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Ladies and gentlemen, I have the latest forecast for PF. Racism Sexism Amateur psychodynamic prescriptions Defenses of torture General angst and drama...

No, only some women think this. And psychodynamic theory is mostly bullshit, especially when done by unprofessionals.

Wowowowowow this is one hell of a silly thing to say. There are some women who hate men. And there are some men who hate women. And then there's most ...

But not you, right? You're not racist. I'm not racist. Apparently we're not part of the "people".

Sounds more like a cultural thing than anything else. Men indeed are seen as more expendable than women. But this can be changed, just as the racism o...

lol. I can't remember the last time I didn't laugh at one of your posts.

No, really, it was good. Chocolate syrup, sprinkles, a banana, all with three scoops of vanilla ice cream. Perfect snack for a hot summer night, only ...

I don't know, man, I think you might be a little depressed and unable to experience pleasure independent of pain. It's inconceivable to you. I myself ...

Of course. Pleasure is contingent upon structural imperfections. But it nevertheless is pleasure independent of the relief it often accompanies. Which...

If Schopenhauer's metaphysics is untenable, what else could explain the problems of life? The problem with Schopenhauer's metaphysics, and the metaphy...

Romantic as this may be, it fails to explain pleasure. Deprivationalism is incoherent. The pleasures of life are not just breaths of air to maintain u...

We shouldn't diminish this pain, however. But I consider myself rather pessimistic and have issues with birth, and yet I haven't really experienced an...

This is interesting. I think, however, the reason Cioran, Beckett, or Schopenhauer were able to live somewhat normally but still have such pessimistic...

Shit, I accidentally flagged your post. Anyway thanks for the remark. I suppose it is difficult to remain an antinatalist while everyone else is havin...

What I meant is that in an isolated, laboratory-like setting, we have a duty to give other people pleasure and take away their pain. This setting woul...

The very process of philosophy is at least partly anchored on intuitions. We believe things because of reasons, and intuitions are often these reasons...

Those who are in their respective camps aren't usually so steadfast that it's impossible to change their intuitions on things.

I don't think our intuitions vary to such a degree that we can't come to a unified consensus.

1) (At least partly), what we do is largely caused by our reasons, and our reasons tend to be a prediction of the future end-state. 2) I take it to be...

It's not that simple, obviously. We have a duty not to prevent pleasure as long as this does not create more pain, for example. I take it to be obviou...

That's why I mentioned ceteris paribus cases. I would argue that we have no right to bring millions of people into an existence of suffering, but we a...

That's not what I said.

So my point stands. If you don't have a definition of what a p-zombie is, your entire argument is empty. And if you stand that p-zombies are entities ...

How is this any different from esoteric nonsense? If you can't communicate, or at least help someone understand what these insights are, they're only ...

Come now, didn't you just define a p-zombie as a specimen that lacks qualia? That's what I thought.

If you believe that the absence of qualia makes someone a p-zombie, then the conclusion is rather trivial. It's like saying the disbelief in god makes...

About as funny as claiming nobody else has minds.

This is as I suspected: the thread is going to devolve into a thread about qualia itself, since without arguing for qualia, we can't assert that Denne...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQVeK7Dt18U

Individual instances of subjective, conscious experience. If Dennett can succeed in deconstructing qualia, he must show that somehow there is no such ...

Of course we can't prove that Dennett has qualia, just as we can't prove that Dennett or anyone else outside of our own even have minds. This is Witty...

But this begs the question. Do we all have qualia? I'm apt to say that anything conscious does have qualia. But to say that Dennett is a p-zombie beca...

I will distinguish between the sensual pleasures and the higher-order pleasures. Sensual pleasures are like sugar, sex, a massage, etc. Higher-order p...

Because they are people, capable of introspection and who have a distinct sense that they are finite beings in an infinite world. Those capabilities t...

You're equivocating not being familiar with something with not understanding what it is. Dennett, for example, is familiar with the concept of qualia,...

Subjective, qualitative experiences. Dennett uses intuition pumps to try to break down this qualia and make it seem like a concept of folk psychology....

Por que no los dos? If Sanders has any chance of winning if Hillary is indicted, then he needs to make his presence felt not as a second-choice, plan ...

What's wrong? The phenomenon is the existence of the world. The explanation or interpretation of this are various appeals to god (theism) or a rejecti...

Absurd. Those who believe in god are not so radically different from those who do not in the way that someone without qualia is different from someone...

But Dennett is a typical human being with a similar structure to other human beings that profess having qualitative experiences. If those other people...

I highly doubt there are actually p-zombies. It'd be begging the question to assume that a structurally similar human being doesn't have consciousness...

What's up, I've seen you over at the other forum. Welcome to our little garage band - we're still waiting for the moment when we'll hit the front page...

I agree. Although the show originally motivated me to read the books. It's not really the fault of the producers that they can't show every detail of ...

I am half-way through AFFC right now but I jumped ahead in the show. I was not really impressed by the latest episode, but I think overall the show do...

Why would the Will create beings that can oppose the Will? If the Will's nature is to Live, then why would it even allow creatures that can counteract...

Then why is it possible to not strive for life? Why is it possible to meditate, enjoy aesthetics, commit suicide, etc? Surely these would also be obje...

No offense but this is kind of a cop-out. If it's outside the laws, how can it act on them? Why would the Will (to live) create something that would e...

How does the Will live on itself without eventually running out of anything to feed on? Like an ouroboros, it cannot constantly eat itself. Unless of ...

I watched the episode and was thoroughly confused regarding that aspect. Bran time traveling back in time causing Hodor to lose his wits, which later ...

Just finished binge-watching Mr. Robot. Impressive show. My mind has been thoroughly fucked.