the counterintuitive phenomenon of "blindsight", in which patients behave as-if they see something, but report that they were not consciously aware of the object — Gnomon

There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun. — Gerry O'Driscoll, doorman at Abbey Road Studios

With this in mind do you think there things that aren’t immoral but you still shouldn’t want to be the kind of person that does them even if you’re the only person affected? — Captain Homicide

I wonder if we forget our place if we don't sometimes remind ourselves of the middle. — Fire Ologist

Is determinism true? — Truth Seeker

How can we know for sure?

My statement was that there's no reason to believe Biden is any better.
— boethius

Exactly. Which is absurd and, I’ll repeat (accurately); if this is your conclusion, then you’re not paying attention. Plain and simple ... My suggestion is to read less philosophy— it’s not doing you any good here. — Mikie

Now everything else can toss the coin (or when you do metaphysics, the coin can toss everything else). — Fire Ologist

I would say the two sides of the coin include science and philosophy together on the one side, keep the coin as the connector logic, but put everything else on the other side as the objects of science/philosophy. — Fire Ologist

I hope the T.O.E. fails. — ucarr

I read Robert Alter's biblical translation — BitconnectCarlos

The scope of science includes more th[an] nature? — ucarr

The scope of nature includes more than material things and their attendant physics?

I argue for the vanishing point of difference between science and philosophy through the essential linkage connecting brain and mind.

(Writing this out now so you can throw it at me later if I’m wrong.) — Mikie

Many[none] of these circumstances applied when Hillary ran and she lost. — Benkei

Ah well. I'm here to talk philosophy. — AmadeusD

Qualia are experienced as non-physical. — AmadeusD

... qualia (the subjective feel of experiences) cannot be accounted for purely by physical/functional properties ... — Matripsa

But AGI is limited to knowledge, and so, structurally, it can only decide and choose based on information already made explicit that it is told or learns. — Antony Nickles

Science of Philosophy, or philosophy of science? — ucarr

Can scientific truth and philosophical truth contradict each other and yet retain their validity, respectively?

Does science deviate from the philosophical project when it rolls up its sleeves and gets down and dirty with observation of nature, experimentation, and double-blind testing?

If science discovers a posteriori the facts of nature, then does it follow that science, being the source of empirical truth, equates itself with materialism?

Is every[any] category of science a type of materialism?

Does philosophy hold aloof from science within an academic fortress of abstract math and logic?

If philosophy of science governs scientific practice, then does it follow that philosophy, being the source of the rules, equates itself with metaphysics?

Is every category of philosophy a type of metaphysics?

Say we have accepted some not-yet-falsified claim and count it as knowledge, and then it becomes falsified. Was it ever knowledge in that case? — Janus

Did you watch the video and read the research paper in the first post on this thread? — Truth Seeker

Are you saying that they don't count as evidence?

If so, why don't they count as evidence?

Resuscitation is not resurrection^^ (or reincarnation). Death is irreversible brain decomposition^^. Unless 'dis-embodied subjectivity' (i.e. flat earth) is the case, "NDE" or "RED" cannot be anything but a false memory illusion. — 180 Proof

Why use scientific progress and not simply technological progress? — ssu

No one deserves to go to heaven or hell because no one has free will. — Truth Seeker

But feel free to correct me where I'm wrong. — boethius

Perhaps human agency (free will) is at the pinnacle of their determination of what is good for us. — Benj96

I've no reason to doubt that this "all-knowing omnibenevolent entity" would coopt us into engineering a humanly inescapable menagerie ("Matrix") for our own good that optimally simulates "the illusion of agency". — 180 Proof