I believe this issue here could be your differences on the nature of predicate, type, or substance dualism between the mental and the physical. Denyin...
Cancel culture is definetly a real and growing phenomena (although perhaps leveling off now). It is a consequence of increasing political polarization...
Interesting. Haven't seen that one before. The dimensions of naive experience (fractional dimensions and fractal geometry being a major element of nat...
Good post. I think this works with many conceptions of meaning. It definetly works for Yin/Yang, or Heraclitus' tension of opposites, as you've demons...
I think that is correct. The two would be different. However, if they appear identical, I think that presents a problem, since we can't tell them apar...
Oh, gotcha. That seems like the same thing though. The flip side of a perfect Chinese Room is that you ask all the questions in your language. So whet...
If you don't mind archaic translations, esoterica, references to symbolic systems like Alchemy or Hermeticism, and mystic allegory, you might apprecia...
I know, that's why I like it so much. It's a perfect inversion.:grin: Being a moist robot IS the real enlightenment for the eliminativist. I wasn't tr...
I'm just not sure if I buy this. When I call my cats for dinner, they come running, whereas they will ignore me at other times. They appear to know wh...
Sorry, I don't even feel confident explaining a theory of language production, let alone intentionality. I couldn't even give you a particularly good ...
It just seems hard to reconcile the brain's decisive causal priority with common medical problems, like defects in the pancreas resulting in a person ...
Language is tricky because it's an extremely complex emergent phenomena, so it's not easy to describe what is going on with any great deal of certaint...
. I was responding to this. There are "other things to it." A diagram showing a one way arrow from the brain to the heart is not an accurate picture o...
This is incorrect. Heart cells will beat in culture, disconnected from the body, and they synchronize their beats if they touch. The sinoatrial node i...
Good advice. I'm used to forums that automatically quote replies. I'm not sure about this. For example, companies are already storing digital text and...
I don't see how this holds. If we had you both hooked up to various types of neuroimaging devices we could see correlates of both the process of writi...
This is a common, but I think unfair rebuttal. After all, if the eliminativist vis-á-vis abstractions (or qualia) is correct, we shouldn't expect them...
Have you presented your methodological physicalism here? I certainly wasn't responding to it in the prior posts because I'm sure I haven't read it, I ...
The relevance is that the problem of many versions of physicalism being definitionally indistinct, at times to the level of being vacuous, is not a pr...
I give up after this. It was a tangential thought anyhow, and I don't even necissarily disagree with the general gist of the post, in the sense that p...
I suppose I wasn't being very specific. I meant, speaking of nature either having or lacking meaning in the context of a naturalism informed by modern...
Exactly, that's the tricky part. If forced, I'd say that I am a non-reductive physicalist, leaning towards being ontologically agnostic. Whereas I'm h...
This is essentially true from a number of perspectives outside QM. Whether or not it is true for QM depends on your definition of "perceived," and the...
Just making conversation mostly. Sorry, 95% of that post was me just chiming in, the only reason I quoted the two references I saw to the Flynn Effect...
Right, that's another interesting point. To have an absolute standpoint would require you to have a memory essentially equivalent to the energy of the...
I was saying that could be taken as evidence of "blind nature's lack of meaning." I think the more supported conclusion is that speaking of "blind nat...
The fact that the Flynn Effect has reversed in developed countries is a well-established and replicable finding. Explanations abound, complex systems ...
Good points, but I think the definitions might need some work to describe what you are getting at. If we rephrase the above, could it mean, "no event ...
I think both sides of the beliefs versus objects debate get something essential right. If you look at it from a cognitive science perspective, both ar...
Yeah, the whole idea of the human mind is incredibly fascinating, being experiencing itself everything emerging from... no one really knows. I think I...
I'm sure there could be rejections of personifying the universe this way, but I think it captures a basic point. Speaking of observing entities in the...
There are proofs for 1+1=2 https://blog.plover.com/math/PM.html As to the larger question, most systems require there to be either unanalyzable facts ...
This seems like it has the problem of being a vacuous definition. What entities can't science attempt to study? This makes physicalism more a statemen...
Right, forgot an important caveat, it should be "if you're a Christian who believes the entire Bible is divinely inspired and accepts Sola Scriptura,"...
So this structure makes the information different from information held in other systems? Is the argument that this change is an emergent phenomena on...
I don't see an issue here. Nietzsche's sister wanted to read her antisemitism and racialist theories into Nietzsche, but she clearly misunderstood him...
Is the claim here that information in brains can't be replicated in the way that information in MP3s or DNA can because it is more complex? I'm not su...
I think there is an important distinction between "a person is contained in or caused by," a brain and the idea that a person is a brain. Obviously a ...
Paul seems to be thinking of, if not the same idea, something quite close. Of note, the word for "image" here can mean more "type" or "symbol." "First...
I don't think you can reduce it all to the economy either. The correlation between economic growth and income and violence is also very weak. It can s...
There are very mystical descriptions of Christ in the Bible. Logos here is often translated as Word but can mean variously reason, meaning, or even lo...
I don't see how the scientific evidence for determinism makes science at odds with Christianity. To be sure, it's at odds with some forms of it, but h...
I think you're correct. Outside of gang members, there are also a large number of gang adjacent individuals who feel they can't trust/rely on police, ...
There is a huge problem of circular causality/feedback loops in figuring this out. More guns generally means more gun deaths in US states, but murder ...
The pick is intrinsically political. Having a top deliberative body be representative of the population in a democracy is itself a factor in legitimac...
For those of us who grew up around the time Japan began dominating US children's entertainment, I think enlightenment is best pictured as a combinatio...
The one guy I know with a math PhD got recruited by one of the tech giants as he was finishing his dissertation for pay I am guessing has to be somewh...
Your sources leave something to be desired. Meat production produces 60% of the GHGs produced by agriculture, 14.5% of the GHGs produced in total by h...
I read a lot of Crowley when I was younger. Peter Carrol too, and the Kybalion. Early 20th century occultism is certainly interesting. You get a blend...
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