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Seems kind of silly to think that matters much in this discussion, when you are constantly demonstrating that you are a pretender to scientific unders...

What is the danger of getting close to the dictum?

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Or maybe, the life experience through which information gets into our brains is special?

My question is how old do I have to be to move to Scotland and get away with being an asshole ALL the time.

Or both. It doesn't seem to require much intelligence to be a propaganda parrot.

Thanks. That gives me a clearer picture of what is under consideration.

Not someone with any literary writing experience to speak of myself, but I find that fascinating. I have a hard time imagining myself writing in such ...

What is the proposal for how atmospheric methane is absorbed by the farm? As I understand it, plants don't make use of atmospheric methane as they mak...

I have a more complicated perspective on intuitions. Intuition is foundational to our thought and taking intuitions as true is something we do as fast...

You seem to have a weird notion of causality to me. Nothing is causing me to reject synthetic expressions of language as knowledge. Maybe you can reph...

Isaac Asimov's essay, The Relativity of Wrong, might be of interest.

If you don't see cognition and psychology as significant aspects of consciousness, then I don't know what you are referring to with the word "consciou...

Not that I know of, but I saw Tobias' point as worth emphasizing.

Well, I'm glad I don't view motivation solely through that lens. It's important to be able to consider things from a variety of perspectives, and to l...

Perhaps, but I think brings up an important point with the following quote, in that developing skills at communicating about philosophical topics requ...

I can't pragmatically argue with that. :up: Though it is inconceivable that someone could hate the Eagles. So I suspect The Dude might be a fictional ...

I am skeptical towards justificationism/foundationalism. It looks to me like human attempts at justification are always built on intuitions which are ...

I read the prefaces and the introduction, and I'm an electrical engineer who would be happy to contribute to such a thread if I saw a way to do so. I'...

That is a good point. Although I think an appreciation for critical thinking and reading can get people a long way.

I'm glad you did, because I might have missed out on seeing it.

So when knowledge is defined as something that can only be had by an omniscient being there is no Gettier problem? Seems a bit drastic to me to define...

Yeah, "nihilism" has been used as a boogeyman for a long while now. It's like the Reefer Madness of philosophy. But can we set aside such arguments fr...

Be homo sapiens. Other species mostly suck at it, and don't get me started on the inarticulacy of rocks.

Did you add to your post after I asked my question? You seem to be speaking of nihilism as a sort of psychological condition rather than as a philosop...

How is that supposed to be a problem?

Lot's of things get posted in academic journals by people who don't know the subject they are talking about as well as one might wish. I'm not seeing ...

He says in a post on an internet forum.

It sounds like differences in theories of time is playing a big role in this for you. Do you consider yourself to be a presentist, and if so, are you ...

Are there multiple things that are connected, or is there only one thing?

What gives you that impression? I'm a materialist/physicalist/naturalist and certainly don't see myself as having any particular difficulty with time....

It's not just my understanding, and it is not all that new. If you are interested in learning about the subject, the 2016 Atlantic article How Google'...

Sure. Understanding the nature of deep learning in neural nets has given me a lot of insight into the nature of human intuitions, the reliabilty or la...

A nice feature of the Philpapers survey webpage is the choices in results display that can be selected. (Hit refresh to get a page updated to show the...

A lot of Christians I've talked to would respond with something like, "Why would you think there are objective moral goods or evils if there is no God...

I asked a question which you didn't answer. Do you know why are you are jumping to conclusions about whatever arguing you are speculating about? In an...

In a discussion of theory of mind, consideration of neuroscience would be going on a tangent? Do you see yourself as particularly well qualified to ju...

An important aspect of neuroscience is developing scientific understanding of the information processing that occurs in brains. Neuroscience involves ...

Come now, crawl out of the pit of scientific ignorance you are in.

Do you expect the sort of simple answer that someone might post here? Or do you expect the answer would take years of study to get a handle on?

Please remember, I was responding to your question: Do you see your question as a purely rhetorical question? Or do you want to learn about the answer...

Some physical processes are information processing apt, while most physical processes aren't information processing apt. If what we refer to as mental...

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To label something 6 feet is to describe it relative to something, like the length of someone's foot.

Indeed. It has incredible potential for being beneficial, and it is proving itself very beneficial in science and medicine right now. I talk about the...

I'm afraid you aren't succeeding. I have the impression that you are trying to paint Jabberwock as a bigot, which seems the sort of thing you deplore ...

I'm afraid I don't know much about TikTok. I disagree about the power of knowledge rarely amounting to much. The colonization of much of the world by ...

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