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Right. The question is: what is the source of the indirect realist's confidence that the mental phenomena are caused by the dot?

But the direct realist relies on the observations that support belief in electrons (like the light dots on a CRT). The indirect realist has to say tha...

The question is about why you have confidence that your observations reflect the facts, when you've concluded that your observations are creations of ...

Yea, but I've had dreams that were complex, with customs and history to it. One involved physicists who had giant potatoes where their torsos should b...

It's that the scientist starts by assuming direct realism, then disproves direct realism. It's an ouroboros.

Ok.

I agree that there's a big difference between hallucinating and seeing our shared world. I think if indirect realism is specifically the situation wit...

Quite likely.

The first sentence is a paradox, isn't it?

One of the conundrums with indirect realism is that it seems to start as direct realism, where the scientist assumes he sees the world exactly as it i...

I think everything on that list was indirect realism. I thought that was indirect.

Indirect realism is the prevailing view of our time. I think the contemporary direct realist is trying to steer clear of the problems associated with ...

I don't think so. When I'm done I want to sink down into the warm ooze of a worm's belly and come back out as something else. Fertilizer for an oak tr...

I think the previously mentioned science fiction writers would say that nobody thought tuberculosis was curable, until it was. There were those who cl...

I don't know. It's uploadable in a lot of science fiction, and those writers weren't thinking of anything mystical. I've always assumed it was some so...

I think my self is something like music, with notes and chords like a piano. There's a physical component, and intellectual and emotional ones. Or I m...

But a person can experience the world without engaging it in any way. If you mean the character of experience is shaped by interaction, I would agree ...

Atomism is indispensable. As long as the advocate of embodied consciousness understands that, all is well. It's just a shift in perspective of the sor...

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On this point I'd offer rather than an objection, just the reason I've had trouble understanding those who talk about embodied consciousness. It's tha...

You're suspicious of scientific findings because you think they're tainted by false preconceptions. Are you proposing that science sort of start over ...

Well said.

You see the screen by way of the ghost zombie.

It's a ghostly entity stranded in our universe who hopes to one day be able to eat your brain.

You're seeing the screen by way of an intermediary. :razz:

I did say you were "quasi-functionalist." I think if science were to show that functional consciousness is indeed a holistic relation between body and...

I don't think there's necessarily anything narrow about the reductionism of a functionalist. A functionalist just doesn't separate functional consciou...

As I mentioned earlier, yours appears to be a quasi-functionalist view. It's a minority view, but one that's appealing to many. Its weakest point is t...

Oh, yeah, I see that. Some of the posters, like @"Pierre-Normand" have been addressing the issue by going beyond mental representation to the realm of...

Why stick to mental representation? That just leaves us with phenomenal consciousness and leaves out the bulk of representational content.

I would take that to mean that representation is sometimes in the form of innate nervous responses (like algorithms) that don't involve phenomenal con...

Is the English version of your name Harvey?

Is the challenge meant to ask why indirect realists don't succumb to global skepticism? Or is it just asking how indirect realists explain how they so...

I was just thinking of a broad deflationism following Frege's insights about the indefinability of truth. That would be true if I defined truth as use...

Couldn't an indirect realist just be deflationary about truth and say their grounding for justifications is practical purposes?

This doesn't bother me. It means they're trying to do what's right. That's not my assumption, it's in the historical record. Since the early 20th Cent...

In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard is offering Abraham as an image of a human who has melded with God. He has the "power which is impotence", which mea...

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden role of Chance in LIfe and in the Markets -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb "This book is the synthesis of, on the one hand, t...

He broke up with her and then wrote his greatest works trying to come to terms with what he'd done to her. He didn't resent women.

I got my subscription to watch the second season of Sweet Home. They got me!

I agree that it can be overdone, as if use is some sort of holy grail. Obviously the concept of use is dependent on its negation: the useless, like th...

Yes. It's pretty good. You just put "Netflix" in your google and pay them $10 or whatever it is they charge. Then you can watch Sweet Home on your mig...

Why does it strike you as narrow minded?

It's also in a book. The descriptions of events in Communist China are brutal.

Ha! He was a proto-Heidegger.

Three Body Problem is on Netflix.

I don't think existentialism is the source either. I'm speculating that it was part of the times some how. Kierkegaard's generation included Abraham L...

Part of that was the Nuremberg trials in which Nazi soldiers were asked to explain their actions. According to folklore, they said they were soldiers,...

Nihilism starts when people stop grasping for distractions that keep them from facing the fact that "All is vanity.". All that stuff that keeps people...

:up: It overlaps with positive nihilism.