T_Clark

This point is probably not worth arguing about more than we have.

It's clear to me I've made my point no matter how obstinate you are. Nuff said.

It must be good. I shows a picture of the still drawn by a five-year-old on the label.

What you've written makes sense. I do think many of our country's founders were aware of the ambiguity and hypocrisy.

It's seems clear to me from the quote that Pigliucci means it can't be done. Before I read that, I had thought it was still an open question. Perhaps ...

I've said it before. I'll say it again. Questions about the nature of our reality are not science.

From the August 2022 edition of "Skeptical Inquirer." Thanks to @"Gnomon" for the quote. Pigliucci is a philosopher of science at City College of New ...

There are many interpretations of quantum mechanics. It is my understanding that there is no empirical way to determine which, if any, are correct, ev...

I think many people knew even 200, 400, and 2,000 years ago that slavery was wrong. America's founders - Jefferson, Washington, Monroe, Madison - knew...

You don't just have my word, you have my argument, which I've made over my past posts on this thread. The heart of that argument is that the question ...

Being aware of the feelings in muscles, balance, and energy when I move in certain ways is awareness. Observing and being aware of patterns in the way...

I'll try to describe how it feels for me to become aware of something. The first time I remember doing that was while learning Tai Chi. I was having t...

Yes - all those dog things.

I've been known to bark, so it seems like sometimes I should wag my tail.

I try to respond to most posts addressed to me. Sorry if I missed some.

A good question and a good opening post. I can't come up with a good response right now. I'll think about it some more.

There have been a lot of good, substantive discussions on the forum recently. Not all of interest to me, but a good mix.

Please explain how I am "talking down."

I disagree. Please explain how I am "talking down."

But nature clearly isn't uniform. It behaves differently depending on where you choose to look - baseballs or bosons. And science clearly is not unifi...

I disagree. Please explain how I am "talking down."

I don't see how this substantively differs from what I wrote. It seems like there's just a language tweak that allows you and Quine to bundle a bunch ...

I didn't take it as disparaging, I just think it's inaccurate. I see self-awareness as a skill, not a technology. I don't see self-awareness as mystic...

I think he saw people in a way similar to my interpretation of the kinds of process @"apokrisis" described. He was an engineer and he saw labor manage...

I agree it is a learned skill. It's taken me more than 50 years to get even as far as I have. And I disagree. I don't think the experience of everythi...

This makes me think of something my older brother told me. Welbutrin is an antidepressant that is also sometimes used to help people quit smoking. It ...

Thank you.

For me, self-awareness is not an intellectual or rational exercise, at least it's not only that. It feels like most of my interaction with the world i...

I'll go out on a limb, because I haven't thought this through. Yes, I guess I think poetry aims at the same target Lao Tzu does. That's how it feels t...

What makes your sources any more authoritative than all the other thousands of voices out there, including mine. As I said, it's not a physics questio...

I'm here to speak for poetry. I don't get a lot of it, but when I do, it goes somewhere really different than non-fiction or fiction. It can lead to a...

There is something to it. I started a whole discussion about it. I think the concept of objective reality can be very misleading. On the other hand, i...

This is an interesting way of putting it. Now I'm trying to figure out if the first thought you're talking about is a thought at all. For me, at least...

This is a different way of thinking about awareness than mine, but it's interesting and well thought out. It made me go back and look closer at how I ...

Start with the easy part - you know that things, at least some things, are real. You wake up in the morning. Get dressed, brush your teeth. Have some ...

I guess the most important part of self-awareness for me is the understanding that it is nothing special, nothing magic. It's something we do every da...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/2705/YGID%20small.png

I told you, no more Japanese reading. Except for those cool porno comics.

He's leaving his children enough that they'll never have to work again if they don't want to. This is much more than I would ever be able to leave to ...

For our children.

It is your judgement that we are diminished. Many of us don't feel that way. I think you are a pessimist first by temperament. This seems like just a ...

When I was talking to the man in Tuscaloosa, after he said "but you're so friendly," I told him people in Massachusetts are friendly, it's just a diff...

Interesting. Thanks for the link.

I don't think I have anything more to add in response to your two most recent posts to me. We could go on for days without getting any closer to agree...

Also, I've always wondered. Why do you bother posting on the forum on weekends when you don't have to blow off work?

"/uploads/resized/files/db/7qmp1mj5voo7tupj.png" It makes it much harder to reply to your posts.

I have a pet peeve about half-assed thought experiments, but this is a pretty good one. Paints an interesting picture. Now the question is if the scen...

If I've misrepresented your argument, tell me which of my statements you don't agree with. Tell me what your conclusion is if not the one I state in t...

You're right. I didn't read carefully enough.