Some People Steal From Others, Or Defraud

It Is, From Another Angle, An Attack On Requiring Proof In Philosophy. And It's Also The Case, I Guess, That My Temperament Is To Like Interesting, New, Bold Ideas, And To Try And Generate Them.

No One Has Ever Announced That Because Determinism Is True Thermostats Do Not Control Temperature.

Instead Of Trying To Prove Your Opponent Wrong, Try To See In What Sense He Might Be Right.

One Way To Determine If A View Is Inadequate Is To Check Its Consequences In Particular Cases, Sometimes Extreme Ones, But If Someone Always Decided What The Result Should Be In Any Case By Applying The Given View Itself, This Would Preclude Discovering It Did Not Correctly Fit The Case. Readers Who Hold They Would Plug In To The Machine Should Notice Whether Their First Impulse Was Not To Do So, Followed Later By The Thought That Since Only Experiences Could Matter, The Machine Would Be All Right After All.

Suppose There Were An Experience Machine That Would Give You Any Experience You Desired. Superduper Neuropsychologists Could Stimulate Your Brain So That You Would Think And Feel You Were Writing A Great Novel, Or Making A Friend, Or Reading An Interesting Book. All The Time You Would Be Floating In A Tank, With Electrodes Attached To Your Brain. Should You Plug Into This Machine For Life, Preprogramming Your Life Experiences?...of Course, While In The Tank You Won't Know That You're There; You'll Think That It's All Actually Happening...would You Plug In?