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.... I forget his name/particular, but sure YT will provide the details if interested. http://time.com/4947879/stanislav-petrov-russia-nuclear-war-obituary/ yes, you do him him honour in providing the link and his name. i personally honour him for having a mind of his own in a time when it was easi...

So is the consciousness necessary to the activation of the reflex, or does the reflex produce the consciousness? It looks like the former is more plausible. But if all we are is physiology, it should be the other way round...we just don't know. But if all we are is physiology, it should be the othe...

Now, you ask why we need to posit an entity other than the material. The answer is straightforward: because none of the materialist attempts to explain consciousness are any good. Anesthesia is a great counter example...so why...? Because of the old axiom, "correspondence is not causality.&quo...

gaffo wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2019 12:27 am ....
I forget his name/particular, but sure YT will provide the details if interested.

http://time.com/4947879/stanislav-petro ... -obituary/

My understanding is that the Soviet ICBMs on CUBA either were operational , or if not at the rime of the crisis very, very close to being fully primed and ready for launch. I think the missiles were about to go operational and the blockade prevented it. If they had been operational, the nuclear sid...

Do you even know what caused the Cuban missile crisis? You are such a dipshit know nothing waste of resources. Yeah, I do Vegetable, Nikita Khrushchev, who was a pig - ignorant, Russian peasant and lying, Kommunist Kunt (bit like ewe in a way) said to his buddy, Fidel Castro, in 1962, who was a Kub...

...= socialism has ALWAYS, IN EVERY CASE failed. Where did you get that idea? It worked very well in Sweden. Remember that market economies can co-exist with governments owning productive capital. Take a look at Intelsat in the USA. It's not even true that the USA government has not operated capita...

"The dead, and the yet to be born, have no attributes, including a soul." The dead, sure; the unborn, I don't know...seems to me, the unborn have at least two attributes: 'being alive' and 'being human'...mebbe 'being ensouled' is in there too. I thought that the soul was eternal. If so, ...

We seem not to be making progress because of a lack of focus. So let's focus. Now, you ask why we need to posit an entity other than the material. The answer is straightforward: because none of the materialist attempts to explain consciousness are any good. Anesthesia is a great counter example. Her...

...But wow, it's long... Maybe best to use this summary: Need to represent what I am saying correctly: You can’t say that we need to posit an entity other than material on which to predicate consciousness just because the predicate of consciousness is not “merely physical”. The whole idea is that m...

Which causes which is not the question, so much as "Why and how are they coordinated Why are they coordinated? Do you think there is a reason that they are coordinated? How they are coordinated is important in the sense of description but not in the sense of some answer that explains without p...

Here is what I get from your last post: Two vs one: Your position is that there are two real entities required for experiencing to possibly occur. Not quite, but you're close. Two coordinated aspects are involved. Then we agree? Two coordinated aspects of one entity? My position is that there is no...

Sorry, this post was to be in reply to Immanuel Can's previous reply to me

Here is what I get from your last post: Two vs one: Your position is that there are two real entities required for experiencing to possibly occur. My position is that there is no entity logically required for experiencing to occur. However, as a matter of contingent fact, I hypothesize that all expe...

....it requires a conscious "experiencer," which is not a mechanical process but a personal and cognitive one. Absent a personal "experiencer," what we have is merely another kind of "occurrence." Well, there is no doubt that as you say conscious experiencing is not a ...