Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Zombies Are Impossible by boydstun
Surely, David, I need and want to study this essay (and your other work) much more. Thanks for sharing this adventure here. And thanks for the link in SEP. If a zombie-me has no phenomenal consciousness, I’d think (as Locke would, if I recall cor…
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(Policy of Truth) Zombies Are Impossible
No, not those zombies! They aren’t merely possible, they are actual, as you can see. → Rather, our topic today is philosophical zombies, beings that are physically identical to us but without conscious experience. Thus, a zombie version of yourself, for instance, would be atom-for-atom identical to you. It would share all of your behavioral…
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(QC RSS) Setting Conditions
You’re doing great, honey
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(The GiveWell Blog) Update on Board meeting transparency
One of GiveWell’s organizational values is maintaining a high degree of transparency about our work. As part of our transparency efforts, we’ve published written materials and audio recordings from each meeting of GiveWell’s Board of Directors since we were founded. We recently increased the quality of and level of detail in the written materials we…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “The Useful Libertarian Idiocy of the Great Barrington Declaration” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Daily Llama. I had said: The person spreading the disease is the one initiating force against others, not the one who gets it from the person catching [spreading] it I meant “spreading,” not “catching.” Your respons…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – You can only be an uke
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(QC RSS) Looking For Trouble
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “The Useful Libertarian Idiocy of the Great Barrington Declaration” by Daily Llama
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Your response to me saying sick people are being abused by the system is that they aren’t bad apples. I know but they are being used, as usual, for political power. The “perceived” transgression from the person spreading isn’…
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(QC RSS) Just Like That
Why not?
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(Cat and Girl) The Plutocrats!
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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