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What do you think, ChatGPT? @"Banno"

The one liberal democracy that is under real threat from its own government is the US, and no amount of gun ownership is going to change that.

Purification in Theravada Buddhism is to observe the precepts and learn to bring the mind to bear on wholesome states of mind. In addition there are v...

I generally supported the Australian Governments Covid precautions. Despite similar populations, Florida experienced a significantly higher number of ...

My comments on about were directed at dfpolis, who seemed dismissive of the idea of 'intentionality' in any context other than that of a rational subj...

Rogan has nothing to fear from the head of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. And nobody here gets sued for criticizing the Prime Minister provi...

In all those countries in that chart, I would think freedom of the press can generally be assumed, can't it? Got any counter-examples? It's what I sai...

I hope so. Nothing like a good opponent!

Not being killed is fundamental to liberty. I write from Australia. As is well-known, Australia has much greater controls on gun ownership, in part du...

Knowledge, you will agree, is mind-dependent. Outside of knowledge of the object, the object neither exists nor doesn't exist. This is elaborated in T...

Most other democratic countries managed it without. https://econofact.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Overall-Homicide-desktop.png

I stand corrected. Thank you :pray: My comments on mind (in)dependence were mainly to illustrate that what it means is not as obvious as many would th...

But he was the scion of the ruling dynasty who also happened to have trained as an ophthalmologist.

So you’re comparing guns with nutrition?

I guess if you live in a society with high rates of gun ownership and the possibility of violent crime then it would seem necessary. That’s the ‘vicio...

It seems to me I’m asking a straightforward question that is being met by circumlocution.

The thread is about gun control, and my comment was about equating gun ownership with civil freedom. You might explain how what you said has a bearing...

So does this mean, because human nature is horrible, then you’re under threat, hence the need to arm yourself? Is that what you’re saying?

Mind independence doesn't mean what we might think it means. When talking common-sense realism: of course the moon exists when nobody is looking, and ...

The root of the whole issue is the equation of weapons with civil liberty.

There’s a Buddhist anecdote that an elderly questioner once asked the Buddha, what is the core of his teaching? He replied, ‘Cease from evil, learn to...

A conversation between John Vervaeke and Evan Thompson about The Blind Spot book. (I bailed on it after about 20 minutes but I’ll leave it here.)

Bell didn’t prove anything. At the time, the required experimental apparatus and know-how didn’t exist. He worked out what needed to be proven, but th...

Glad you found it helpful. I realised from the comments on this topic, that a lot of what I’ve learned (mainly from The Embodied Mind and Mind in LIfe...

@"Dfpolis" - I hear your concerns about conceptual clarity, especially regarding the distinctions between vegetative, sensitive, and rational. I want ...

For anyone interested: a primer on ‘enactivism’ and ‘embodied cognition’, generated by Google Gemini, reviewed and edited by me. Contains a brief over...

It came to mind as I wrote, but in the context, it is not a counsel of despair, rather a spiritual admonition regarding the emptiness of worldly achie...

Makes sense to me. Counterpart to Weber’s Protestant Work Ethic.

Have a look at the primer I had created on enaction.

It was the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics which was awarded to the experimentalists who proved it. (I wrote an article on it for anyone interested).

I think it’s cause more than consequence. Sure there was a ready audience but they had to be fed, and lead.

Yes, my son's two chooks are continually complaining, in a chook kind of way, that they're tired of the feed they're given, and make a great show of e...

In any case - the main point is the context - that the specific expression became associated with Trump's election denial, as distinct from it being a...

Maybe, but this lie is a torpedo aimed at the Ship of State.

According to this story, two years ago 70% of Republican Voters thought that Biden’s election was illegitimate https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/03/poli...

I’ve been reading US media for years, it is common knowledge that Trump had committed numerous acts which lead many observers to predict the end of hi...

That list describes it well. There is also the factor of ‘outrage fatigue’ - norms of truthfulness and decency are broken so often and with so little ...

Sounds eminently sensible to me. One of the founders of the Australian Greens, Drew Hutton, was interviewed recently about woke ideology (hate the mis...

Thank you for your comments, and pleased to have found some common ground. Many of the contemporary theorists I'm reading refer to this aspect of Aris...

I don't think that it's so much a conscious strategy, as the fact that America twice elected a Big Liar as President. If that hadn't happened, then we...

You said "That which is initially some unfiltered instant becomes sharply framed in terms of its particularity within a setting of generality. Firstne...

I want to try and draw a line here. You came into this thread advocating physicalism, which as you know I disagree with. When I challenged it, you sai...

Nominalism. Just what Peirce wasn’t. Chalk and cheese.

A made-up report which directly contradicts an earlier, bi-partisan report, chaired by Marco Rubio, now Glove Puppet of State, which established that ...

Peirce didn’t treat Firstness as something to be discarded — it’s not simple subjectivity or a leftover from idealism. It refers to the irreducible im...

Some of whom were eminent scientists. The hallmark of phenomenology is its emphasis on the first-person character of experience. It begins by seeking ...

Which will, however, not outlive it. The ghost is neither the machine, nor anything apart fro it. A figment, in fact.

By what, by the way? We used to think that the laws of physics forbade powered flight.

There are many things, abstractions among them, that are only perceptible by nous. They don't, therefore, dwell anywhere, in the literal sense, as the...

But notice that 'insert themselves' implies agency. Why must they? What imperative drives that? Oh - that's right. It's something that could happen, t...