Just a few interesting notes regarding this profound and beautiful argument.
June 16, 2021 at 05:47
You do realize you're fantasizing again. And I've explained numerous times why it works. So if the number of times one explains things is a factor in ...
June 15, 2021 at 02:42
I don't deny it's designed. The problem is: ...there's no representer (in the sense you mean it). Sure it is, because the scale is not a representer. ...
June 14, 2021 at 18:45