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    Thread: What Kind of Philosopher are You?" Online Quiz
Post: RE: What Kind of Philosopher are You?" Online Quiz
Descartes
 Bunburryist Philosophy 47 10998 June 6, 2017 at 12:46 am
    Thread: Origin of Matter
Post: RE: Origin of Matter
We have to be careful about boxing reality into categories that we can conceive.  No matter how successful our models and concepts are - and no matter how confident some people are that we are getting...
 Bunburryist Physical Sciences 50 18526 June 6, 2017 at 12:28 am
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
I'm obviously wasting your time. Thanks for trying.
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 June 2, 2017 at 2:01 am
    Thread: Supreme Court Cases (and other interesting cases) - A Thread!
Post: RE: Supreme Court Cases (and other interesting cas...
How would something as apparently pretty clean cut as this be started in the first place?  Might it have been that the people who decided to deport him in the first place weren't even lawyers (after w...
 Bunburryist Politics 11 3586 June 2, 2017 at 1:06 am
    Thread: Do you think Science and Religion can co-exist in a society?
Post: RE: Do you think Science and Religion can co-exist...
They not only can - they do.
 Bunburryist Atheism 137 38732 June 2, 2017 at 12:57 am
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
You're going over the whole thing with a magnifying glass and missing the whole point. I'm simply trying to make the distinction between experiences happening in a material brain (what you would call...
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 June 2, 2017 at 12:56 am
    Thread: Why are there more crazies these days?
Post: RE: Why are there more crazies these days?
Technology provides opportunities to behave anonymously that never existed before. It also makes it easier to interact with people who don't know you and will never know you. The internet also pro...
 Bunburryist Off Topic 24 7072 June 1, 2017 at 12:30 am
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
I’m going to try and condense a little, so we’ll see how it goes.   So we have a material world, processes in that material world (the sense process), and somehow the result of that is This Experienc...
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 June 1, 2017 at 12:08 am
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
I know what I'm trying to explain. If you understood it - which you clearly don't - I wouldn't be doing it in the first place. Many of your questions reveal exactly why I'm using something differen...
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 May 30, 2017 at 6:12 pm
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
(May 29, 2017 at 9:01 am)Hammy Wrote: @ the OP Interesting... you're not only an Immaterialist (a fact of the (im)matter that I find rather immaterial, to be honest :P)... but also, according to th...
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 May 30, 2017 at 12:32 am
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
(May 29, 2017 at 8:56 pm)Khemikal Wrote: (May 29, 2017 at 5:30 pm)Bunburryist Wrote: You're real close.  You're right.  A default materialist might call This Experience  "a brain image" or "a subj...
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 May 29, 2017 at 9:42 pm
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
(May 29, 2017 at 4:59 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Are you going to take us thru all of your website lecture or are you willing to have a discussion? Will our questions be answered by you? Or are you only g...
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 May 29, 2017 at 8:51 pm
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
(May 29, 2017 at 2:55 pm)Alex K Wrote: More or less. I still have a problem with your insinuation that what  you call the "This Experience" would be called "the material world" by a default material...
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 May 29, 2017 at 5:30 pm
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
There are a few basic concepts with which you will simply never understand my view. It's like you're trying to explain a geometric idea to someone. If they aren't able or willing to understand the b...
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 May 29, 2017 at 2:43 pm
    Thread: An intro to my non-materialist view
Post: An intro to my non-materialist view
Rather than try to explain my non-materialist ideas in any logical way (which would require writing a book), I thought it might explain where I’m coming from regarding my non-materialist thinking and ...
 Bunburryist General Science 34 7062 May 29, 2017 at 1:22 am
    Thread: Music You're Listening To:
Post: RE: Music You're Listening To:
Isis's Roy Orbison tune made me think of a German gem I found about a year ago, and only recently found out it was a Roy Orbison Cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXuefA1Cy_s https://www.youtub...
 Bunburryist Media 3266 153096 May 25, 2017 at 3:15 am
    Thread: Consciousness Trilemma
Post: RE: Consciousness Trilemma
(May 23, 2017 at 6:25 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: (*Hat-tip Maverick Philosopher, here) It appears that of the following three propositions only two can be true: 1) Conscious experience is not an ill...
 Bunburryist Philosophy 208 55593 May 25, 2017 at 2:58 am
    Thread: Subjective Morals and Societal Whims
Post: RE: Subjective Morals and Societal Whims
One of the biggest mistakes in much of the "morality" and "ethics" talk is the belief that people do much of what they do for ethical or moral reasons. As is often the case in conservative positions,...
 Bunburryist Atheism 114 30388 May 25, 2017 at 12:49 am
    Thread: I'm back!
Post: RE: I'm back!
I never suggested anything about “subjective experience.”   I didn’t recommend anything.  That’s just a one-off sentence in an “I’m back” post.  But if I thought we had “subjective experience,” and if...
 Bunburryist Introductions 23 5072 May 23, 2017 at 2:03 am
    Thread: I'm back!
Post: RE: I'm back!
It was for last Christmas! She's very patient.
 Bunburryist Introductions 23 5072 May 22, 2017 at 1:58 am