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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It's important to state precisely what and why you exclude certain hypotheses. I personally exclude from my reasoning entities whose existence I haven...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
My understanding of the prefix "meta" is that it simply means "about", often in some reflexive way (metadata = data about the data, metacognition = co...
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...
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...
I suppose it would depend on what one defines as ‘natural’ and ‘naturalism’. Historically the latter is synonymous with ‘ physicalism’. But for me it ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
I understand ‘natural’. It excludes some central decision making center directing the whole thing. Causality stems from things themselves, from their ...
By physical, you mean natural, like, not involving a supernatural being or substance? Because one usual, common meaning of ‘physical’ is in opposition...
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