Binged on westworld, good stuff!
Anyone know how the mind/brain of the vat people is linked to the avatars in westworld?
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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
Considering I was mocked on these boards for bringing philosophy into the discussion, my cocksure attitude leaves me no doubt that eventually Dent will come around to my way of thinking (again), because I'm so much smarter than him.
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Please sum up your line of thinking so I can easily quote it in future to let you know how wrong I was
I'm not ashamed that my philosophy is weak-sauce, and you're cockpug because I know a bunch of people smarter than either of us who disagree, you've acted like there's consensus and i'm the only one who doesn't have a clue.
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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
That said, if you don't think abstract concepts exist then there's no need for us to go any further, because we can't agree on a premise on which to base our arguments on.
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I asked a friend about this and I almost get what you're getting at, this is his response.
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• perhaps compare sematic meaning. A treatise can be written outlining that no state of the world can "really" be about another state of the world...meanings are useful fictions that ultimately have no place in a naturalistic world picture.
And yet such a treatise has to rely on meaning in some sense to make its case...
08/11/2016 22:14
an "as if" platonism is hugely fruitful
without it one will miss countless features of the world, just as one would by disavowing sematic meaning...
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