It doesn't matter how well-known Thomas Nagel is. He's just another human like you and I. There is little point making appeals to authority; we need t...
From the article you linked: This is old news; it is just stating what I think should be obvious to any thinking person; that explanations given in su...
He says there that the basis of consciousness is material, he doesn't say it is an illusion, You're making my argument for me; his claim is that our i...
Forgive me if I don't believe you. All I've asked is for you to quote some text from Dennett himself that says what you claim he says. How hard can th...
They're killing dogs because they are callous shitheads. Unfortunately many country people see dogs as nothing more than a "standing (or more accurate...
You always run away when you are presented with good arguments against your position. I have actually read Dennett's Consciousness Explained, have you...
You obviously haven't read Dennett because that is not what he says at all. How could our sense of being conscious be an illusion if we actually have ...
I'd say Nagel's got Dennett all wrong. Dennett doesn't deny that we are immediately aware of experiences of colour.(I left out the 'real' and the 'sub...
Fair enough. I haven't been focusing so much on the moral argument; the closest I've really come to it is considering whether someone, anyone, is more...
If vaccination on average reduces transmission then an unvaccinated person would be more likely to infect you than a vaccinated. On the other hand if ...
I was talking about the empathy and compassion that can come form facing adversity together, not hatred and contempt. Well, that advice was stupid fro...
I wasn't suggesting that unvaccinated people should be accused, much less convicted, of actually infecting people, so I'm not seeing your analogy here...
Are you saying that there might some day be a true answer to the question as to whether vaccination reduces viral transmission, but that there is no f...
Do you have references for this claim? The information I have been able to find on the issue of viral load suggests that the more infected you are the...
It's well known that when people face adversity together it can bring them together. In any case I was taking issue with your generalising human natur...
I can see how that applies to philosophy, but do you think it applies to science? I mean would there not be "one true answer" to the question:'does va...
It seems reasonable to think that if someone vaccinated has a breakthrough infection, then they might carry a similar viral load to someone unvaccinat...
I assume from your posting history that you think hate speech should be banned; if that is right then why do you not apply the same principle to the k...
If all those who are vaxxed were going to die within a couple years, as is claimed to be likely by Dr Peter McCullough and others then it would seem r...
I don't disagree: I try to avoid making judgements, and having opinions, about as many things as possible. Most of the time when I have an opinion it ...
England with a population of 54,000,000: US with a population of 331,000,000: So England has almost 10 times as many hospital beds as the US with abou...
But you surely can't be doing more replication of virus per capita, being a highly vaccinated society, than a poor country who has only 2 percent of i...
I'm no expert but I believe the flu virus continues to mutate and as to the coronavirus I doubt that is predictable. My profile picture is a photoshop...
Yes, it's just accidental. But that doesn't change the fact that the more infection is spreading the more chance there is of mutant strains arising (w...
It.s not only selfish, it's shortsighted. If covid infections run rampant in poorer countries due to lack of vaccine supplies there will be greater ch...
Well it seems they may have their figures wrong, at least if they mean fully vaccinated: https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination-israel-impact In any c...
Can you cite the studies or at least actual statistics that substantiate your claims here. You said Israel's population is 80 % vaccinated which is in...
A tranistion acnnot be made to solar power quickly enough. It doesn't solve the energy for tranporation problem unless coupled with batteries. By some...
Obviously, no one knows what the future will be. You seem to be much more confident that workable fusion will be achieved than I am. I don't deny it's...
I'll give you the optimistic version: I think we face rapidly increasing energy, food, water and general resource depletion exacerbated by global warm...
The old well-worn "view from nowhere", eh? It's still a view though, no? It just means not privileging any particular perspective. It just isn't true ...
I agree, but given that the non-expert mob mentality will ensure that this is just what will happens, then it would be better to have open forum and d...
Sure many people simply believe what they read. The point was that people who think for themselves, and are honest enough to realize their own inadequ...
I am saying that it could never be demonstrated that anyone could know anything absent empirical evidence or logical self-evidence. If someone thinks ...
Except the public has never been told it's 100% safe. It has always been acknowledged that there are adverse reactions and a small number of deaths.Th...
You know what? You just might be right! :up: I was also thinking of the great composers, Bach Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt who were reputed to be ...
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