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in thread "Physicalism and Questions of Identity":

Agree with the above.... 9mo ago received

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Again, I agree with you on the physicalism.... 9mo ago received

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I agree that "explanations for consciousness" should go to their own thread, since that's not really needed for the OP topic.... 9mo ago received

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I would add, more generally, that many of the thought experiments invoked in recent analytic philosophy (e.g., p-zombies) have no argumentative force because it's far from clear that the thing imagined is actually possible. It's trivial to conjecture scena... 8mo ago received

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In the case of gravity, general relativity gives us a pretty credible account: matter determines how spacetime curves, and spacetime determines how matter moves. What we call "gravity" is strictly accounted for by the latter.... 7mo ago received

In the case of gravi received

Many things have philosophical implications. I don't read that as code for woo.... 7mo ago received

Many things have phi received

Yes, and it is precisely form that makes all the difference. The difference between a cell and a materially identical non-cell. This is true up and down the hierarchy of complexity. Form is a real principle of things, as much as matter. Further, it's the p... 7mo ago received

Yes, and it is preci received

This should be taken to another thread if there is interest, but there is no evidence that the Aryan invaders of the subcontinent were ever more than a small minority of the overall population.... 7mo ago received

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You're not going to reach greater clarity by yelling at people (even figuratively by stating things in a polarizing manner).... 7mo ago received

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Yes, this is what I meant.... 7mo ago received

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