T_Clark

According to the OED, and any 6 year old you talk to, nuh-unh means "No; used especially to rebuff or contradict." Looked it up. The only reference wa...

Nuh-unh. Commander Data thought about those things all the time. By the way, "nuh-unh" is included in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Is this a response to me? You should tag posts and/or quotes if you are responding to a particular one. As I wrote in my previous response, you are sa...

I enjoyed what you've written. It seems to me your "third camp" is an attempt to find a way to take some of the energy out of the clash of left wing a...

There are lots of words referring to our personal experience and essence out there - mind, soul, spirit, self, identity, ego, consciousness, self-awar...

You've talked a lot about structures and structuralism. Every time you have I've responded that I don't know what that means. I've read the writeup on...

Do you really doubt that religion is a way of knowing the world or just that it is a legitimate way of knowing the world? Humans know the world throug...

They are different ways of looking at the same world. Science is wonderful, but it has shortcomings. There are ways of knowing the world that are not ...

Although I strongly disagree with your position on antinatalism, the subject that really annoys me is free will. A month ago, there were six threads a...

I've enjoyed the discussion.

What was there before there was abstract thought, language? Before there were living things. Were there trees before there was anyone or anything to s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Le3VGda-FI

Ok, now I got the right one. On the surface, PAP reads a lot like Taoism. Lao Tzu might agree with just about every statement Wheeler makes related to...

Yes. Sorry. I still don't know what this means. One should always wonder about causation, but I don't know how that connects with what I wrote. What w...

Disagree with this. Agree with this.

Will and representation - is that Kant? I don't know what it means.

It's a song.

There are some who disagree, but for me, mathematics and natural laws are stories we tell ourselves. They have no independent reality outside of human...

I try hard to be. I think I succeed about 65% of the time. Shrug.

I really don't understand.

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Maybe if you give me an example of the kind of abstract structure you're talking about.

The moderators here tend to use a light hand on these types of decisions, which is a good thing. S1 is a long-time established member. People respond ...

Non-living matter is not conscious or emotional in the senses we normally use for those words. For that reason, I don't know what it means to attribut...

I was just teasing S1. I don't get involved with antinatalist discussions much anymore. I've laid out my arguments, S1 and his friends have laid out t...

There is another physicalism discussion open on the thread right now.

Thank god, Willy Wonka. At least it's not another antinatalism discussion.

I don't normally notice my shadow, but I wouldn't say I'm ignoring it. How is what your cat was doing different from that?

My responses in italics: 1. Can the nature of the curious mind be explained throughout history relative to sociology (norms, beliefs, rituals, practic...

Here's another link, to an article in the Harvard Business Review - "Decisions and Desire:" https://hbr.org/2006/01/decisions-and-desire Here's some t...

No. It shows that without emotions, we are unable to make any decisions of any sort; what to eat for dinner, whether to eat dinner, what socks to wear...

You've given me an opening to use, yet again, my favorite quote from one of my favorite authors, Stephen J. Gould. I think this is the perfect pragmat...

Th Thanks.

At first I wasn't sure if you were being ironic. Donald Trump said "MAGA loves the black people," and "I have a great relationship with the blacks." W...

Help please. I want to search for a phrase, say "free will." I don't want posts with just "free" or "will," I want the whole phrase. I've tried puttin...

I think I understand why some people support Donald Trump and I can sympathize with their motivations. Claiming that Biden stole the election shows ba...

What really set me off was you bringing Donald Trump into it. I have friends whom I like, respect, and trust who voted for him. Add to that the fact t...

I don't see it that way. I have no longing for the days when men were men and all the negroes stayed on the other side of the tracks where they belong...

I provide pretty definitive evidence that your philosophical position is wrong, and you shrug your shoulders and say "science/schmience." It's hard to...

This is a good expression of what "pragmatism" means to me. I don't think this is right. The pragmatic view of truth and meaning is metaphysics. I'm g...

Ha! Us gerontocrats are in charge!! It will never happen. You will need the support of 2/3 of Congress and the legislatures of 38 states, all filled w...

Fun as usual.

Although I generally don't characterize my philosophical leanings, it would be silly for me not to acknowledge that the term "pragmatism" fits me like...

Again, I think we've pared this down to a question of language.

As you can probably tell from my posts, I agree with you.

Just to make sure you and I are using the same meaning, the definition of "measure" I think the line is talking about is "a standard of comparison, es...

Agreed.

I think you and I agree. If I were born today, I'd ask for factory installed blue-tooth and undercoating. I've noticed things getting a bit rusty late...

Never, never say "correct me if I am wrong" in a response to me. Surprisingly enough, yes, you are wrong. Well, let's just say I disagree with you. We...

Whether I am the measure of all things, it is a fundamental assumption of my philosophy that humanity is. Basic units for measurement are at human sca...

As I noted in a previous post on this thread, there is strong evidence that babies as young as three months can make clear choices that it makes sense...