T_Clark

I think making consciousness seem less meaningful is probably a good thing. Right now it's hard to talk about it reasonably because people approach th...

Threads with a lot less going on in the OP have been left in place. It doesn't make sense. What about my deep and insightful words of wisdom? Lost to ...

I disagree. The only way for us to determine whether an organism other than ourselves is self-conscious or not is through watching their behavior, inc...

From Wikipedia: A philosophical zombie or p-zombie argument is a thought experiment in philosophy of mind that imagines a hypothetical being that is p...

Fixed. Thanks.

Am I hallucinating, or was there a thread called "Life Advice" that has disappeared? What happened? It was a pretty inoffensive thread. Hey, @"Yohan",...

As I pointed out, my problem isn't with your opinions, although they are clearly wrong. My problem is with the pompous, smug, condescending attitude w...

Wait, that can't be right. If it were, that would mean my opinions are art, wouldn't it?

I explained my ideas about art back in the beginning of the thread. I read your ideas but disagreed with them. I didn't respond because I thought othe...

You gloat that people don't understand or agree with your ideas, then crow that the forum supports you.

I can see that your poetry is heart-felt and sincere. It's romantic, which is fine. It is also philosophical, as the OP specifies. But it is not good ...

Alas, arrogance unmatched by intellectual content. Your ideas have been deservedly rejected by most members of the forum. Most people would take that ...

Hanover, Valentinus' penis, and I are always happy to be of service.

I was referring to Pentagruel's post up above. Here's the link again.

@"schopenhauer1" @"Antinatalist" I don't know if you saw this, but I thought you might be interested. It is not the same argument you guys use, but it...

I insinuated nothing. I stated it directly: Note that I did not refer to men in general, only to Valentinus.

Not a stalemate, a disagreement. Judgement of the significance of human accomplishment is a question of values, not fact. People are important to me, ...

This is all Hanover's fault. I wrote that I'd gone to France and Germany in 2014. Hanover wrote that they have an Eiffel Tower in Paris just like the ...

I have no further argument for my point. Some of what humanity has done is really cool, but it just doesn't seem like that big a deal in a cosmic, obj...

This is a well-thought-out and interesting post. Welcome to the forum. As for your question, I don't think it is true that We've barely left our plane...

And what I meant is that we've taken this discussion as far as we can.

Oh, good. I was worried we'd have to come bail you out.

Nuff said.

I have this vision of you running around Paris and Las Vegas with your penis out comparing it to the Eiffel Tower.

I don't know when the language ability developed in humanity or its predecessors. I also don't know when people first started using language.

Of course it's opinion. Do you think your thoughts are somehow something somehow grander than your opinion? The definition you've provided is not a go...

The one in Paris is twice as tall.

We get it, we just don't think it is a useful way of characterizing or defining art. People have been saying this to you ever since this thread starte...

I think you're right.

I think you're running up against the problem that you haven't defined "intuition" very well. Concepts are words. You don't need words to think. Brand...

It is pretty well established that the structural elements of language are innate. They are present from birth. Genetic and/or epigenetic. Babies are ...

It's not bullshit. It's philosophy.

All in all, it's a well-presented chain of thought. Before we get started, I'll give my habitual spiel. I say it all the time, but I think it's especi...

Are you talking about a cosmological constant?

Here's one of my familiar refrains. Determinism vs. free will is a metaphysical distinction. Neither is true. Neither is false. Either may be useful i...

This is something I've thought about. I don't find the idea of determinism very convincing. To much of the world is too complicated to make that a use...

Are you talking about statistical mechanics, e.g. pressure arising out of the random behavior of molecules, or something else?

And that is metaphysics.

You know what would be cool? Make two more posts on anything you want, then never post again. Let future members wonder what happened. Then you can op...

I don't consider the idea of determinism very useful in any but the simplest situations. Scientific generalizations, including laws, we develop descri...

It doesn't have to be perfect. It only has to work well enough to be useful and understandable enough so we can figure the uncertainties. You use indu...

I think the determinists response is that each of the "lots of brute contingencies" is determined, even if we don't know what they are or how they are...

Apparently you haven't gotten the word. Hume was full of it. Of course induction works. This is probably not the right thread to discuss it further.

The pragmatists rebuttal to this is that if a specific outcome is not predictable, even in principle, then it is meaningless to call the phenomenon de...

We have a new game to play here. It's called "Where's Marco?" It's like "Where's Waldo" but when we find him, he gets banned.

Wonderful. Something I can quibble about. I love to quibble and nitpick. When they were first introduced, bicycles did not have pedals, chains, and ge...

I really like the way people look, especially when they make an effort, especially clothing and hair. I often comment to both men and women, although ...

There are two types of women, and, I assume, men 1) beautiful and 2) beautiful if I loved them.

@"AlienFromEarth" I'm glad. I was in a bad mood yesterday. When I saw how upset he was, I knew I'd gone too far.

I think that's going to do it. We'll see you later.