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No, I'm more in-touch with modern neurophilosophy. Much of that earlier stuff, identity theory and the like, was led to apologize years after being es...

That's what the word "how" means. When people use why in its plave, they are garmmatically incorrect. That's not a false dichotamy, that's literally t...

Now, that, is interesting. I don't know. It's not something I can rationally formulate an opinion on just yet. I'll need time to integrate more data. ...

"What is happening," is the proper understanding of how, instead of why. So, yes, precisely. That's right, you already know how. You're asking why of ...

Oh, I've stumbled across them. I don't know if argue is the proper teminology to use. However, I have a good deal of fun dumping this particular, vira...

Dennis

No, you're not. You just say you are using instruments made out of material we both share. It's lie you all tell yourselves to hide from reality. A fa...

Yep, I'm aware. You seem to be leaving out, oh I don't know, every single other part that plays a role in the operation of transistors within the cont...

Everything. This is an elaborate strawman of reality that does not take into acount anything to do with chemical reactions that take place within the ...

No, I'm claiming that you are not equipped for this conversation, mister transistor. The logical equivalent of your line of inquiry is asking me if I'...

Am I really supposed to be taking this line of inquiry seriously? Do you have a damn point about material reality to make, or are you going to continu...

Not that I brought up computers, or anything, but the definition of the word will do just fine: an electronic device for storing and processing data, ...

Not in any conceivable way. To even suggest as much means that you have simply never been exposed to the inside of a computer chassis. No kidding.

There's no point in asking why in the sense of meaning. The manner in which you just employed why, is actually to say "how is this happening?" A lingu...

Seeing isn't the issue. Determining what it is you are saying is the problem. Again, the manner in which you've been posting is not clear.

Nobody said it was. The how is open for discovery. The "why" is not. Why is itself a human concept, that was my point. Not that matter is a concluded ...

So, yes, scientists have determined that it's possible, but would take the kind of production that is beyond human capacity right now. ........ No. Th...

Simulation and consciousness are mutually exclusive terms. Not anytime soon, but possibly. No. Independent concept generation for sole the purpose of ...

I don't know about them. Other people have to tell me about them. Same as everyone. This is mystical woo. You only ever experience what your brain pro...

How it works was told to you. Why it works, is an anthropomorphization of reality. There is no why, there is only how. Organs are themselves specializ...

You don't experience other people's mental states. You are confined to the experience of your brain. You absolutely are experiencing those neural sign...

I do believe you just made this up, to be honest.

I don't, the manner in which you post isn't clear.

Through chemical interactions across 80 billion neurons. Consciousness is actually NOT only associated with some parts of the brain, but all of them w...

That actually is not the question. The question is does the brain do this? The answer is yes. The brain governs all human activity. As far as how, tha...

Shouldn't be an issue, here's google: physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit; (in physics) that which occupies space and poss...

That's not why it was quoted, Banno. Anti-reality man was trying to pull a gotcha.

This clears up the opinion you asserted that sounded like mysticism. My apologies. This is a statement objectivity, not subjectivity on Clark's part. ...

I am not missing any point. Sensations, such as the ones you are describing, are not real. They are sensations of that which is real; ancillary sensat...

Another anti-realityist down the tubes. And here I thought this was a philosophy forum... It's weird to see so many people on here, just like you on t...

"The whole modern conception of Wittgenstein is founded on the illusion that the opinions he posits are explanations of natural phenomena." - Garrett ...

That's weird to say, when such a claim is clearly an objective statement about God. With such a claim I have, objectively, been relegated to not under...

All of these things have scientific explanation. Also, an argument from ignorance is a fallacy. It wouldn't actually matter to your position if there ...

Every single thing you said is the result of matter. I eat bread, all matter. I kill myself, all matter. Such beliefs leading to those material action...

This is clearly what is going on in the universe. Anybody that says otherwise is thinking in terms of magic.

Yes. The brain is made of matter, not pixie dust. Highly functional, highly systemmatized, genetically coded, matter of unrivaled sophistication. Thin...

Yes, and consciousness is an objectively real thing giving rise to those real emotions that are exclusively your experience. Again, reality and your f...

That is correct. The word "identical" doesn't really have a place here, not really applicable. The brain creates the states, just as it does everythin...

Yes, our brains have different ways of computing data, and chemical composition and so forth. Those aren't realities. Those are states of thought indu...

This is not a statement that makes sense. Reality and objective reality are the same. Objective is a reality descriptor. So, I don't know what you're ...

All states, short of illnesses of certain types, are produced by the brain. Mental states are a result of neural activity in association with chemical...

A reality doesn't have to exist for objects in it to interact? This is demostrably inaccurate. Objective means, in the context that we're talking abou...

Yes. Objectively. No, no claim of the kind was made. Nothing about attainment, or absolute truth. Radical Objectivity is not open to us, that much is,...

Valid? As in, objectively and logically fact based? I can't read what you're typing over you being the one objectively typing it. All evidence comes f...

The existence of objects is present and recognized before you can ever come to that conceptual framework. You have just demonstrated that you perceive...

This is what is called a strawman, and I'm going to have to ask you not to tell me what I believe. As in, at all. I let YOU know what I believe. And, ...

That's correct. The closer you get to objectivity, science, induction, logic, reason, and evidence, the further away you get from "accounts of God." M...

Objective reality is a recognition of a self-evident, self-emergent, productive, law abiding, patternized, immutable plain of existence. Not an assump...

Since when does robbery imply the forfeiture of consciousness? At what point do the material possessions stolen by the robber validate the proposition...

No, an absolute reality outside of the one accounted for by physics and biology requires a God. Where do you formulate this mysticism? There is nothin...