Michael

How does capitalising a letter make a difference?

Building my own forum software. I told @"jamalrob" I'd be doing this when he first set this place up. Better late than never. ;)

Skittle terrorists, apparently.

Witception.

Oh, I am indeed British, and I did indeed understand the real reference. I just thought it funny to turn it around. ;) Apparently my wit is too subtle...

How do you justify such philosophical naturalism?

This seems contradictory. Wars are rife in history.

I think "spunk" is a reference to ink. It's a play on words given that "penis" is amusingly similar to "pens".

Sure. And this caricature is what you look like, as you really are, when drawn by a caricaturist. Or this is what a table looks like, as it really is,...

It has everything to do with what you said. Scientific experimentation has shown that macroscopic objects are collections of particles and waves and f...

And I already addressed that. I don't need to know what you look like to know what a caricature of you is not what you look like.

What else would we be talking about?

And you don't think that the scientific observation that macroscopic objects are collections of waves and particles and fields and whatnot counts as s...

I don't need to know what you look like to know that a caricature of you isn't what you look like.

To avoid cognitive biases, e.g. confirmation bias.

What law(s) prohibit(s) photons from possessing consciousness?

I don't think they're conscious of anything. I'm not supporting panpsychism. I'm explaining how panpsychism can be considered consistent with the laws...

No, it's not. It's an invalid inference. "Consciousness is not required for freedom" cannot be derived from "particles possess freedom". You can't der...

You're avoiding. How do you derive the conclusion "consciousness is not required to possess freedom" from the premise "particles possess freedom"?

Then how do you derive the conclusion "consciousness is not required to possess freedom" from the premise "particles possess freedom". As it stands it...

How do you derive that conclusion? You must already be assuming that particles aren't conscious.

It doesn't say anything about consciousness. It simply tries to show that if we have free will then elementary particles must also have free will.

Well, if we accept the free will theorem, and if free will requires consciousness, then it seems that panpsychism is consistent with the laws of physi...

Well, objective idealism "is an idealistic metaphysics that postulates that there is in an important sense only one perceiver, and that this perceiver...

Realism, as explained here, specifically in the context of naïve realism, is the theory that the objects we see exist and retain the properties we per...

I don't see what's realist about that. Sounds more like idealism or phenomenalism or some other anti-realism.

It's what realists argue for. It's what exists even when we're not looking.

If you want to say that what is seen is perception-independent then it seems that at least one of them must be incorrect. It can't be both an all-yell...

So let's say I see a yellow shape on my computer screen. I look at it closer, say with a magnifying glass, and see that it's actually a mixture of red...

So reality must be like what we perceive? Except then his empirical studies are reliable, and so his conclusions justified. Therefore the theory that ...

I'm not m-theory.

Is this an agreement or a sarcastic deflection?

Why is it the compatabilist who's playing word games and not the incompatabilist? Why is it that the incompatabilist has the 'correct' definition of "...

To be fair to him, I think he's trying to point out the hypocrisy in arguing in favour of gun control but wanting to be protected by guns. Although, t...

They would likewise define "choice" in a manner compatible with determinism, and so argue that we do have and make choices. To argue that this isn't w...

So time is like a one-way street? We travel what's already there?

Don't mind me, just throwing some fuel onto the fire.

How about if we look at Nazi Germany?

Ah, so they're drunk. Explains why they're so trigger-happy.

Correction: American cop hater.

It's from the latin word statim which means "immediately". The acronym is a backronym.

I usually side with internal realism, which accepts a causally independent world, rather than idealism proper, but I'm unsure if this is because there...

How would one determine the probability of such a thing?

I didn't suggest that there isn't a world which is independent of us. I suggested that perhaps we don't talk about this world, in which case that we s...

Well, it could be that we never talk about the objective world; only the world as we experience and understand it.

So much for the principle of bivalence, then? Proposing fuzzy logic?

Isn't "undead" just "was dead, but now isn't" - so alive? Or "dead, but still moving" - so dead?

And again, the Earth doesn't revolve around the Sun. It only revolves around the Solar System's barycenter. "The Earth revolves around the Sun" is as ...

I wish? It's scientific fact. The Earth revolves around the Solar System's barycenter, not the Sun. Jupiter revolves around the Solar System's barycen...

Meaning and its implications for truth, metaphysics, and morality.