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.. I brought up the seed. Mww had been expanding perception out from the brain via the binding of cause and effect, so I just extended it further so t...

Pass, definitely. I'm guessing that if we read Schopenhauer drastically differently, we probably also read different Kants. What is time according to ...

Since you were vaccinated, it should start clearing out soon. Asshole virus.

If we're in a dream right now, that question is dubious. What's your answer?

And when you name the rose, this naming is anchored in a public domain. So we could say that perception is something whole cultures do. (Just to expan...

Probably the boredom is making it worse. Can you take a walk or something?

You're not making much sense.

Not really. We're not fucking Japanese (except the ones who are).

After four years of this: https://c.ndtvimg.com/2020-02/cmlusg6g_donald-trump-afp_625x300_25_February_20.jpg we no longer have the ability to be embar...

Thar joke isn't all that funny. Needs work.

Uh huh.

Not much of a philosophy fan, huh?

I'm guessing they just want information about how Russia contacted him. The hacking charge is pretty minor.

I don't think you read it very closely then. He's not saying we're all similar. He's saying there is only one will that drives all events.

Read it. It kicks ass.

That was a good one.

I was going full-tilt Schopenhauer. There is only one perceiver that is somehow magically multiplexed. That's where I was headed. Trying to specify th...

What would I do with a Big Door?

Can it be really bizarre prose?

Likewise the flower is an effect of a seed dropping at a certain place. It dropped because of its initial location in another flower. And so on and on...

True.

I just meant that people use "internal" and "external" in different ways that might sometimes conflict. Why attribute the least things possible to obj...

A psychologist might talk about an internal dialogue. A surrealist thinks a dreamlike account is closer to the truth. In a Stephen King novel telepath...

No. Dennett is a functionalist.

Uh... :joke:

Gravity isn't a theory. Newton said so himself.

It's just this: "The phenomenal character of an experience is what it is like subjectively to undergo the experience." That's it. We don't know what c...

Yep. I agree.

This is the first definition in the SEP article on qualia: "Qualia as phenomenal character. Consider your visual experience as you stare at a bright t...

I don't understand. What's a holistic conception of qualia?

Absolutely. Why were you disagreeing with me earlier? That's exactly what I was saying. MP is saying that a black dot, for instance, can't be perceive...

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What do you think he means by "pure" qualia? If you answer that it might help me understand how you're interpreting him. How on earth do you not see t...

I don't know what kind of source you're looking for. It's explicit in the quote you provided. I'm wondering what in the world you think that quote mea...

For what? That MP says perception can't be atomized?

MP is telling you that perception is organized around ideas. The fireplace is an idea, not something arising from visual data. If we don't agree on th...

You're loading the term "qualia" with some sort of absolute independence. MP would say that nothing that's phenomenally accessible to us has that stat...

There are a lot of female anti-abortion advocates as well, though. In fact, I don't think Texas could end legal abortion without either the help or ap...

If you take MP to be suggesting that either qualia or sense data are illusions, you're using some very limited definition of those terms that might co...

I'm just not following.

Can you put that more simply?

Several kinds of influenza are globally endemic.

Eventually a woman from Texas will have to travel to get an abortion. How far, though? To Ohio?

In the eyeball of the homunculus, where it's processed into another representation that's recognized by the second homunculus, and so on.

Right. Phenomenology isn't as ambitious as science, tho.

I don't think anyone moves from scientific findings to global skepticism. Common sense tells you that a representational scheme is vulnerable to skept...

The sensory side of the nervous system uses electrical discharges to communicate with the central nervous system, which is the brain and spinal cord. ...

He's fucked.

Is the sense of having a certain vantage point also part of the model? IOW, is the sense of separation between viewer and scene a construction too? Be...