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Because there is no evidence to the contrary?

I'll save reasonable people some time by highlighting the key premise: "what if materialism is not the only game in town?"

I think, broadly, it's that a theory of mind should be informed by empirical evidence, by scientific research, and that liberal doses of the those will dissolve away many of the cl…

I'm partial to the 500 mile email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

I totally get the sentiment, but I really want to read 3 NYT articles a month. To make the company what I pay now for a subscription, that would come out to around $6.00 an article…

To be more explicit, I'm saying I find it weird to hear so much about the Chinese room argument from a crowd of (presumably) materialists.

The Chinese room argument itself isn't very compelling. Surely the constituent parts of the brain are fundamentally governed solely by physics, surely thought arises solely from th…

You're looking for rout, not route :)

Unbelievable photo of the decrepit state three years ago: https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1078885655634157569

Why not some animals have fictional mental states and others do not?

> I’ve seen Denver the guilty dog. She’s behaving like she feels guilty [therefore she likely experiences guilt]. I'm not sure I believe this, but there are other believable explan…

This is an unpopular opinion, and should be wielded very carefully, but I think something often lost in these conversations is that the existence of a human behavior in an animal i…

> Cigar smoking in moderation (all the way up to one cigar per day) has been shown to be a fairly minimal risk multiplier for cancer Honestly curious about this one, do you have a …

Let me just say that if you think you may not want to view the image, you don't want to view the image.

> Even from an ecological standpoint: hotter climates will positively impact some species (including species which don't even exist yet!), while negatively impacting others. The wo…

Consider the things beyond this one planet. Surely we're simply at an interregnum between two great ages of exploration.

Location is simply a convenient cudgel. It would be just as defensible to trot out family size based pay (greater pay for more mouths) or net worth based pay (greater pay for lesse…

Within the article it's revealed that not only is this a new variety, it's a potentially useful tasty eating and cider apple.

Yes.

But many preexisting remote-focused US tech companies are not heavily outsourced. They've gone "through the initial pain of setting up remote work" and are subject to the same econ…

This article presents the functionality as new, but wirelessly charged electric vehicles have been in use at small scale for many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_electr…