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There certainly is the term "top-down causation". However simply assuming top-down causation occurs is begging the question against physicalism. Now i...

Extended conversation with Chat GPT on the topic of philosophers understanding supervenience and emergence.

3.5 User what is the best way to explain emergence and supervenience to philosopher ChatGPT To explain emergence and supervenience to a philosopher, y...

Maybe Christoffer can articulate it in a way that I can't see how to at the moment, but I can point to examples. For instance, suppose I have designed...

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Emphasis on the "grumpy".

Something I've noticed about myself, is that I respect people when they've earned my respect. Now that's not necessarily hard to do for most people. I...

Have you ever watched nature documentaries where juvenile male chimpanzees try to establish social dominance? I recommend looking at with that sort of...

Not in the short term. But with a longer term perspective, and via ongoing discussion I have had success pointing others to what a better informed per...

Sure, better education in psychology in general would be good. But the authority? No. Psychology should be seen as a bunch of what people at times fou...

Some things that give me, as a physicalist, a spiritual experience: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r6w2M50_Xdk For me, best when listened to with close...

This doesn't give me the impression that you really thought about that quote I posted. What does what you posted have to do, with Zen having rudimenta...

:100: :up: to your whole post... ...and this paragraph especially is brilliantly said.

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The US populace badly needs education on the nature of narcissism. What amazes me is how anyone who had worked in the White House for more than a mont...

Yeah, it is apparent how important that principle is to you.

I read the contrast between the experience of the wife beginning to head downstairs, and that of the husband, as suggesting they are on separate paths...

My interpretation of the story was as a metaphor for the way life can take marriages apart, and that it is a story of a marriage unbecoming (as in the...

What sort of thing is this requirement, that physicality in total be intelligible via laws of thought? An understanding of biological evolution gives ...

Suppose we question taking as axiomatic that there are laws of thought? Might there be no such things as laws of thought, and what we conceptualize as...

Did you listen to any music?

Do you see that you are presupposing that the atheist in this scenario is bringing his own concept of God to the discussion? Conversations can be ongo...

In my case you are kind of preaching to the choir. Although I try to refrain from (in any serious sense) telling others what they need to do. I myself...

I posted a reply in your thread, but I didn't think to tag anyone, so...

A thought problem along similar lines (or curves): https://youtu.be/FUHkTs-Ipfg?si=34O9p4GhK3Ag5VfP

And wonder you should. :grin:

https://www.lionsroar.com/if-you-meet-the-buddha-on-the-road-kill-him/

You tell me how so. :grin:

I recognize that around the world, and through much of recorded history, people have had a degree of insight into this aspect of how our minds work, b...

I'd love to see that. Unfortunately, biblical literalism tends to result in liberal Christians being dismissed by fundamentalists as not TRUE CHRISTIA...

I know next to nothing about Hegel, so I don't have any thoughts about the sort of third type of analysis you are speculating about. I do think there ...

I guess you haven't been reading what Hanover posts.

The velocity of the patch in contact with the ground is zero with respect to the ground, unless you've lost traction. Although only when looking at th...

LOL You are one skeptical dude yourself Wayf. You just haven't developed the knack of turning your skepticism towards your own intuitions.

I'd say we should take the problems seriously and recognize that our intuition and logic both have weaknesses, but they can be used synergistically. O...

Why focus on whether there is a purely deductive argument? Logic is at best as good as its inputs, and the inputs to our logic are our intuitive deep ...

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Very good quote. Of course Hume didn't have the opportunity to understand this, but the quote suggests at least intuitive recognition on Hume's part, ...

This doesn't touch my physicalism, because I don't see everything as reducible to physics. I don't know of any physicalist, who if given the choice, w...

I expect a transition from concern with induction, to greater recognition of pattern recognition as naturally occurring as a matter of our neurology. ...

:up: My WNA was a bit of a hoax, where I reworded the Kalam Cosmological Argument as presented by theologian/philosopher William Lane Craig, and prese...

Nice try! Much appreciated by myself, but wooists gonna woo.

No energy until coffee.

Perhaps a relevant aspect of the inversion - I'd say contra Plato's anamnesis, that we are all born ignorant and we are all going to die only somewhat...

:100: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

There are a lot of Christians out there, who interpret Romans 1:18-20 as saying that everyone actually knows God exists. Such Christians tend to inter...

What does 'actually possible' mean? I would have thought that metaphysical impossibility precludes actual possibility.

Yeah, there's some esoteric knowledge required to get the joke.

Wonderer Neurological Argument, of course.

For those poor atheists, bereft of a positive argument, I present this thread from another forum: Re: Atheist contrivances used to avoid presenting th...