Why are you sneaking "incontrovertible" in here? I didn't use the concept. https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/professor-injured-charles-murr...
Yes, more or less. The burden of proof is on "not existing unperceived" as a positive, competing hypothesis with "existing unperceived". The latter ha...
The position that people are equal in their capacities, capabilities and inclinations is implicit in any drive to equality of outcome. It's not actual...
I don't know about "a lot" - I think perhaps secretly there are definitely more than we think, but people (especially people with good positions and f...
Social justice is not a thing, it's pretty much an oxymoronic concept that means "injustice." Any analysis that uses the concept instantly marks itsel...
If they do it in the teeth of evidence contradicting their axioms, without any attempt to address the discrepancy, while attempting to silence opposit...
I would say most anti-intellectualism is actually well deserved these days. Intellectuals get kudos when they stand somewhat against the establishment...
No, of course he can ask it. But the short answer to the question "Why believe that sense perception is reliable?" is because it is in fact reliable. ...
Well it's not all that rudimentary, and I think it's on my side. But let's say it is rudimentary as you believe: then it would also be way to rudiment...
Great post! All I'll say here is that this is the nub of it: the only reason one gets so much as the idea that there's an anomaly (that casts doubt on...
Dawkins' conclusion is not a conclusion from biology, and as I said, I don't quibble with the biology. Dawkins' conclusion comes from Dawkins practici...
lol, no, I'm an ex-socialist, and extremely high on the "openness" trait. If you met me without knowing me, I guarantee you I'd pass the "ant smell" t...
No, I disagree with that statement. Within-race variation is irrelevant to questions of relative likeness/unlikeness between groups - it's a bit of a ...
I think I did in our previous long conversation. It's deductive inference. This goes back to my point that we posit (punt, bet, conjecture) identities...
Wow, a lot of questions there! Some peacemeal responses:- I'm on the classical liberal/libertarian wing of the Alt Right. I view the Left/Right divide...
Boredom is a symptom of laziness and lack of application. It's the result of living a consumerist life exclusively, instead of living with a balance o...
No, I think it's quite settled that Gould, Lewontin and Rose are Marxist shills, it's just that a) the evolutionary biology people are too polite to s...
No, the problem is deeper than that, it's that you can't tell whether your memory is deceiving you or not, in fact you don't even know what memory is ...
Yeah, I remember some writer somewhere saying that the ideal relationship is when you have the couple moving in parallel to a shared goal, as opposed ...
Well yeah, it's pretty obvious that Feminism is anti-science at this stage (it became anti-science some time during the early 1970s when Marxist Femin...
It's both allegorical and represents his views on women. The opinion "don't forget thy whip" comes from a female voice in the text. The implication is...
No, you don't, and the way you're talking here demonstrates that you obviously don't, otherwise you would understand that the questions you're still a...
I'm beginning to think you're either dishonest or you're not reading very carefully and just being triggered by odd words here and there. I said in th...
How does a computer or a robot "decide" which move to make next in a game of chess? It's clear that computers can be programmed to make decisions in a...
Here's a brain dump on the topic. This is the fruit of about 50 years noodling around on the subject from all angles with all sorts of "systems", teac...
No that's not the gap, the gap is the problem of subjective consciousness. But that's not the same thing as mind in the sense of the controller of an ...
Eh, I give up, I just tried to explain that in the passage you quoted there, if you're not going to engage with the argument there's no point carrying...
Yeah I know. And I think several others have said similar things independently. But they're wrong. To explain life in biological terms, instead of usi...
That's the kind of extremist rhetoric that Dennett is trying to wean us off by pointing to examples that don't have a clear cut answer as to whether t...
Compare: "one would have to meditate on the absurdity of quantum wave particles killing/eating/avoiding/procreating with, other quantum-wave particles...
I think that would still be competence, or machine learning, it would still be something the AI was programmed to do. But to me intelligence - of the ...
How would you know? What would make more sense is to say that you have the same theory of what your mind is that you had since you started thinking ab...
I disagree, what he's actually doing is trying to bridge the "Scientific Image" and the "Manifest Image." The cute/catchy analogies and metaphors are ...
It's difficult to say. I veer back and forth on this topic, sometimes I read things that make the AI/robot revolution seem imminent, in which case yes...
How can you see or experience a metaphor, or analogy? "Moist robot" is just a humorous way of thinking about yourself in terms of biology, engineering...
Well the cogito is a pretty good candidate for indubitable truth, but the trouble is it doesn't necessarily connect to any other truths, it leaves you...
I think this is a pretty good idea, but you have to be careful because obviously there are many contradictions between the various ideas about God, go...
It's Scott Adams' amusing coinage, picked up by Daniel Dennett. It's a quick way of thinking about ourselves realistically from the outside, objective...
There's two levels to the question, there's a common sense idea of free will and a highfalutin' sense of Free Will. The highfalutin' sense, which, as ...
Again, you keep helping yourself to terms that can't possibly have any fixed meaning from a Schmerceptionist point of view. Even "white," "thin," "squ...
There can be no "paper" for schmerception, nor does "photograph" make any sense either. You might be able to single out some portion of the schmercept...
It depends on what you mean by "extension of perception." The photograph could be taken and it might never be seen by anyone. Would it still be an ext...
It's the very essence of real for science, whereas the tree being the final cause of the seed is not real for science, final cause is simply not a thi...
No, you can have specialized senses of "perception" but e.g. something like Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiment based on possibilities opened up...
"We" can in the language of common sense, but science can't, it acknowledges only efficient cause as real. (Although as I said, there are some noises ...
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