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(though I do appreciate the emotive and rhetorical nature of these sorts of melodramatic "the sky is falling" pronouncements- but still, its just unne...

No, not really. Thus the amusingly hyperbolic/melodramatic nature of your previous comment. Dial it back a few notches, no need to be Chicken Little o...

:lol: still hopelessly lost, poor little guy.. stick to what you know- in your case, splashing around in the kiddie pool. "100% legit", what a rube.

No one was talking to you junior. Stick with the kiddie pool.

I don't think you've achieved maximum melodrama/hyperbole here, I think you still have room for even more- go big or go home! :lol:

Yeah no one actually believes that nonsense about "erasing history". Obviously statues and monuments are not how we document or learn history (that's ...

I'm not sure their claim about the lack of consensus is even accurate in the first place. I suppose it depends on who they're referring to. At least a...

This is an obvious non-sequitur, even if the premise is true (which it very likely isn't). So, another extremely sloppy argument/comment. Par for the ...

Heh, not quite as poetic as the Genesis version, but at least this one has the benefit of potentially (probably?) being true.

Sure, like I said, depending on how broadly the terms are defined here the proposition can be fairly uncontroversial: "awareness", if defined as the a...

Looks more like you were equivocating and that the argument in the OP falls apart if required to define its terms and then stick to them. Either the p...

Yes, really, and these things being related (as they obviously are) isn't the same thing as them being synonymous and interchangeable, such that you c...

Well but your OP talks of "consciousness", not "feeling and awareness", so it depends on how these terms are defined. If by "feeling and awareness" yo...

Was just introduced to this group today, someone had posted it on the Mars Volta subreddit and now I can't stop listening to this album- https://youtu...

the problem with the quote isn't a logical one, but a factual one- the idea that a trait or ability "in some shape must have been present at the very ...

Isn't this the case in both string theory and LQG, that spacetime is an emergent feature of more fundamental structures (strings, networks, etc)?

Of course, this is a naked self-contradiction, since "the idea of people helping one another" (i.e. in our community, beyond our immediate family) is ...

How on Earth does this constitute an "objection"? The fact that black lives don't matter to some people is the whole point and the entire reason BLM e...

Heh, no doubt. :grin:

Yeah its the entirely not-crazy idea that care and support should extend beyond the bounds of the immediate family. And of course the other Super Scar...

Saw this image a couple weeks ago, thought it summed the matter up extremely well- https://i.redd.it/u7dw3ng1wz251.jpg

So encouraging you consider it on par with standard vaccines, I guess. I certainly hope you have a responsible person helping you with your own medica...

:lol:

Also, you should probably actually read the study.

Absolutely delicious irony, thanks for the laugh. Not much self-awareness on this one, I see.

Which are also self-evidently good things no less than the proposition that black lives should matter. But sure, something something Marxism bad mmkay...

at least until you actually read the study anyway

I mean, I get it- boo materialism! But if that's all you've got to say, why bother?

Oh brother. Obviously at no point have I even given the appearance of arguing against the proposition that "cognitive science is deficient or invalid ...

Not literally, sure, but I think the upshot is the same: if the events at/beneath the event horizon do not ever occur from the perspective of the outs...

And I pointed out that modern cognitive science is an interdisciplinary approach that includes the philosophy of mind and so this distinction doesn't ...

I'm not assuming historical progress- I've read and studied a non-negligible amount of the philosophy we're talking about (i.e. philosophy of mind pos...

I agree that its a judgment call, but the idea that we've been running in circles (i.e. in philosophy) for 400 years since Descartes and that literall...

Modern cognitive science is an interdisciplinary paradigm that includes philosophy (of mind) as a crucial contributor. And in any case, both the scien...

Indeed; that someone can make such a statement in light of e.g. modern cognitive neuroscience is... pretty bizarre. Pretty incredible how far these fi...

Yeah I would assume that the extreme time dilation in the vicinity of a black hole- culminating in the infinite time dilation at the event horizon its...

probably also worth noting e.g. "the private language argument" (from Wittgenstein's PI), which some interpretations take to show that solipsism is in...

You have to be careful distinguishing different types of multiverses, since what is true of one isn't necessarily true of the other- they are posited ...

As No Axioms already explained, relativity tells us that extreme gravitational wells like black holes will severely dilate time (if you've ever seen t...

No, center would be undefined here. Of course, we are all the center of our own observable universe- i.e. the section of the universe defined by where...

Indeed!

"like" a saddle, not a literal, actual saddle- a hyperbolic surface, an infinite saddle: a universe with negative curvature doesn't curve back on itse...

So if the universe had positive curvature, it would be like a sphere- spatially finite/bounded, if you traveled far enough you'd eventually end up bac...

Here's a blog post on Smolin's relationism that looks pretty reasonable/serious at first blush (haven't read it yet myself, am in the process now but ...

Wasn't Lee Smolin one of the more prominent/visible proponents of relationism? I seem to remember him citing it as a significant philosophical conside...

We'll see. Your refusal to acknowledge that using homophobic slurs is not acceptable is not going to help your case, that's for certain.

uses a homophobic slur = "you're accusing people left and right they are being homophobes!" nice try

And if we're talking infinities, it is also consistent with a good body of empirical evidence that the universe is geometrically flat and thus (spatia...

Heh, yeah, that's about it too.. although I suppose it would be even more appropriate if he was attempting to insert his head into his own hind-end.

You used it at as a pejorative- as a smear or insult, to imply something negative/derogatory- and even if you hadn't, it wouldn't really have been any...