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['Member']Joined: October 16, 2017 at 03:59Last active: August 21, 2021 at 20:421 discussions21 comments

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Hi! Interesting ideas, but a few things to consider with your points. 1-2) Why is it matter that is combining to produce thought? Why not a more ideal...
March 30, 2018 at 18:44
Nothing is an interesting concept, which seems to be explored in other threads, but yeah, it looked very pointilist.
November 15, 2017 at 02:47
It could just mean read and comprehend, but we always could go deeper. When you think about it, how do we know that our knowledge or senses like color...
November 10, 2017 at 16:39
Sure, assuming we can agree on a definition for "see".
November 07, 2017 at 02:05
Matter/energy/whatever our "physical" substance is can be "Medium A". Space or whatever the space Medium A operates in can be "Medium B". The sensors ...
November 07, 2017 at 02:01
We could go down the epistemological rabbit hole and ask all of these : ), but in the context of the statement it is the paper (and I guess myself) ar...
November 04, 2017 at 16:25
I may get into trouble myself speaking about Physics, but I don't think any of this works against the theory. Our sensors may not be measuring the exa...
November 04, 2017 at 15:58
It's been awhile since I've done automata / language theory, but I guess it could like a Turing machine in that it takes the "input tape" of physical ...
November 03, 2017 at 22:39
Fair enough : ). If there is too much baggage with "outside", we could always define the universe as encompassing everything there is, which can inclu...
November 03, 2017 at 22:34
It is a logical argument based on certain assumptions and one potential property of God. You are free to disagree. Just make sure your alternative sol...
November 03, 2017 at 02:08
It seems you are taking back your proposal of how storage works, so we are now back to what do you mean by stored, and what is doing the storing? I do...
November 03, 2017 at 02:00
You say the easiest example is when the sensor is another chessboard, so that sensor is what I meant by the second chessboard. If the sensor is not a ...
October 30, 2017 at 23:34
Do you envision then that the second chessboard has a third chessboard for one of its sensors, which has a fourth chessboard, then a fifth chessboard,...
October 30, 2017 at 01:54
There is infinite information in a finite space. There are an infinte number of ways to divide a centimeter, a milimeter, a tiny sphere, a cube, etc. ...
October 30, 2017 at 00:40
I would argue that the arguments are there, but it's hard to clarify if you just throw up your hands in exasperation. There is a formal logic behind i...
October 29, 2017 at 21:45
I think in your classification it's a physical theory. There are always points, fractals, or any other construct we might devise that overlays a space...
October 20, 2017 at 02:05
No worries. Let's see if I can address your concerns. The paper addresses it in more depth, but here goes... Say a sensor covers a chessboard square. ...
October 19, 2017 at 01:31
Hi , You should be able to just click on the "Download from archive" button on the PhilPapers page. If that doesn't work I can post another link. Rega...
October 18, 2017 at 00:58
Without delving too deeply into what qualia are, if we accept that we had "thoughts", or whatever we call the phenomenal properties, in the past, and ...
October 17, 2017 at 01:39
Hi, thanks for reading! Some replies... 1) Admittedly, the potential paradox is strongest when considering physical cases, and the physical is not a 1...
October 17, 2017 at 01:38
I'm having a little trouble following, so my apologies if I'm missing your point. The problem is not the number of inputs per se. There could be an fe...
October 17, 2017 at 01:36