T_Clark

Are you at risk since you're from the UK, or is it just a general unsettledness?

Buzz off fuzz nuts. The news source I've found the most evenhanded and focused on significant issues and events is the Associated Press - AP: https://...

For me, this is a sign of one of the major things wrong about the internet. When you and I were growing up, we were further from the news. We heard ab...

There's a discussion currently underway on this subject: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/13359/could-we-be-living-in-a-simulation/p1

Looking back through history, Aristotle never used emojis. Neither did Plato, Kant, Knee-chi, or Schopenhauer.

:up:

I hate emojis. This is my I-hate-emojis thumbs up emoji. Although I like @"Tom Storm"'s answer better.

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

Good response.

In Scotland they call them leprechauns. Oh, wait, that's Ireland.

I have the vision of a chase on a twisty turny Scottish road. They come around a corner and there's a herd of sheep in the middle of the road, so they...

You and I have very different understandings of human nature.

I watched the Flying Nun. The Flying Nun was a friend of mine. You're no Flying Nun.

I forget. Was this the movie Sally Field got her Oscar for?

I sent out a post about a truck crash in Oklahoma last week. Here's a link: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/739735 In another traged...

Do you believe that's the only significant difference?

The fact that there are strong, aggressive women and physically weaker, less assertive men is no evidence at all that there are not significant biolog...

I was thinking about this some more. Seems like you're lucky enough to have someone who gets you. Not necessarily a common thing.

Why can't it be both - biology and society?

I agree with your opinion delusion. Our genius is underappreciated.

Forgot to mention - your English is fine. Clear and easy to understand.

As @"Christoffer" wrote, that's not how evolution works. There's not a one to one relationship between genes, traits, and evolutionary benefits. God o...

I don't think that's true. I don't deny there are social pressures to conform to accepted sexual behaviors, but that's clearly, to me at least, not al...

I think overemphasizing the parallel between racial oppression and sexual discrimination is a mistake. The situations are different.

I agree with much of what you say, but I don't think @"Tzeentch"'s position requires that we be completely ruled by our nature. I think it would have ...

I think what you write is true, but that doesn't mean that those "querying gender essentialism" have got it right. Denying who we irrefutably are for ...

I don't think biological sexual differences are just "statistical." I think they are obvious and significant. To deny this is to ignore the evidence o...

In order for there to be "radical free choice" or anything near it, there would have to be no human nature. Nothing built in. We would have to be born...

Here - this is my @"Hanover" impression: Well, I substituted macaroni for the couscous and Velveeta processed cheese product for the feta and then lef...

I did read carefully, but I don't agree with you. I think making a big deal out of gender identity as something different from biological sex is poten...

I am not unsympathetic to people who have gender dysphoria and I have no trouble with them identifying themselves differently. For the rest of us - ma...

We've laid out three metaphors here, all of which are a bit off. I don't think the horse controlled by his rider works. I don't see my body's physical...

What you've written makes a lot of sense to me, although I think the position taken in the above quoted text is greatly overstated. If we control our ...

A few weeks ago, we had a thread about mental processes that included discussion of Pinker's "The Language Instinct." Two explanations for how languag...

Here are a couple of clips from past @"Wayfarer" posts I think are relevant to your OP:

I checked the transcript. Altruism and empathy were not mentioned. Compassion was mentioned twice by an outside commentator, not Wynn. The video focus...

I don't know and I don't think you do either, but that's beside the point. As I noted, even if it exists, it isn't evidence for your position.

Magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBEg2VEaXXU

I don't see any necessary connection between the conditions you describe and the results you claim.

I described my personal experience and how I might interpret it. Other people could experience and interpret it differently. As I noted, I don't make ...

Forgot to say - in order to notify someone that you have responded, you have to either use the @ function (see top of response box) or type @T Clark w...

Speaking of language, in "The Descent of Man," Charles Darwin wrote: Human language is an instinctive tendency to acquire an art. It certainly is not ...

I just remembered this. A possible scientific explanation for ESP and a worrisome sign for the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwk2pqfYQFc

"Galway Girl" is a song by Steve Earle I really like. Here's his performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-2fUR9v6s Whoda thunkit, the song is v...

I agree. I first saw the show 10 years ago and I can't get it out of my mind. Whenever I see a baby, I think of how much more is going on in their min...

It's a book of examples of purported psychic phenomena which, on examination, were shown not to be authentic. Some of the examples were poorly designe...

I forgot to answer this. I don't know if this is better or not. I think a direct experience of transcendent phenomena is common, although obviously no...

I don't understand how you can observe this personally. It may be based on observation, but it is made up mostly of assumptions about children's motiv...

I don't see that as evidence for your point at all.

As noted earlier by myself and others, no evidence has been provided that this is really the way things work. It doesn't seem likely to me.