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There's an infinite sequence between each one. That's why it takes so loooooooong.

If you can't tell me in basic terms what externalism is, we're done.

It takes a really long time to count all the votes in Nevada.

Quining? This is where we disagree. You need to know what externalism is to understand Dennett. I've already discussed the PLA one twice. Banno threw ...

Deflation of qualia would benefit philosophy and science. With exercises meant to demonstrate that a person's reports about qualia are vague, confused...

Museum of natural history, foot section.

I hope you take this in the spirit its intended, which is friendly: why are you trying to exegesize this article when you don't know much about philos...

:razz: I was just trying to point out how I think you're misinterpreting him. Butting out..

Sure! Give me a couple of days.

Gangrene doesnt really spread aggressively. The fungal or bacterial infection near the juncture is what spreads, straight into the bloodstream. But we...

"Xi's political thoughts have been written into the party and state constitutions. Xi has often been called a dictator or an authoritarian leader by p...

A caesar might deal with global warming more effectively. China has a caesar, so we'll see.

I saw an interview with the guy who ghost-wrote Trump's book. He described trump just this way: https://youtu.be/nknYtlOvaQ0

There's mental content externalism, and other siblings like knowledge externalism. The wisdom in it is that a lot of mental content is related to comm...

He insists on externalism. Remember Wittgenstein? and Quine? He thinks that 3rd person data is all there is. Yes, there's a little nuance to that, but...

It's about power.

Conscious experience and 3rd person data about conscious experience.

See the critique section of this wiki article on heterophenomenology. Compare his description of it to that of colleagues who talked to him about it. ...

Confidence in it is at a low point, I think. If Trump wins, I just feel like we'll ve cruising into a recession, deepening of the pandemic, worsening ...

I'm going to be so incredibly depressed if Biden loses. My nihilism isn't working!

Dennett thinks people endorse things like hardness or redness because they're doing the best they can to interpret neurological functioning, not becau...

Could you explain it a little more? Please?

I'm stuck in Mary's room. What frequency is it?

So we have a chapter zero, so specified because the general theme of the book is absence. One of the highlights of this chapter is a review of the eme...

I think I'll make another thread to discuss the book in, this one can remain for more general discussion of emergence.

If there are philosophers who imagine qualia as discrete packets of sense data, I don't know who they are. It's not a mainstream view, and I don't thi...

That's quoted in the book. Ha! True. He's saying that science and philosophy focus on what's present, but would benefit from noticing the potency of l...

Terrance Deacon says that when we pile stuff together it usually just makes a mess and then disintegrates toward the heat death of the universe. He sa...

Woe, Obama is Trump's father.

First thing I wonder is: do physical sciences not deal with absence? Why is a vacuum not a case of an influential absence?

It's interesting: "So, at the risk of initiating this discussion with a clumsy neologism, I will refer to this as an absential2 feature, to denote phe...

I just got the kindle version.

I'm up for it as long as the book isn't super expensive.

Yes, I didn't mean take Chalmers as gospel, but rather look at the pros and cons of it.

What if we worked toward a basic definition and then conquered Chalmers strong and weak emergence? The IEP puts it this way: "If we were pressed to gi...

We just had a full moon, so yes. :razz:

There's a difference in reports or accounts of what's happening at different levels. If there were no accounting happening, would the difference still...

:rofl:

We can just call it phenomenal consciousness.

50 years from now nobody will care. It's going around that people should stay home in the next week or so due to civil unrest. Are they saying that in...

Yes. Knowing how tornadoes work requires more than understanding the mechanics of moving dust, and we can understand tornadoes without knowing anythin...

If a property is emergent, it has characteristics that are not seen in its building blocks. A tornado is an emergent entity. If I'm reductionist regar...

You need to stop doing that. Dennett is a reductionist.

Non-reductive physicalism is pretty standard in philosophy of mind. Is that what you're describing here?

Do you think intention is emergent? or an illusion?

Ok good.

Are you just here to bitch about Muslims? Cause we will eggboy you.

Gotcha. :up:

Versed? The generic is midazolam. True.

Versed would inhibit memory formation, but I see what you're getting at. It just seems that you're defining consciousness as "when you're conscious."