A child, or adult, can _think_ they understand. Asking a conscious person if they are conscious is not comparable to asking a scientist if a machine i...
Me too. Thanks for a third and fourth example... Love, consciousness, being, agency. Reductionism does not deny that we're conscious agents, but yes i...
When I saw the question, it made me think that what I want is just a continuation of what I have. That's not quite contentment: I am not satisfied wit...
Scientists are reductionists, and reductionists will look for the fundamental elements of a thing and how they produce that thing when so arranged. Ph...
That's in stark contrast to what I've read on the subject, so I'd be interested to hear more. My understanding is that, while we at some point in our ...
That's an example. Another would be brain imaging. Or both in conjunction. A good example might be experiments that detect pre-cognitive decision-maki...
The part you quoted wasn't about lay or philosophical discussion, but scientific testing. As I am not a neurologist, how I conceive of consciousness i...
This is precisely what I was talking about before. That sort of wishy-washy 'well, I know what I mean' way of communicating is no good for answering q...
Yes. But smoking is bad for your health so stop it! Teleportation as per that definition isn't FTL, rather the exact equivalent of infinite velocity. ...
We can bust this capitalist mantra straight away. Egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups that practice immediate return (that is, they immediately get an ...
Yes. Now I suspect nothing clicked at all :cry: Suspicion confirmed. I'm not claiming there's a possible world where consciousness can arise from rock...
A reminder: You complain about the characterisation, but it's quite clear you permit no concept of a justified protest against murder of black America...
I get the impression from later chat that this clicked: We should NOT assume that consciousness can arise from rocks. I don't think so. The hard probl...
Sorry for late reply, was tearing it up in London. Security Council Resolution 242 was the stated model of Oslo II (for the negotiation of further tra...
Because the first time we spoke about this you were quite happy to tar every BLM protestor, however peaceful, with the same brush as it's worst indivi...
I never said you could build a functioning brain out of anything. Your question was regarding whether something with the same function as a brain woul...
Ah okay, so when black people protest, however peacefully, it's still a violent crime, so you can freely substitute those occurrences as if they were ...
This is becoming my mantra, but an objective physical universe is overwhelmingly the simplest and indeed currently only viable explanation for phenome...
Do you practically, or nominally? It certainly was the intention that the 5 year interim period would be used for negotiations for a permanent governm...
We'll, they're not _that_ limited. Thanks to the best of us, we're exploring beyond our solar system and building machines that can answer questions w...
Yes, uncontroversially. This is a philosophy forum, I'm well aware of the difficulty in claiming to know anything beyond that I'm a thinking thing, bu...
I recall my first conversation with you in which you criticised the lawlessness (a statist notion) and implicit communism (a boogeyman of the American...
Do you have any examples that aren't behind a paywall? Correct, but yours. Wokeness is about awareness of issues, not a schema for solving them. You s...
His general point stands: legs are a prerequisite for walking; walking does not cause legs. Atomic structure is a prerequisite for materials; material...
Yes, I agree with this. There's no divine revelation. Science grants us no direct access to objective reality. We have to use our impressive brains to...
No, I think you've misunderstood. This wasn't about starting another wave of negotiations, it was about continuation of aid to Palestine following the...
So it was somewhat more reasonable than I remember. Here's a NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/28/world/middleeast/hamas-is-facing-a-m...
I'm still on my phone, on my way home though. It was back in 2006, right after they were elected. It shouldn't be too hard to find: Palestinian aid fr...
Yes, it was the failed Camp David talks, not the failed Oslo agreement. Hamas were asked to ratify that position on Israel: a) recognition of the stat...
Ah okay. We'll, like I said, the idea is attractive, by which I meant as mythos. I think there's more to ordering narratives than historical data poin...
Fair enough, but then this can't be used to demonstrate the explanatory power of your theory. One can accept your theory (perhaps a la Sebastian Flyte...
But that is precisely what they've refused to agree to, along with, on the establishment of a Palestinian state, the government of that state ceasing ...
As a white male from a Western country, it's still a tough sell. I think I'd tend to take a stronger position on Palestinian violence than my lefty pe...
Speaking of... As far as I know, "cancel culture" and "wokeness" are primarily concerns of the somewhat unhinged right-wing US media that idolised Tru...
I don't even think it's a misnomer: the goal is a theory of every thing. Not counterfactual thing, not opposite-of-thing, but every thing. Every thing...
Energy and entropy are key; I don't expect generalisations of the physical concepts to be any more useful, but interested in trying it out. Energy is ...
Ah yeah tbf that is consistent with your previous post too, I just didn't really nail my objection well. Perhaps the context of Russell's idea is dual...
Thanks Manuel. I am sympathetic to the above. Less so to: Scientific progress rarely throws ideas in the bin. Science is self-correcting, which means ...
I'm not sure literal omniscience was ever an expectation. A complete set of laws is the ideal. I get your point though. When Gallileo rolls a ball dow...
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