Richard of the secular realm

@st_th_aq @JayLJeffers @Philip_Goff Saying it does nothing in terms of showing that he's wrong. There might be an afterlife and he still got it right.

@LatFilosof @JayLJeffers @Philip_Goff Do you believe in life after death? If so, it's not weird at all.

Is Consciousness an Illusion??? I have the answer! You can find it at my channel Philip Goff Philosophy. Link below & in my bio.

@matt_olma @SpeedWatkins

@SpeedWatkins Jeez maybe I’m an illusionist

Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or an illusionist which part of consciousness the illusion is

@LexDecs I feel targeted.

The class I’m currently taking is on Special education and I’m now on the autism section. A lot of things on tpot make sense now.

The reason that philosophers are so kinky is that they spend all their time studying Plato’s footnotes.

@st_th_aq @JayLJeffers @Philip_Goff What a weird thing to say about a dead person.

@LatFilosof @JayLJeffers @Philip_Goff Now he knows better

@JayLJeffers @st_th_aq @Philip_Goff Yes. But he would deny a Cartesian theater going on, there is no *one* observer in the brain, but rather multiple parallel processes. The illusion is that experiences have mysterious, private, ineffable “qualia” beyond what the brain is doing.

@LatFilosof @st_th_aq @Philip_Goff TY but that seems like the crude version. I have an experience of red, for example.

I have been chosen by the cat. My life is complete.

@JayLJeffers @st_th_aq @Philip_Goff Dennett for one denied qualia.

@LatFilosof @st_th_aq @Philip_Goff I’ve heard this before and somehow I can’t remember it as a short summary view. What are we wrong about?

@47range @PhilipDBunn @JayDyer Adorable.

@LatFilosof @PhilipDBunn @JayDyer Ok Coward.

After blocking me, @JayDyer said I “declined a debate.” To be clear, I declined a debate on Hegel (boring) and reformed theology (not qualified), but I offered to debate on politics or history and was blocked. This was his debate offer. Forgive me for not being receptive.

@b34kw1ld3r @matt_olma Both me and Matt are joking. Both things are false.

@LatFilosof @matt_olma I’m an atheist and I don’t feel that science has disproven God. It has clearly brought to light many inconsistencies in the theological worldview. But in what way has it finished the job?

The best logical fallacy to give a theist is to say what caused God

@47range @PhilipDBunn @JayDyer Displaying my face and my real name is incredibly far from anon.

@LatFilosof @PhilipDBunn @JayDyer So says the anon Bot.

@e9mbd @Philip_Goff It's closer to the latter. Daniel Dennett, one of the proponents, never said it *doesn't* exist, he does not deny that consciousness exists, but instead denies that it is anything like what we think it is. He didn't think qualia exists.

Are you denying consciousness, or only denying the self’s story about consciousness? Because the second claim is plausible. The first seems to use consciousness to argue that consciousness does not exist. But notice the comedy: consciousness sits before a camera, thinks through an argument, selects words, records a video, and announces that consciousness may be an illusion.

I don't think this objection works, and I explain why in the video.

@st_th_aq @Philip_Goff Yes, but illusionism isn't the stance that consciousness doesn't exist. It's that our concept of consciousness is wrong, *that* is the illusion. It's a bad name and people are generally mistaken about what it actually is.

@Philip_Goff Isn't illusion a state of consciousness?

@e9mbd @Philip_Goff Illusionism doesn’t say there is no real mind.

@Philip_Goff If consciousness is an illusion, where is the illusion appearing, and what is aware of it?

@PAHoyeck Im gay for science

Has forced diversity and inclusion gone too far?

A lot of people seem confused by this tweet. This is because Philippe is too smart. He can’t become a great philosopher because his intellect is to us mortals what our intellect is to ants.

@joycjoint So... you got nothing. Incredible!

@LatFilosof Develop a filter that lets you see beyond the limited EM our eyes function at and a magnifier to attach. Then go verify a fossil and look at it yourself. CERN can print anything from data gathered from light but you still believe they don't have complete genetics for fossils. 🤦

When people say that academia is "ruthless" it's not a joke. Mary Higby Schweitzer was ripped to shreds when she presented her findings. Noone believed her, but she kept working on it and made her case stronger. Now her discoveries are celebrated worldwide.

@joycjoint If you believe we have actual DNA sequences from Dinosaurs I'd love for you to show me them.

@LatFilosof If you believe that, I have a bridge I would like to sell you; and I will try to keep teaching everyone for free...