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In some Chalmers book he said there's a silent verbal stream that coincides with attention. Maybe in a very rudimentary way data gathering is expresse...

Toe teeth are worse than mouth teeth? What about a belly button right in the middle of your abdomen? The whole thing is fucking horrific!

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I don't think it adds anything. There are numerous ways to distinguish experience from function. If "qualia" makes things confusing, drop it. The musi...

https://youtu.be/GDC0KPM0384

No. ?

Experience is multi-faceted. That's true.

You're free to insist that this is true. However the broadest meaning of the word, per the SEP, is simply phenomenal consciousness: experience. We don...

Nothing. The debate just comes down to what the word means. We all agree that consciousness includes phenomenality. What difference does it make what ...

We utilized a virtual budget to make mRNA vaccines a reality. That's how we do anything big: we conjure money out of thin air. This has been going on ...

What does this have to do with whether people should get vaccinated?

Corporations gather round the things we need. That's how it works. General Mills makes a profit off their products. That doesn't mean anything about t...

Opioids make life saving surgery possible. Modern medicine is among the greatest accomplishments of the species and you think a few cases of abuse mak...

As if modern medicine has an evil agenda. :lol:

This is awfully teleological.

You did a self portrait. Nice.

I was in a store and they were playing this really beautiful music. I thought: it's a little melancholy for Christmas, but it's nice. When I got in my...

Are brain organoids conscious? The above pop-sci article is asking a question about ethics. "Qualia" wouldn't clarify anything for the average reader....

sweet!

How useful is the word "bottleneck" ???

It's old stuff. New to you I guess? Have at it.

It was direct. Is it better to judge? Or to understand?

Someone said: "So what is one to make of the moral character of folk who hold someone who tortures folk unjustly in the highest esteem? "If you made t...

My impression is that reviving the use of "direct" realism was about rehabilitating empiricism after Kant's view had become dominant. So it's not like...

I think that's only insurmountable when the people involved are full of antagonism and don't want honest disagreement.

Shouldn't be too hard to specify what you mean?

I'll take a wild guess that the point of calling your view "direct" realism is to rule out a static intermediary while accepting a dynamic one. For my...

Plus he was bald.

Nah. I just worked 12 hours in an emergency department and I'm not interested in your bullshit.

Strangely, Pythagoras didn't discover that formula. The Egyptians had known about it for centuries. He just popularized it.

Just bring honest here: I don't see you as coming to the discussion in good faith, so I'm not interested in clarifying any statements made by either o...

Did you know Pythagoras died because he refused to cross a bean field? True story.

I don't follow your reasoning either, but we both agree with Isaac: the objects we respond and react to are internal.

The concern some might associate with different kinds of realism is whether the things we encounter have mind-independent status. If one calls the enc...

A bean is a thing Every bean can be divided infinitely, therefore even if there were beans, you couldn't get one in your mouth

Indirect realist, right?

I think you'd like Descartes. He's saying we don't need the Church as a foundation for knowledge. It was a step on the right direction.

I know, sorry about the misquote. It's just not a criticism of Descartes.

That's what Descartes said. :rofl:

You can think about thinking. You can't digest digestion. Anyone competent in English knows this. Apparently you aren't.

And a fair amount of a human's interaction with its environment is reflexive and explained post hoc. So again, what we call perception has to be tuned...

I'm guessing global systemic breakdown at some point.

Check your temperature.

I think it's been known to do that. Space heater off Amazon?

Hmm. This is getting too interesting to stay in this thread. I'm startin' a cause and effect thread, dammit!

I know I'm feeding the trolls, but still, you need a certain amount of CO2 because your body uses it to maintain the pH of your blood. To make sure yo...

Well, look back at this: Sorry, posted too soon Thinking of a dreamscape is a way to imagine time as a construct, because dream time literally is cons...

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You're married?

Do you actually believe this? I think he later decided Kant was right. His "will" is an off-shoot of his determinism. A human will is a matter of what...