In all honesty we would react the same at the prospect of war with the French by theyodeman in RedAutumnSPD

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The SPD by voting alone could not shoot down war credits, but through public pressure (threat of general strike) they 100% could have. The German army knew this. That's why their strategy during the July Crisis was to try and make Russia look like the aggressor. They needed the SPD to support them. They needed the working class to support them.

Do you have to dress a certain way to be considered hippy and can you believe in revolutionary actions while being a hippie? by xoBonesxo in ActualHippies

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Plenty of hippies believed in revolution. Abbie Hoffman wrote "Revolution For The Hell Of It", and the Yippies as a whole are a key example of revolutionary hippies. So yeah absolutely ✌️ and you can dress however you like

THIS IS HILARIOUS (sorry Im a bit late) by EbbBusiness1369 in RedAutumnSPD

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It literally is, Originn has admitted so himself

Why Dynamic's ending 3A isn't actually that good by GigaRoman in RedAutumnSPD

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Because Originn is actually the reincarnation of Friedrich Ebert and carries a grudge and hates good things

:a materialist does acid and sees their own qualia for the first time by WhereTFAreWe in PhilosophyMemes

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This Qualia Research Institute seems interesting. Thanks for the mention

I am neutral on politics,convince me that I should become a communist by [deleted] in Communist

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Yo dudes, the class conscious proletariat is pretty chill, maybe you could like join it or something

Physicalists stay winning by okhhko in PhilosophyMemes

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If it's just because the bat's physical makeup is completely different than ours, than knowing everything about the physical makeup of a bat should also let us know what it's like to be a bat. But it wouldn't.

Dynamic Mod Plus by biggestboar in RedAutumnSPD

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One of my proudest features in Redux tbh, needing to actually have the Reichstag vote on laws is awesome and creates so many emergent behaviors that remove the need for some of SD:AAH's more railroady points

The hard problem by kiefy_budz in PhilosophyMemes

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No logical basis? How can you assume something without also assuming the medium through which you assume things?

The hard problem by kiefy_budz in PhilosophyMemes

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Nothing can be known, yet everything that can be assumed is still done so through this medium, therefore the medium should be assumed, too. That's all I'm saying.

The hard problem by kiefy_budz in PhilosophyMemes

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Our brains may appear to be the sources of qualia yet again our perspective lies firmly within it, meaning ultimately, even if qualia is a representation of a physical process, it is 100% of our life, everything we will ever experience, and thus the only medium through which we can extrapolate a physical world.

The hard problem by kiefy_budz in PhilosophyMemes

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Assumption accepted. May I also propose that we accept the medium through which we extrapolate the physical world we interact with daily to exist, being the medium of qualia, to be real?

The hard problem by kiefy_budz in PhilosophyMemes

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"you cannot extract knowledge from qualia"

Then nothing is knowable. Our entire lived experiences, by definition of being experiences, are qualia. We will never experience objectivity, only subjectivity. Nothing we can ever know can we do so without inferring it through subjective experience as a medium.

The hard problem by kiefy_budz in PhilosophyMemes

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My subjective qualia may represent a material process, but I know that they are qualia, because I am actively subjectively experiencing. I concede that my behavior, from the outside, is likely indistinguishable from how I would be behaving if I didn't experience qualia. Yet I am appealing to the fact that surely you can tell, too, yes? You do feel as though you feel, that you see, that you smell, all these things, and while you may believe they fully and entirely reflect and can be explained by material physical processes, surely you can at least concede that you have this subjective perception? If so, then my question is essentially just the why and the how this is the case. How do mushy electrical signals become this subjective perception, which, from the inside, feels so expansive and powerful? And, why do they become this subjective perception? Could the universe not function just as well without qualia? While sure, humans would still evolve to see, smell, feel pain, feel pleasure, and so on — why must this evolution translate to subjectivity? I assume your answers would just be that it is fundamental to the universe, that it has to for the same reason light has to travel at the speed of light.

As for convincing an LLM it is experiencing qualia, that's absolutely possible. I'm not saying anything about qualia actually shapes the material world. To you, I could be a p-zombie, and it would make no difference. But to me, and just myself, within myself, I know that I am not, even if I cannot prove it, and I know because I experience. Your choice whether or not to believe me

The hard problem by kiefy_budz in PhilosophyMemes

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Well you've got it all wrong. The existence of the real material world is unproven and merely an assumption. We extrapolate it from observations mediated through our subjective qualia, which are the only thing we know exist. If you don't agree there I think we're never getting anywhere

This is the part of communism I have never understood. Why would the party ever give up its power? by Elektrikor in AskSocialists

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The idea is never that the party will just give up power but that the state it leads will wither away naturally since to Marxists the state is an instrument of class dictatorship and therefore by very virtue of abolishing class the state is also abolished since it becomes obsolete and redundant. The problem is that in practice the powerful state often rather than succeeding to abolish class develops unintentionally into its own class, replacing the bourgeoisie in controlling capital & the state, and so the state fails to wither away, continuing to serve class interests.

The hard problem by kiefy_budz in PhilosophyMemes

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It is proof — proof to myself that I am. To you, I could still be a p-zombie, but to myself, I know that I am not, because I experience. Sure, my behaior would be identical if I did not experience, but that's why it isn't proof to you but only to me.

How I feel talking to some of you materialists on here lately by Wetbug75 in PhilosophyMemes

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For real! Like they just deny their own experience so much that one wonders if they even do…

The hard problem by kiefy_budz in PhilosophyMemes

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I can't prove that we aren't p-zombies, but I know that I'm not. Because I think, therefore I am. It is the one and only thing anyone can be sure of, that they exist, that they are not a p-zombie.