Graeme M

That's an interesting angle. I am no nutritionist but I don't think that a fruitarian diet is likely to be regarded as a nutritionally adequate or hea...

You cannot be ambivalent about this, it's a yes or no answer. I didn't ask you if it's OK to kill someone in certain circumstances. I very clearly ask...

Yes, I think he has taken an unnecessarily adversarial tack. The trouble with that as I see it is that you no longer end up debating an issue but simp...

I don't think this issue is relevant to my post. My interest is in regard to our duties in the context of our direct relations with other species, tha...

I just mean that I am interested in hearing both critical and non-critical points raised. So your answer is no. It's that simple. Digging around tryin...

I mean in the sense that perhaps I have explained poorly. Your approach has been purely to find fault, which is fine, but I am also interested in why ...

I agree that modern ethics doesn't seem to include the just treatment of other species in this way. My topic is to pose the argument that modern ethic...

I don't see the case you are making. Consider in the light of human rights as expressed in those core three articles. The aim is to prevent the treatm...

I agree this isn't the dominant position; my claim is that it should be for already well established reasons. I am saying that the ethical principles ...

I don't mind the idea being critiqued but I feel you are simply restating your objection in different ways and I keep answering the same way. It is pr...

Hmmm... Are you sure you are acting in good faith here? It would be good if you were willing to be more open to the proposition rather than simply try...

Absolutely!

Again, let's consider the human example, because I am arguing for the same consideration of basic interests. Is it ethical to own slaves? I would say ...

I don't believe I ever talked about death. The claim is that other species have a right to their own lives. Whenever we can, we should respect that. I...

I am comfortable that some people DO object to ideas about ethics and may even object to the UNDHR. But I do not think that is a commonly held view. A...

Can I help to sharpen my proposition? Veganism is the idea that we act ethically towards other species. I am suggesting that the easiest way to think ...

Let me clarify. This is not talking about relations between other species, but relations between humans and other species. Freedom is just that. How l...

I disagree. Those rights you quote are not at issue in this regard. We are only concerned with those rights described in Articles 3-5 of the Declarati...

It is difficult to understand how you managed to draw that inference from my post. Presuming you aren't taking a religious position, the argument is n...

I believe the argument is that sentient creatures would have the same basic interests as human beings, which I suppose could be summarised as the free...

Naively - because I know next to zero about mathematics and cosmology - I assume that the universe exists within an infinite domain. Time and space ar...

I haven't read all the comments and it's a long time since I have read Nagel's paper that refers. I take "like" to mean just that a system has feeling...

I cannot hope to understand what this proposition describes. My question is simple though. Electricity is used in electrical circuits and enables thin...

I haven't read all of the comments in this thread but I do think there is a misunderstanding of the ethics of veganism here. Some people might be vega...

Indeed, but then I did say earlier that there is still no genuine solution to the hard problem, if indeed it even is a problem. The trouble is we seem...

Can you describe an act of introspection that is not accompanied by "sensations"?

You confuse me here. Perhaps my confusion confirms my ignorance about the topic? My understanding of the hard problem is that there is "something that...

These are all still qualia. If humans were really P-Zombies and did not entertain qualia (but nonetheless acted just as though they did), would there ...

Just as an aside, I watched the whole Dennett interview and was struck by the somewhat loose nature of his answers. I got the feeling he wasn't even m...

I'm not disagreeing that qualia/experience is not personal, more criticising that by claiming inner experience as "ineffable" people place the domain ...

So, it still comes back to qualia though doesn't it? P-Zombies are used to make this distinction about qualia-laden systems, but presuming we actually...

I don't see it as an unbridgeable divide, more a matter of how we look at the problem. I am not proposing a solution to the hard problem, which is how...

Hard to offer a sensible response to that. I think my position sort of reflects Dennett's, though I really should read his ideas to better grasp where...

No, because the phenomenal aspect has no genuine content, at least not in colour terms. What I am trying to get at is that red isn't a specific thing,...

Seems a bit dodgy to me!!

This depends on the presumption that consciousness is a genuine constituent of the world. Is there the slightest evidence to support the contention th...

Well, at the moment perhaps. Isn't it feasible that an explanation may be forthcoming? In any case, if no objective explanation can bridge the gap, ho...

How can you claim this to be true? So yes, panpsychism aims to explain qualia?

I haven't read that thread - I have little time to spare so may not get to it for a while. I should, it seems. On my view, this question cannot be pos...

This question really ties people up in knots. I think a big part of the problem is language - perhaps there aren't good words for the concepts involve...

Not being versed in matters philosophical I'm not sure of the argument in the article. The author seems to be wanting to dismiss the idea that when we...

Let me clarify this. I wasn't comparing rural with urban. My point is that an urban, supermarket shopping omni can choose to eat only certain kinds of...

I don't have anything to say about the mechanics of deriving ethical attitudes within communities other than to note it's a process driven internally ...

Artemis, I am no philosopher so you may have to make do with "sloppy language". I suggest my statement is clear enough. I do not think there is an "ob...

I don't know about neo-veganism, all I have in mind is that my moral scope is aimed at including other animals as seems best. I don't believe that in ...

well put. Artemis seems to me to have deliberately distorted my comments in order to be disparaging. For the record, if pushed I would label my ethica...

I have already pointed to the many uses of farmed animals - for food, clothing, pharmaceuticals, etc. I am sure you can find many more. That said, I a...

My feeling on this is that a brain devoid of input would have very little experience as we know it. Perhaps some essential instinctual modes of "thoug...

I'd say some kind of psychiatric episode. Consider that it is very likely there are many people at any given time experiencing such feelings. At least...

I think you misunderstood what I said. I suggested that all organisms, including plants, have damage avoidance behaviours. Sessile organisms like plan...