I disagree. I don't think you'd find a book encouraging you to eat and drink with gay abandon in any self-help section. Self-help is an ethic of looki...
I can go one better: I have even written an entire song, lyrics, chords, bassline and all, in the space of a cigarette break without making a peep. Bu...
That was literally the opposite of the meaning in the part you quoted. The OP is generalising from successful psychopaths. I'm just saying there's a l...
The cause is irrelevant. We've simply moved from using the word 'physical' to describe the rules that appear to govern our experiences -- irrespective...
Oh come on, do you really believe that your average Wisconsin Christian is examining their beliefs and studying the philosophy underpinning them more ...
Yeah, I'm using the word an insane amount of times. But in this case, I just meant that you're quite mad. I'm no cosmologist, more a cosmo-hobbyist, b...
Regarding your title, the criminal definition of a psychopath is not the same as the medical definition (here in the UK anyway) referred to in 's exce...
Do you mean in terms of judging people who break it? It's an interesting question. At zeroth order, solidarity seems purely a pragmatism: we mostly ag...
Yes and no. People driven toward altruism instinctively are more likely to propagate their genes. It doesn't have to make someone feel good necessaril...
True. But there's also a kind of category error with idealism. Let's go with the idea that there is no physical world, and take the example of subject...
You do have to believe in the power of speech to believe there can be great orators. It's rather confused to think you can have powerful speeches but ...
Ah, I see. Useful for explaining something previously unexplained. Then again, as a sheer numbers game, Kant might inspire more people to learn more a...
It makes sense to me that you don't think your brain in an information processing system. It sounds like you don't believe in things like rhetoric whi...
I won't denigrate vertex corrections in QED as it's not my field but in condensed matter theory, last time I checked, they were pretty damn useless. A...
Yes, that seems an apt way of putting it. Obviously their practices have changed and that will impact their culture, but probably more in the way mobi...
We're talking ideas in someone's, right? It doesn't permit redness to exist objectively as a perfect form outside of brains as an idealist might have ...
Not quite, since nature can select for altruistic impulses because of reciprocal altruism, but it can't select for reciprocal altruism itself. Just to...
Better than building rabbit-proof fences, yeah. This mentality is what I was thinking of btw: This is very typical in my experience. It'd be like tryi...
That's not physical reality, that's solipsism. Physical reality is the causes of our perceptions. Or do you mean physical theory is what we make of wh...
Mental process, not mental state. (I was in a mental state last night.) I'm not differentiating between mental state and brain state: both refer to th...
Ah well, let's be yet more precise. Imaging neural activity is one indirect way of knowing what's going on in the mind (in principle anyway). The pers...
Yeah, sorry, my answer was rather incomplete. The bystander effect has no standing in either evaluation by design, but I'm not sure what you see is im...
I don't think that's true. There's not one thing to make happen. There are lots of apocalyptic scenarios, but also lots of survivalist scenarios. Even...
This could be quite misleading. Physicalism concerns the senses insofar as it concerns the observable universe. It doesn't have to be a direct observa...
I'm not of the 'mind is an illusion'/'consciousness is an illusion'/'qualia are illusions' camp of physicalists. Mind seems real enough, as the proces...
It's weird that you take the discussion -- on your thread, no less -- less seriously than the drunk guy on the train :rofl: Amusing as it may be, word...
Because being completely unknown makes it illogical to assertm The mind is not contended. For the record, I am pro-mind. Non-physicalism is contended....
Non-physicalism. Jesus, dude, it's just chat, don't be so offensive ;) Well that's easily dismissed. There are too many theories for the same thing. I...
Yes, that's not an example of the bystander effect. However it's worth noting that the difference between them is not that one person is saving childr...
Something being ill-defined is a good reason to refute it. As I've already said, non-physical doesn't make sense as a concept: either it interacts wit...
No, I was treating the point: nothing else. This meme of physical hypotheses for physical behaviour is based solely on its merits, its fitness: if it ...
This is the sort of thing we were discussing when you interjected with the post I originally responded to. It might be that the timing, wording and la...
If the cause is non-physical, it won't be determinable in terms of physics by definition. What we'd see would be indistinguishable from an undiscovere...
The alternative to this is that the mind is a trapped, impotent spectator. Or perhaps telepathic but otherwise impotent. We'd not know if we were tele...
If it has any impact on physical outcome, it is a cause of physical effects. If I wish to raise my right arm and do so because of it, ultimately somew...
Yes, it's better in my eyes, but I'll leave it to you as it whether you think it's better. No contradiction, just not being arrogant about it. If you'...
Yes, I was going to touch on this but went a different route for concision. Morality is practical. Practically, the decision is never going to be whet...
Except these guys maybe: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE5gbRFUwAIot-w.jpg I'm usually an optimist but my gut feel is that democracies will reject any g...
It's scientific to do so. I'll leave whether it's "better" to the eyes of the beholder. No, they don't define non-physical at all. It's not on their r...
Haha I stopped reading at precisely this point, whoops! And so much special pleading and of-the-gaps fallacy. An article enumerating the problems with...
If the data transferred from my computer to my SSD is no more energetic than random bits, how come I can store files with high fidelity?!? :O Your mov...
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