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It sounds like you're saying that social fragmentation ends up being reflected in individual psyches.

True.

You make this kind of statement a lot. Set out your argument, do you have anything substantive, if you have a point, make it. Then you promptly respon...

It appears someone's been reading the SEP. <--- That sentence has a rigid designator in it. It actually comes down to what I meant by it. Don't forget...

Go back to the shoutbox where you belong, bub.

Science fiction has been calling for a theory of consciousness since Capek's RUR. Those who aren't interested, don't know why anyone would ask, and ar...

That's not true. We hypothesize about possible entities all the time. Sometimes we make them real.

That's a novel interpretation of Witt, isn't it? I think he was pointing out that when we propose to know transcendent facts, we're positing a vantage...

If you're saying that the eye can't see itself, yes, that's a concern.

How do you know that?

Mainly because functional consciousness would serve all those purposes adequately. What evolutionary advantage is there to having the experience of hu...

Whatever you're going on about, it has nothing to do with the hard problem.

:lol: You said a mouthful, Cuz!

:blush: I just worked 52 hours in the last four days due to the little triple pandemic of COVID, flu, and RSV knocking out our department. What's your...

Dennett has a minority viewpoint. Don't sweat it. :grin:

True. It's good to see you. Hope you're doing well!

Since Chalmers imagines that once we have a working theory of consciousness, we'll be able to predict what it's like to be a bee, this clearly has not...

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He's not suggesting that information processing gives rise to subjectivity. He's point out that it's two different things. There's functional consciou...

No.

That's what we want to know. Chalmers is a good start if you're interested in the philosophy behind developing a scientific theory of consciousness. H...

You're pushing Hume's bundle theory. Fine. Kripke isn't saying that objects exist independently of their properties. That would just be ridiculous.

Chalmers proposes that things like neutral monism or the extended mind would help us get closer to a theory of consciousness. He's flexible. But stric...

Since an object with no properties is beyond imagination, it's not so much that Hesperus would disappear as that we're no longer talking about a possi...

Yep. :scream:

The beginning of a theory of consciousness would just start with guessing at what kind of system could produce the experience of gazing straight ahead...

I don't debate MU, and I don't debate you, for pretty much the same reason. I'll respond when you're inserting your own garbage in Kripke's mouth, for...

It wasn't for your benefit. It was in case someone reading along was thrown by your bizarre interpretation. I was confirming that you're intentionally...

I agree that you have some reading comprehension issues.

Integrated information theory is a stab at creating a theory grounded in direct experience. It's a beginning.

That's not what he said. No, it doesn't. As he explains in the passage you quoted, it doesn't even make sense to say the lectern could have been made ...

I don't know. Probably doesn't matter.

You said unit.

Wait a minute. You didn't understand Kripke when we started. Why are you trying to assign shit?

Banno may or may not be emotionally attached to naive realism and uses his intellect to find ways to ignore challenges to it and deny others the right...

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This makes as much sense forwards as backwards.

That's ok then. Have you ever heard of the traditional new years meal with collard greens, black eyed peas and cornbread? It supposed to be good luck ...

With gravy?

It's the year of the rabbit.

Can you explain the long term consequences of this war?

A = A is central to Leibniz's project, although I've dropped a lot of that in the bit bucket apparently.

Yes, you're right.

Didn't Kripke mention Leibniz's law? Although I've thought A=A was Leibniz's law since I read a book about him. Don't know how I got that confused.

Oh. I thought that was Leibniz's law.

(2) is Leibniz's law: A = A.

The necessity we're talking about is with regard to the truth of statements. Some statements are necessarily true, some are contingently true. Note th...

If someone described truth as a confused idea, I'd say they're not any kind of philosopher. Want to start a thread on it?

Rorty is just an ontological anti-realist. There's a whole spectrum of that including various hard and soft options. It's all analytical philosophy, t...

I'd say necessity is implicit in Leibniz's law. He's just making it explicit because he's about to challenge the notion that apriori=necessary, and ap...