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A red ball has the property of redness. A red ball is not the property of redness, though. They're two different things, so it's hard to see how a col...

I understand what you're saying, but I think it's relative. If you're watching the passage of time, you're stationary. But you're also in the stream o...

Red has the property of redness? That doesn't sound right.

So if it's the property red, then the set contains things past, present, and future. It contains things like my blood in the light (my blood isn't red...

It appears to be both. If we're listening to music and clapping along, awareness of is in the anticipation, and then the gratification of all clapping...

I agree. All I know of consciousness is that I am conscious. All the words I have to speak about it are community property, gaining meaning in practic...

I wonder if dogs think humans are like gods who magically pull food out of bags and then tackle them and try to take their toys away in a tug of war.

So when someone tells me they're in pain, we aren't investigating an internal state, because language doesn't do that. It's more that they're announci...

So litewave wants the property P to be equal to the set of all things that have P, we'll call it set Q. But we can't say that P=Q? Because they're dif...

Panpsychism fan?

There's anticipation in agriculture, where the farmer waits for the last frost date. There's anticipation in music, as when you clap along to the beat...

I stumbled over this same issue, so you're not alone, but you're wrong. In the club metaphor, the set is the membership list, not the members themselv...

nope. Read Mary Tiles' book on set theory. The club metaphor is from her book.

A set is not its elements. Imagine a club that all teachers automatically belong to, by virtue of being teachers. The set is this membership criteria,...

What does it do with them? Sell them on ebay?

My comment on your argument is that direct experience is inviolate. If you experienced X, you experienced X. If you deny that, you'll end up in the mi...

Look for information about what the world will be like in 2100. For instance, much of the Middle east will have become uninhabitable, with human life ...

Word to your mother.

I discussed it with the world the other day and it said it definitely hates Israel.

:up:

The whole world hates Israel.

Right. I think my point might be too obscure. Let me tell a story. I was once sitting in a cafe and I found myself becoming agitated and angry. I coul...

Just thinking it through, but what if you say "it hurts" in certain situations because you're a natural born mimic? Over time, you learn to associate ...

Interesting quote

I came the same conclusion. If you tried to say anything about what's unique about your own experience, it would be a description of your history and ...

That reminds me of the way the parts of a single sentence gain meaning relative to one another, even though it's expressed sequentially. In the middle...

I understand what you're saying. My theory is that the conception of time is related to anticipation. Agriculture creates anticipation throughout the ...

I love sangria though. Mmmm.

Cool. I see he quotes Schopenhauer, so I approve.

I haven't. Does he talk about the problem of other minds?

Wayfarer is mistaken. Chalmers is non-mysterian. He thinks that in order to create a scientific theory of consciousness, we need to posit first-person...

https://youtu.be/lhM9cft4tmQ?si=V1BhUBQe3jlDCYig

:lol: Edward ScissorThumbs.

We're talking about the most simple, center of everything sort of experience, like the ITT theory graphic: check it out. Let's call it the intrinsic p...

Nobody wants to venture down the silk road without a cold six pack.

https://youtu.be/kG_8acXCSVs?si=U0QQmNxjOBP2WBZ7

I could use "scissor" as a verb for rubbing blades against each other: The chef accidentally scissored his thumb, turning the salad pink. So if you sc...

Virtual fulcrum? Couldn't he slide the blades against each other such that a point in space is a fulcrum, but it's not permanent?

That's coming from expectation of the Fed dropping interest rates in September. But the CPI is up, so we may not get it. I think the other factor is t...

Bread and wine are the earliest cases of food preservation.

Why do you say that?

Two sad people having a really sad discussion about a really sad topic. This is why woke died. :sad:

How's the weather in Kiev?

Ok?

Globalization isn't going to survive climate change, and that's actually underway now. Get with the times. That's great.

It probably ends eventually. Everybody will be sitting around looking at each other.

That's your boy retaliating because someone said he was ignorant.

The idea that there ought to be "trust" between countries is a leftover from the Cold War. Those days are gone.

They're both problematic. At least we don't have to worry about being invaded by Russia.