My take on qualia is that it's, for certain, 100%, real. Why? A simple question follows: Can you or anyone, even Daniel Dennett, describe, put into wo...
Last I read up on problem solving techniques, trial and error method is also known as guess and test. Guessing is random, right? I suppose it all boil...
Care to expand on this? I don't see how this is relevant. Double negatives don't show up in the want paradox. The notion of complements is different f...
:ok: Nothing much to argue about there. I don't think qualia has anything to do with one's color preferences. I'm talking about the immediate experien...
The perfect metaphor for non-philosophical discourse. I suppose, for a conversation to be productive, interlocutors must be both on the same page and ...
I don't know about Christianity but for judgement we need sound moral criteria and that's exactly what's missing or is highly controversial at the mom...
It seems I have no choice but to agree with you. However...what about the much-talked-about concept of qualia in re consciousness that seems to be las...
Statement E = There are no absolute eternal facts E is either true or false If E is false then there are absolute eternal facts If E is true then it i...
The question whether time is cyclical doesn't make sense to me but that's probably just me rather than anything informative about time itself. First, ...
I'm not sure what you mean here. Deduction is, to my reckoning, the relationship between premises and conclusion such that the latter follows from/is ...
I must've misspoke. I don't mean to say that experience, the whole nine yards of it, can be reduced to knowledge. Reminds me of qualia and the like in...
Mind if I pick your brain on this subject. It's quite close to my heart in the sense I sometimes feel as if I don't exist or, more accurately, as if I...
I was always bothered by one thing about Gettier Problems. It seems to be tautologous in the Wittgensteinian sense i.e. it doesn't add to what we alre...
Perhaps mental age, as you were initially suggesting, can be roughly measured in terms of the number of ideas our minds have come in contact with. Thi...
It's a truism that, roughly speaking, until people are in their early twenties their priorities are "different" - they're not in the least bit concere...
Indeed! That's a solution alright but notice that the words "never" and "always" are gainfully employed in this one sentence. Nowhere else can the duo...
It's been quite some time since I last visited this thread so do forgive me if I'm missing the point in your posts. Anyway... My take on the differenc...
What a great question! Got me thinking and at a certain point in my musings, the memory of me watching a video on language flashed across my mind. The...
You say it better than me! I'm jealous! :smile: I would caution you against speaking too soon. The "amazing goodies" you speak of may come at a heavy ...
I don't see how I'm guilty of cherry picking as I haven't cited any evidence to support my claims. All I'm asking for is some kind of mental parameter...
In my humble opinion, if I catch your drift, there are two active agents in this volatile mixture, to wit: 1. Logic and allied abilities that make hum...
Good point! Just what I was trying to get at with Hippyhead. There has to be some limiting condition on what can be desired, something you've just all...
I have loved, greatly so, many things. from the ocean's fins to the sky's wings. In passion I desired deep my love, to in a cage keep what else in cag...
I think we're talking past each other at this point. I'll try and reframe the issue at stake in a way that, to me, highlights the features that intere...
No problem. Just thought I could pick your brain on something I haven't resolved. I have a response to the version of the want paradox that goes like ...
At the risk of boring you, I'll continue to harp away at the paradox I presented to you. One way out of the vicious circle I mentioned earlier is to s...
:rofl: On a serious note, there's an unsettling paradox with desire/want. Sorry Buddhists. I mean there are two options here: 1. Want or 2. Not to wan...
Why be rational? If this query is posed by way of an inquiry into other possibilities, possibilities other than rational, then, in my humble opinion, ...
What influences our thoughts? That somehow feels wrong to me. It's not that there are influences as much as it's a question of exploration of ideas/co...
:up: Definition: Solipsism: the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. To my reckoning, solipsism smacks of idealism which I ...
Not to contradict you but name one event in a bullet's trajectory that isn't determined. To be frank, the matter isn't as clear to me as I would've li...
It seems I didn't express myself well enough. Let me give it another shot. @"kudos" thinks, if I understood him, that things out of our control are ch...
Happy Thanksgiving to you too. Sorry if this reply comes to late. I just saw it now. I hope this doesn't bore you but I have issue with the part of yo...
This reminds me of a comment I made in another thread about how even in a completely deterministic set up, the way things proceed/occur may be miscons...
:rofl: Tentative as in the future may be different from the past and the present? Right, but just as we lack reasons to believe that the future will b...
I thought it's a rock-paper-scissors arrangement we have in the natural world, like we have in the military: archers beat pikemen, pikemen beat cavalr...
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