Seriously? This is just a reinvention of the work hard and you’ll win.

Nice, 2 individuals who refuse to admit when they’re wrong, talking about how bad it is when people refuse to admit when their wrong. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Thank you so much for this.

Brutal. You know.

another very interesting conversation

Ok, so Ukraine was about to invade Russia. Also Ukraine is not respecting the people’s republics of Donbas and Krimea. Russia would never invade Europe and they never have. The America lies and Russia is speaking the truth. I suggest Mr. Stone moves to Russia, lives there, continues his work as a filmmaker, gets paid there, reads newspapers there, watches TV there, raises his kids there, has his sons join the Russian military and goes to hospital there when he’s ill. Wow is he deluded.

Great Interview! Only the idea that life can’t be a simulation as the brain is extremely parallel and structurally different from transistors is not convincing at all. Why shouldn’t it be doable to simulate parallel, slow wetware in super fast silicone?

Consciousness, the useful platform that integrates past experiences, present feelings and cognition in order to imagine your avatar in the future. You’re telling your story so you can imagine your future. It’s obvious how this helps you to survive, especially in a very complex social environment. So consciousness is forged and held up by evolution. But why does it feel like something to be someone? That is just nature’s way to blend cognition with emotion.

Non-shared family environment, interesting idea. If that’s a thing, it’ll be mostly random: eg older sibling gifted in athletics or maths. Environment, sorry to tell you, defenders of this lost cause, is only the random noise that shakes the peas on the sieve.

i had to finally stop when the conversation started to be about baseball. it is sad when philosophers have to argue about baseball rules to illustrate their points about moral responsibility and retributivism. the cheating husband example was also simplistic. please discuss real matters

Wow, Suzanne, govt violations of free speech bad, C16 is good? Cognitive dissonance

The recent hubbub about UFOs is about the weaponization of space.

Rumors in Trumpland said they planned on using ANTIFA tactics because they have nothing else to lose.. I put much of the blame on the media for constantly gas lighting. Just the BLM riots and the Capital riots. If you do not see this with your intellect then you are part of the problem.

The breach of the Capital building was form pissed off Trumpers and a bunch of anarchist (several ANTIFA members have indeed been arrested) Imagine for 2 seconds for the past 4 years that you just some Joe blow nobody but the elitist establishment called you NAZI and white supremacist and ANTIFA goones beat the crap out of innocent MAGA fans. Just like BLM got pissed off of seveals years of gas lighting. Trumpers finally snapped.

If you actually believe voting without ID is more secure than in person voting on a massive scale where anyone can easily ballot harvest, again you must be some special kind of stupid. Like you're good friend Sam Harris. You have some serious case of TDS. Please use you intellect and think objectively about it. We just experienced several months of BLM riots due to media gas lighting and that was fine by establishment media because the "riots are the voices of the unheard" - MLK

The FBI refused to do an investigation into voter fraud. Notice how the FBI came out with an official statement 2 days after the election well before the vote was finished. How the hell can you finalize an investigation when the vote hasn't even been finalized. You got to be some special of stupid to believe that. The FBI is absolutely corrupt. A intellect like you should know that by now. There is a ton of evidence but the establishment cronies and shutdown any investigation into voter fraud.

Those sycophants you speak of didn't breach the capital for what Trump said but what the democrats have been saying for four years. And yeah.. Voter Integrity is important, if you honestly believe that the 2020 election was the most secure election is history you have been duped by the corrupt establishment. Chris Krebs admitted under oath that his statement that he made was solely based on cyber security and nothing else.

Michael... So are so wrong. With all your intelligence you do lack quite a bit. 1st the Capital breach happened while Trump was still speaking.. Use your intellect on that, Trump speech had nothing to do with the QAon breach. Trump specifically said he will march peaceful after he's done speaking. 1 hour after his speech he made a video telling people to go home peaceful and listen to law enforcement. The breach already happen prior to Trump finishing his speech.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markoppenheimer/will-misogyny-bring-down-the-atheist-movement?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfshareemail Seems to explain some views that Shermer expresses on women.

The "increasing left lean of academia" is a red herring. There's no such thing. There's an increasing anti-science undercurrent to all conservatives right now, if they believe science is a collectivist plot then there will be no right-wing scientists soon, simple as that.