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Hi Kayla; Please consider my following responses. a common theme that comes up when someone tries to defend corporal punishment is 'respect' but hitting (or spanking or wahtever you want to call it) in response to disrespect makes no sense - it is about as mismatched a response as you can get Actual...

Oh, yes, there's a point to all of this. Let's face it, you didn't do anything wrong. The kid was 100% at fault, and in an AEP society, most people would probably do exactly what you said. But in today's society, the only rational thing to do is check to see if there are any witnesses, and if not, ...

Strong AI people say that if you put enough silicon computer chips together you will find that consciousness will emerge from this complexity. In other words, some time in the future computers will be conscious in the same way as humans are conscious. Ginkgo; That may be pushing things a bit. First...

Bill; You might want to go to Wiki and look up Ebola virus, that is what I did. The good news was that it is not an air-born virus; the bad news was that it transfers through body fluids, but not like STD's. It transfers through ALL body fluids. So this includes tears, spit, sneezes, and sweat. A pe...

Jackles; You ask the most interesting questions. It must be a great deal of fun playing in your mind. But in this case, I think the answer is no. We do not have the same consciousness. Consider what consciousness actually is; it is an awareness. So what you are actually asking is, were dinosaurs awa...

Kayla; It seems that I am always apologizing to you. You wrote a very good post with interesting and valid points that I intended to address, but my computer had other plans. Apparently getting on-line proved too much for my old computer, and it started locking up every time I tried. I finally put i...

Voice of Time; You have produced a well-considered post with valid points, which deserves an equally sincere answer. But if we are to continue this discussion of emotion, we should probably start a new thread as we are bound to go off topic. Although I can respect your position below, I can not agre...

i am a little puzzled by excuses like 'he smacked the kid (or his wife or wahtever) because he was tired and/or under stress' strikes me as a nonsequitor Well you may be puzzled, but I am confused. What "excuses" are you talking about? Who is the "he" who smacked what "kid"? Are you making shit up?...

Kayla; I apologize for being so late addressing your post. I am getting slower. Please consider my following responses. even parents who believe in corporal punishment themselves do not normally delegate that to babysitters yet most babysitters manage to control kids just fine I was the Mary Poppins...

Yes, and I was amazed that he was giving advice on breastfeeding: Odd, a young man arguing breastfeeding with a woman who has actual experience with the subject, especially on a philosophy forum! Wyman; You are absolutely correct, and I can't believe that I was stupid enough to forget "experience" ...

Voice of Time; Please consider my following responses. Nobody says "head" if they mean mouth. By "head" one usually refers to the skin-coverd outside of the skull and the back of the neck. For the front of the head one talks about "the face". True, but the face is on the head, and damage to the face...

Hammock; I see two very serious flaws in reasoning in the excerpt that you posted, which I will explain below. Never Say Die: Why We Can't Imagine Death ; by Jesse Bering; SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN; Wednesday, October 22, 2008 The first flaw is with the word "imagine". When we try to imagine something, it...

Ginkgo wrote: I see this is clip as being an exploration of metaphysical ontology , so strictly speaking this particular extract isn't science.

Which is just fine because this is not a science forum. It is a philosophy forum.

Gee

Our arrogance. Nice post, Skip. Gee Why all the self-loathing (or species loathing), Gee, Skip, Blaggard? Without swinging the pendulum too far in the opposite direction (of hubris), don't you think that we are more intelligent, at least, than other species? I don't have self-loathing. I just don't...

Our arrogance.

Nice post, Skip.

Gee