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Unless one has fallen into the black hole of solipsism, it really isn't so difficult if one is willing to get out of the philosophical armchair. You c...

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Well, it seems my recent health adventure has resulted in a bit of mania inducing sleep deprivation. So I'd probably best defer to your judgement on t...

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Lathe of Heaven? An Ursula K. LeGuin book I've never read.

:monkey: I was just testing out my hypothesis, that you really didn't know what you were talking about when you said: Thanks for playing. :lol:

Are photons a new concept for you?

LOL I'm afraid life has given me an inability to take OPs so seriously, on the basis of them being OPs. I recognize Christoffer as having a lot of ins...

I suspect that is generally the case. I didn't let anyone likely to let my parents know that I was in the hospital, until I was out, because my (early...

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Damn, you've gone and busted my irony meter. Amazing thread though. I'm curious, are you short? You come across to me like a short guy.

In the case of ravens using cars to crush nuts, why think it is a matter of logic rather than pattern recognition? (Which is a more basic aspect of ne...

That seems a rather silly thing to say to me. A rather significant element of my lived experience is based in knowing that in many cases that there is...

A rather unfortunate way to remind me of that time I met someone from a forum while working in Mississippi, and we met up in New Orleans. "Cajun Shrim...

My view is that we are all social primates who are born ignorant and are all going to die only somewhat less ignorant, and finding opportunities to si...

What do you think of Thompson's comment towards the end of the video, about idealism being a philosophical crutch?

Thank you!

When I was in college, my best friend was a fellow electrical engineering student, who introduced me to philosophical discussion. We would stay up unt...

I got out of the hospital last night at around 5:30, after going to the ER Sunday morning thinking that if wanted to get to the hospital under my own ...

Your lack of recognition of the distinction, doesn't eliminate the value that the distinction has, for those who recognize the distinction.

We are outside the minds of other people. Do you think that we can learn about the workings of other people's minds by observation of their behavior? ...

Physically. If you want to consider the question seriously it will involve studying a lot of science. However, I suspect you just wanted to do philoso...

All the more reason to meetup with TPF members if there is an opportunity. Developing skills takes practice. TPF members seem mostly harmless. Think o...

I'm not sure what you see as the significance, of how you feel about it. Can you provide a quote by Carroll, that you see as exemplifying the sort of ...

I'll add this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-waves-synchronize-when-people-interact

Beautifully said! :pray:

For a scientist's perspective, here's Sean Carroll: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/09/23/the-laws-underlying-the-physics-of-everyday-l...

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I've been wondering who the author of Unbecoming was since I read it, but I had no inkling of who had written it. Nice job.

Not all. There are some on this forum who have put significant time into educating our fellow citizens, since well before Trump came down the escalato...

Suppose that rather than things having essences, our minds recognize certain 'signatures' in things. Is there a good reasons to think that 'there are ...

This is just slinging rhetorical shit, at those you see as part of the social band you are opposed to.

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Picked especially for you. :grin:

Yes, The Problem of the Soul is good. It looks to me like the article got the following part right:

I'd think a lot of the right factors had to come together. Off the top of my head: 1. Warm blooded for faster and more stable brain performance. 2. A ...

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Yeah, I would say*, you and the computer you were typing on yesterday have extension along the temporal dimension of spacetime. * Well, in a philosoph...

They are in a 'present' related to their reference frame, but that is a subjective notion of "present" that breaks down when trying to understand the ...

Being a physicalist monist, the idea of a mental world independent of the physical world doesn't resonate for me. I recognize that we are apt to have ...

The only claim I am making is that presentism isn't compatible with STR. Yes, there is a lot of context to consider.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presentism/#RelaPhys

If you deny relativity.

I'd put it as... Our cognitive faculties can recognize and logically consider our emotional reactions. No, I wouldn't say our emotions can analyze our...

Why not?

One would hope, only in the minds of those as subject to fallacious thinking as you are. But what ya gonna do? :chin: E pur si muove.

Why would I want to waste any more time, trying to explain the physical working of things, to someone who denies there is any physical working of thin...

No one has suggested the possibility of NY sewers being conscious, so that is just a strawman. I'm well aware of your ignorant incredulity towards phy...

Many Christian literalists hold monarchy as an ideal, as that is what they expect in an afterlife. The extent to which such a view is consciously held...

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