Begs the question: Real world?? — Constance
To defend it, you would have explain how it is that anything out there gets in here, AT ALL. — Constance
Such is the world of familiar perceptual events, no? — Constance
I'm sorry to hear of your struggles, I truly am, but what you describe isn't evidence of a deteriorating world that would dissuade me from having children, but is evidence of a subjective response disproportionate to the external stresses. — Hanover
First, the level of pain you describe is aberrational, — Hanover
you are left with the fact that most do not suffer to the level you describe — Hanover
None of us are prophets, and all we predict could be incorrect, but the data shows steady and clear signs of worldly improvement over long periods of time. — Hanover
unpredicted ingenuity often finds resolutions to problems. — Hanover
In fact, if people are more prosperous, they will do and they can do more to fight climate change — ssu
what if all countries would mimick the French? — ssu
I just did your thought experiment, and I disagree. — Hanover
Even assuming suffering negates the value of life, which I don't — Hanover
"Morality" isn't very well suited to decide the future of the species. — Bitter Crank
We need that, but for polluters — Kenosha Kid
If all these metrics are predicated on an unsustainable trajectory leading directly to catastrophe, summing them up doesn't quite help.Look into Steven Pinkers work, all these things are better than ever. — DingoJones
Unfortunately that project {fixing the mess we've made} is going to take more than one generation to complete. So if we (the hip and cool ones) — Isaac
Obviously it depends on how bad climate catastrophe will be — ChatteringMonkey
've found that a better question is to ask how the thing in itself is different from the thing. — Banno
-Consciousness: the set of things an agent is aware of
-Conscious subjective experience: a set of all mental images created by the brain that an agent is aware of. This term will be abbreviated as CSE. — Hello Human
What I don't like about this attack on capitalism is that it seems to imply that a leftist approach to life would have been carbon neutral. — frank
what do they stand for, at bottom? — Xtrix
I like this argument. Although in my case, at least, the two are linked. When I am drunk and/or high, not only is my degree of consciousness higher, my intelligence generally is too.When the times when I'm wasted, my consciousness should be "less" — RogueAI
Here we've taken away the ability to measure a human reaction and still made a determination. — Cheshire
It's strange to me; if I was watching this event I wouldn't be thinking about the people that would never see it or the painter. I believe I would consider the act immoral based on the direct injury to the object. I think a momentary faux personhood by virtue of it's ability to possess and deliver meaning would be the subject of harm. — Cheshire
In your answer to number 2, you dropped the painter. I was wondering why. — Cheshire
If I can show that an immoral act can be against an object; then I've demonstrated an objective morality is more likely to exist? — Cheshire
central committee sock/stooge — skyblack
I believe they arise from brain states. They are a perceptual dimension no different than the five senses. But what they are perceiving is internal.What do you believe as the causes for emotions? — Corvus
Or, we can examine what is phenomenologically right in front of our noses.If we know about the causes, nature, and more accurate definitions of emotions, perhaps, we could understand emotions better, and answers to the OP could emerge naturally? — Corvus
It does seem strictly unknowable, like some kind of uncertainty principle of bullshit.How could we tell — Wayfarer
generates random samples of pomo pseudo-text: — Wayfarer
As I see it the meta-narratives only "fell" among a select group of academics. Outside of that "circle jerk" the meta-narrative of modernism is alive and kicking hard. — Janus
Or did the postmodernists actually cause the thing they said was already happening? — Kenosha Kid