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Something similar - when I lived in Cambridge Massachusetts, the street lights were very tall and in the summer you could see nighthawks catching bugs...

Oops! Sorry. How about this instead? Flight of the Conchords is not funny.

Now I have to say something mean to you too. How about this… Fucking Kiwis

You are welcome to talk about it. I wasn't suggesting your thread not be allowed. It would just make more sense if you would discuss troubles in your ...

Here's a brief summary of what I think you've written. Tell me if I got it wrong. Rich people and poor people are socially equal because, while rich p...

Some thoughts. It annoys me you feel the need to step into this. As you note, it's a problem in the US, but not in most of Europe. Why do you feel the...

I’m a white, liberal, registered Democrat, but I recognize what you’re calling “woke” for what it really is. It’s a way for “progressives” to show the...

I knew I could count on you. Thanks.

It also makes a good first line for a haiku, or whatever those haikus that aren’t really haikus are called. Hey, Javi , what’s the right word?

Oh, Banno… you’re so cute.

Yes, that’s how I see it. Not really. I’ve heard his name here and there on the forum, but I don’t really know what his beliefs were. Are speed, dista...

It is exactly that easy I declare it metaphysical for two reasons. First, because it is. Second, because if I treated it as if it were supposed to be ...

This is a great response. @"Wayfarer", @"Metaphysician Undercover", @"boundless", and I will all be able to say "See, Apokrisis agrees with me." A lot...

True story.

For me also. There's no better way to understand what you believe than to bump up against something you don't believe. For what it's worth, I don't ca...

I have no problem with a religious point of view where God is the final cause giving the universe, the world, reality, or whatever you want to call it...

Umm... No, not as I see it. Isn't that the whole point of this discussion. The artillery officer, the war planners, and the politicians are all human....

That’s why I said I think it’s a bad analogy. As I said, I don’t really want to reopen this whole argument.

Be that as it may, I wasn’t trying to reopen the argument, I was trying to explain why I reject itso strongly.

I think it’s probably needless to say I don’t agree with this. A knife is designed and made by humans to cut. I think that is a bad analogy for the ki...

@"Wayfarer" @"Metaphysician Undercover" It struck me just now why I find the teleological approach to understanding the world so distasteful. It's dis...

It is also my understanding that Soylent Green is people.

I know you're old enough to know who Mikey is.

Mass is energy. Energy is mass. Your conception of what is real and what is not doesn't make much sense to me.

As I noted, you and I are just too far apart on this. I strongly disagree. We've been through this. The physicalism you seem to be talking about is th...

This is from Antonio Damasio's "Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious." Damasio is a well-known cognitive scientist.

Well, of course there has been. When you start at zero complexity, zero consciousness, the only place to go is up.

This seems like the whole infinite regress problem. A rock is moving with intention, but the intention came from outside it. Where did that intention ...

I wasn't trying to use your affection for Burtt as an argument against your position. It just struck me after reading @"Metaphysician Undercover"'s co...

I clearly haven't read nearly as much philosophy as you, so I can't compare philosophers. I will say I feel very at home with Collingwood, and not jus...

You’re older than I thought you were.

I guess you’re just lucky ChatGPT can’t call 911 directly. It’s my understanding that feature will be coming soon.

Maybe I’m a bit confused. Are you saying that it makes sense to think of non-sentient objects as capable of having intention? I think that is at the h...

I am always amazed at how brilliant a rhetorician you are.

I guess I mean it both ways. A question that can’t be answered either truly or falsely is either metaphysical or meaningless. Turning that around, a m...

There was a very, very bad and very, very wonderful movie back in the late 60s or early 70s called “Wild in the Streets”. In it, the voting age was re...

Yes, this is correct. It’s exactly the same. This is not a scientific way of speaking, it’s statistics. This is how statisticians talk about distribut...

In my original response to this post, I wrote there are trillions of molecules in a container of air. That’s not right. When we deal with thermodynami...

More of your rabid anti-religious bigotry. In this case especially lame.

You're making the idea that properties manifest as the number of elements approach infinity seem more exotic than it is. The term is just shorthand fo...

All this is exactly right. Strong emergence is not compatible with reductionism. That's the subject of the paper I linked. Perhaps I was confused. I t...

I did what I will admit was a quick scan and I didn’t see any answer to my specific request which was show me some evidence that “no amount of chemica...

I've had my say. I'll leave it at that.

No, life is reducible to chemistry, it's just that it is not constructable from chemistry. Says who? Show me some evidence. Give me some inkling of a ...

This really confused me. You say that weak emergence is the same thing as reductionism. I'm ok with that, although I don't think it's quite accurate. ...

I've already acknowledged that societal values and political considerations influence what is considered worth studying, knowing. And you're right - s...

It's true. The metaphysics of everyday life is different from that of science. Why would you expect anything different? Scientists are trying to do di...

The origin of life from inanimate material - abiogenesis - is not some mysterious unknowable process. It can be, and is, studied by science. It's not ...

It's true, life can't be explained using physics. The structure, development, and behavior of living organisms operate according to a different set of...

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