Kenosha Kid

Kudos for finding and posting that in 6 minutes! A materialist believes that there are material things with no minds, but there can't be mental things...

Continuing with the same error is not a defense of it.

I agree that calculus of limits is not an intuitive, everyday way of thinking, but it's pretty trivial to a mathematician and is the basis of most of ...

But you have to pretend calculus isn't a thing to fully appreciate them. Like Kasper Hauser? An interesting thing about Hauser is that he didn't dream...

Right. Generally I don't think 'I will have to look for another job' is effective duress when your current job is unethical. If you have very good rea...

And you don't understand the criticism. I'll say it more simply: language is not like awareness. There is information in both, but the former is very ...

FWIW, you can't claim to have shown that it's impossible to evolve an awareness of one's environment by demonstrating that it's possible in language t...

Well that depends. There's definitely an aspect of physical law that depends on the geometry of the universe (e.g. the inverse square laws) rather tha...

So why not just ask that? If that's your sole question, what's with all the bunkum? Standard definitions used throughout. If I was introducing exotic ...

I don't think that's the argument you think it is. The default position I gave concerned whether an employee understands that their employer is unethi...

Quite right, this is a philosophy forum. Better to discuss ideas rather than whether an individual can be taken down somehow by a non-philosopher. In ...

I'd say seeking out philosophical projectiles for the express purpose of taking down someone who, as far as you know, hasn't committed any errors beca...

I feel that is a quandary in itself though: the permission to do or advance evil for personal gain, even if that's to put food on the table. I appreci...

I think it's the other way around: depression causes individualism, introspection, selfishness. As do stress, fear and anxiety. There are lots of know...

That seems to me an entirely separable question, less to do with one's own moral culpability and more to do with whether one has the power to do good ...

I think, as ever, your mode of communication is just, for me anyway, not conducive to anything more than me guessing what you're circling around and h...

A dualism that cannot separate its dichotomy at all is an insistence rather than an explanation though, again like insisting some mysterious interacti...

I think that if the employee has sufficient information about the context of their actions to know that the broader aims and/or means of their employe...

Interestingly, the immediate-return hunter-gatherer groups discussed in the thread Judaka referred to have some interesting and diverse views. For ins...

I think you're confused. Your argument here is that subjective experience is proof that subjective experiences are objects.

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While I could tell it was an attractive idea, your post confused me and I think the reason is you swap between talking about our inability to see real...

I am privy to experiencing Halle Berry's face. Nothing in that experience suggests a particular neuron firing in my brain. So, no, I do not have acces...

True, but it's also worth remembering that we evolved from ancestor species that, far back enough, lived in hierarchical structures. We didn't just ex...

That hits head on what my response to you was going to be. We seem to have evolved as egalitarian, altruistic beings, insofar as we pack a lot of hard...

Ah, I getcha! Thanks for clarifying.

... Apparently you completely failed to include the point. Okay, so _you_ completely missed the point. Also these are spurious dichotomies. I can only...

:up: Starting with Muhammad. (EDIT: Well, at least since Muhammad, and probably before.)

Small hands though.

Sure did. He was head of the Royal Mint. He hard pretty barbaric means of finding out where counterfeit money came from. Agreed, that's not what I mea...

Mutation doesn't drive evolution: it permits evolution. Environmental changes drive evolution. Mutation is the noise, not the parameters or the cost f...

Is narcissism an example of someone's preference? It's selection seems to be external, e.g. modernity is producing more narcissists.

Sorry, this is late and may now be irrelevant, but Google doesn't store vector representations of words in isolation but rather in their semantic cont...

Yeah, that sounds familiar. He also came up with the original Bible code. And liked torturing people. But my question was more about irreligious epiph...

Returning to this point, I was just reading about the Batek of Malaysia, an egalitarian, pacifist collection of nomadic HG tribes, each consisting of ...

The project appears to be to find new constraints on theology in light of new empirical evidence, rather than to co-opt science into existing theologi...

In a IR group? Why? The exception I know of is when a group encounters a warlike group. Until then, it's thought that different groups got along peace...

I might have misread you, sorry. I thought you were asking for the evidence that science proceeds on the basis of evidence, which read like a destruct...

We'll, it's what Stiles means by 'impossible' that's in question. I meant it as an example of an egalitarian DR system. I'm not quite far along enough...

The first, as I understand it, is an example of a counter-empathetic response, which makes sense in an egalitarian society based on reciprocal altruis...

I don't think this conversation is going anywhere constructive, which is a shame as it started out interesting.

But science doesn't proceed prima facile, it proceeds on the basis of evidence. If the model that has electricity and magnetism as two sides of the sa...

That would be my way to discern water from vodka. It's a terrible way to discern water from ethylene glycol. Worth thinking about what smelling and ta...

If you believe there is a difference between a neuron firing and the owner having an experience, yes, there will be a logical difficulty. Personally I...

There are characteristic tendencies toward domination, and coping strategies for being dominated, which might be what you mean. However these are far ...

I feel bad that I made you copy and paste so much when a little more clarity could have saved you the effort. None of the advantages of a social hiera...

Heaven forbid! I agree with the sentiment (talking about the same thing from different perspectives), but my point was about the precision necessary t...

If you like. "On a purely linguistic level, you were able to debunk your own argument." :P I don't think so. Object is a class. Conscious being is a c...

Yes, this is a much better wording of the issue. It is clear that DR societies make hierarchies easier to emerge, but does it make them necessary or, ...

On a purely linguistic level you ought to be able to debunk your own argument here.