Michael

What else is it? It's certainly not magic. Yes. So you can blame the Secretary if she doesn't add him to the ballot, but you'd have to accept that she...

They didn’t remove him from any ballot. They said that “the Secretary may not list President Trump’s name on the 2024 presidential primary ballot, nor...

Free speech.

We can conceive of something that is physically identical to us not having consciousness, therefore it is metaphysically possible for something physic...

If consciousness is physical and if we are conscious then anything that is physically identical to us is conscious and anything that isn’t conscious i...

I think you need to read this.

Impossible because conscious experience is physical or impossible because non-physical conscious experience is a necessary consequence of brain activi...

So by what means are moral claims made true? What sort of things (if any) do they “correspond” to? Does the world contain non-natural “moral” properti...

See the distinction between meta ethics and normative ethics. The former addresses the meaning of moral sentences and what sort of things must obtain ...

It’s not about taxonomy. It’s about not understanding what it means for a moral sentence to be true and not understanding how to verify or falsify a m...

Swimming, quacking, and avoiding predators are mechanical behaviours and so they are exactly what a p-duck does.

So can mathematical statements, but surely you understand the distinction between mathematical realism and mathematical nominalism? Which of the metae...

Parfit’s non-realist cognitivism seems like it addresses this distinction. The best analogy I think there is to this is the distinction between mathem...

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/past-14th-amendment-disqualifications/ Not that I expect the Supreme Court to fo...

P-zombies are a collection of bones and muscles and blood and organs and a central nervous system, including a brain, that reacts to stimuli. What par...

External stimuli such as light and sound stimulate its sense receptors, these signals are sent to the brain which then responds by sending signals to ...

Yes

No

I think there’s a lot of confusion about the p-zombie argument. The argument is that: 1. A p-zombie is physically identical to us but has no conscious...

If they do have beliefs then they’re conscious and so not p zombies.

The p-zombie doesn’t believe anything. It just burns its finger and cries out “that hurts”.

I don’t think the meaning of the word “belief” can be reduced to an explanation of brain states, just as I don’t think the meaning of the phrase “phen...

I agree. If he were to just to say “I am a p-zombie” then I would accept that it’s possibly true. I am simply explaining that “I believe that I am a p...

That’s a slightly different question.

Firstly, you claimed before that non-existence is logically possible but metaphysically impossible. Now you seem to be saying that it’s logically impo...

So because intelligent life with an appropriately expressive language is required to “do” metaphysics then the existence of intelligent life with an a...

What do you mean by “doing” metaphysics?

You’re saying that the existence of metaphysics is a metaphysical necessity? I don’t even know what this means. Are you arguing for the metaphysical n...

Then it must be that for at least one object X it is metaphysically impossible that at some future time T that object no longer exists. Some object X’...

So for each object that exists in some world it is metaphysically possible that at some future time T that object no longer exists. Then it is metaphy...

To go from a state of existence to non-existence. Are you saying that if some object X exists then it is metaphysically impossible that at some future...

So you’re saying it’s metaphysically impossible for something to be destroyed (without creating something new in its place)?

Or, to phrase it a different way; is the law of conservation of energy a metaphysical necessity? If not then it’s metaphysically possible that there i...

I’m not saying that they’d be destroyed in a physical way. If they’re spirits then they’d be destroyed in a spiritual way. If they’re magic then they’...

So if we have some world within which exists only non-physical things, and if those non-physical things are destroyed (and in being non-physical are n...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-hitler-comparisons-doubles-down-1234932630/

Is it metaphysically possible for something that exists to be destroyed?

Is it metaphysically possible for nothing physical to exist?

On the other hand, if they didn’t convey meaning then how could I learn something new by reading?

Yes, but a second ruling would be needed for that, although it’s almost certain that they’d rule the same way (unless one or more justice dies or reti...

It should be noted that this ruling only applies to the Republican primary: It should also be noted that this case was brought by “both registered Rep...

Are you saying that the "Disqualification from office for insurrection or rebellion" section of the 14th Amendment doesn't exist? Or are you saying th...

Here's a really rubbish AI: <?php function responseTo($text) { return ; } echo responseTo('Consider p-zombies. Can they believe?'); It doesn't seem at...

What does it mean to "accept", "consider", or "hold as an opinion"? Again, these aren't terms that it makes sense to attribute to a p-zombie. A p-zomb...

At best you can say that they're allowing the country to be poisoned, but the poison itself, according to Trump, is the illegal immigrants. He has a p...

I'm saying that Trump said "ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR NATION". Illegal immigration is "the migration of people into a country ...

It's an act done by a group of people.

He was talking about illegal immigrants. His Truth Social post makes that clear. You are misinterpreting his words at the rally.

And you said he was talking about Biden. At least the article was closer to the mark.

And his Truth Social post reaffirmed what he was saying earlier at the rally; that illegal immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our nation"