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There are many different uses of the term. What is the difference between the map and the territory, in your opinion?

Well, don't fathom it then. You can't understand everything, and this is a tangent anyway.

You implied that other people's criteria for not responding to your post may not be as rational as your criteria to not respond to their post. I am ju...

Motive questioning again... So when people do not respond to your post, they are at fault, but when you don't respond to their posts, you are not at f...

Okay then, you should be able to understand that such a strategy is perfectly rational. No need for motive questioning.

In other words, you are making a lot of wild guesses about other people's motives. Do you respond to each and every post, or do you make choices, like...

Assuming there is such an overlap.

"Things worth responding to" is a slightly different concept from "Things I agree with".

Okay then, you made it...

What exact point are you trying to make?

Indeed, this difference is not about the map being magical or supernatural. So what is this difference about?

Nope, supernaturalism was what I objected to. Dualism, at least my garden variety, is a natural, common sensical philosophy. It's not really about dem...

It has to be fabricated by someone and then set up by someone. Cameras don't crop up in the landscape haphazardly. They are artificial eyes that human...

There is also the actual stuff represented in the picture, e.g. the grand canyon.

There's no camera filming without some use for it, and therefore no camera without a user. Even the footage of a surveillance camera is watched by som...

There is no such thing as a "homonculus fallacy" that I can see. There is an argument about it but it is poor and obviously false. We do in fact use c...

Don't you worry about it. My guess is that among the 50+ poster's who pumped you up, quite a few -- like myself -- did it just to show how easy to man...

I voted you up too. :love:

So my fan base here is composed of three (3) people? Why, I love you too, 3 people ! :-)

That must be it! :-)

:-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xLfxNuW-xo

That is very far from common sense, which considers emotions and thoughts as perfectly natural. Thanks. Not sure that works for me... My dualism start...

If the pages are made of gold, I don't see the problem...

Can you or anyone explain the meaning of "property dualism"?

I love my parents I love my children Boring, I know... I don't like war or misery, It's annoying... You may find it Too politically correct But then, ...

This is dedicated to @"SophistiCat" and @"Kenosha Kid", posters who seem to know their way around a particle accelerator. In 2015, three graduate stud...

Our loss, his gain.

It means knowledge about X is different from X. The map is not the territory. Indeed, idealist monists such as Berkeley disagree with my point 1, and ...

Whatever.

It was not a concern, more an information. Honestly, I don't like your style. You are trying to be toxic and obnoxious, a behavior best left to unsecu...

You'll get banned if you continue like this.

Glad you liked it. This movie is a classic of the era, graced with one double entente joke per second (almost) and Marilyn's unapologetic sex appeal. ...

It's a silly and sexy comedy, mindlessly enjoyable. Google "last scene" and the title.

Yes, Spinoza but also the Catholic humanists. My soulmate! :-)

Reminds me the final scene of Some Like It Hot.

I'm an environmentally concerned, pro-science, atheist social-democrat from France. To my defense, I'm also an old white heterosexual male. Nobody's p...

Are you some kind of MAGA-capped intellectual, by any chance?

My faith in science serves me well and helps me a lot, for the very simple reason that it is undistinguishable from my faith in my own reason and sens...

What I gathered from my superficial reading on the subject is the conventional wisdom that Plato went through 'phases' or 'periods' like Picasso. At t...

Yeah, I'm pro-science hence bad.

Who doesn't? You gotta serve somebody.

Just tell them that science is about minds understanding matter, not vice versa.

The solution of this seeming contradiction could be as simple as Plato putting words in Socrates' mouth. Another solution would be that Socrates, whil...

Scientists are no better nor worse than other folks. They are regular folks. Why is everyone treating them either as devils or angels in beyond me. If...

He could be a liar, though.

Indeed, this idea of two different substances is not intuitive at all, it is something that came out of a certain culture. The intuitive idea (to me a...

Yes, the power of doubt.

Nothing is sacrosanct in my shop, not even my nor your guesswork. I think there are answers to those two questions. Biology tells us a humongous lot a...

It follows that Socrates was the prototypical agnostic. I agree with him here. We don't really know how many gods there are: 0, 1, 2, a million, or 3....

Why not: Subsystem 1 is in state |1>, which includes a (imprecise, approximate) measurement of Subsystem 2 Subsystem 2 is in state |2>, which includes...