No I don't think PC and NC are the same, and I just explained with a concrete example e.g. a proponent of NC does not believe there are rational groun...
Bring it on. Let's see if you find even one inaccuracy. So you're choosing to say that only two genotypes "count" as genotypes and anything else is an...
Everything is wrong with that. Off the top of my head: 1. You are the person that is throwing out these ever-shifting meanings. 2. While at the same t...
I have no idea where you got any of that from. What I am saying is that you are confusing the problem itself from the responses to the problem. We can...
It's worse than that. As I illustrated in my previous post, @"Fire Ologist" has used "woke" to mean at least a dozen different things in this thread, ...
Sure, but let's be very clear here. The question is how the brain can have experiences at all, and right now we don't have any model for that. The dan...
I don't know why you're still framing this as a discussion of whether physicalism is true or not. In the OP, you describe yourself as "somebody who ha...
Let me try to simplify too, because when there are these increasingly long posts, no-one's reading or engaging. My position is simply that when it com...
This is backwards. The input is not inherently negative; it's just data. It's as subject to interpretation as all other sensory data. The experience i...
Avoiding stimuli does not entail having a negative experience. Indeed there are plenty of processes in your body that reflexively counter some stimulu...
It's always best with these things to bring it back to the practical. The measure of how well we understand a phenomenon or system is what kind of use...
I think this is the critical misunderstanding on your part, and is my response to all of your points in that post. I was laying out what the personal ...
Right and we're talking about how we determine sex. And your idea of using the SRY gene fails for at least these 3 reasons: 1. There are more than 2 g...
You can't avoid holding philosophical positions. And I find that often the people most dismissive of philosophy are the people trying to push their ow...
Like what? That was exactly the question I asked, so let's hear the one on the list that doesn't apply? AFAICT the only one really debatable is the la...
Yep. You think "woke" means everything has to be relative or subjective or something? No wonder you're so against it! Have you taken a moment to consi...
That's not a relevant point though, CRT is a college level topic in the US, where's the evidence of US schools being "woke"? Indeed *more woke than Ge...
It's also in the context of Trump saying he'll come for the other late night shows next and government threats against universities, corporations and ...
But the US is far less "woke" than most of Europe and the anglosphere, so by this logic we should all be envying the remarkably peaceful and disciplin...
I couldn't quite follow what was going on in the linked thread, but he may have been alluding to "pre-supposition" arguments. Pre-sup has become reall...
Agree with 180 proof. We do not *know* there is no objective meaning to life, there's just no good evidence for such a thing at this time. The OP is r...
Sure -- which is very different to your original claim. The law doesn't say to get a DEI officer, only (in some jurisdictions) that you submit a summa...
Yep. As I say, in recent days the president has claimed that the reason that the US did not have a victory in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq etc was because of ...
Brilliant, this is the claim I am asking you to support. Any link to any insurer suggesting that they will reduce their price if you hire a DEI office...
False. What planet have you been living on? These are the most widespread assaults on free speech that the US has ever seen; much worse than McCarthyi...
Lol, "some gagging" == universities, government agencies including health agencies, the judiciary, the free press and millions of Americans' right to ...
BTW, from some googling around it would seem requring a business to hire a DEI officer would go way beyond the bounds of what insurers can request and...
In terms of the example you're quoting from athena, it's pretty weak sauce. We don't get to hear their side of it, and it just sounds like the typical...
No because markets are not perfectly efficient and human nature gets in the way. Think how much money was left on the table for decades by keeping wom...
I'm baffled that you would even ask me that. Are you reading my responses? My position is that "woke" is a boogieman of the political right. It's manu...
Again -- I'm not advocating for jokes like that, I am explaining to you why society -- whether white or black -- generally views jokes about the major...
Not at all what I said, and it's pretty shameful for you to put words in my mouth when my last post was so clear. You had made some point about how we...
Yes that be the standard definition, at least before the current weaponizing. For the last 5 years or so, it's only ever been used as a scare word on ...
Correct. Because while "woke" is some amorphous term at this point, there are people who self-identify as "anti-woke". Both of these statements are co...
My position though, is that the people complaining about "woke" are largely talking about a boogieman and a bunch of myths. My position IOW is that it...
I don't use the word, and I didn't make a thread about it. The only time I hear it now is in conservative media, why's it on me to guess what on earth...
Sorry but this is all such bollocks. A whole thread discussing the fine embroidery of the emperor's clothes. You can't even say Christmas any more! Me...
I thought it was clear, but to answer the question directly: you won't exist after the transport. In fact, you won't exist in 5 minutes regardless of ...
It does matter though. Let's, as you say, break it down, because there might be a degree of us talking past each other. 1) We agree that, under PC, th...
Once again, this statement of faith. But the problem is you've been hoist by your own petard. Your claim was that sex is binary because of the SRY gen...
No it isn't the end of the discussion. Your own cite's exact words are: "SRY is an intronless sex-determining gene on the Y chromosome. Mutations in t...
I'm not following you. The psychological continuity position, as I understand it, does require being qualitatively the same. Abraham Lincoln walking o...
I know this might seem like threadshitting but I just want to offer a conflicting view. I've never seen "is there a god" to be one of the significant,...
So you're just going to double-down and say that you can analyze the data better than people who do this professionally? Better than the people who wr...
It matters a lot for people taking the PC position, because it means the transporter works. Until the experiences diverge, Picard exists in two places...
Exactly -- they diverge when they diverge, and that is indeed after B comes into existence. So a proponent of psychological continuity would typically...
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