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So that the criteria of motivation and intention to act shifted between time A and time B resulting in a difference in probabilities of actual action?

Pluralism: "The cat is dead" is true for Wigner's friend but not for Wigner. = "The cat is dead for Wigner's friend" No. Both of your examples are sim...

Pluralism: "The cat is dead" is true for Wigner's friend but not for Wigner. is equivalent to "The cat is dead for Wigner's friend" Realism: The cat i...

Agreed, if 'reality' is left ambiguous between a unique realist objective ontology and many relativist subjective appearances. Philosophical disagreem...

It's all you. You probably say the same of all healthcare workers. You're perfect and everyone else is uncaring of perfect you. Professionals are part...

Psychologists and philosophers are equally subject to stupid stereotyping because people don't care enough to try to understand. This is also true of ...

Science is what science does not what you say.

is a loose essentialist construct that has gotten a lot of clicks. Examples of thrashings about in attempts to make sense of it can be found in Hume's...

It is not and never was. Because is a bullshit question, being neither philosophy nor psychology. is just ignorant. No science is certain, nor can any...

And what's the definition of philosophy according to Wikipedia? "Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental questions", which ought to answer ...

A categorical distinction between man and animal can be drawn if you like. But that distinction is neither psychological nor genetic. You have to seek...

Do you have a cat or dog? Especially a cat would object and show you why.

The state of unconsciousness with anesthesia is mysterious indeed. It's much better than a good whack in the head which might be followed by a lump an...

They could do either one depending on how deep they want to dig. The BB cannot be extrapolated beyond the reach of physical theories to time 0. BB is ...

You're missing your point. If you read an analysis of the dilemma it points to logical argumentation of the kind that was taught to would-be lawyers b...

Sorry! If you meant that faith makes placebo an extremely powerful medicine then I wholly agree with you. Faith is one of the cornerstones of religion...

What has faith, even as placebo, to do with religion? Isn't religion a socio-cultural self-sustaining support system for those who believe that religi...

Since you like the SEP which attempts to introduce readers to issues and has a wealth of references to dig deeper, I would start with R.A. Blank, Over...

No. What Protagoras really said, and what he was accused of having said by contemporary and later pundits becomes relevant when you repeat or emphasiz...

Protagoras never said that anything goes, or all choices are the same, or even that morality is relative. Protagoras was a moral subjectivist. Expandi...

Scientific facts would work because they are grounded in current physics. Is that enough?

For the moment, your truths are my truths. I'm willing to go along with whatever might help me disentangle my confusion. Is he then replacing the usua...

So then by W specifically means himself only by "I" because facts are truths?

Do you agree that facts are what we say about a certain property or a certain relation?

Language needs to reflect the scope of cosmological questions. It is reasonable that in the very long run, no matter how stable, all particles will de...

:up: :100: Thrasymachus and others like him were a problem to Plato's Socrates character because there can be no valid argument to show that the contr...

Plato's is a broad all-encompassing philosophy, How much new has been invented since to be philosophized over? The zeitgeist is the opposite. In the a...

Neither philosophy (logic) nor science (the world) can do that. Personal faith is independent of both and also of whichever religious dogma (culture).

Perhaps, but science has been a great deal less influential than technology. The relation of the two to each other is not as simple as is usually assu...

What's been labelled as subconscious is as much part of nature as the outside world is. We must use whatever sense-perception we are afforded to try t...

There is no denying that deep psychological preferences do weigh on one's attitudes toward people and life, but if philosophy is to be a logical enter...

Cool. When it sits motionless on a tree branch that butterfly is moth-like dirty brown and nearly invisible. Illusions of nonexistence and existence a...

Thanks to Wayback Machine, the Totoni article is still available when searching there for www.scholarpedia.org/article/Integrated_information_theory a...

But scientific proposals do seek relevant information as pertaining to some possibly useful measurable aspect of the natural world, or us as individua...

and a bit more clarification from there,

Not a card trick at all. I don't think you're appreciating the weight of your assumptions in making that argument. To a Trumpist democracy means our p...

Then you agree with me that democracy is not mine therefore there must be many notions of democracy. The only alternative to that is god-given Democra...

I doubt that you received any responses given the Times' window for comments, so let's try

For assertion 1. the philosophical question is what is x if anything at all. Since experience is private there is no way to answer that except for cla...

I think that Plato should have been made a saint a very long time ago for what he did for the Church.

So I take it that Plato's literary tricks in the Phaedo and elsewhere, as craftily imitated by the authors of the gospels were intended to make all th...

I think that perhaps two in "a half and another half are two" do not refer to some form of Twoness of the number two but to two as individuals, each b...

A half-bottle of scotch helps there because the best solution is to forget the distinctions.

Plato gets much justifiable but undeserved grief for setting up formal and informal pairs as opposites and for being illogical in their resolution. Bu...

Plato's own Greek terms were often varied and indeterminate. Plato deliberately did not employ precise or just consistent meanings throughout his work...

That's the basis of the paradox. Are there physical particles at all or are particles a mental construct to reify our naive perceptions straight down ...

A physical observer is an objective instrumental observer not a person. Mathematical or plain language interpretation of the observations translates o...

Again, thesis-antithesis pairs are arbitrary and are logically incoherent. For dialectic to have any logical validity some whole pie, or some portion ...

:up: Dialectics is a great method to demonstrate that neither of two incompatible points of view can possibly be correct. Thus it represents small occ...

That math, physics, theology, etc. can't be discussed sensibly on philosophy forums?