T_Clark

And since I'm already here, I've been thinking about my favorite movies about food. "Babette's Feast" - The story of a famous Parisian chef who moves ...

I recently watched Paul Thomas Anderson's "Licorice Pizza" and liked it very much. This is my summer of nice movies. It's about the friendship between...

Thanks.

Whenever we set sail on the sea of consciousness, differences in definitions are often the reefs on which our arguments run aground. I would not norma...

I think I was clear in my previous post that emotions are involved in all aspects of our cognitive life. At the same time, it is true that every mamma...

If you want to participate effectively in philosophical discussions, you should use words as they are commonly understood. At the very least, you shou...

Yes, I agree with this strongly. People with damage to those areas of the brain involved in emotions sometimes find themselves unable to make even the...

I am a big fan of introspection, so I have no problem with looking within for answers, but that doesn't compensate for opinions that are just objectiv...

I just want you to feel you are doing well.

I read this when I was a kid and really liked it. I read it again more recently and was less impressed. Still it’s my favorite title of any book ever.

I’m very interested. Please put it in an email and send it to me. Put “Baden‘s crap” in the subject line.

Interesting. Impressive. I like people who actually know stuff.

@"Noble Dust" As I mentioned to you in another post on a different thread, I'm thinking of taking a trip to Brooklyn. Can you recommend any good wine ...

Do we have to pay now when you respond to our posts? Perhaps you could get @"Jamal" to give you a percentage of the take. Maybe you've told us before,...

Before you were using a non-standard meaning for "belief." Now you're using a non-standard meaning for "truth." This is not just a nit-picky linguisti...

I gave a definition of "belief" in a previous post - "attitudes about the world which can be either true or false." You must be using a different defi...

My stereotype of an engineer is someone who would think that beliefs have to be expressed in words. Be that as it may, for philosophers, beliefs are t...

I forgot this. You should be warned. I know where you live (Brooklyn), and I know what you look like (Casey Affleck with a beard). I'll just go to eve...

First off, it's good to see you step out from the Shoutbox and toss us some meat to chew on. Also, I'd like to praise your use of the term "quantum" i...

This is my favorite 1960s portrayal of rebellion. It must be good, it has Shelly Winters in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3IbGPUt6p4

I'm sorry it happened to you, but I don't see how it is relevant to your point. Both religious and non-religious people do things like that. I don't w...

You wrote: How is that different from what I said? Perhaps you can provide an example of one of the horror stories.

This sounds like the No True Scottish Terrier fallacy.

I think it is relevant. You say the validity of the psychological understanding expressed by religious beliefs is somehow invalid because of the conse...

I am surprised, shocked actually, to hear you say this. I find it hard to believe that anyone who has seen animals, much less owned them as pets, woul...

Thanks for the recommendation, although I don’t do very well with horror movies. I tend to sit hunched over with my hands covering my eyes.

The world of science and technology is full of its own horror stories.

I enjoyed your OP. It's well-written and clear. I found a lot to disagree with and I think you make many over-broad statements that aren't necessarily...

It's not wrong, it's inapplicable.

Here's a real beatnick for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8fC4dvAmf8 Of course, he grew up to be Gilligan.

"Ghost Dog" is the other Jarmusch movie I've watched besides "Paterson." I didn't love it, although I at least liked it enough to watch the whole thin...

Even if we disagree, the OP still doesn't make sense. Whatever a point is, a line is the same kind of thing and a line is continuous by definition. A ...

Perhaps you should consider not participating.

It exists in your mind, your imagination, but not in the physical world. I can imagine a point. I can also imagine a line, which is continuous. I don'...

A point does not exist in the everyday world. It is an abstraction, and idealization - imaginary. It has no size. It 's zero dimensional. It does not ...

A point is an abstract mathematical entity which doesn't correspond with any phenomenon in the world of our everyday existence. The same is true of a ...

In this case, I'll go out on a limb - "speculative" = "baloney."

I wouldn't toss this in except I know you are sympathetic to a Taoist way of seeing things. I think Lao Tzu is saying something similar to what you ar...

The existence of an objective reality is a presupposition we make in order to allow ourselves to make our way in this more or less existent world.

You always find neat stories. Thanks.

A couple of thoughts. My daughter and I are reading "The Power Broker" together. It's 1200 pages long, but we only read 100 pages a month and then get...

My younger son lived at home till he was 27. I hope you at least wash your own dishes and put stuff away.

After making my previous post I went on to read the following responses. It's pretty clear people here generally define "consciousness" differently. T...

This is the way I've been using the word in this discussion and, as I understand it, this is the issue Chalmers is talking about when he says "hard pr...

I think it's a simple question without a current answer - do deer see pictures and hear sounds in their head in a similar manner to how humans do?

I have made what I think are reasonable objections to the hard problem many times here on the forum. I never convince anyone and no one ever convinces...

As I wrote in my response to Wayfarer - both sides of the discussion think their position is self-evident and dismiss the other argument.

I think both sides of the discussion think their position is self-evident and dismiss the other argument.

Oh, no, I was wrong, it was Earth all along... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqZdfxc-fq0

As you know, many of us don't think there is any problem to face up to.