I don't think I missed anything. I made this comment referring to your saying "Look up the definition of a word in the dictionary. Then look up the de...
The following is from https://www.etymonline.com/word/sensation sensation (n.) 1610s, "a reaction to external stimulation of the sense organs," from F...
"Sensation" is mainly a widely used scientific term, as it refers to the senses, a mental condition and physical feeling, all of which are used in the...
Judaka, I think I undestood your concerns. You are referring to a kind of "constant" use of definitions in a discussion, writing or speech. And your p...
Thank you for participating in the discussion. Right. Do you refer to a particular lexicon, like a specialized dictionary or encyclopedia --e.g. Oxfor...
Thank you for responding to the topic. Of course not. I talked about that (multiple times). Yes, this is normally the case. When children don't undest...
Thanks for your reply to the topic. And welcome to TPF! :cheer: Good point. I will take up this later ... This is a very plausible question. Ah! You g...
Thank you for responding to the topic. Of course dictionaries sometimes contain ineffective definitions. But it is obvious that one is not bound or su...
Thanks for your reply to the topic. Whys would I do I have to read a whole page or I don't not how much text in order to get the meaning of the word. ...
Thanks for replying to the topic. This is the perfect, absolute way one would use if one wants to become "superliterate". But this is rarily the case,...
Thanks for your reply to the topic, Fooloso4. This might be the case, but in these cases they describe, explain and even give the definition of the me...
Do you propose to throw all dictionaries and encyclopedias to the garbage can and with them more than 4,000 years of knowledge? (The first recorded di...
Certainly. Maybe the other way around ... In order to be aware of something you must first perceive it, don't you? Does this mean that you just don't ...
OK. Just checking ... :smile: Well, I find this somewhat twisted, but anyway, it's besides what we are looking for, i.e. the word "feeling" and how it...
I guess you have a different definition of the term "sentient" than the ones I presented and what is commonly meant by them. Indeed, I don't know what...
What do you mean by "from the exterior and interior"? Example? I have studied and worked a lot and for quite long with mind, and of course thinking as...
Quite interesting. This contributes a lot to the lack of knowledge I have about the kind of senses plants have and how do they work, which I was talki...
I think that the terms "sentient" and "sentience" is misconceived by many here from what I could gather from this and other discussions (topics). "Sen...
No problem, AmadeusD. You don't have to apologize. Esp., not in advance! :smile: I agree. S and C are two totally diffetent things; of a totally diffe...
"grin" It may sound difficult but my "filtering" is an automatic process: it means just ignoring external refs, thus actually simplifying things. "smi...
Certainly. But my comment was certainly not meant to invalidate your references. I never said or hold in general that references are useless. That wou...
Why being "not emotionally" against it? Isn't just "not against" it enough? :smile The question I think is whether we can make a solid, well-grounded ...
But I just gave you a reference about that, the definition of "Panpsychism". Do you reject it, as well as all references with a similar description, o...
Well, I can't tell. It's too general. Even after your elaboration of it, it's too theoretical for me. I love Math but not so muach on a theoretical le...
What about a ball? Or a pencil? :smile: "Stone" was just an example, Patterner. Any object would do. And surely you must have heard about matter havin...
Well, I undestood that in the first place. But what that has to do with the current topic, "Why is the Hard Problem of Consciousness so hard?" Do you ...
Why, is there an "Unconscious Experience"? :smile: Yes, I know about panpsychism. And I'm totally against it. Simply, I cannot imagine how a stone can...
That's much better! Why didn't you talk about that in the first place? Anyway, thanks for coming back with something that can be discussed about. :smi...
OK, but I also said that the term was not used in the meaning is used meaning today. Which is what we are trying to define. Certainly. Describing the ...
Well, you did use Nagel line. In fact, your whole message was based on it. Not only that, you referred me to @RogueAI 's question "Do you think there ...
I see. I know. That's why I said that it might take some time. But you don't need to do it perfectly. Anyway, I brought up this little "experiment" to...
Certainly. I just took it up and expanded it, because of my linguistic tendencies (I'm overplaying sometimes! :smile:) Well, the very common expressio...
It was my reply to @Gnome, who wondered whether plants can perceive or not. And it was not based on my comment on Nagel's "what it is like", which was...
I can't even know what it is like to be another person! :smile: Now, this is not serious. And I wonder how come you are asking me this, why have you c...
I believe you are referring to the etymology of C. Indeed, it's from Latin "con", which means "with", and scientia, which means "knowledge", i.e. "kno...
Certainly, you are not usually "aware" that you are alive. It would be quite annoying and useless, wouldn't it? But you can be id you want, right? To ...
Blindsight. Never heard of that before. Just looked it up. Wow, this looks quite interesting. I will have to learn more about it. So, at the moment I ...
Having the experience of consciousness, i.e. being aware, does not necessary involve meaningful mental images, or even mental images (i.e. thinking) a...
You are right. The word "definition" was not a good choice of mine. But I certainly didn't mean a technical definition. I meant rather a description. ...
Well, the word "feeling" has millions of meanings, and such a definition of conciousness is quite vague. Yet, it could be acceptable, if neurophysiolo...
Nice. I rarily see people connecting consciousness with experience. (In the sense of human feeling, as you say.) For me, consciousness is basically ex...
I undestand what you say. Indeed, I ignored the part of "there are facts of the matter", which plays a role in moral statements. However, this does no...
I didn't give an actual definition of "moral realism", but just a raw, very simplified description, just enough to present my views. And what I said a...
I won't convince you about moral realism, because you don't need it. :smile: I will instead support you in your goal. Although you don't actuall need ...
When I say that there is an object on the table and that the name of this object is "apple", these are facts. I'm telling the truth. When I think abou...
Yes, you can call it an illusion. This is what a lot of Easter polosophies assert. But I never liked this term that is used to actually mean our perso...
Exactly. This is what I'm saying. Too conceptual. :smile: In fact, totally theoretical. Moreover, I can't even see how it applies to your "if I don't ...
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