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We probably need to do some real Quining on this issue.

Sounds like you've already had it.

Oh. Thanks!

Yeah, no. We're conscious of seeing trees. That is qualia.

Where? I can't find it.

Plus it's common knowledge that we're conscious of tastes, sights, sounds, etc. That consciousness is qualia. Since it's common knowledge, you have th...

Qualia is the reason functionalism is wrong. So, yes, the concept has use.

So you came here especially to tell us to leave you alone. That's weird

I've finally started seeing people of your type getting the virus. I think it was Thanksgiving plus it's just thoroughly present in the environment no...

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Could it reflect how we're bound to think about the world, but not how the world really is?

Cool. Do you think this is apriori?

Probably not. But information doesn't have to be a message that's sent from writer to reader. It could just be you looking into the night sky, as if t...

Uh huh. Banno's may or may not be an Austin-Davidson mash-up. He mentioned Davidson, but Davidson dealt with sentences, not statements, so, who knows.

You could use the word that way. There's another thing that's call a "proposition" though. It doesn't have to be stated, ever.

Belief is an endorsement of a state of the world. You're saying we don't endorse a representation made of sounds or marks. We endorse the thing repres...

Do crows do that?

They also wash their mushrooms before they eat them. An octopus knows it's seeing itself in a mirror. Even cats don't do that. So what exactly is abst...

It may be that language and our ability to think abstractly go hand in hand?

Propositions, per the most common AP meaning, are expressed by uttered sentences. They aren't "aspects of statements." Per Russell, they're states of ...

Possibly due to memory processing.

A proposition is a state of affairs. I just remembered that I told you that when I first came to this forum and you were insulting as fuck, something ...

I recently posted an article on 15 years of research that showed that humans really aren't like other animals in terms of memory storage. Human memory...

I think the 'elite' are global entities with limited ties to the US. The apparent division in the US comes from a political pendulum that's mostly in ...

Then how should we think about these correlations? Reductively? Ideally? Emergently? Or would you say we don't need to pursue that question?

I know. As I wrote that to creative I had this image of me about to lose my grip and fall down into a hermeneutic abyss. And then this huge guy came o...

This statement would be a reflection on your own folk psychology (specifically mind-reading.) You attribute beliefs and other mental states as a way o...

Cats demonstrate purposeful behavior. You're calling this belief. Whether we want to conflate purposefulness with belief is a decision made at the lev...

So it can't be just a matter of talking. It's about understanding, for which talking is not necessary. Why even mention it? To understand what X is, i...

I see what you're saying. I think dealing with everything in terms of statements and truth is a comfort zone for some. Now that we know more about neu...

No.

I thought he wanted to show that one can demonstrate belief without it being belief that A. A test for that would be: is the belief truth apt? If so, ...

I think you'd need a belief that is neither true nor false (right nor wrong).

I don't know. Someone once told me that to understand China, you have to know that life is cheap there, and has been for a long time. I was resistant ...

Poetically speaking. One thing you might overlook is that people who are really struggling don't have a lot of time to carry signs and gripe in unison...

The showing takes place on TV and radios, both of which facilitate it because it makes money in advertising and subscriptions. The media is kind of li...

You can't speed up mysticism.

Be one with the flatness

Most people probably look a little bit like a muppet.

Does Wittgenstein mesh well with realism?

If they're insane maybe.

Hmm. Peace out zombie. :cool:

Phase 1 just tests for baseline safety. Phase 2 optimizes dosing. Phase 3 checks again for safety, dosing, and effect. Once it's approved for use, we ...

Yes. I mean, you could be right. It may be that this vaccine does nothing. The flu vaccine I get every year is only 70 % effective. I was kind of surp...

The Chinese govt does that with political prisoners. After they claimed they'd stopped, watchdog groups say the number of transplants taking place ind...

Knowledge of physiology confirms phenomenal consciousness: Much of the activity of the CNS takes place without any associated awareness, and some of i...

See, but act Grow, but stand firm Shiver, if only to woo And lose nothing --Asian poem

Did they?

Best tv show ever.

You do take many things as obvious. For instance, if you hold up a hand and say "Here's a hand.”, there's nothing wrong with that. There's no ontologi...