Right, but I don't see that as "uniformity, but as similarity. By 'animals' I presume you mean invertebrates. If evolution is right, then all we anima...
Note, I said "may be, to be sure" not "is, to be sure". I think the notion of "intentional consciousness" is somewhat vague. If mathematics is not an ...
Mathematics may be somehow inherent in nature, to be sure. Or it may be a formal abstraction from the human experience of diversity, or both. Wigner's...
You seem to be identifying the idea of objectivity with naive realism. To think that there is nothing apart from the human seems unsupportable. On the...
I don't know how to compare the extent of the differences between people and the commonalities. I don't think we are one "hive mind" at all?look at th...
I think we've reached a measure of agreement. That is of course quite possible. None of us are perfectly psychologically healthy though (whatever that...
Yes, but it is relativism of belief, not of truth. We may indeed intuitively know truths, but just can't rationally or empirically demonstrate that we...
Interesting question. Given that the brain is the most complex thing known, our consciousness may possibly be very different, but it's impossible to d...
Exactly, that is just what I'm always saying in my discussions with you. The only point I would challenge would be that persuasiveness could be though...
I didn't see figures in those links identifying the percentage of trasngender people who experience gender dysphoria. I skimmed them, so may have miss...
People may regret many different kinds of decisions in life which cannot, for practical reasons, be undone. That fact does not justify intervention by...
Right, if we say that gender dysphoria is a mental illness, and we have a cure (transitioning) then problem solved. For the rest of the transgender fo...
The reason is that if we are standing in front of a tree we can point to its features and we will necessarily agree. I say it has smooth bark, and if ...
Falsifiability and confirmability are the gold standards for scientific observations, hypotheses and some scientific theories, and I was discussing th...
Well he said this, and my response was misworded and should have been referring to the "majority" rather than "all'. So, it should have read: " the as...
But people can talk about their minds?we do it all the time. But we do so from the perspective of how things seem to us. And how all things in that co...
The assumption that all transgender people experience gender dysphoria, i.e. profound unhappiness and psychic distress, is an unfounded generalization...
I'm a little inclined to be on the side of thinking that a unified theory is impossible, but I'm not adamant about it. It seems to me that we understa...
I don't have the time to search for specific citations to present, but I know from having watched many interviews with Quantum Physicists that the ide...
That doesn't tell me anything much. Do you have anything more to add? I'm not sure what you mean by "scientific realism", but the study of consciousne...
The irony enters when those, who generally take science to have only epistemic or epistemological, and not ontological, significance, nonetheless seek...
As I said, sex and gender were not separated at the time when the first gender separated toilets were created. Now for many people gender has been sep...
If gender and sex were equivalent in the past then the separation could be said to be for either. You chose to say it was for sex, because that suppor...
You have omitted one important element for your argument. How do you know that public toilets are separated according to sex, rather than according to...
Yeah, probably just one kind of public toilet for all sans urinal and with sanitary pad disposal would do the trick. Everyone would then have cubicles...
Female toilets provide facilities for taking care of tampons and sanitary pads and male toilets have urinals because men can piss conveniently standin...
It's a non-issue because your sex is your own business. You have provided no argument as to why it is important outside of women's sport. People don't...
Who says public toilets are separated by sex, not gender? Is it written somewhere? On toilets perhaps? In any case if a transwoman looks like a woman ...
Sure, but those for whom it is an issue because they are trans are unfortunate victims of unthinking prejudice. For the rest, it is an issue for those...
To say something exists necessarily involves saying it is real, as far as i can tell. I mean, you might say that the category <real> subsumes the cate...
I'd say it's more the case that it has grappled with the meaninglessness of being. Only certain philosophers have bothered to try to deal with, as Ari...
Yes, I know what you mean. The world is a collection of things and nothing over and above that?so I was speaking somewhat sloppily. The point remains ...
I guess the point is that 'woman' is used to denote both sex and gender, and sex and gender have traditionally been considered to be the same thing. N...
It's not an explanatory gap. Science doesn't purport to explain the "felt experience" of anything. Phenomenology purports to do that. But it really ca...
I thought that might be what you had in mind. I can't remember from my long ago readings of Kant and his commentators, whether he ever explicitly stat...
We see a visual field that has within it objects. For me the question for Kant is whether we see the actual objects or merely mental representations o...
Appealing to Sheldrake's academic credentials seems irrelevant. The question is whether he did experimental work that directly and plausibly supported...
I always thought there was a certain irony in referring to Kant's project as a "Copernican revolution", since Copernicus removed us from the centre of...
You ae writing the story under an alias or Levin appears in the story under an alias? (I'm guessing the latter, but the ambiguity...) Yes, I read the ...
The participation of transwomen in women's' sports is a contentious and difficult issue to solve. The only real problem there is the question of compe...
I have no problem with you defending that view. I also believe that things are only intelligible in terms of generalities? forms, relations and attrib...
I don't see the rejection of any notion of personal growth as being inevitable on the assumption that order evolves out of chaos. After all, it is wel...
Thanks, that makes sense now. It's a little unclear as to whether you are meaning to equate the two, but I had thought that the "2 world view" and the...
Firstly, I'm not appealing to it, and this is what you constantly fail to understand. Secondly I don't take it as a personal insult, but as an attempt...
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