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Again, you missed the point of the analogy. A bird doesn't build a nest with a conscious view to laying eggs. Nest building behaviour is instinctual; it's ingrained by evolution, and it's the same with the animal origins of morality. It's an example of an ingrained complex behaviour, and it relates...

Here is a list of what I have read [not in depth for all] of Critical Realism. Critical Realism & Kant Transcendental Arguments Viskovatoff Alex Critical Realism and Its Critics Roy Wood Sellars Critical Realism Essential Readings Ed Bhaskar Archer Collier Lawson Norrie Critical Realism Post-po...

Behaviourism is a more honest perspective than the subjectivist speculations to be found in 'What's it like to be a bat?' by Nagel. Behaviourism treats the mind as a black box, acknowledging we cannot know the contents except by outward appearances. Acknowledging that we can't know the contents wou...

Behaviourism is a more honest perspective than the subjectivist speculations to be found in 'What's it like to be a bat?' by Nagel. Behaviourism treats the mind as a black box, acknowledging we cannot know the contents except by outward appearances. Acknowledging that we can't know the contents wou...

There is a lot of questionable stuff in your last paragraph. However, there is a major caveat. Consciousness is unique in being the means by which explanations are understood , which makes certain kinds of explanation inapplicable. I'm not sure if the sentence following this one is supposed to provi...

Behaviourism is a more honest perspective than the subjectivist speculations to be found in 'What's it like to be a bat?' by Nagel. Behaviourism treats the mind as a black box, acknowledging we cannot know the contents except by outward appearances. Acknowledging that we can't know the contents wou...

Actually, we kind of do, if only from a behaviourist perspective, we can imply the level of intelligence from psychological tests where animals solve problems for food rewards. But that doesn't change my argument, which apparently no-one understood. I don't agree that that tells us what other anima...

Have you ever thought how weird it is that bird's build nests before they lay eggs? How do you suppose they know? Surely you don't imagine they anticipate the event, and consciously plan ahead? Assuming not, then you have to admit that a bird acts in anticipation of an event it cannot know, conscio...

Yeah, ideally I want to have what I consider a conversation with people online. Me too... and it seems strangely difficult or rare to accomplish online. All throughout my life, I've had philosophical/thoughtful conversations with people in person. I have not studied anyone else's philosophy (except...

I put people on ignore if they keep interacting with me but they ignore/won't directly address specific points and questions despite the fact that they keep responding. There's no reason to waste time interacting with someone when that's the case. At the moment I have these folks on ignore: Age Atl...

Age is on my Ignore list because he writes volumes of repetition like some kind of malignant brain fungus. I was finding it annoying to have to scroll past screen after screen of his repetitive babble to get to the interesting, insightful, and funny posts of other people responding in various ways ...

If a slash, "disappears," and is replaced by another slash it would be motion in the cinematic sense. But only if a slash is replaced by a slash, not a backslash or ampersand. My point is, a slash is only a slash if it is really a slash, that is always exactly the same thing, else each re...

I put people on ignore if they keep interacting with me but they ignore/won't directly address specific points and questions despite the fact that they keep responding. There's no reason to waste time interacting with someone when that's the case. At the moment I have these folks on ignore: Age Atla...

Morality long pre-dates human intellectual awareness. I think of it in terms of Saussure's structural relations of kinship tribes, cross referenced with Jane Goodall's observations of chimps; because troops of chimpanzees have hierarchies, and food sharing, and grooming - according to social status...

that is, the relationships between motions identified as time and velocity are real, but they are not independent ontological existents. There is no thing, "time," and there is no thing, "velocity." They're not "independent objects," right, they're relations. Relations...