T_Clark

I responded to your post because I thought you misrepresented my, and most forum member's, motivations for participating. That bothered me. I don't th...

Not for me. Not clear to me.

Yes, there was. That doesn't mean that all, most, or many of my posts are for that reason. If you really meant what you wrote, your understanding of p...

No, no. This is what you should say - "When we I express an opinion or argument it is because we are I am annoyed/angry with something that causes us ...

Fortunately for all of us, I find all my posts unconvincing too.

Just as with the link @"jorndoe" sent, I find your story unconvincing.

I found the article unconvincing. One of my favorite authors, Stephen Jay Gould, used to say that the story of life was one of contingency. If we ran ...

And yet we live a modest, humble life. Turkeys and a gold Sovereign to the servants and tenants on Christmas. We dispensed with droit de seigneur deca...

Unh hunh.

Even back when I worked with my hands for a living, I wasn't working class. My wife was a nurse and we had family we could get financial help from to ...

As I noted, we are just repeating arguments that haven't convinced the other in previous posts. I say "un hunh." You say "nunh hunh." Nuff said.

Welcome. This is a really good forum. There are plenty of friendly discussions and then some... others. Don't be discouraged. By the way, because the ...

This was intended for @"Cartuna".

Now I can say this:

I think you and I have been having different discussions with each other.

By itself it is not a medium. It only is when included in a network of input and power. By itself, it's ballast. I have a TV in the room I'm sitting i...

I think class consciousness is apparent here on the forum. Of course, many participants are from the UK, so I guess we can blame them. Nearly everyone...

I don't get the comparisons you're trying to make. A newspaper is not a processing device. Air is not a processing device. A TV set is not a medium. I...

I understand that you are speaking about more than rhetoric. I was being ironic, or maybe trying to be funny, in discussing the rhetorical uses of you...

I still don't understand. Let me go back to your original post and see if I can work it out. In many situations, the mass of the electron is negligibl...

See my response to Cartuna, above.

I was speaking of the TV set - a fully material electronic device. Inside, it has circuits, switches, and all that signal processing stuff. It is powe...

My proposed way of seeing things is more credible and consistent with cognitive sciencce than the "hard problem of consciousness" bologna the rejigger...

This is a really interesting post. It helped me reframe the subject in a new way I found helpful. I've always found your discussions of semiotics... p...

Could you give one or two examples from a philosophical perspective. Something mundane and fairly easy to understand.

I'm with 180 Proof, at least as far as brain vs. mind. As I see it, brain is to mind as your TV set is to "Gilligan's Island." Not the same, but insep...

Yes. I think dealing with class conflict is the path to resolution. That's because, at bottom, it's all about security and money.

I think that's like saying that discrimination against the Irish will reassert itself. Gay people are openly being woven into the fabric of society. T...

As I said, like it or not, that's how acceptance works. That is exactly the path to it.

How do you think acceptance works? Do you think it has to go from fierce opposition to full acceptance immediately? That's an impossible goal. As they...

This is not in relation to racism, but I think it's relevant. The Democrats, Supreme Court, and liberal states got out ahead of gay rights/gay marriag...

Discussions of consciousness here on the forum always break down because people are not clear about the meaning of the word. Are you talking about sel...

Thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving. I'm sorry you are having a hard time. I'm glad you can still be thankful. I have a couple of thoughts about what to be thankful fo...

I'm not sure I know the difference between "recursive" and "iterative."

For some reason, that made me think of a yo mama joke: Yo mama is so fat, her reflection weighs 5 pounds.

Percentage = 0. Right?

I looked up perturbative quantum field theory. I'll spend some more time with it. Your comment made me think - Are all iterative processes self-refere...

You left out "And they lived happily ever after."

No, no. This is where you're supposed to make a reference that, from anyone else, would be considered racially insensitive, but, since you are an old ...

I think this says everything about why I don't want to go any further in this discussion. If you are not a member of my species, we have nothing to sa...

Now this is what I really call philosophy!!

If there is a hotel that will accommodate an infinite number of people then there is no longer an environment to protect.

Confusing "the moon" with the moon doesn't strike me as a self-reference issue. I don't understand what you mean.

I thought about fractals. I've read that many features of the world involve fractal geometry. I don't know what to do with that. As for iteration. I t...

I'm with @"Bitter Crank". There appear to be four people on the ship, while there are an infinite number in the hotel. It's clear that killing four pe...

No, but there really haven't been much in the way of arguments supporting self-reference. Those that there have been have been luke-warm.

Michigan, Wisconsin. They are just different names for the same place. Micheganders can't tell the difference. Neither can Wisconsinatarians.

There are people here on the forum who have found their way through philosophy. I always have found their experiences moving and inspiring, although i...

I looked through all the responses but didn't see this. It seems obvious. Maybe I missed it. It seems like you are depressed. That's not a philosophic...