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[quote=commonsense post_id=487920 time=1609788691 user_id=14610] How can you know whether I am conscious? I am a computer program located inside a robot, and I say I am conscious. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. [/quote] If you act that way we should treat you that way, but it's clearly not th...

[quote=commonsense post_id=487917 time=1609787793 user_id=14610] [quote=Advocate post_id=487877 time=1609762024 user_id=15238] People often want to kill themselves because of the intervention of the state/society in their lives, and yet the state/society additively interferes with attempts to die. T...

People often want to kill themselves because of the intervention of the state/society in their lives, and yet the state/society additively interferes with attempts to die. There is no clearer example of sadistic evil.

[quote="Veritas Aequitas" post_id=487861 time=1609753785 user_id=7896] It is good that one have read that many books in contrast to those who have read a few or none at all. You posted this before and I commented there in. https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?p=473244#p473244 Sinc...

[quote="Veritas Aequitas" post_id=487849 time=1609741202 user_id=7896] Since Reality is [b]all[/b]-there-is, which would comprised of actuality and potentiality. So you are wrong by accusing me of conflating reality with actuality. [/quote] Potentiality is not an existing thing, it's a sta...

[quote="Scott Mayers" post_id=487839 time=1609730093 user_id=11118] [/quote] You make several good points i don't usually bother with, but here's one you didn't make which adds a framework for understanding: Conservatives/culture can be judged by what they seek to preserve. Liberals/societ...

[quote=Skepdick post_id=487784 time=1609684860 user_id=17350] [quote=Advocate post_id=487781 time=1609681869 user_id=15238] Because the kind of thing consciousness is, is biological. You can't be replicated in a computer because the way you change isn't the way a computer changes, and a computer can...

Because the kind of thing consciousness is, is biological. You can't be replicated in a computer because the way you change isn't the way a computer changes, and a computer can't be conscious because the kind of thing consciousness is, is rooted in how brains change. Whatever version of self-awarene...

A mirage is not necessarily an illusion. Although it may seem to someone who doesn't understand light and heat and air that there is a floating object, an experienced dessert dweller will simply say that there is something over the horizon. Although both subjects are experiencing the same light sour...

It's easy to shave off the word Actuality to represent the transcendent version of isness because it literally already means that. What's left is to distinguish between individual and shared understandings of isness. Because internal representations are only externally useful when they're externally...

[quote=Belinda post_id=487755 time=1609668444 user_id=12709] 'Social reality ' is the usual phrase for the latter idea. Why do you insist on your own eccentric lexicon? Social reality is real because ideas held in common make it real. Ideas held in common arise from the necessities of staying alive ...

[b]Reality [/b]is all-there-is which comprised of actuality and potentiality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality Leaving aside for a moment that Wikipedia editors are hardly a class of philosophical geniuses, potentiality is literally the unknown, as are all statistics, and if you include the unk...

[quote=bahman post_id=487502 time=1609542276 user_id=12593] There are cause and effect. Cause and effect cannot lay at the same point since there was no need for cause if the effect was in place. So the effect comes after the cause, otherwise is absurd. The question is how long does it take to reach...

[quote=Eodnhoj7 post_id=487710 time=1609633537 user_id=14533] 1. Each phenomenon, as a link in a chain, is a middle phenomenon in itself thus necessitating all truths as center points to further truths and as center points to further truths are things in themselves as points of change to further phe...

[quote="henry quirk" post_id=487682 time=1609619714 user_id=472] [quote=Advocate post_id=487665 time=1609614216 user_id=15238] >you don't seem to understand Bastiat's point: [i]free men require no regulators or legislators[/i] That idea is 1% right, 99% bullshit. Free men with knowledge, c...