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Yeah, that clearly came from something about me that was built in deep! It makes a lot of sense, when you think about the time it takes human children...

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Yeah. Before my first child was born, I knew that I would love her, but I didn't come close to anticipating how intense the emotional reaction would b...

I don't see that in most cases as a matter of reasoning so much as a matter of tribalistic instinct. I think we are naturally biased towards see US as...

:lol: I can relate to that one. A couple of days ago my mom told me she would be praying for me. If she knew about this guy wonderer on the internet, ...

Ok. Causality in brains is very complex, with all sorts of feedback loops, and if you are thinking about it in terms of a top down vs bottom up dichot...

I might disagree with Dennett similarly. I consider Dennett's views a mixed bag. Some good stuff as well as bad stuff.

Yeah, I had a 35 year head start in thinking about such things with a background in electrical engineering. I can't really imagine what it must be lik...

See The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation by Peter Tse.

Not really.

I haven't looked into much by Searle, aside from The Chinese Room, but my impression is that Searle isn't so resistant to physicalism per se, but to a...

Nice find! The sentence, "Poetry can stir the memory of words that reside in our bodies in different ways." took me back to this, which I have been th...

Overheard during the discussion leading up to the new Minnesota flag: Sandy: "Gophers, ya great git! Not golfers! The little brown furry rodents!" Car...

Sure. But you are being disingenuous. Much more likely seems an egocentric fear on your part of you being 'censored' in the sense of being banned for ...

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Because I think there is something more useful to consider than the thread's title question, "Why should we worry about misinformation?" Regardless of...

:up: Which seems to bring us back to psychology. :wink:

It was a question which demonstrated your lack of empathy towards abused women. So it seems appropriate to consider the extent to which your perspecti...

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he under...

Very good point. We might say that we go with our intuitions in such cases.

As much as the marketing department where I work might wish that were so, that isn't how things work as far as I can tell. There seem to be hard limit...

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Might it be an even bigger problem, to label oneself with a philosophical label at all? To me it kind of suggests a closedness to different ways of lo...

Damn! That makes much more sense.

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The analysis of that poem reminded of something by another middleasterner whose poetry I've turned to a lot. From The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran

Without the formative culture of Gary, we would not have this mastrrpiece: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdxUFDoQe0

Gary is just the part of Chicago where guns are most readily available, so it should be considered part of Illinois.

Ok, let's give neuroscience another couple hundred years, and maybe we'll find a better answer.

Even if we ignore quantum indeterminacy... As you say, we don't know what is going on in our own brains in any detailed way, so how can you rule out s...

I certainly can't explain details of what happened in evolution to result in our propensity to feel guilt. I can only point out that we evolved as a s...

Evolved social instincts, conducive to success as a member of a social group.

My guess at the answer to the question is an evolved cheater detection module.

1. Seems pretty obvious to me that the bison is jumping over a fallen tree. (Possibly in order to get back to the prarie in northwestern Indiana.) 2. ...

Hmm. Have you had many girlfriends who felt abused by you? But no. Care to try again?

This is attempted gaslighting. We can add to that the fact that you see yourself as being in a community of one and show no signs of having empathy fo...

I guess I have to credit Indiana, for having a state seal depicting driving out the wildlife and chopping down all the trees for cornfields. https://u...

I wish I could say it is a rare occurence among 'philosophers'.

Well, whether the product "works" can be a matter of degree as well. Suppose the gadget is a voltmeter. Whether it works to measure voltage with the a...

Suppose I design some complicated electronic gadget, and sell it to someone who has a use for what the gadget does. Most commonly the purchaser of the...

Because the knowledge people have about things (including other people) is not a black and white matter, but a matter of degrees.

Which brings us back to the role of ignorance in attributing things to free will. We don't know anything remotely approaching the exact initial condit...

I would say, based on contemplating neuroscience and life experience, that dramatic changes in a person's worldview is something that takes a consider...

Can coins be tossed in a deterministic world? If so, then why can't a neural mechanism do something analogous to tossing a coin?

@"jgill" Good job, both of you, of articulating what I was trying to point towards.

What's your best guess?

Any thoughts on why? Is it a blow to people's egos to face the limitations of human thought?

It definitely varies, as is typical of social primates.

I'm having a hard time seeing what you mean. If we fail to recognize that we are ignorant in some regard do we lack freedom to the degree that we fail...

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