Michael

I do. Just as I believe that the bomb's radio receiver causes the transduction of radio waves into electrical signals that trigger the catalyst. But i...

In the sense that they both follow the same natural laws of cause and effect; yes. The human brain is just more complicated. It's not as if it contain...

And I'm tired of you refusing to answer the question. You claim that one's sex parts dictate which bathroom one should use. So how does your rule acco...

I did just flick the switch. Someone else planted the bomb. Not that it would matter either way. The point still stands that I caused the bomb to expl...

NOS4A2 absolutely is. He says such nonsense as: And: Which is exactly like arguing that I do not cause the bomb to explode because my finger lacks the...

I addressed that earlier: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity

So you are saying that a transgender man who has had genital surgery should continue to the use the women's bathroom?

You tell me. You're the one demanding that bathrooms be separated by sex. Is the transgender man who has had genital surgery a biological woman? Shoul...

So you are saying that a transgender man who has had genital surgery should continue to use the women's bathroom because his sex is female? Even thoug...

No it hasn't. I want a "yes" or a "no", not a deflection. Should the transgender man who has had genital surgery continue to use the women's bathroom?...

You're being too cavalier with your use of the term "delusion". Those who believe in Christianity do not suffer from a psychosis. And you appear to ha...

I'm sure there are many reasons, just as I'm sure there are many reasons why most men in the UK object to trans men using the men's bathroom. A better...

I agree. But you are making the absurd claim that a word's causal influence "ends" at the ear, and that is simply not how physics works. You appear to...

So should the transgender man who has had genital surgery continue to use the women's bathroom because his sex is female? Or should the transgender ma...

Why? I asked you this before and you said "because it's where we uncover our sex parts". So how do you account for those who have had genital surgery?...

I'm bringing it up because you object to transgender men using the men's bathroom and transgender women using the women's bathroom. I'm bringing it up...

A transgender man believes that his sex is female and his gender is male. A transgender woman believes that her sex is male and her gender is female. ...

They're not firing the same neurons.

If I flick a switch on a radio detonator causing a distant bomb to explode and kill people then I caused a distant bomb to explode and caused people t...

Correct. Rather, sound waves cause my ears to send signals to the brain which causes certain neurons to fire in certain ways, and this just is what it...

The sound is meaningful because the neurons in the brain react in a certain way to it, differently to how they react to other sounds. As to why the ne...

The brain reacts differently to different sounds. Loud bangs elicit different responses to soothing music. Meaningful expressions elicit different res...

Who said anything about blame? Enough with the folk psychology. You've made it very clear in the past that you're an eliminative materialist. So commi...

I'm not asking you to prove that skeptical claims are false; I'm explaining that you haven't proved that skeptical claims are false. To perhaps better...

I’m not saying that it’s justified. I’m saying that your attempt at a refutation begs the question. The skeptic claims that that even though it seems ...

Hearing a sound is the firing of certain neurons. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing And from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain

Then let's try to keep it simple. Are you a compatibilist or an incompatibilist? If you are an incompatibilist then do you believe that we have libert...

Which is just to say that a thought process is a particular kind of brain activity. And brain activity just is the configuration and behaviour of neur...

Are they different? As I've mentioned several times, I am assuming that eliminative materialism is correct because NOS4A2 endorses eliminative materia...

I'm not saying that the proposed scenario is true, or even justified. I am simply explaining that your attempt at a refutation begs the question. That...

Different brains respond differently to the same stimulus. Much like not every computer displays the letter "A" on the screen when you press the "A" k...

I’m saying that there is no fire and no hand. We are brains in a vat and a mad scientist is using diodes to stimulate the appropriate areas of our bra...

Why? Perhaps pains are an hallucination. Or, rather, perhaps they are not caused by a real fire in an external physical world but by a mad scientist p...

Well this just begs the question. The skeptic questions the existence of the world-as-we-understand-it. Perhaps idealism is correct. Perhaps we’re art...

Or three? I know that the bicycle was invented by Karl Drais I know how to ride a bicycle I know the feeling of falling off a bicycle

Clearly that’s insufficient as those suffering from psychosis can see and hear and feel things that aren’t really there. How do I know that I am not a...

I wonder how we make sense of such claims as "if I were you then ...." (or to use proper nouns, "if Michael were Banno then...") Strictly speaking if ...

"Entirely up to me" and "causally influenced by you" are not mutually exclusive. See compatibilism. It is a proven physical fact that my brain activit...

Nobody is saying anything like this at all. It's not just about the immediate kinetic energy of an action. This is such an absurd strawman. There's ve...

Yet again with the equivocation. You are correct to say that the transgender man is not a biological man but you are incorrect to suggest that the tra...

I wasn't trying to contradict you. I was just answering your questions.

That doesn't really address my point. Perhaps it's better explained if we consider the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Some might say...

I already explained that with the example of the computers. Just apply the same reasoning to a human organism.

The physical differences between two different human bodies and two different human brains. Refer back to my example of the computers. Some computers ...

It's entirely relevant. If materialism, and in particular eliminative materialism, is correct then libertarian free will does not exist. All muscle mo...

Software is a physical thing. It's not some immaterial magic.

If eliminative materialism is correct, then yes. What we call "the mind" and "mental processes" either don't exist or are entirely physical.

I don't know why you have to repeat that. I quite explicitly responded to it.

Yes, but if eliminative materialism is correct then this is properly understood as "it has something to do with the existence and configuration and ac...

Slightly different biologies. Your eyes are not identical to my eyes and your brain is not identical to my brain. Yes, that thing being the body and b...