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Can you provide a quote from the linked source that supports the view that "reason uses everything else."

Not sure why you want to prioritize reason here. It's emotion and reason working together as equal partners.

Well, sure: if you're defining numbness as an emotion, there's no argument to be made. :)

Certainly, sociopaths lack the kind of positive emotional patterns that keep most of us from going on a killing spree.

I suppose I was thinking of emotional numbness. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-emotional-intensity/201810/depersonalisation-why-do-you...

Reason and emotion (positive and negative emotion) work together in the decision-making process. A completely rational (emotion-free) person is a kind...

There's a ton of emotion in the COVID anti-vaxxer movement. Further, you might say irrationalism manifests in confirmation bias vis-a-vis Facebook dis...

Know your enemy. :smile:

"The Objectivist ethics holds that the actor must always be the beneficiary of his action and that man must act for his own rational self-interest. Bu...

Please use direct quotes from Rand whenever possible.

"Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary o...

:broken: :broken: :broken:

The first 50 pages or so of Zarathustra are a constant inspiration to me. His reactionary shoutings down of effete Christian slave-virtue have helped ...

As an aside, I think it's pretty hilarious that the autobiographical Ecce Homo is almost pronounced: A Gay Homo.

Reactionary anger and at times insanity. Sure. Zarathustra appears to convey a more positive vision: I conjure you, my brethren, REMAIN TRUE TO THE EA...

Just curious, what's your beef with Nietzsche?

Lots of fun bullshit coming from Bartricks. Also he wants to make sure everyone knows he has a PhD in philosophy. :lol: He's a huckster and not a good...

Maybe not determinate entities. But there are thoughts. Thoughts exist.

Let me take some time and get back to you.

I don't see a reason to dismiss either side of the story.

I get it. Your position is clear. But your formulations need refinement. The phrase "thoughts do not exist" misrepresents your position. The phrase is...

Wasn't trying to cherry pick. Trying to make sense of your saying there are thoughts but thoughts are X and also saying there are no thoughts and thou...

That's when I've been aiming at since the start of this exchange. Good.

My sense is that you're too entrenched in a position you feel is justified by science to catch a glimpse of my perspective. My sense is that you're to...

Okay. So considering a thought we have: 1. Neuronal functioning. 2. The experience of a thought. 1. I accept the existence of neuronal functioning. Of...

I'm afraid you don't understand what I'm saying.

The above is what's known as a walk-back. Here you said: Consistency is a philosophical virtue.

You say there are no thoughts. Are there sensations? Emotions? Feelings? Or do you prefer a terminology that reduces these, as well, to physical inter...

My position is that it's acceptable to say there are thoughts. Is there no evidence to support such a claim?

It's very important for you to be correct. To win.

I agree.

More a warning. Your tone has the ring of the dogmatist. The absolutist. Ego and dogmatism can inhibit your philosophical development. Take care. You ...

Egocentric absolutism. Take care.

Not at all. I'm not disregarding the science. My focus is on the way you're using language. I accept the science and reject your use of language. It's...

I'm afraid you're not understanding what you're doing. I don't see anything productive ahead in this exchange so I'll leave it here. Good chatting! :s...

If thoughts are y but taken to be x, there are thoughts.

So reductionism, like I quoted above(and you rejected). Here it is again: In the context of physicalism, the reductions referred to are of a "linguist...

If "brains are the causal factors in thought" then there are thoughts. Your language should reflect that.

If thoughts are X it follows that there are thoughts.

Everyone knows that things happen in brains in correlation to thoughts. And everyone knows there are thoughts. If you hope to be a philosopher, your l...

Neuroscience is irrelevant here. This is about how language is being used. When, to support your view, you say "there are no thoughts," it's a flagran...

And if I remove the second clause?: There are thoughts, but thoughts do not exist.

You never mentioned whether you take issue with this formulation: There are thoughts, I experience thoughts, but thoughts do not exist.

In what way does... ...attribute truth or falsity?

What's up, Smith. :smile: Bartrick's statement here is demonstrably false. Many forum members have found many, many errors in Bartrick's reasoning. Re...

No, he isn't. Jack is "drawing correlations that include the words 'a clock is working.'" So his belief is propositional. Regardless of how you've dec...

You're describing the brain, not the thought. The thought has no location and can only be experienced. Regardless, qua thought, it exists. I prove its...

You're all ego and delusion and I hope you find a way through the fog. I won't be talking to you again. Take care.

Thoughts at times insist with the adamance of matter. Of course, thoughts are more fluid. But they can crescendo to the repetitive insistence of the k...

To get into an undergrad program in music you have to know how to read music so your assertion is total nonsense. You lose. Good night. (McCartney is ...