Nickolasgaspar

not reading is what got you here in the first place Bert.

I can not agree more. This is why I provide definitions with my terms. Micheal is struggling to push a false dichotomy (physical non physical) as if a...

No and no. There isn't any ontological distinction. Its like attributing a different ontology for the property of color and the property of hardness d...

First, you will need to make some acknowledgements to the points made before answering your question. I don't want to address the same claims again an...

They are the same. The word "Natural" can be used as an umbrella term when we want to make a distinction between mental and physical properties of mat...

Well it depends form the meaning of the word. This is why I always use the term "natural". IT is physical since the mechanisms are physical, the emerg...

Historically speaking there is a pattern with philosophers and early scientists where when they reached the limits of their contemporary knowledge, th...

Well the argument is unsound. You have a huge error in your third premise. First of all we not only analyze first person experience, we are also affec...

That is not the point, you are avoiding to consider the evidence in favor of its physical nature by using a bad excuse (science can not experience our...

First of all this is not the claim made by neuroscientist's. This is the goal of Neuroscience based on the the limits and nature of our methodologies ...

-So you are recycling hot air?? You are defining conditions in scenarios without knowing the real properties of the interacting concepts! This is the ...

Micheal focus! You say "if consciousness is non physical....". That statement can only be meaningful if non physical is considered to be an available ...

This isn't difficult Michael..You are suggesting an ontology. This ontology needs to be assumed by definition. The same is true of its qualities. You ...

of course you have. You state: " if an aspect of consciousness is non physical" A.You assume that non physical things exist and b. that consciousness ...

Again too many ifs and assumptions. There is not any reason to assume that conscious states are non physical, we don't know if non physical things are...

Again too many ifs and assumptions. There is not any reason to assume that conscious states are non physical, we don't know if non physical things are...

Again to many assumptions, you need to assume that the phenomenon is non physical, that non physical phenomena CAN exist, and its interaction with the...

It will have epistemic value if its proven to be true , but currently its a product of pseudo philosophy. (the statement ignores all our epistemology,...

No, you are dealing with way to many ifs to make it even meaningful! You need to make up an undetectable realm with a specific entity conveniently hav...

if you are making the same statement used by supernaturalists then your argument is over and Isaac's question is correct. The goal of philosophy is no...

-Ok, it took me some time but I think get what your goal is. You are not looking for statements that will allow you to understand the phenomenon. What...

Sure, but I don't see the Philosophical usefulness in that statement, meaning that you introduce an additional bigger mystery(non physical-whatever th...

-Only if that "something else" is ''designed" to leave no traces for our scientific methods to find. In that case that untraceable "something else" is...

Sure, but "ifs" need to be demonstrated not assumed. From your statement I see that you accept the Necessity of brain activity but not the Sufficiency...

First of all I don't know what you mean by the term "identical". Brain activity enables conscious experience and previous experiences with different b...

I totally with that label.... but I try to avoid hurting people feelings by putting labels on their beliefs...because I can understand how the subject...

We don't really need to watch the conscious content of an individual in real time in order to understand the content of a conscious state. We can show...

I have already analyzed the issues in that huge leap. Science use forensic reasoning and methods. Not having direct access to the end product of a pro...

It depends what "consciousness" means to you. Through those studies we verify that conscious states responsible for our experiences are enabled by spe...

First of all ,we have access in the evaluation of the subjective aspect of an experience. We have metrics for profiling blood, brain scans, behavior a...

Correct, why questions are a slippery slope for...getting back in bed with Aristotelian teleology and enabling the pollution of our epistemology.

-Wow that is a huge leap you made there. First of all you are setting a false relation (absence of direct observation-zero evidence). "Forensic" metho...

Well we might not be able to experience the original "movie" of a conscious state but we can access it by numerous ways and methods. Not only that we ...

Scientific evidence for what? that conscious creatures experience things and they experiencing them differently due to their previous experiences and ...

- I think that phenomenal consciousness is the last desperate attempt by philosophers to keep consciousness in their curriculum. In my opinion this is...

The problem with Bert's and the hard problem approach in general, is that they don't even attempt to enter the room because finding anything appears t...

I find your arguments very reasonable and pure. In my opinion the problem rises when we focus on specific questions like "why we exist" or "why should...

-What?....sir, "matter" describes a specific type of "activity" responsible for structure low level and high lever features (basic or advanced propert...

Maybe you don't understand how basic rules of logic work. ITs not me who has to "have something" on an unfalsifiable, irrational ontological speculati...

If the conflict is closely related to a made up "hard problem" based on ''why'' questions, things don't look promising. Can you define what Darwinian ...

It depends from the type of naturalism .If you are referring to Philosophical naturalism, then you are wrong. I am a Methodological Naturalist, so Phi...

I don't disagree with the traditional aspect of it. I (and I can only speak for myself) find it a waste of time trying to address unanswerable "why" q...

I find it really ridiculous to even criticize this unfalsifiable speculation on the unobservable nature of reality (if there is one to begin with). Th...

- Well evolutionary principles do provide answers to our hypotheses or questions. So by default the theory has the epistemic power to provide answers ...

I did. Its arrogant to thing that "we" are the sole creator of everything humans ever created. Humility alone should be enough to reject that silly wo...

I accept the cultural role of science. I rejected you paragraph for the nonsensical statement on evolution ("But evolutionary theory may not be up to ...

Any similar claim outside that worldview would be identified as arrogant . So you will need to come up with a far better explanation and keep the same...

Its one thing to not understand the details of how conscious states emerge/are sustained and another to talk about other people/animals ability to be ...

You will be surprised by the actual number of humans who do just that and don't ask questions. But I agree our Symbolic language does allow us to form...

Actually we understand how matter can think....through specific structures of matter with specific functions. "intuition"? I don't think we can trust ...