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Well, I can hide my thoughts if I want to, and I can share them if I want to. So my thoughts are initially private, but I can decide to share some par...
December 13, 2020 at 10:48
You will probably agree that if you had nothing between the ears, you wouldn’t look at fMRI scans, ask people for phenomenological reports, and record...
December 13, 2020 at 10:04
I realize this remark is partly in jest, and in response to a mind denier. I don’t think people treat other people as pure objects, without ever think...
December 13, 2020 at 07:18
There.s also the quantic wave-particle duality, and Aristotle’s duality of form and matter. Dualism works just fine.
December 13, 2020 at 07:01
Off topic.
December 12, 2020 at 23:39
If science was just another social game, it would have no material effectiveness. And yet it works. You are typing on a device and we can read what yo...
December 12, 2020 at 23:24
Induction? Is that another illusion you care to prop up and to shoot down, or what?
December 12, 2020 at 16:00
Should I take your word for it, or are you trying to make an argument? And don’t forget to mention why oh why this matters to the subject at hand, unl...
December 12, 2020 at 15:57
If that was the case, science would have no authority and no effectiveness. And yet it works.
December 12, 2020 at 12:50
Nowhere, to my knowledge. That would be self-contradictory and thus in my opinion highly unlikely to ever happen. But there were on this thread many a...
December 12, 2020 at 11:12
That was never the argument. Rather, the point that you and others kept missing was that any knowledge of any kind comes from our self-awarenes and th...
December 12, 2020 at 10:59
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December 12, 2020 at 08:30
What can I say? Keep on not proposing if that rocks your boat...
December 11, 2020 at 22:23
Well I’m glad for you but when I proposed something not unlike what you just said, you said it was ineffective...
December 11, 2020 at 21:50
Waiting, at this point, means accepting doom as necessary or unavoidable.
December 11, 2020 at 21:04
Il ah okay. You got me scared for a second.
December 11, 2020 at 20:45
Did I, really?
December 11, 2020 at 20:41
So what do you propose then?
December 11, 2020 at 20:36
:-)
December 11, 2020 at 15:12
Guess it could be close to my idea if by metaphysical you meant what I mean by supernatural: exceptions to the causal laws of the universe. Defined as...
December 11, 2020 at 13:09
Who said I don't do that in my own life?
December 11, 2020 at 13:02
It's important to state precisely what and why you exclude certain hypotheses. I personally exclude from my reasoning entities whose existence I haven...
December 10, 2020 at 09:03
The worst part of consumerism is that the ‘goods’ they sell you are designed to break down and be thrown away rather than to be durable goods. That’s ...
December 10, 2020 at 07:42
Well, they all look the same so there’s limited creativity from the individual puffer-fish. It is thought that females evaluate the size and regularit...
December 10, 2020 at 07:38
We can develop an anti-consumerist, anti-materialist philosophy, and try to teach it to our kids.
December 10, 2020 at 07:29
I find ‘qualia’ a useful neologism. True that some people have no use for it, or misuse it.
December 10, 2020 at 07:09
Not really. Consciousness is an illusion, remember? So your conscious feeling of pain is an illusion, as per Dennett... Stop complaining.
December 10, 2020 at 06:55
Whatever. Glad I entertained you. Will make sure never ever to teach you a new word in the future. That’s a promise!
December 10, 2020 at 06:51
Don’t worry about it, pain qualia don’t exist.
December 09, 2020 at 22:06
I love you too, Banno.
December 09, 2020 at 19:40
That is so unfair! I've been very precise about what I mean by qualia.
December 09, 2020 at 18:59
This demarcation is useful, though. In what? Nagel's essay? No, of course not. I am just saying that I personally go by some rules while philosophizin...
December 09, 2020 at 09:51
Saw this yesterday and wondered how such a behavior could emerge from evolution... It's about a species of puffer fish. The male puffer fish creates a...
December 09, 2020 at 09:46
I've started reading, found it a good piece. But rest assured that I am not afraid of anything here, except facile deus ex machina cop-outs. One can a...
December 09, 2020 at 09:29
My understanding of the prefix "meta" is that it simply means "about", often in some reflexive way (metadata = data about the data, metacognition = co...
December 09, 2020 at 09:20
Of course it’s a boo word, so what? I am entitled to have likes and dislikes, just like everyone else. And I don’t like mythological explanations that...
December 09, 2020 at 08:31
We agreed already with Janus that minds exist and are effective (i.e. causal). What is religion without a belief in the supernatural?
December 09, 2020 at 08:12
Likewise, why should I care about your Dennett article, if you can’t even be bothered to summarize what it says? Fakers everywhere...
December 09, 2020 at 07:40
You want to summarize the conclusion for us, Banno? Personally I hold Dennett as a fake thinker, as a snake oil salesman à la Trump. In typical fashio...
December 09, 2020 at 07:28
I suppose it would depend on what one defines as ‘natural’ and ‘naturalism’. Historically the latter is synonymous with ‘ physicalism’. But for me it ...
December 09, 2020 at 07:22
Just saying that the word ‘physical’ means nothing in this context. ‘Natural’ does mean something though, so I would rather use this concept here. Tra...
December 08, 2020 at 22:56
Okay so the question is not important. The important thing is that minds decide what is physical and what is not. An even more important thing is that...
December 08, 2020 at 22:43
In other words, if one applies your criteria, minds are evidently physical, since minds decide what is physical. I conclude that ‘physical’, if not de...
December 08, 2020 at 22:09
The point is that the human mind is having a huge ‘physical’ impact. Through science and technology for instance. The point is that your criteria for ...
December 08, 2020 at 22:05
Our scientific knowledge of climate change as a theoretical possibility dates from the mid 19th century. In other words, it’s as old as the industrial...
December 08, 2020 at 21:43
Well, that’s an easy decision then: the effects of the human mind cannot be denied. We’re even screwing up the climate now, thanks to our sciences and...
December 08, 2020 at 21:25
But what do you mean by physical?
December 08, 2020 at 21:08
I understand ‘natural’. It excludes some central decision making center directing the whole thing. Causality stems from things themselves, from their ...
December 08, 2020 at 21:08
By physical, you mean natural, like, not involving a supernatural being or substance? Because one usual, common meaning of ‘physical’ is in opposition...
December 08, 2020 at 20:59
A VALID AND USEFUL function, yes, which therefore fails to eliminate anything in it.
December 08, 2020 at 10:01