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Colin B

['Member']Joined: May 22, 2017 at 22:31Last active: May 28, 2017 at 12:05None discussions8 comments

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In: Do You Dare to Say the "I" Word?  — view comment
>Piss poor governments? You want to tell me that the government of Afghanistan was worse before the United States and CIA installed the Mujahideen? Th...
May 28, 2017 at 12:02
In: Do You Dare to Say the "I" Word?  — view comment
I'm not interested in educating you on history, so I will just respectfully say that I think the picture of the world you paint is not only inaccurate...
May 27, 2017 at 22:22
In: Do You Dare to Say the "I" Word?  — view comment
I don't understand why you draw the connection to "Islam," as if the reason for these bombings have something to do with the tenants of a religion and...
May 27, 2017 at 20:00
In: Conscious but not aware?  — view comment
May 27, 2017 at 19:48
In: Conscious but not aware?  — view comment
If we understand consciousness as "intentionality," that is: "being conscious 'of'" an object, then clearly we are conscious of a lot more than we're ...
May 27, 2017 at 19:48
In: Post-intelligent design  — view comment
I think that Dennett's own philosophical works might be entering into an area of post-intelligent design.
May 27, 2017 at 19:38
In: Causality  — view comment
I agree completely. In fact, I argue this in a paper I am presenting at an upcoming conference. Hume seems to dismiss this in a footnote because he la...
May 27, 2017 at 19:35
In: Causality  — view comment
One thing that I think has been overlooked in the paradigmatic billiard ball example (which almost every early modern uses) is the context of Hume's d...
May 22, 2017 at 22:44
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