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:up: :down: Does this not explain the visible in terms of the hidden, the public in terms of the private? These old, familiar postulated entities, gho...

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'Random' arrangements of words can signify, and this supports a detachment of words like 'qualia' from any ground in secret 'Experience.' ('Thesis a c...

Capitalist postsemanticist theory holds that the purpose of the writer is social comment, given that language is interchangeable with truth. That 'rat...

Too much tuna ! But would not that imply that the subject is performatively recontextualised within a theory that foregrounds a vanishing narrator? If...

I hope an initially ingenuous investigation of the following is incipiently instructive. Awareness merely regulates a symbolic representation of Chaos...

Qualia Are Fundamental Particles Of Information A seemingly secondary but eventually essential theme of Rhet Fardter’s critique of cultural objectivis...

How can you be sure that charge is necessary for qualia? What data have you collected, even anecdotally, to show a relationship between brains and qua...

Mentioned above that I never made such claim, but I'll also add that the loose use of 'information' is not much better than the use of 'qualia.' Huffi...

I was quoting a paper I find suspicious. I'm wondering whatever they can mean by that sort of talk.

It's not clear that 'principle through which one understands' isn't just some fancy word for the ability to learning. Will you grant an immortal subst...

From my POV, respectfully, you have not demonstrated an understanding of my point. That may be my fault, for not finding the right words. My point is ...

I just browsed the second link. It seems to completely miss the logical-semantic issue (as perhaps you do), and it's hard to gauge a priori whether it...

As far as the Aristotle quote goes, it's at least as plausible to talk about dogtricks being a 'substance' independent of the dogs that learn and even...

A really radical dualism (or something like it) has (as I see it) nothing at all to say about the relationship between qualia and its substrate. Think...

I said that it's a matter of context. But (necessarily roughly speaking) I can say 'from my point of view' or 'from your point of view' unproblematica...

I think you misunderstand me. I said that the first-person-POV makes solid sense in a literary context. 'Innocent' is synonymous with acceptable in wh...

I imagine you imaging this world somehow transformed so that ceteris paribus (somehow) there is no more electric charge. So then brains as we know the...

Oh. For that matter, evolution on this planet could have taken a different turn, so that no complicated nervous systems developed. Lots of things coul...

I see. Can you link me to some research? Some peer review? Or is this just a hunch?

'First person point of view' is potentially just as innocent as 'conscious experience,' such as a novel being written in the first person point of vie...

I can't do much either way with that phrase out of all context. Note that I mentioned giving the dead a better 'view' in my post above. Am I implying ...

As I said above, 'consciousness' has a family of meanings that are valid in ordinary life. If we thought the dead and buried were 'conscious,' we'd di...

Is that a fact? I suppose Nietzsche meant that our nervous systems are liars from the beginning, making unequal things equal, so that the raw material...

Respectfully, from my POV, you 'mysterions' (I dub thee such playfully) are trapped in the grammar of a word. Just because some philosopher invented (...

But we are talking about it right now. The concept is familiar and 'objectified.' If we were truly 'never outside of or apart from it,' we'd have no w...

'By definition' , only the 'experiencer' could describe their 'subjective' experiences.' It's just not physical scientists who have no means to chase ...

If qualia are understood to be "intuited, given, and...not the subject of any possible error because...purely subjective" (as defined by C. S. Peirce)...

:up: "Why is the performance of these functions accompanied by conscious experience?" Another prior question is...what do can we mean by 'conscious ex...

Hi. Picking on qualia is a hobbyhorse for me lately, so please pardon a question. How would one establish that qualia are caused by something? Would w...

It's tempting to treat qualia as fundamental, so that maybe existence is even 'made' of/from qualia, but I think the concept is problematic if not par...

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I agree that living is dying is being born. Life is a controlled burn. It has a learned, inherited shape (genetic, cultural, and even little bit indiv...

I should note that 'nightmare' is more negative than necessary (but allowed me to connect Heidegger and Joyce.) Another way to talk about this is in t...

In other words, ??????? (poesis) is central. :up: To see X as Y (metaphor, analogy) is primary and even creates the culture. Dead poems stack up until...

I don't know much about karma, but I like the theme, so I encourage you to share more on this.

If they were, we'd have a framework rather than frameworks. Sure, the way we approach things ('mentally' or physically, individually or as a community...

Here's an edit of what I quoted above. I find this echoed and developed in your quote. Once a thinker becomes aware of this, history is a nightmare fr...

I'm ambivalent about Heidegger. There's the stuff that seems both clear and good, and there's the stuff that comes off as confused spirituality. The c...

I think this might contribute to the thread. Critical thinking is social. If a hundred fools and mediocrities are properly organized, they can functio...

Phenomenology sounds like quite a fellow. What assures him, if anything, that he's not just writing poetry? Is it interaction? Confirmation? Perhaps. ...

If you do assume that my private experience (assuming such a thing makes senes) is like yours....enough that they deserve to be collected together und...

I will agree that personhood is significant. What needs to be corrected is the tendency to take personhood as fundamental rather than emergent. How ca...

I like all of these themes. Can self-deception be advantageous? Is there some truth of the matter in the first place that makes self-deception possibl...

:up: I agree that bias can point in many directions (including against the sacred in any of its traditional forms.) Is it so obvious that a consciousn...

Since we can't measure experience (which is largely taken as that-which-cannot-be-measured), perhaps it's better to say that the brain generates these...

I think this is on the right track. We are beings who care about things, tend to the things. We survive by working together, by synchronizing our acti...

:up: Perhaps that's why some find him offensive, because 'consciousness' tends to be perceived as a last hideout for the sacred from something like cr...

:up: That's what I understood you to mean. Basically we assume that such a definition is rational or reliable. But if the instances are truly or radic...

I don't know the context of that quote, but I like Dennett suggesting that he is confused. To me that's the point. It's an important to first step to ...