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Thanks to reading that, I've realized that Chalmers and I share a philosophical perspective.

Ah, I see you hid your feet in that shot, so as not to reveal the secret until the time was right. You're welcome.

I figure Brewer and Shiply are surely TPF lurkers, if not posters. Do you know of any members who look like these guys? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Huh. Lost verse:

Being curiously bored, I googled and found the results of searching for "was finally able to get exactly one foot over the tree line sweet jesus" much...

I assume the born again rice is now perfectly happy.

:up: So said Richard Feyman. :wink:

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So, like humans in thought silos?

Very cool teacher. :grin: IIRC, my prof wrote on my exam book, "What happened?", and gave me a B. My prof was an aspiring science fiction writer himse...

Yeah, that was kind of my point.

:rofl: As if the practice is uncommon among philosophers in general.

Something along these lines plays a major role in my tendency to avoid writing in isolation. (As compared to riffing off other people's writing on an ...

That is something I could have a lot of fun with.

Sweet Jesus!

It is simplistic physics and biology that treats humanity as if each individual human is her own pocket universe, and ignores the interactions between...

I agree that a picture is not capable of depicting that it is true. However, I question the practical import of that to some extent. In my experience ...

Interesting (to me anyway) that this suggests a 'visuo-spatial' element to Chat GPT o1's process.

Would you say that having freedom is dependent on being ignorant about some things? There are multiple senses of the word "indeterminism" and indeterm...

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I'd say I have "some degree of incomplete knowledge" of what you mean. :wink: I think you are using a definition of "knowledge" that I would find unre...

I'd suggest seeking scientific understanding of what the sensations are a result of. It seems you might need some understanding of the role the things...

Drop the black and white thinking in the sentence below... ..and recognize that we can have some degree of incomplete knowledge of things-in-themselve...

I can see how that would be difficult. Keeping multiple made up languages in my head simultaneously sounds especially difficult.

Think you can escape so easily huh? :wink: Are there any particular aspects of creating a planet that stand out? I once wrote a paper on the use of in...

No. You seem confused, and are mixing bits of arguments against physicalism into your 'paraphrase'. The EAAN isn't an argument against mind/body physi...

Plantinga doesn't consider the role of communication at all. That is what disqualifies his argument from serious consideration as an argument against ...

It addresses this gloss on your part: If you want to provide a more fleshed out account of this aspect of Plantinga's argument, I'll address that. In ...

If you are going to claim that I said something, then please have the intellectual integrity to quote what I actually said, rather than make up storie...

I agree the argument raises such issues, but that is a different matter than whether it merits being taken seriously as an argument against naturalism...

You asked a loaded question, insinuating that what is in bold is my thinking. Anyway, the EAAN is a crank argument because it ignores many issues that...

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I didn't say anything about Plantinga being a Christian, and I'd like to hope you might want to refrain from putting words in my mouth like that. Do y...

I wouldn't have it any other way. It seems as if you've taken something I said as suggesting otherwise, but if so, I don't understand what you interpr...

Welcome to the forum. I agree with a lot of what you say, but I'm not really understanding this. Should the "can" which I have highlighted be "can't"?...

I'm not saying that at all, I'm just pointing out that Nagel's perspective is not a scientifically well informed perspective, and that @"Wayfarer" tri...

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Thomas Nagel is a scientific ignoramus and doesn't have a perspective based on being scientifically well informed. Your attempts to smear scientifical...

It occurred to me after you responded, that in that video we have a demonstration of Kahneman's fast and slow thinking occurring in a dog. (And litera...

"Hypothesis" would be a more scientifically appropriate word to use than "theory" in the context of discussing abiogenesis.

I don't know what you have in mind with "structure", and whether it is relevant to the following, but I don't think it reasonable to see what is shown...

@"Amity" Sorry it has taken me so long to respond. I suppose I was waiting for that question about metaphysical intuition to stop rattling around in m...

Ah Gnomon, have you no sources of narcissistic supply outside of TPF? Anyway, here's an article on pseudo philosophy: https://psyche.co/ideas/pseudoph...

Perhaps another issue worth considering in this thread is, do animals think critically? Do humans think critically? What percent of humans? Is rationa...

Perhaps "rational" is being equated with "the way I think"? (If only subconsciously.)

Perhaps the point is that uniqueness is not a particularly good basis for jumping to anaturalistic conclusions?

:lol: If I was prone to losing the will to live in response to people struggling to articulate their thoughts, I'd have murdered myself a long time ag...

I've taken the time to watch the first six minutes and "embellishment" comes to mind as a pertinent word for what you are getting at. And I would say ...

I'd say there is a lot of good evidence for one option and no good evidence that I know of for the other. Do you think there is any value in consideri...

Well life exists on one planet in the universe and there is good reason to think that life doesn't exist in vastly more places than it does, and that ...