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I am not arguing, really, just saying I don't know what the mind is 'made of', what's its composition and mechanisms. I am not ready to call it physic...

You started the ad hom. Don't cry me a river now. You called my ideas ridiculous and faulty, without any other argument that "minds are not physical",...

It's associated most closely to Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. It's kosher.

Naaah.

My explanation was correct, but your mind causes nothing to happen at all, not even understanding, so it has many limitations.

Or it can cause it... Or make it more likely. I am not aware of anything in this world that would or could be non causal, that could not have any effe...

You said: biology will one day prove that the human mind "does not interfere"; and yet biology itself is a product of the human mind. Any time biologi...

No, it doesn't. --- When you said: ------ And what proof do you have of the "net" part? How do you know it doesn't consume say chemical energy?

My mind has a certain velocity, not very high. I am trying to improve it by playing blitz chess. Does light have a mass? You can't pick it up, I agree...

We are talking of the mind-body problem in a scientific, i.e. 'physical' conceptual frame. That is precisely why you raise physical laws such as the c...

So what baggage would that be? In a few well chosen words please? You can do it.

It's a principle of physics though. The weather you are exposed to can affect you, and in turn you can somewhat control the weather you are exposed to...

What baggage would that be?

To all action, a reaction.

If the body can affect the mind, then it logically follows that the mind can affect the body.

Yes, something like that. The fear of discovering that there’s no firm conceptual ground under their certitudes.

I love the White Stripes, and would rather see this as an homage or a citation.

Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's do it, let's fall in love In Spain, the best upper sets do it Lithuanians and Letts do it Let'...

These two galls have nice chemistry. https://youtu.be/GX9A5vv-jOM

We eat materialists for breakfast on this forum. Ha ha

All this being said, there might be something in the subjects of philosophy that irrates people. From Socrates to Descartes to Nietzsche, many philoso...

I used to love pushing the buttons of materialists, if you’re game. It’s hard for all of us, but fortunately, failure to communicate properly is not l...

I’ve been on online forums since the 90’s. I’ve come to a few conclusions. One is that we’re all the troll of somebody else. By that, I mean that it i...

On the OP, Internet nastiness is often related to anonymity. One can express oneself on the Internet without risking much social capital, and this enc...

So you’re just another nitpicker, or is there some point to your never ending questions? Penny-wise philosophers abound. They can get the tiny tiny de...

'Deep' is relative. Here it tends to mean: anything deeper than Beyoncé. This means even Ariana Grande may qualify. Nick Cave passes the bar any day. ...

Still, I believe the sentence "claim X is false" is clearer and more appropriate than "claim X is fallible". If the word 'fallible' introduces confusi...

I would say it is very much different. A pain is an objective fact, and the relief brought by painkillers too. But ‘enjoy intercourse the way it ought...

I was taking 'fallible' as meaning "capable of making mistakes". Defined as such, it does not apply to statements and claims, for which the correct ad...

You are right, I do have some reason, which I guess is that genital mutilations may permanently reduce someone's sexual pleasure.

Irrelevant to anything. The point was that individual observers are fallible, hence the power of intersubjectivity. Banjo keeps trying to misunderstan...

Farmers would still farm the world over, I think, with less output probably.

One of the few places, maybe, but 1) human beings can still misrepresent their pain, they can lie about it (or did you believe Trump really had bone s...

If you provided any evidence that human beings are infallible, I must have missed it. An observer can lie, try to deceive, or he can be inaccurate or ...

No, I just mean that I have had some American friends having babies here in Europe, where doctors don't typically do circumcision. And those friends h...

I always try to be clear. An observer is subjective, hence fallible. A claim is not an observer. A claim can just be true or not. You understand the d...

And it seems to me you are trying to confuse yourself. While an observer is always fallible -- that is to say that he may get some observations seriou...

What about the case of the amputee who feels pain in his missing arm? And people can also lie, or exaggerate.

Why, then you do not mention the fact that each individual observer is necessarily subjective and therefore fallible. The reason one needs more than o...

Meaning?

Yes, that's the general idea.

Because it describes very precisely what happens. It's therefore apt and correct. "Shared" is too vague and objectivity is different from intersubject...

Very true. I still remember my surprise as a small kid when a friend told me he didn't like oranges at all. I could not understand that. I could not e...

You are a word fetishist. Instead of treating them like tools, you treat them as some sort of magic entity capable of corrupting your thoughts. Relax ...

You want to use another word instead, like "shoobeedoobeedoo"?

None. And I said as much: I don't oppose to it on theoretical grounds; I just find it gross and repellent, emotionally. IOW I don't like it. Even circ...

Intersubjectivity is a very useful concept, especially in philosophy of science, in that it bridges the gap between subjectivity and objectivity. It e...

Too bad, I was looking forward to reading it...

Sure. Write a nice letter to Francis and he'll see what he can do.

I encourage you to cancel cancel culture. Simplify your life. You are free to say whatever you want, and other people are free to like or dislike it. ...