Manuel

That's true. It's not easy to find sources one believes to be reliable, but with some looking around it's achievable. Bias is probably impossible to a...

A very good question. To answer your first question, we'd have to be aware that we currently have no false beliefs or thoughts. I'd think that it is i...

Excellent point. I do the same thing and feel somewhat similar. But you answered your own "wonder": "To stay informed about what's happening in the wo...

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Reason seems like a very complicated thing to postulate. The most common form of life are single celled organisms. If anything, reason could be consid...

"Cruel" tends to imply suffering of some kind. But if forced to choose between a thermostat and a person, I wouldn't see the problem in choosing at al...

He can always say "they misunderstood/misconstrued" my work. I think some of the things he discusses are interesting, but some of what he says in rela...

Absolutely. It's hard not to confuse the words we use with the things we are talking about.

Hah. So no one can actually say if Weinstein is being legit here with his arguments. That's odd of him, I'd think he would want to let other people se...

Oh well. I suppose there's much left to study that's not math. ;) I'll have to talk to @jgill sometime.

You're a mathematician? I'm envious. I know that Weinstein thinks highly of Anthony Garrett Lissi, calls him his "rival". Apparently Lissi takes Weins...

That's my type of language. :cool:

That's one way to think about it. It's curious that even if we want a single property, we can't escape having to postulate two.

I very much agree. It would be boring if it were easy! That's sensible and likely on track. Not only based on the word he uses "process", but it remin...

Well I can't express myself in this context absent words. Sure, I could use memes or emoticons but that would be a little hard. Permit me to dramatize...

Dual-aspect monism. There's only physical stuff with mental and non-mental components. I'd like to get to one property, for the sake of parsimony. But...

As applied to the world? That's undoubtedly the case. However, the issue of there being two properties as opposed one seems substantive.

I don't. Nevertheless, I have different ways of considering the situation. You could be an AI and you'd be, by far, the smartest AI I've ever seen. Or...

Substance dualism or property dualism? I can understand not wanting substance dualism. I personally don't see how one can get around property dualism,...

Really? Why would you want to lose consciousness? Life would be very boring...

So this is how Sisyphus felt? As the great American philosopher once said "That must be exhausting."

The problem is that the word "physicalism" tends to imply something like physicSalism. This need not follow. Mind is a physical phenomena and so is qu...

When talking about Newton's great achievements, Hume observed that: "In Newton this island may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius...

Is this more antinatalism?

Interesting answers. Thanks for sharing. :)

I don't know if videos are allowed instead of entire arguments, but I think this 7 minute (or 3:30 if you go double the speed :D) clip presents the tw...

I think you raise quite an interesting point. That's an open question, does matter, at the fundamental level have mental properties? We are aware of m...

I read part of that a while ago, I forgot much of it, but the little I remember was suggestive and I think proves the point of the title of the book. ...

What I am looking for? Many things. Mostly ideas connected with innatism and strands of rationalistic idealism, I'm interested in that so I'd like to ...

This is highlighted to some extent by Colin McGinn in his Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within. I was wondering, which contemporary philosophers speak...

If you can't already tell we have will, there's nothing I can say that will make you believe that we do. I thought you were studying free will, not th...

Sorry for interrupting your conversation here. I have to leave soon, it's way too late where I'm at. Nevertheless, I'd really like to continue talking...

I think it could potentially lead to problems, in that "information" could be taken to imply a person being informed as well as talking about books co...

Ah. I've still to read him. From what I've heard about him, which may not be completely accurate, his "anything goes" as far as scientific method, see...

Who would be an example of such a philosopher, generally speaking? That makes sense. We can only go so far in any enquiry, given the creatures that we...

It's even worse if you live in a 3rd world country. You don't often don't see the gravity of the problem until you're outside. If your born seeing mis...

Causes and effects are one thing: If a person sees a flashlight, there pupils will dilate. That's a clear sign of cause and effect. That's something w...

Are you implying they are the same? It seems to me crystal clear that they're vastly different. Having you're finger move by an electrical shock is th...

No, the thing is I did not know who you were talking to, if it was to @Wayfarer or to me, and since I'm logic illiterate, I assume it was for @Wayfare...

Perhaps I am skipping or dancing around the problem but I'd take Schopenhauer's views here. The world is my representation - as it appears to me. The ...

Sure. You're speaking about stimuli and reaction. I'm talking about will. We can stimulate many organisms to do one thing or another, that doesn't tel...

That's a hard topic. I'd guess that some aspects of folk psychology can and have been incorporated by the sciences. Others like "belief", "intentional...

I cited the fact that we have mapped all 302 neurons in C Elegans. We don't know why the thing moves. I don't think that is very promising for our pro...

I think Goodman's irrealism is quite good but it seems not to have had that much of an impact in philosophy. Not that I think it's all correct, but hi...

I think I understand your point a bit better. So things and the world could have been otherwise. These possible worlds belong can be thought of as bel...

Ask Nelson Goodman. He has a few things to say about that.

"Everything" is a fine answer. Quine is correct in saying that. Though ontological commitments are problematic. But, fair point.

In part, yes. Why stop at neurons? Hammeroff says that consciousness is due to microtubules located inside axons. Apparently these microtubules react ...

As presented in those threads, it's a bit difficult for me to follow. I mean, if you accept say, the Many Worlds hypothesis of quantum mechanics, then...

Could you say a little more? Saying love in and of itself is a bit confusing.