Btw none of that really explained why there's such a widespread disdain for physicists among philosophers. I mean, even if science had massively under...
I already stated that: on its own terms. Science proceeds from building models of reality and succeeds by testing those models. The more accurate the ...
This, a billion times. Imagine a guy's potential on every matter in his life being reduced to the sexiness of his chest because he once wore an open s...
On which, it seems dangerous to have a curriculum for representation. I suspect such a thing would end up being representative of the educators, not t...
In fairness to God, He never came up with eternal damnation thing for sinners; it's a punishment limited to the diabolical trinity of Satan, the Anti-...
I've never really understood this widespread detestation of physicists among philosophers. I've seen it in every philosophy forum I've been in. Whethe...
Have you read Camus' Myth of Sisyphus? This is his question: if there's no absolute meaning to my life, why don't I commit suicide? (Spoiler: he finds...
No, I do dig it. It keeps coming back to a belief that seems unjustified to me. I wonder if your experience of others really verifies that this brew o...
You misunderstand. It was precisely because Jacob suggested he could refer to an unconventional system of ethics in order to promote a virtue into an ...
This is likely my ignorance, but the MST seems to imply a privileged history. The whole point of spacetime is that it is invariant. The passage of tim...
I don't think an intuition that danger is imminent despite no sensory data to suggest this -- likely the human brain making correlations between uncor...
It is not necessary to know anything about noumena in order to do science. Science is limited to making predictions about observable phenomena. It doe...
Well thanks for at least considering not wishing me dead. That was probably about as fair-minded as I could expect. I am sorry to hear that, that must...
Yes, that happens whenever I don't tell some random weirdo on the internet my age, I'm used to it by now. I appreciate that, according to you, my with...
The answer to both questions is: enough to know that a white man out of a job is not more important than a eighty-eight dead black men this year. Why ...
I had a recent conversation wherein the responses I was getting were just weird, random-seeming, unassociated to anything I was saying, which made me ...
This is your conclusion from the observation that "prioritising the lesser concerns of the white Wendy's owner over the greater concerns of black peop...
I didn't say I didn't care, nor can you derive that from what I said. I said that prioritising the lesser concerns of the white Wendy's owner over the...
But that's not the differentiation I made. I'm on board with elected officials being educated, and I'm on board with philosophy forming part of that (...
Probably because they're still thinking about the black guy being chocked by a cop for eight minutes. If you think that the priority here is Wendy's, ...
It's not too mysterious how consciousness could affect matter and how matter could affect it: there would need to be some direct or mediated coupling ...
In all honesty, I've rarely met a neutral philosophy graduate. But that's not the point. Suggesting that a philosophy degree is the best way to derive...
Yes, but these are a philosopher's ideas of what's most important which, unsurprisingly, bend toward philosophy more than pragmatic skills of governan...
That's 14 billion years our time. The theoretical big bang is a black hole with a minus sign. If you fell toward a black hole, an observer outside the...
Earlier you said you don't need to be educated to be a politician, only to be elected, so the election appeared to be the crucial point, not the caree...
No, ha ha! The argument was merely in terms of best implementing public opinion. Sometimes, like with the current BML protests, the zeitgeist is bang ...
Are we still talking university-type education here? If so, I don't see how education after election avoids the problem you ascribe to disqualificatio...
@Isaac - I loved your last post, kudos. I'm not sure if this is a step forward or back, but... Elections seem to me to corrupt public opinion, not jus...
Just to jump in here as a quantum theorist myself, quantum theory is not demonstrably non-deterministic. The wavefunction evolves deterministically. T...
A kind of meritocracy-overseeing-democracy? In principle that's what the UK has, or had. The House of Commons was democratically elected to represent,...
A passionate and eloquent response, not to the question "Why burn down a Target" but "Why don't you give a shit about burning down a Target"; https://...
I can define ad hoc an ethical system consisting entirely of moral obligations and sins and wrt that system, yes, there's no merely virtuous act. That...
Since emotion and value are equal (I assume you mean interchangeable in terms of correlation), I gather the importance of sense is merely in providing...
I have a widget. The widget is composed of many devices, and has produces some effect. The existence/nature of the effect, after some observation, app...
@ssu :rofl: I should clarify, practically speaking, it's an economy. Scientists will also defend Occam's razor philosophically. (Which is necessary fo...
Ah okay. So you've said that emotion is anything that invokes motion, i.e. action, behaviour. You've also said that our values are derived from our em...
I did. I even explicitly bring it back to the quote within the text. Did you not really read it? Too long? Brevity is not my strong suit. Either way, ...
Hi, I enjoyed your post. I don't necessarily agree with the primacy of emotions in the causes of value, although I expect emotional relief or anticipa...
And yet this is rather implied by "I could have done otherwise," unless we take that to mean nothing more than "I was capable of doing otherwise." My ...
Thank you! :) Occam's razor is not really the same as reductionism or is perhaps a very different kind of reductionism. Occam's razor shaves off assum...
A person tells you there are blue pigs everywhere in Australia and another tells you that, if you're lucky, you might spot an orange echidna. You spen...
Perhaps not "just as well". In a particular situation, say, coming across a lost boy crying for his parents, I might decide to take him to the nearest...
I agree, it does not. Or, at least, that's my majority opinion. From a rational standpoint, since I will not suffer any consequences (except for the b...
If the net effect of the anaesthetic is that the (non-)experience makes no impact on post-op me whatsoever, sure. One would assume that being awake du...
I don't take issue with this definition, but is it meant as the working definition of "soul" for the rest of the post? It's difficult to see how one g...
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