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You were talking about how it seems remarkably coincidental that our consciousness seems to match what our subconscious chose, according to some model. You even asked, what if it didn't match, what would happen then? What I posted is a direct response to both of those things. It proves that our con...

Literally just about everything I am afraid that I cannot see that. Would you mind to elaborate? You were talking about how it seems remarkably coincidental that our consciousness seems to match what our subconscious chose, according to some model. You even asked, what if it didn't match, what woul...

I said one mental state leads to another mental state following the laws of nature. But which laws of nature show this to be the case? To the best of our knowledge, there is only one sort of laws of nature. Do you have any evidence for this claim? Physics. Can you show me where physics says that ph...

The word "illusion" appears 6 times in the Stanford article. Here's the 3rd appearance: The worry is that determinism entails that what we do is, always, the only thing we can do, and that because of this we never really have a choice about anything, as opposed to being under the (perhaps...

But I've never even said anything like this in this conversation with you. This conversation has literally 0 to do with my personal beliefs. I've asked you for your definition of Compatiblism. I had to, because you were taking issue with all other definitions. So it was the only fair thing to do: t...

What do you mean by "lead into" in describing how physical states "lead into" mental states? I said one mental state leads to another mental state following the laws of nature. But which laws of nature show this to be the case? Do you have any evidence for this claim? No, under ...

Isn't that the hard problem? No, the hard problem of consciousness is related to the phenomena of how an unconscious matter could become conscious in a given configuration. You mean like how a neuron (unconscious matter) becomes conscious? Is every part of the brain conscious, or is part of it unco...

I think we can agree on the fact that the brain is a set of neurons that interact with each other. Any mental state, the physical state of the brain, leads into another mental state by following the laws of physics. But how does it do that? Isn't that the hard problem? What is a physical state rela...

However your original accusation was a strawman as I was not making any claim that to call out a fallacy is automatically fallacious, indeed right here I am correctly calling you out for a strawman fallacy. This weird nonsense of yours is done. It wasn't a straw-man because what you said AND given ...

It wasn't an example of the NTS fallacy. Nor was I talking about taking the sound apart. Then I have no idea what point you were trying to make if you weren't giving an example of a NTS fallacy that I was trying to "take apart". Please. At this point I'm begging you. I'm on my knees beggi...

As you can see I have now successfully dealt with this petty objection. But you haven't because I pointed out that there are lots of people who dismiss valid accusations of fallacies. However your original accusation was a strawman as I was not making any claim that to call out a fallacy is automat...

It's like someone says: "asshole!" And someone else comes along, and tries to logically take that apart, dead seriously. Find the formal, logical structure in it, look for contradictions, inconsistencies, mismatches, valid components, logical inferences or something. Come up with a genera...

It's like someone says: "asshole!" And someone else comes along, and tries to logically take that apart, dead seriously. Find the formal, logical structure in it, look for contradictions, inconsistencies, mismatches, valid components, logical inferences or something. Come up with a genera...

There is a fallacy rampant about these parts, but for which I know no name... The bare bones of the fallacy are the simple shouts: "nobody understands me"; " all I see is strawmen"; "everybody ad homs me" ...or ... "in the DAyS whEn THIS wrITTen so caLLED "AD...

Maybe you should also refrain from suspecting things, it would be best for everyone :) What would be best for everyone is for you stop wasting forum space with your drivel. I'm not the one wasting forum space with a long lecture about how the NTS is a formal fallacy, which however only proves your ...