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:up: I get your point and I am stuck by the example of an abacus because at some level the abacus is the only computing machine that does actually phy...

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I think you are correct on that point as far as Searle is concerned I'm not disagreeing with you, just struggling with Searle :smile: It seems that Se...

I'm sure they don't at the moment and voters are rarely presented with a choice at elections for a government that would. We can base those judgements...

But am I not interpreting marks on the paper or in my brain when I do the calculation without using a machine? The whole of mathematics is an abstract...

The issue is one of balance of power, wealth grants power to the wealthy, either directly though control of companies etc. or indirectly through use o...

Apologies for being late to this party but I was stuck by this. Surely there are no falsehoods without a conscious entity to make them. I.e. truth is ...

I agree that some things probably do such as the sunsets you mention but then one might expect everyone to have similar preferences. In other things, ...

Following some reading around 's post I was lead to "Intersubjectivity" which seems to be the area of thinking that I was looking for. More reading in...

Perhaps "symbol" wasn't the best word to use but it is the only word I have at the moment. There are certain images, sounds, phrases which are found i...

But show that person a blue sky, perhaps that instantly means more to them than it does to you and I. I take the point about it being based on experie...

Thanks, I have seen that art thread, however my interest at the moment is more around why some things make a connection with an audience and some don'...

Well obviously not in the conventional sense of "cheating" but it sounds better than "delaying for a femtosecond" :smile:

The existential question though is are we fire junkies, knowing that we should stop burning things but our animal brains just keep us doing it anyway ...

I have chance to read that article now and it is really helpful, thanks again

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Donald Rumsfeld famously said "there are unknown unknowns" i.e. things that we don't know that we don't know. However it seems me that as these things...

Thanks, that makes sense Thank you for taking the time, that is a really helpful explanation. I suppose I was getting hung up on the normal meaning of...

So not much interest :sad: , I've changed the title of this thread and I'm still interested

For example we learn to associate the sky with the colour blue because people point at the sky and tell us that it is blue. There is no way for me to ...

I'm no scholar of these things but western philosophy, certainly over the last millennia or two seems shaped by the good-versus-evil, right-wrong worl...

I'm new to the forum and late to this discussion and this being an internet forum of course I haven't read all the replies :smile: but "art expresses ...