Philosophim

I understand. My point doesn't change. If behavior is necessarily associated with one's biological sex, it must only exhibit in that sex. If the same ...

A belief is fine if its backed by some legitimate reasoning. From my experience, its not. Sex is biology. Behaviors that necessarily require you to be...

I would without any issue. But these are generalities. An aggressive or gay female does not mean they aren't female. A passive or gay male does not me...

I'm not arguing against sex variations. For example, if you're an XXY human, you're not exactly a common male. There is absolutely nothing wrong with ...

The intended way of reading it is a). We're in agreement here then. I'm not claiming something comes from nothing. A first cause doesn't come from any...

Sounds like you've worked with transexuals then. There are people who want to be transgender yet not change their physical bodies. One of my best frie...

I don't think it has to be complex. Since gender is cultural, the cultural expectations for a man or woman in different cultures can differ. Its about...

I appreciate it and agree. I suppose what I'm trying to do here is note that transgender and transex are not only not the same, they preclude one anot...

Which is fine. There are definite exceptions to the rule. I don't believe those exceptions change what I'm noting here for most people though.

This is when we need to speak about it the most then. Philosophy often is dismissed as 'useless'. I think this is a good venue for it and philosophers...

Yes, my mistake that I'll edit back in. I meant "defy the cultural expectations of their sex." Sex cannot be transversed, its true. It can be emulated...

A first cause is self-existent though. I think that's the problem he has. He doesn't like the idea that there was nothing, then something. What I'm tr...

No, they're not the same thing. The point of the theory was to show that even in an infinitely regressive universe, a first cause is still logically n...

Yes, its a hypothesis, not a confirmed scientific fact. I don't have a problem with examining the hypothesis. But if you're claiming its fact? There's...

Ucarr, I know you don't like the conclusion here and are trying to demonstrate it is wrong. Lets go another route that might help more. Instead of try...

The OP does not care if an infinite past is possible or not. The conclusion is the same.

Not a worry Bob! It all depends on the context of measurement or 'scope'. A liter is fine when the substance is the same, but it is not if the substan...

I think we're having a language issue again. Also, I've enjoyed the conversation. This is a hobby, not work. If I could make a living doing this, I wo...

Necessity is not important, its what is. I'll repeat the example I already gave: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around, it still vibrates t...

All I got from this is the idea that our minds cannot perfectly be the world, but are abstract representations. That's fine. Causality doesn't care wh...

I'm actually not. To break down the entire conversation into a better summary than the OP, what I'm claiming is that there must be at least one thing ...

No, I really don't understand what you're trying to say or how this relates to the topic. Your writing is unclear and I am making a good faith effort ...

Ucarr, I'm asking a question to understand what you're trying to say. Returning my question with a another question is just more confusing. :) In fact...

What does this mean Ucarr? Are you saying that all a priori deductions don't take any time to realize? And I'm further confused in how any of this add...

What you might be implying here can be easily captured by determinism. If A causes B, then necessarily along a timeline it was A which caused B to hap...

I wanted to note that I have had no issue with this. My question to you is: "What caused space-time?" And to clarify how to think about this, take the...

This has no relevancy to a first cause that I can see. What caused your brain to remember X? What caused your brain to be created? And so we go down a...

Everything doesn't exist all at once, but over time. It doesn't matter if there is perfect determinism, we have to watch it unfold. So no, causality i...

I never did. This is pointless to engage anymore Wayfarer. Lets let the thread get back to its original topic.

Ah I see Patterner. I don't think we have any substantial disagreement then. :)

Its not about a specific measurement of the gap, its about the fact that the gap is a wide gulf between the two. A mammal can run intellectual circles...

Mind giving a few examples? Your conclusion that cooperation that does not exploit other people is moral does not come from descriptive morality. For ...

The OP covers this. Let me break it down for you as simply as possible. Lets take the idea that the universe has a clear finite start. A -> B -> C wit...

Not a worry, I understand that. This is weirdly worded. A descriptive moral behavior is why someone does something they believe is moral. Meaning that...

For one its binary programming. It has different limitations and freedoms from neurological thinking. You can scale an AI to use far more energy than ...

Correct. Also correct. Just one caveat for Ucarr. Currently we are unable to verify that something is a first cause, but we know what would be needed ...

Ha ha! That's fair. I'm not sure where the disagreement was either. :D My point was there there are other thresholds in other living beings that biolo...

I don't believe I'm denying how unique we are, or that we are at the pinnacle of intelligence for living beings. What threshold is this that is unique...

Descriptive morality is just the study of people's opinions on morality. If you claim "Cooperation is moral," that's not descriptive. A study of descr...

This is a very good start to a discussion and I think can highlight a key difference between philosophy and science. Science often times takes hypothe...

I disagree, but we've both said our piece now. :) Good chatting with you again MoK,

But you understood the point that the intellectual gap between a bat and a fly is as wide as the intellectual gap of a human and a bat right? The poin...

Look at the gulf between a bat and a fly. The gulf between an octopus and a platypus. A dolphin and a fish. We're all of different kinds. I don't know...

You may want to read the rest of what I wrote. I noted we are possibly the most conscious beings on the planet. What you are describing is advanced in...

To our current knowledge, no. We really can only evaluate consciousness by behavior, not by subjective experience. To objective evaluations, rocks, sa...

By the fact it is not the same material as a brain. You can play the same melody on different instruments, but it will have its own sound and feel.

180 proof is a great person to ask Ucarr. :) I'm glad he was able to clear up the issue for you. Feel free to read his argument against the OP. I did ...

I believe that consciousness can express itself through different mediums. The consciousness of a plant for example, would not be the consciousness of...

Let me break this down because this is still a run on of a sentence. 1. Before a first cause, there was nothing. Assume true. 2. A rolling die with nu...

Ucarr, I read your reply twice and I don't understand what you're trying to say. Instead of asking me if I think my premise does something, just point...