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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Stephen Bannon: One shady dude |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2017, 3:17 pm
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EzraS wrote: Doors with padlocks and bathtub full of acid = Don't visit Steve Bannon at his home.
I think that's a reasonable conclusion. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does eliminative materialism become panpsychism? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2017, 3:02 pm
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| One has knowledge ( of what a triangle looks like ) that has no physical basis. To say that the triangle is embedded physically in the brain in a non-triangular form is not a solution. It is like saying that holding a CD of Mozart is identical to hearing his music. The idea of a triangle is somethi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does eliminative materialism become panpsychism? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2017, 11:58 am
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| It is true that Dennett does not say explicitly that consciousness does not exist. However, he redefines it. He says that consciousness is and only is a brain state. In other words pain is and only is C fibers firing , there is no subjective experience of pain. In other words pain does not hurt! De... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: A Giant Neuron Has Been Found Wrapped Around the Entire Circ |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2017, 11:48 am
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| What do you guys think? Are they on to something? http://www.sciencealert.com/a-giant-neuron-has-been-found-wrapped-around-the-entire-circumference-of-the-brain http://www.sciencealert.com/images/articles/processed/claustrum_neurons_1024.jpg Yes, but it's just another step. Long way to go yet, but ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does eliminative materialism become panpsychism? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2017, 10:48 am
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| Shouldnt that guy's video be entitled "Materialism Implies Panpsychism", and not ".... Infers Panpsychism"? Yes, I thought that was odd. Eliminative materialism is the opposite of panpsychism. Panpsychism is the belief that consciousness is everywhere. Eliminative materialism is... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does eliminative materialism become panpsychism? |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2017, 10:10 am
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| One thing I need to clarify here. I'm sure you believe in some type of 'spectrum' of consciousness, ie. my consciousness is not the same as a cat or a hummingbird, but are you suggesting here that it completely stops somewhere on the chain before you get to the root of organic life? If so I don't k... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does eliminative materialism become panpsychism? |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2017, 10:03 pm
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| I'm trying to avoid being rude in my response here but you start this line of reasoning with self-replicating systems with senses. They have qualia, there's something it's like to be them. no, senses doesn't imply awareness at all. A that cell releases a compound when hit by light provides a basic ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does eliminative materialism become panpsychism? |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2017, 6:53 pm
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| I don't think there's a god of the gaps argument unless someone's actually trying to argue for god in the gaps. What I was trying to say earlier, exactly to this point - for what we know of matter qualia shouldn't exist at all. No, it's not precisely the god of the gaps problem, but it's similar to... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does eliminative materialism become panpsychism? |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2017, 4:14 pm
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| Oh dear, I've given offense and evidently came across as simply rubbishing your idea--the last thing I had intended. Unfortunately, I have a cold this morning and am communicating poorly. Please accept my apologies for the offense given, it was not at all intended. I have undoubtedly left key parts ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does eliminative materialism become panpsychism? |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2017, 1:38 pm
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| I think it might be helpful to introduce some comments by Ramsey Dukes about Magical (or magickal, if you prefer) thinking and moving into a "post truth" world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxznxmZYJaE&t=29s Circling back to some earlier conversation we've had on these topics, I'd sa... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Does eliminative materialism become panpsychism? |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2017, 6:56 am
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| I think this is somewhat muddled thinking. Premiss 3 is the first sign of trouble... He's playing with some ideas that there are a few concepts that are close to axiomatic in the scientific tradition: There are natural causes for things that happen in the world around us. Evidence from the natural w... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How racist is Mississippi? |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 11:38 pm
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| Mississippi is consistently ranked as the most corrupt state of the entire U.S., for at least the last decade (and most certainly longer), and South Dakota is right behind Mississippi for most corrupt. Say what now??? There are places in the Union that are more corrupt than Rhode Island, New Jersey... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Girl to be deported from Australia because she is Autistic |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2017, 8:30 pm
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| Seriously, Australia's politicians went into bed with Bush's war, and THAT costs BILLIONS upon BILLIONS. Yes the "Anglosphere" alliance with Canada, Australia, UK and New Zealand I believe all of those nations (certainly Canada and New Zealand) also have similar immigration laws. Yes we a... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Girl to be deported from Australia because she is Autistic |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2017, 9:18 pm
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cyberdad wrote: Ban-Dodger wrote:
Seriously, Australia's politicians went into bed with Bush's war, and THAT costs BILLIONS upon BILLIONS.
Yes the "Anglosphere" alliance with Canada, Australia, UK and New Zealand
I believe all of those nations (certainly Canada and New Zealand) also have similar immigration laws. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: DemocracyNow! pretty good liberal / left / progressive news. |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2017, 1:39 pm
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| Amy Goodman is pretty smart. She gathers a lot of information and presents it well. I used to listen to her on WBAI, but my tolerance for them was severely damaged by two things. 1) they laughed when the Challenger blew up. 2) Their main commie spokesman Samori Marksman presented the most contorted... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Red Elite and its doimination of American politics |
| Adamantium |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2017, 1:21 pm
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Replies: 43
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| As Jacoby said, Democrat majorities are very concentrated ... here is a 2016 election country map ... Such concentration means Democrats will lose overall in all the local elections (House, Senate, judges, state houses, govenorships ...) http://i0.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ele... |
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