Yes, no kidding. What "missiles" are those that you can throw 200 of them and kill 2 people? And to be crystal clear: I do not wish to see any more de...
Which contributes to the Yemen catastrophe. Now we have this massacre. During a pandemic no less. And then we still have people (a bit less so than be...
Sure. As far as I know, what brought the US in such close alliance was the 67' war, in which Israel defeated Nasser and with him secular Arab National...
We could go back to The British Mandate of Palestine. We could then go to WWII and mention that a large portion of the Jewish elites did not care much...
Which is tragic. But even worse are the number of elder Palestinians and children being killed. So again, I don't see the point of talking about Jews ...
:up: Excellent. It's been long overdue, over 50 years of occupation and murder and massacre and theft. Really ugly stuff. The Israeli left is very sma...
Didn't say the word "Jewish" once, if you actually saw my post. There are Israeli's which aren't Jewish and the religion here is irrelevant to the cri...
Well Žižek is entertaining and sometimes says interesting things and he's a Lacanian. But learning about Lacan for me didn't help me with Žižek. I don...
Yes, I think so too. Plus the way Postmodernism uses science is embarrassing, just look at Sokal and Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense and The Sokal Hoa...
It's a long story, so I'll have to compress what I say. I stumbled on Heidegger via Hubert Dreyfus' interpretation. I thought he was doing something o...
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic&t=108s So, so you think you can tell Heaven from hell? Blue skies from pai...
Yes, I agree with this. I used to really like Heidegger. When I read him now, it does little to me. It doesn't connect nearly as much, though I do sti...
It's quite unlikely I think, there's no good reason to believe mind goes on absent certain configurations of matter, like brains. As for mental distin...
Skimming is fine, for anything, I think. But that's just to get a general idea. Sometimes a philosopher/scientist/author is simply not for you. Sure, ...
It becomes complex quite quickly. Perhaps you can say that looking at a thermometer gives you more reasons yo believe it is cold outside as opposed to...
That's part of it sure, we don't have absolute certainty in any case. But I think the problem with Gettier paradoxes lies in some measure, with the co...
It's likely inevitable. It forms part of our innate categorization of things to belong, at the very least, to a community of people which today is ass...
First of all, this is an excellent question. It's something I struggle with with relative frequency. If I had to guess, I think that in large part the...
No problem at all. Yes, I agree with your statement. It's a very different idea of thinking about God, which is what makes it unique. But it is extrem...
You are open to many possibilities, that's a good trait in general. I'd only be careful in taking science out of context, that could be if not dangero...
A classic from the 90's. What a fantastic band. Underrated in the US sadly. Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmpRLQZkT...
Very much so. One can get caught up in fancy jargon and people get confused unnecessarily. Since this is a philosophy forum, I won't mention any speci...
I thought Chalmers was more of a property dualist. Which is a weaker view than substance dualism. Yes, you can say "fundamentally different", but I ha...
Yes, reading is fundamental. So is interchanging ideas with others. On the other hand, I've known cases of people who read certain books and just get ...
Yes, those are the options we have. I still think that monism and property dualism are essentially the most often pursued views. I don't know many peo...
Yes. All very hard questions. I guess one big problem is having people around which you identify with and ground your meaning or add substantial value...
I think one of the problems we tend to have we trying to understand experience, is that our intuition tells us that most things are non-experiential. ...
Maybe. I think it's extremely unlikely, but it could happen. It's tough. Existing forever. What about the loved ones forever gone? Would we not eventu...
Which isn't much different from a creationist argument: this creature has the capacity because God willed it so. Evolution certainly plays a factor in...
It's almost impossible. I've always thought that music points to the most profound experiences we can have as intelligent creatures of some kind. On t...
You're right, we can't know. We can only work with our intuitions. I assume our intuitions about dogs and monkeys are more or less correct. It may eve...
We use consciousness before saying anything. Learning consciousness is akin to saying that we learn how to grow legs or learn how to digest food. A ch...
I think we see it others because we recognize it in ourselves. If we didn't we wouldn't be able to recognize it in others. The idea is that person is ...
Yeah, no doubt there's a lot to learn about animals. I have some big doubts, even if I grant your point about anthropomorphism. I think there are aspe...
We've progressed in some fields which are important, but it's small slice of the whole of life. Where we haven't advanced, we're the same as your aver...
Yes. He's great and can be quite clear. He wrote over 30,000 articles in his life, so there's a lot of stuff you can choose to look at. Yeah. Schopenh...
Sure. But do you think that in, for example, seeing your hand and recognizing it as such, as belonging to you would be somewhat similar in the case of...
His work is very interesting. It makes sense, but a primitive sense of self would seem to be weaker (by definition) than a robust sense of self, as is...
Well, if by "word games" you also have in mind conceptual distinctions, which aren't only verbal, then I'd agree. I think there is content in philosop...
But isn't the problem with self-awareness that it goes a step beyond experience ("mere" consciousness)? We cannot know at all, but let me articulate a...
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