Kenosha Kid

The great example being The Miracle of the Sun. Miracles tend to be their own method of execution.

Yeah, I don't know whether it's the lapsed academic in me, but most of my OPs are there to invite criticism, look for holes, find the weakest points a...

I HATE THIS!!! That is a fact. THIS IS TERRIBLE!!! is an opinion. The distinction is mere pedantry in my op- ah fuck it.

I think the distinction you're after is potential energy, which it has by virtue of its position in spacetime, and its mechanical energy, such as mome...

Shirley you're joking! But, yes, the OP attests to the fact that you don't need to be a genius to post here ;)

Is non-physical energy the ability to do non-physical work? I have lots of that. White collar til I die.

Ask your mother.

Oh no, not the Bartricks IQ test, I need that! (I need that, right?) Okay so let's say your a genius and I'm a dribbling idiot. I clearly didn't under...

Probably communists or some sect of paedophile cannibals. If I understand you right, that's basically what explainable AI is supposed to do: use Bayes...

Yeah, this. I'm fascinated by it. There's these no-go areas with no obvious reason to not go there, in fact really compelling reasons to go there. Lif...

I'd been airing the idea that we'd snap out of it in the Lowry Theatre and it'd be 2020 with no pandemic. It seems a very him thing to do :rofl: I sup...

Wow! I was spot on with the term "masturbation". You've been busy while I slept. (When we both have time, I'll explain time zones to you. We'll work o...

It's irrelevant whether I agree with a particular epistemology or not, I'm always happy to tackle the argument on its arguer's own terms. My question ...

I understand the relationship between them. I was asking a very targeted question for which, like everyone else defending a position of magical nonsen...

I am drunk again. We were supposed to be going to see Derren Brown tonight. My girlfriend bought me the tickets for my birthday last year but it was c...

Well that's true. And apparently it takes more than a metaphysician to recognise science. I guess we all have our niches, though I'm not sure what you...

Yes, I completely agree with this but it also makes me think we're speaking at cross purposes. You're talking about some rationalisation of our experi...

Okay, I'm getting the impression this is masturbation, not philosophy. Fill yer boots!

Mistakes are a subclass of false beliefs. I did. I'm explaining politely why it's bullshit. You didn't argue carefully, you paved over cracks. Yes, Go...

We're getting off track, but the universe needn't be completely understandable. Understandable theories like thermodynamics, chemistry, etc. turn out ...

You mean the answer is fallacious? Yes, that seems likely.

Yes, the final relevant word for me too. The rest is largely head-meets-wall masochism.

First, for God to have a false belief, he cannot do so in ignorance of its falsity (condition of omniscience). He knows it's a false belief, therefore...

That's probably true more often than not, and not unreasonably so. There's no obvious reason, other than the anthropic principle, that as much of the ...

Yes, this is fine and, I think, more or less what the brain is doing anyway, right? I was just saying I got what Mww was talking about. And it is pert...

You can rationally expect reciprocity, yes, and reciprocity was even the reason altruism was selected for, but you can't evolve a drive toward recipro...

It's not about lying. Scientists operate on the assumption of an objectively real physical universe, not on the assumption of non-physical minds. I'm ...

But I don't have access to other minds. I have access to their physical effects.

Well, I Kant say fairer than that, Maine's an extra dry vodka martini with a twist

Information _about_ stuff? Because all information about any system is in the system. Any copies of the system's information are, at best, just that -...

Now that sounds like physicalist :groan: Vox populi

Hey, I already said nice-ish things about Kant.

I guess if this was The Vox Pop Forum, that might be worth a damn :rofl: Ah, so I'm guessing don't hold my breath re: my previous post.

On which: Anyone able to provide some commentary on this? Nothing in Hanover's argument suggests he's attacking an epistemic position and defending an...

But that's an idealist argument, no? Not dualist. I have fewer conceptual problems with idealism. Well there is, of course. But regardless, what you'r...

Mass is energy, and that's generally considered a material property. Surely not! The meaning of the symbol depends on the system that interprets it, b...

Because neurons, synapses, blah blah blah.

Is the program execution on my doctor's computer a mind or a body?

I get where Mww is coming from. The diagram is not in the system, it's an outside view. A system with an input and output can't have as its output a r...

I hope not. Most doctors need to handle computers these days. I don't want mine falling to pieces because she thinks hers is either conscious or canno...

Good shout! I'm open to counter-examples, but mind-body dualists certainly seem to break things down that way. A thought can't be physical, for instan...

Well Hanover's exposition seems largely to be pointing out things we don't know. For instance, it isn't remotely obvious that this is good counting, n...

(Note present tense.) (Note future tense.) I'm not sure how property dualism has been shown to fail (which ought to be the first argument), but the as...

With utmost accuracy. I'm an idiot for getting into this with you.

Yeah, there's spacetime and stuff in it. And there's massive and massless stuff. And electrically charged and not electrically charged stuff. There's ...

I have come across this but never knew it was a published article. A really insightful pastiche.

A thought bwahahaha Another but similar factor is that recalling a snatch of a tune doesn't seem much like hearing it for the first time. It's less di...

You are insane.

Nor does it rule out the infinity of other ridiculous ideas we can come up with. Are we supposed to entertain them all, or just the ones that were pop...

Isaac above tried to be more specific on this earlier to make sure you're not conflating two different things. You seemed to be stubbornly refusing to...