Mijin

To ask the question of why anything exists requires a questioner, yes. But so what? We also need a questioner to ask what dark matter is made of...doe...

You think that a quote that says that there are hundreds of observed genotypes for the SRY gene, supports your claim that it's strictly binary? WTF le...

Also on the topic of the OP, a man spent a month in jail for posting a meme following charlie kirk's death. A meme that seemed to be pointing out Trum...

The irony of this kind of statement, when the whole tangent about transgender is recreational outrage. A tiny number of people are transgender, and ar...

There's only so many times I can point out to you that your own cites allude to multiple genotypes of SRY (as there are multiple genotypes for any non...

Stating that you have not changed your position does not clarify your understanding, of the points being put to you and whether you have any counter-a...

Yes you said that already. I responded that the same methodology that delivers us practical tools and inferences also helps us to understand reality, ...

Incidentally, I also noticed a significant asymmetry in this discussion among people claiming there is such a thing as a selfish act, but no such thin...

Every thread now is just pithy responses. Why are you on a discussion forum, if you're unwilling to discuss the points being put to you? Anyway, I'll ...

"Sure" what? Do you now acknowledge the solid grounds for having confidence in science, both as a practical tool and as a means to learn about reality...

The two go hand in hand. When we are using a scientific model to make accurate predictions, it can be seen as both an attempt to find useful, practica...

The more narrowly we are defining "selfless", the less importance the claim that selfless acts don't exist has. That's on top of the fact, as already ...

@copernicus "observations" is just one part of science, we make models and then we test those models. The usefulness of this method is easy to demonst...

No. That's an odd question. Are you unfamiliar with the scientific method or was it a rhetorical question?

I wouldn't put it that way, since speculation is also part of the scientific method. But the key difference between the two is prediction and testing,...

Sure they are both the same with respect to an impossible standard to meet. However a difference of course is that science is empirically testable and...

This. Asking how religion and science can integrate is similar to asking how science and philosophy can integrate. Philosophy covers a lot of things t...

I think it's more complex than that; it depends upon what action we're talking about. And I think you'd likely agree that the subsconscious mind is al...

The problem with this topic is in reasoning that if we find some benefit of an action, or a future beneficial state, that proves it's a selfish action...

I *do* oppose all violations, I am just focusing on the currently most widespread and dangerous. As I said in my initial post in this thread, somethin...

I have explained you that I am not talking about translocation; that's your word, not mine. I said the genotype and mentioned alleles. And the part wh...

You've linked a book here. I am not going to buy and read a book to try to find evidence for you. I'm absolutely open to having my mind changed. I sho...

I've "got it" that I think you're a hypocrite, because this thread is about you and others losing your shit over things that are orders of magnitude l...

And you'd be saying that if it was the other way round, with conservative ideas banned and liberal ideas explicitly mandated under financial penalty? ...

I'd like to see those studies; I would be very skeptical of a causal link. Especially for such a broad term like "cognitive ability".

OK, I think I 90% agree with you. As I have been saying in the parallel thread on the hard problem of consciousness, the problem of explaining subject...

Thanks for clarifying. I would say this: All scientific models include assertions and assumptions. The assertions are the actual claims of the model a...

I am not "charging you" with anything. I am pointing out that your own cite said there are more than two genotypes for this gene, and you think just a...

Let's do these one-by-one because the longer posts are, the less likely people are to read them IME I don't see any evidence of violence, it looks lik...

Ok, but do you disagree or agree with my point? That is, that it does not follow, in the abstract, it is not necessarily the case that we need to make...

A good paper, I agree with the main points, in as far as I understood. My only disagreement would be the position that the only means of verifying a m...

Any evidence of the injustices and suppression of free speech and free assembly that you're saying is a significant problem on the left, right now. Pr...

This reminds me a bit of the canard "There's no such thing as the supernatural; if it exists, it's natural" Which misses the point that supernatural t...

I think the title was cryptic enough to put off clicks :) It's an interesting topic, I would actually come at it from the other side though. I think p...

On inequality: sorry, it seems I was wrong. The world got much wealthier in the industrial revolution, and so the typical subsistence farmer moving to...

I know I said I'd bow out, but if someone @s me then I am summoned again. I have asked you multiple times, at least half a dozen times now, for eviden...

I've got here late but still want to reply to the OP... The vast majority of tech is a net benefit; it's just humans figuring out ways to do things. F...

Firstly your point obviously has nothing to do with whether it is true or not. Lots of things in the universe are either unpleasant or unintuitve, it ...

Thanks brother :fist_bump:

You know what though @"Fire Ologist" you are right that I think I've said my piece for this thread. I think the premise the OP is based on is false. A...

You make it sound like just a couple of random guys. Trump is president, Project 2025 includes making America an explicitly Christian nation, and much...

Because the OP is about what's happening in terms of authoritarian policies and freedom of expression. I doubt what he wanted was dozens of pages of d...

Call it "adding on", or call it different. Maybe it's just semantics? But personally I would maintain it's actually a different position. PC says I am...

As I've said in past threads; I think there is a linguistic issue with the word "nothing", in English, that is often right at the core of the issue. P...

But I reject the breakdown into those three questions, if you're going to insist that neuroscience cannot ask Q2. The hard problem is Q2 and it is leg...

We've had at least a dozen pages of whining about the definition, can you please address some of the more relevant points, like all the infringements ...

Many times. For example, in the podcast by JD Vance and Stephen Miller, Miller said: "It is a vast domestic terror movement We are going to channel al...

Yes and you brought it up Sure, and Trump fits the definition to a tee. I seem to remember someone, not sure if it was you, that tried to claim Democr...

No it's not "what I want to talk about". My position has been, and remains, that the word "woke" is a meaningless scare word that a certain audience h...

You have said it's not clearly defined, you stupid shit. And the reason I'm calling you what you are now, is because your accusation that I am "hoping...