T_Clark

To start, this is a great summary of where things stand. It's easy to see you put time and effort into it. I haven't been paying much attention lately...

"Feeling and Knowing - Making Minds Conscious" by Antonio Damasio. I've previously written about an earlier book by Damasio - "The Feeling of What Hap...

I checked and you're right. I should be more careful when I pontificate about quantum mechanics. Thanks.

As I understand it, the question of non-realism vs. non-locality is completely different and completely separate from the question of position vs. mom...

This is something I've wondered about. Is it possible to have a scientific understanding of some aspect of the world without an ontology? Without a st...

Unlikely

This is typical Hanoverian bullshit. I'll put it in legal language so attorneys like you can understand it - The truth, you can't handle the truth.

I think the world will be a better place if all my images, as well as everything else I post, disappears sometime in the not too distant future - next...

I now realize you are right. Based on that, I revise my estimate to 27.43%.

@"fdrake", @"Jamal" Since the problems we had with not enough storage, I've been avoiding uploading images to illustrate my posts. Is that not a probl...

Bologna! /uploads/resized/files/8b/kcd2dis3p2mu32v2.png Based on this evidence, I revise my estimate to 27.39%.

@"Baden", @"Jamal", @"fdrake", Will you please put an end to this discussion.

This is a really inappropriate post.

This discussion doesn’t belong here. You should talk to a therapist, not listen to a bunch of socially awkward, pseudo philosophers. You won’t find ap...

Looks more like 35%.

Seems to be something wrong with its eye.

I think that's a wonderful definition even though I have no idea what it means.

Well, no. We certainly don't all agree. "Existence" and "reality" mean different things to different people in different contexts, but you haven't def...

I'm sure that's true. I also neglected to mention every Native American ever.

If I understand the Scientific American article referenced in the linked article, which, as predicted by Clark's uncertainty principle, is a 50/50 pro...

Yes, it’s just you. And @"Count Timothy von Icarus" apparently.

What a coincidence. My first language was semaphore. When I was an infant, my parents had to attach the flags to my hands with duct tape. /uploads/res...

Also, we, at least here in the US, were never taught about them in school. I didn't even know the distinction existed before we had our original discu...

It is not a matter of logic whether something can come from nothing. It's either a metaphysical assumption or a matter of fact, probably the first. Fo...

That's probably the least annoying, or maybe just the least ill-mannered, way I try to wind you up.

I would have been disappointed if you'd responded any other way.

Since our discussion several years ago, I find myself using dashes much more than I did before, although, as I've told you previously and to which you...

"Not Wanted on the Voyage" was published in 1985. Findley must have had one of the earliest versions of Chat GPT.

Speaking of punctuation and artificial intelligence, I have heard that one way you can tell if something is written by AI is by the presence of em das...

What you've described isn't really an explanation at all. You have assumed that something can't come from nothing, so you put a name to what something...

As usual, when you put your mind to serious business, your arguments are compelling and humane. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy your other contributio...

I know what you mean by "dark," but I don't really see it that way. For me, Marlow is a decent man who maintains his moral center while other British ...

First off, I assume you are talking about a new philosophical category, not a change in the overall forum. If not, I think you're barking up the wrong...

Normally, when someone new posts to the forum I say "Welcome to the forum," but I won't here, because that might be construed as kindness. I wouldn't ...

This is my favorite book. I’ve given it to all my children. Actually, I’ve given it to all my children more than once. My memory is not all that great...

A state of what?

As @"Patterner" has noted, you haven't even told us what kind of thing this is. Is it a category, a philosophy, a process, a system, a characteristic,...

Yellowcake (also called urania) is a type of powdered uranium concentrate obtained from leach solutions, in an intermediate step in the processing of ...

Sorry, I didn’t realize this was a nine year old thread. It’s possible you have become a neo-conservative since then, or that if you were one then you...

This is what clever people call a distinction without a difference. It is a mess, but it is not, for the time being, our mess. We have plenty of other...

At my age, I'm waiting for the funerals to really start. My older brother, wife, step-mother, my children's girlfriend's parents and grandparents, fri...

If my memory is correct, we fucked around in Syria back during Obama's presidency and it went badly. We also went into Iraq, destroyed a nasty regime,...

Welcome to The forum. I’m sure I’m not the only one who was confused when I started reading your post. I thought you were talking about nihilism but m...

Perfect, except no subtitles.

My Thanksgiving adventure - All three of my children were home for Thanksgiving last week. My daughter and younger son forced me to watch three movies...

I like this. I think it's a useful way of looking at the issue. I hadn't thought of it in these terms before. Hmmm... I wonder if I agree with this.

You can be banned for mentioning P zombies. Read the guidelines.

I guess I don't see the issue you're trying to get at here. Let's say, instead looking at the situation from Peter's and then Alexa's points of view w...

This is a matter of self-awareness, our ability to look at ourselves clearly from the inside. I try to be aware of the motivations of my actions, with...

I don't know, but I think @"ssu"'s answer is a pretty good one.