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I risk a reply out of annoyance. But it's best not to waste time with people who believe this

It will be a nightmare. Lo que nos toca ahora es muy jodido.... Very confusing, Varoufakis and Modi have good books on the EU, but it is a bureaucrati...

Wow. You are missing the point big time. Should've expected it. And ignore the evangelicals at your risk.

Not economically no. Now, or as of the removal of Roe, not even socially. If they manage to get Roe back in, then we can speak about the Democrats bei...

It's a complex subject. The way it is currently structured is based on a system which basically gives German banks the power to control the value of t...

If they move any further to the left, they would just be centrist or maybe center-right. They would not be left in any European country. Not even the ...

Immediately after your quoted sentence he says: "It is not new facts about time which we want to know. All the facts that concern us lie open before u...

It's a good idea. But it would go against monied interests, so it can't happen. At least not through Cable News.

The destruction of the Earth's climate? Tax cuts for the super wealthy? Increased hostility towards China, including trade wars? There is ignorance ev...

It's a non-trivial matter to distribute culpability here. Clearly, lots of people are gullible and vote against their interests. Yet there is also man...

Not a bad reply.

Those are plentiful! Liberals cry about everything. :)

I guess. He kind of did some of this during his last term too. Well, four more years for them to see everything burn.

That's likely an important element. What % that covers is not entirely clear, but yes, it is a factor.

There are some hints as to why Harris likely lost. But I don't understand why people think Trump does anything for them. I don't know what to say, fra...

That is the prudent thing to do. But it does not look good in most of those states. You are technically correct. Also, I am a total and complete clown...

Welppp. Heh, seems Tobias instincts are very, very good.

You are right, he may well be the winner. For sure. But beyond a shadow of a doubt, in political philosophy? That's more than we can know. Instincts a...

Yes. Very poor sentence, I meant to say, I don't think there are many similarities between Clinton and Harris' situation. The only surprise was turnou...

That is correct. And he could win. It's merely anecdotal and vibes based, which is as good as useless. But - we are here to talk. EDIT: I think the si...

I don't think Trump will win. And I don't think his stolen claims get as much traction, though tensions will arise, no doubt. Let's see how my comment...

Hah! Well. I am cautiously optimistic. But you can never tell. Hopefully we will be able to see what the heck most pollsters got wrong in assumptions,...

Oh sure - there are good indications she can win, maybe by a margin which shatters most of the deadlocked polls. But - it needs to get done and we can...

It's going to be fascinating to see what all these super tight polls got wrong after the winner is known. So many margin calls on either side. Selzer'...

I don't think that's true as a matter of principle. If we knew enough about the brain, we - the scientists - could stimulate a flower without us - the...

Very much so - it is a big problem (certainty). And maybe phrasing it a bit harder that Wittgenstein (so far), certainty (100% no doubts at all) is im...

The point is that it is not entirely clear to me what the term "mental image" encapsulates. I don't know if it includes solely pictorial stuff, or if ...

It seems like a natural(ish) way of thinking about this, assuming necessity, because in ordinary talk, why would it seem different? People won't even ...

"doesn't mean that the word's meaning isn't of the world." Not sure I follow. We construct the word, based on stimuli given by objects. We name it som...

I am not reading it as closely as you are, I am reading, but somewhat more akin to a hard novel than a proper reading of a philosopher due to having t...

Is this a factual claim? Yes, in the example he uses, different aspects of a pencil are being examined or looked at. I take it that pencils don't exis...

I'm doing this to show an actual involvement, to not lazy my way out of at least some of this. 1) I am foggy brained right now but will attempt to rep...

Which is fine. But the task is to say what is unique to physical stuff alone, which cannot include mind. The problem is in arguing why the physical ca...

Physics does not explore oceans, trees, rocks, that belongs to oceanography, arborists and geologists respectively. If we are going to use physics in ...

Ok. So, it's kind of like trying to push down or put into context that in having minds, we are not "extra special" and so those features of the world ...

The issue is that body is being treated here as if you are attempting to give properties to bodies which belong to them, independent of what we attrib...

We could, if we so choose, go back and use Descartes definition of body, which is extended substance. And mind would be non-extended. The problem is t...

That would have to be proved, not stipulated. Or you can make the terminological choice of putting things this way, which is fine.

I suppose some kind of answer to this would arise if you look at our closest genetic creatures, namely primates. There have been studies done on diffe...

Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura

It's not that we can't know. Maybe we in principle can't know, that is yet to be established. We may never know what a body is. It's also possible tha...

I think a lot of these issues arise from taking the given for granted: C.I. Lewis and Raymond Tallis discuss these topics very lucidly. As it stands, ...

That may well be interesting. I'll be sure to read some and give my opinion and/or ask for feedback, etc.

Ok, let's me take it piece by piece, see if I follow. That already has some important mental components, which, though appear to be given (that is, se...

I am of the opinion that what we have access to are representation (or notions or anticipations) on the occasion of sense. There are "real", as real a...

That's the grand old problem of the self. It could be an illusion, of course. It may not be one, also possible. We don't know enough to establish this...

That's fine and a lot of it true. However, it seems to me to be the same issue Descartes pointed to back in his day. He had scientific and religious r...

The corpse example does not say much. I mean, if the body is dead then the mind is dead too. You would have to show how a mind can exist outside a cor...

Not really. Not in this specific case. They are using different words to signal the same general thing: what we have access to are out mental construc...

What is a body? Can you specify when a body "ends" and a mind "begins"? I can't. Either mind is part of body, or body is part of mind. The point is th...