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Rights are granted and taken away all the time. It's a bit more difficult with constitutional rights such as, say women's suffrage, but it can be done...

I suggest we all stop here and let this post be the last one in this thread.

But doesn't that impossibility result if you insist experience is something more than (a pattern of) neurons firing? A map isn't the terrain either. C...

It would but the absence of such proof isn't proof that physicalism can't be true. As I already said: ... even if such explanations aren't possible, w...

Feel free to explain why it's relevant.

Being reducible is not the same as being explained.

No no, it's your turn to answer some of my questions. There needs to be some kind of reciprocity in this conversation or we can stop here. Your choice...

Never mind the rest of my post, eh? Where has philosophy definitely relegated physicalism to the nonsense bin? I'm not aware of it. Also, not sure wha...

I'm not sure that's fair. Shouldn't the point be that an explanation should be possible instead of an explanation being complete for the idea of physi...

http://scholar.google.nl/scholar_url?url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hasker_Davis/publication/17089213_Davis_HP_Squire_LR_Protein_synthesis_a...

Can someone explain the epiphenomenal ectoplasm problem to me? A pure experience that does not interact causally with anything else in the world. My f...

Let's go with this and go a bit deeper. Can you give a specific example of something that cannot be explained in this respect? Is it your position tha...

I saw it in the movie theater. After it ended, it was dead quiet as people were processing it and then they actually applauded. I can't remember that ...

there's a really funny one in Dutch about them planning a bowling trip. Have you seen Der Untergang? Powerful movie.

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I'll leave others to interpret this exchange but we certainly didn't come any closer to understanding each other and in that sense it isn't going anyw...

Interesting. It just so happens I'm typing on a phone so I'm trying to be economical with what I write. I edited it to clarify for you. I'm sorry to s...

I think it's self-evident. Words change how we feel. A sentence I thought was neutrally stated is received as condescending.

what made you decide it wasn't? And if I told you it was would you believe me? If not, why not?

Have you considered it was a straightforward question? Quite obviously this is going nowhere. I ask you to refrain from judging my character as you do...

Where to start... Notwithstanding the condescension you show towards me and other long time forum members. Your words not mine. Or is condescension no...

Since the word philosophy didn't appear in your previous post "this" didn't seem to refer to it but to the discussion. Even so, the point stands, you'...

Quite obviously it isn't despite your repeated attempts to try to make it so. If it was, your condescension would be absent and emotions wouldn't be r...

I'd rather get my way than have a say.

I totally agree I can be blunt. I also don't have an issue with Sapientia on a personal level as the way we communicate tends to be similar so there i...

If the rules state "don't pick your nose" but you continually belch, you've met the decorum required by regulation but it's not a very high standard. ...

I usually contribute the blood in sports, it's true.

The guidelines and rules are to enforce a minimum level of decorum. Certainly you can do better than that? I personally don't think you're a very effe...

A day later and in a fluke accident at an NRA rally, every rabid gun-toting redneck dies horribly of self-inflicted gun wounds.

Read again. I gave you two versions. From your reply I surmise you prefer the second option, which was my point.

What nonsense. Women are interested in these things but they're not interested in discussing them in the format that testosterone fuelled apes like yo...

Except that our theories and statements about reality include such intuitions, which are propositions itself. The law of non-contradiction also holds ...

But you're neither funny nor female. Zing... >:)

I really don't like that test. Take for instance this sentence: Mothers may have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers. I more or less agr...

Except that with chimpanzees it's acceptable to do what Harry Weinstein did and for humans it isn't. And women, all other things being unknown, do pre...

Actually something like that happened to me once as well, although I'm not certain whether it was a girl or a guy as I was grabbed in the balls from b...

I just voted. I haven't been exploited nor have I exploited others. I have had a few female friends who disclosed to me they have been sexually harass...

Function over form. Here's Martin Luther King's speech in a frank way: racism should end. Not very inspiring. Form is as important as content in commu...

Obviously a snide comment about the absence of philosophical content in the rest of the forum.

I think you missed the irony of his post.

Him attempting that presumes it's a tactic. He seems to be too impulsive to let this be the result of political planning. I suspect he really is distu...

So 79% uses a fire arm that doesn't belong to them but rather someone else who was a legal owner. But if there were no legal owners because guns would...

And they're against a prohibition. Why "regulate" something that can only lead to ownership of illegal guns?

I just read that the NRA is against a prohibition of bump stocks. Bump stocks can convert semi-automatics to fully automatics, the latter are prohibit...

If foreign wire rod manufacturers produce cheaper because they are subsidised you have an actual problem. If they are producing cheaper because of eco...

Words mean how people use them. They're not static. Radical, for instance, used to mean going back to the root. Now it means extreme. So what you want...

You're being obtuse. I've never said it isn't a condition I explained people aren't as literal as you're being when using the phrase. So rail against ...

So, does unconditional love mean what you say it means or how people use it? This is a simple case of you being too literal. Normal people when they t...

Barring anecdotal circumstances to the contrary, a social movement for men's rights would indeed be Bullshit considering the amount of benefits alread...