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What to say today?
Often I have no idea what I am going to write, I just sit down and a rant falls out of my fingers. Let’s face it, that’s what my post are usually about, something that’s been weighing on my mind, … Continue reading
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I’m not me, I’m what I have decided to be…… or am I?
After what started out as a quite jovial conversation this week I have decide that I am no longer a Caucasian man of average build, of European decent, and around the 6ft tall mark, I am instead a 7ft man … Continue reading
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Artificial Flaws
I wanted to write of AI, but I’m unable. I heard Michael Sandel on the radio last week, and, in his usual socratic (we never know what he himself thinks) style, he was asking people what they thought about algorithms … Continue reading
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Nozick, refuting hedonism
I’m not going to explain what hedonism is, or its varying forks, save to say that it is the position of seeing pleasure/lack of pain as the best goal. In this essay I intend to examine Nozick’s attempt to refute … Continue reading
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Locke on the ‘Person’
Locke’s work is important, for me it is useful though flawed but the project he undertook has been reformulated by other philosophers to be a more complete account. Locke saw PERSON as, importantly, a separable substance to MAN. I will … Continue reading
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Functionalism, a good account of pain?
I will be looking at the specific reaction of the mind to the condition of pain from the point of view that the mind is a functional device or machine that processes pain as possibly more than just the predictable … Continue reading
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A life or not a life?
Let me first point out that I am not sure what a strong or weak argument constitutes for this issue aside from what I may find compelling from an emotional point of view. It may be a hard conversation to … Continue reading
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Hume on design
Hume objects to the argument from design, this can be said to be an atheistic position but in the context of his dialogues not an anti deist one; for the argument here is upon the nature of god more than … Continue reading
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Epicurus on death as nothing to us
What does Epicurus say of death? Epicurus says that death is nothing to us because while we live we are not experiencing, nor can experience, being dead. When are dead we cannot experience death because there is no us to … Continue reading
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The on-going practice of identity
What is an identity? Is it the person we appear to be? If so, in which situation, for as all will be aware we can be different people at different times and in differing situations. You are not the same … Continue reading
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