Right, and these are very good examples of my point that concepts stop being called "philosophy" when they start making testable predictions. But in t...
A couple of things I would say to this: 1. Many fields of human knowledge started out as philosophy, then became an -ology or -omy once they firmed up...
@bongo fury Firstly, I find it hilarious to find someone that believes an assertion from a book is proof that qualia don't exist. Secondly, I didn't s...
Yeah; I think you're alluding to "strong AI". But I would say that's irrelevant to understanding TheMadFool's argument. (S)He is just saying there's a...
Well of course at a certain level, a robot should be capable of feeling pain since we're essentially robots made by nature. However, it's also true th...
The more interesting question for me, is why so many people seem so committed to dismissing the hard problem. What's the issue with admitting somethin...
Well firstly this concedes the point. You are agreeing it's difficult (hard) and a work in progress (a problem). But the rest of your post seems to be...
It seems I must not be making my position very clear. Because I *do* think you are making decisions. Imagine someone offers me the choice of coffee or...
Absolutely. Although there are two caveats. Firstly, if there really were an omnimax god, then he would be responsible for my actions too. Indeed more...
The neurochemical nature of the brain is a complete red herring though. Forget about humans and brains for a minute. Imagine some world where there ar...
This thread is too long to read through, so I'm going to add my 2 cents knowing it's probably duplicate. 99% of the arguments against systemic racism ...
I frequently come across the idea that philosophy is useless navel-gazing, and my response is as follows: 1. Everyone holds philosophical ideas, even ...
I agree with the arguments given by the OP, but not the conclusion. I think, rather that trying to rehabilitate the concept of free will, we should ju...
Because you're equating two different things. The only thing that they have in common is that they are both talking about death, but they are making w...
I think you've missed the point that it's not saying all groups are going to have the same distribution of ages or types of death. Merely that everyon...
Yeah I'm done here. None of this is complicated to someone who genuinely wants to learn and understand why their intuition seems contrary to scientifi...
No; there is clearly something being weighed here, the observation is "real". However, the proposition that I have N kilograms of gold needs further i...
What wouldn't be on the checklist is the words "real" or "not real". The checklist would be on what I could infer from my observation and what further...
1. Not everyone has picked up on it, but the "real" and "not real" thing is a bad framing, right from the start. As Mww correctly pointed out, we know...
Whether time not existing makes intuitive sense to you is neither here nor there. The fact is, physicists understand a lot about time. GPS systems hav...
There are two common misconceptions or misframings of this issue, and I think the OP basically stumbles into both of them (not to sound too critical; ...
Of course it's not beyond the capacity of genes; I'm not the one arguing that anything is. The point is simply this: the genome is a recipe for how to...
No it didn't. Again, you aren't reading. I'm saying that this whole misconception is based on a language issue in English (and other languages that co...
I've answered the OP with demonstrable scientific facts, so I'm not sure what there is left to debate and why you still find it hard to believe. To re...
A couple of things to be aware of: 1. Genetics doesn't directly define the qualities of an organism; there is an interplay with the environment and th...
I kind of disagree with the OP in both senses :razz: I know I'm in the minority on this, but IMO, the fact that we can do math, and make good predicti...
FIrstly, even if they changed constantly we'd still write equations describing the frequency by which they change, or the type of randomness. The "rul...
"Please read what I said" :smirk: I'm giving the example of squaring circles as something that is logically impossible. And the example of the anti-ch...
Instead of talking about a gap of what remains, why don't we just call it an explanatory gap? Because, after all, how we measure what we know / don't ...
It's like if I had said you can't square a circle, and your retort is that the analogy is invalid because you can't square a circle. You are repeating...
The first thing to say 3017amen, is that most of your post doesn't even make sense in light of what I posted, that you're ignoring points that I made,...
Yeah, I'm not much of a fan of the idea of necessary opposites. It's just not true in general: I don't need an "anti-chair" for the concept of a "chai...
No, I think you have not read my post correctly -- which is understandable; the whole issue that I am talking about here is how the English language i...
My point is that the reasoning behind "nothing is still something" is usually based on various misconceptions related the fact that in English, "logic...
Does it even make sense to talk about everything being an illusion? If there is nothing outside of this universe, then what is the difference between ...
I've recorded my dreams for much of my adult life. In terms of the OP hypothesis, it's interesting that my dreams often take place in familiar places,...
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