Yes, Button shows up without a hat for a few seconds in "Ponyville Confidential" when Snips and Snails are signing autographs.

This is the only fan art with both Sonatas I've seen.

To everyone complaining about Sonata not being a pony, she does have an official pony design on her toy box.

Button also appears without his hat in "Ponyville Confidential." He's waiting in line to get autographs from Snips and Snails.

Extra season 4 premiere details are nice, but I'm more interested in the reviewer's apparent disagreement with the show's friendship theme. It seems strange in a show called "Friendship is Magic" Princess Twilight could be as self-sufficient as the writer hopes (considering the whole "Elements of Harmony" idea). There's definitely some deep "community vs. individual" stuff in the A.V. article for a brony analyst to tackle.

It's strange that Luna/Nightmare Moon isn't credited, since the SDCC preview animatic scene where Luna appears is identified as "401" which seems to indicate the flashback takes place in episode 1.

Congrats on another EqD mention, DGD!

I guess you're deploying Occam's Razor to rule out the existence of non-physical mental properties. Of course, this doesn't automatically sweep away the "hard problem" of consciousness that dualists bring up. Stuff like thoughts, intentions, qualities like colors and feelings of pain and first-person introspection still have to be dealt with by the materialist. There's also the objection that reducing reasoning to a physical process is self-refuting, since even materialism would be a belief instilled in someone by impersonal physical means. I don't think it suffices to gesture at an evolutionary just-so story, especially considering if non-physical mental properties exist, they wouldn't exactly develop from physical processes like evolution. You can already see the scope of this debate between materialists and dualists is far larger than just free will.

Most dualists are aware of the brain injury objection and would respond that it doesn't establish materialism, only a connection between the brain and consciousness (which dualists usually don't deny). Further argumentation is needed to establish the identity between the two.

I'd like to go deeper, but I think I'm getting far off-topic from DigiBrony's video, which is concerned only with freedom in Equestria. I guess the main point I want to make is that there are substantive dualist arguments and responses against materialism out there that you should probably check out before you simply dismiss them. In my case, I wouldn't be able to get away in the philosophy field with ignoring the best the other side has to offer...

Mammoth_rib, you should check out this blog from philosopher Edward Feser. He's one of the folks leading the Neo-Aristotelian revival (including the recent resurgence of Aristotelian virtue ethics, contra PinkiePieIsYourDeity's claim of it being rejected by almost all moral philosophers.). You might enjoy this blog review of Thomas Nagel's book, where Feser responds to many of Nagel's critics.

I'm currently studying philosophy in college and I'm in a few academic philosophy circles, so I'm familiar with Nagel and Ross. What you mention is the revival of classical philosophy (Aristotelianism) in the midst of the modern dominance of materialistic reductionism in the philosophy of mind.

Of course, it might be a bit much to expect Bronies on EqD comboxes to be familiar with such a technical subject. But, I agree, there are anti-materialist arguments out there that need to be taken seriously and not hand-waved away by pointing out the current popularity of materialism.