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I don't get a notice when thumbnails are fixed, I do get a notice when times are fixed.

Thanks for cleaning up my pqueue. Maybe I'll get some of these sifted now, once I fix the vids!


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Thanks!
I happen to be going through your Pqueue, so you might get a few deads in your feed. I ran through Zifnab's Zero Punctuation playlist a few days ago, and had a go at some of ant's videos yesterday.
Your Pqueue isn't as fun, though - most videos have times and thumbnails already.
(Just curious, do you get any sort of notification when someone adds a time or a thumbnail to one of your videos, or is it only when they're marked dead?)
In reply to this comment by bareboards2:
Glad to help you with your Grim Reaper badge.... most of those were mine!

Glad to help you with your Grim Reaper badge.... most of those were mine!

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FIXED!
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*dead

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Your policy of upvoting dead invocations has at least one humorous side effect.. Nice to know I'm "Appreciated", though.

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I have to say that however reluctant I was to participate in one of the many public abortion debates that recur continually without really going anywhere, but felt it would be indecent to allow that discussion to unfold without some token objection raised against common delusions, I'm even more reluctant to talk one-on-one where there's still less opportunity for progress.

One reason these kind of debates, not just on abortion but any political or social topic, don't advance is that they concern questions of applied ethics that really belong very late in our philosophical development. It's as futile for adherents of varying ethical theories to clash on single issues as it is for travellers to row at a crossroads about which way they should go when they all set off from different places, following wildly differing maps, with compasses that all point in different directions. Why not agree which way is north first?

There's so much metaphysical and epistemological groundwork to be done before a sound consensus can be reached. I say 'sound' because with broadly binary questions there will appear to be a lot more agreement than there really is.

So rather than go on a trip with you I'd prefer to tell you where to start. You have to resolve subjectivity (you say that consciousness is "illusive and scarcely understood" - ultimately that's true of everything, which is the fundamental problem; I did give you a definition, in fact - perception and understanding, cognition and identity) and choose the fewest and most basic axioms on which to construct a nominally objective philosophy. That's where the debate belongs; what should those axioms be and what proceeds directly from them?

If you want me to give you a way to distinguish between mind and not-mind, the ability of a candidate to engage with that process would be a pretty good indication.

In reply to this comment by ReverendTed:
I wanted to continue this discussion, but it's going off in a different direction, so I figured I'd bring it here onto your home turf. You've obviously traveled this road before, but I'm coming along for the ride this time. (Road trip!)

We'll start here and see where this takes us: What's your reasoning for saying that a baby (or someone with a cognitive disability, or hell, an animal) is not Mind? I know where I'd like this to go, but I'll let you drive.

fixed
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*dead

Hello! I just wanted to say that I appreciate the discussion you've launched (and by daringly agreeing with the infamous bk33 no less!), and would like to continue, but it will have to wait a bit because it is 2:30 am over here (CH) and I just spent the last hour wading through my comments looking for what I thought was a long debate on the subject (the Sift search seems not to be working), but so far I've only found this. I'll get back to you in a day, and I look forward to seeing how the discussions develops!

Good job!

In reply to this comment by ReverendTed:
Actually, I just got my Bronze back earlier this week, so I've been taking advantage of my ability to add thumbnails and lengths, declare death, and resurrect. My comment stream since then has been a nearly-uninterrupted stream of those invocations and my Profile has been a parade of Badge notifications.
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Thanks and same to you for finding these problems. I assume you loved Bruce Lee game?

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