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There is no distinction between the two, Harry. The brain emits, generates, or otherwise enables consciousness, just as it does sight, through its ope...
March 08, 2022 at 16:37
...? I don't understand how hepatocytes can produce anything that isn't livers. Basically the same level of analysis. Consciousness is the brain opera...
March 08, 2022 at 15:58
Yeah, I think you're right about that. I'd say this is a dimension of the Epistemology that could use a neuroscience update. Maybe I'll write about th...
March 08, 2022 at 15:25
Sure, that sounds about right. What I'm highlighting is that these ion currents are used by the network to produce representations of the world in acc...
March 08, 2022 at 15:18
Right, which is why your metaphysics, like most, isn't relevant. You cannot have a philosophy that isn't informed by the science, irrespective of whet...
March 08, 2022 at 15:15
I just don't know what to call what it is that the brain does use to produce images, sounds, ideas, concepts, and creative endeavors. Information is t...
March 08, 2022 at 14:53
lol, I see what you mean Eugene. I've no problem with it. I'm simply saying that there isn't enough literature in the science to say things definitive...
March 08, 2022 at 14:51
This is just another attempt to point to a gap in knowledge and say "See?!" that's just not what's going on here. There are plenty of things GWT can't...
March 08, 2022 at 14:49
Most of this is spot on. The concept of fields of consciousness has been tossed out in favor of GWT at this time. Always stay tuned, but that's not cu...
March 08, 2022 at 14:38
I'm still waiting on an argument against my OP. I don't care about the binding problem...
March 08, 2022 at 14:35
It isn't a problem. As I explained, it's just a gap in knowledge, most of which is accounted for in 2022. But, I can't literally explain the same thin...
March 08, 2022 at 14:34
See this is much better. So, no, I entirely understand what you're saying, and even second it. Neuroscience has not uncovered all of the mechanisms as...
March 08, 2022 at 07:03
Yes, any sort of analysis that takes place beyond basic instinct that can be used to inform later behavior is basic reason that can only grow in sophi...
March 08, 2022 at 06:40
You've already invalidated your stated postion by being here having attempted to argue with me in the first place. Do not continue to insult me simply...
March 08, 2022 at 06:32
Generates, emits, or otherwise enables. Just like sight. The brain produces consciousness exactly in the same manner that it produces sight. Yet, nobo...
March 08, 2022 at 06:15
That is correct. Consciousness remains the greatest mystery in science for highly specific reasons. However, what you are overlooking in this articles...
March 08, 2022 at 05:46
Just so everyone is aware, this is the first actual argument to appear on this thread. You've regained some points with me, Wayfarer. Well done. I'll ...
March 08, 2022 at 05:31
No, I respond to insults with insults, go have a care to notice. I do not play that bullshit, and I will always respond in kind. I never initiate insu...
March 08, 2022 at 03:26
Damn.... Best argument I've ever seen from you...
March 08, 2022 at 03:16
Oh, and I never said anything about "just" being our brains. I said we are our brains. This "just" business is your interpolation.
March 08, 2022 at 03:14
No, your research agreed with me, not you. And I pointed that out to you by quoting it. Did you miss that part? Here, I'll do it again: "This has neve...
March 08, 2022 at 03:12
That's correct. Now, take that idea and apply it to what I'm talking about, and stop just trying to dismiss what I say and insult me. The body has a c...
March 08, 2022 at 03:10
Yep, that's been clear . Now take your fake claims to some other thread, we deal in facts in my domain. And do some research on that eye thing, you're...
March 08, 2022 at 02:49
Okay, citation now. Or, this assertion can be completely dismissed. You read the parameter for the discussion, correct?
March 08, 2022 at 02:41
Nope, just dismissed your nonsense with actual facts that were stated in the words you posted. Now, it's time for you to address even the first topic ...
March 08, 2022 at 02:40
Yep. That's why you have nerves there, and why the brain allows all movements and sensations of it.
March 08, 2022 at 02:39
It doesn't receive information, that's what it is saying. No we cannot conclude such a thing. We can conclude that the eye you speak of is not a tool ...
March 08, 2022 at 02:38
No, I'm the guy rescuing you from your daydream. The brain controls everything. The brain and body are ONE, not separate: "The brain is a complex orga...
March 08, 2022 at 02:36
Yep, starting with the biological, which is to say social for humans. No way around it whatsoever that has been shown to date.
March 08, 2022 at 02:33
The eye that your wikipedia article is talking about, is not an image processing (sight) tool. What do you think it means when it clearly states, over...
March 08, 2022 at 02:31
This is some mealy-mouthed weasel speech. Never have I said anything about scientism or fucking bible thumping, you insufferable, mystic prick. You ow...
March 08, 2022 at 02:29
Un-believably-stupid thing to post.
March 08, 2022 at 02:22
You mean, the experiment that determined this?: "Here, our research reveals the brain's remarkable ability, or plasticity, to process visual data comi...
March 08, 2022 at 02:22
To just about every extent. There has not ever been a reason to not use science as one's platform for deriving abstractions in philosophy. Any philoso...
March 08, 2022 at 02:16
Blithering nonsense. The eye is the tool that the brain uses to generate sight. It has no function without the brain. I don't unite the eye and brain,...
March 08, 2022 at 02:11
No, because the manner in which we do that isn't straight forward, it's a fluid and amorphus group of methods and multisensory correspondence, includi...
March 08, 2022 at 02:04
....... No.
March 07, 2022 at 22:14
Sure, and those are questions he can answer. I don't find them very intersting, philosophically speaking. I don't have to understand every aspect of w...
March 07, 2022 at 22:14
You'll notice that it actually didn't, even in the quote you provided. "Integration" is repeated, but "differentiation" is explained as "isolated acco...
March 07, 2022 at 22:05
Sombody review this source, and tell me what on earth this "neoliberalism" is. As far as I can tell, it's a completely fabricated concept: https://reg...
March 07, 2022 at 21:47
I think you and I will get along just fine, pardner.
March 07, 2022 at 21:10
Thanks a bunch. Systems science is kind of what my metaphysics is, generally speaking. For me, everything stems from those base concepts.
March 07, 2022 at 21:01
I must have missed it, lol.
March 07, 2022 at 20:47
Very well, my friend. I didn't know that. I'll do some research. Thank you. 1928, to be exact. Very cool.
March 07, 2022 at 20:46
Isn't math our tool for mapping this stuff? Wouldn't it make sense if the framework we developed to measure physical phenomena looked like itself when...
March 07, 2022 at 20:36
GST was founded in 1933.
March 07, 2022 at 20:33
The only scientifically supported assertion (mine) on this thread is not the strawman. Your attempt to claim that I have asserted that I know how cons...
March 07, 2022 at 20:32
I'm actually in accord with this. It may be better to look at this in terms of function, exclusively.
March 07, 2022 at 20:29
Correct me if I am wrong, but General Systems Theory covers this concept in detail, does it not? This structural analysis that we're discussing is pre...
March 07, 2022 at 20:27
Where did you generate this idea from? That's not true at all. Humans (all life forms, really) achieve homeostasis through acts that accrue the resour...
March 07, 2022 at 20:19