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This is interesting. It reads lile you view your bodily sensations as fundamentally different from your visual experiences in some separable way?

If the only thing that exists is experiences, then how are the questions different? "Why is there experience?" would be precisely the same as "Why is ...

Yeah, fair enough. I do agree you can plausibly see it different ways depending on how you frame things. I think our metaphysics clearly are just quit...

Very interesting. Makes me think that communism as created by Marx maybe was envisioned specifically in these kinds of communal contexts and so commun...

Was Russia ever actually truly communist though?

But most indirect realists do think that these explanations are directly evidencing indirect realisms. No, I'm not implying it in a fundamental metaph...

I don't know exactly what you mean for experience to compliment activity. If everything is experience, there is no hard problem because the problem ju...

I am not sure I see a profound difference tbh. Disruption of normal functioning is what the indirect realist sees as disruption of normal representati...

I think I will just note that my "direct awareness of information" doesn't seem conceptually that far away from semantic direct realism... minus the r...

Right. For me this almost implies some form of idealism where the object of my toe is just the experience of my toe, without anything more. I think I ...

I think it does. If you are like an idealist and the world of experience is just the world, then I don't think there is a hard problem for them in the...

Yes, when you put them side-by-side but I am still not sure what the latter really means in terms of being aquainted with the world. To me, there are ...

I am not sure I would say that the hard problem is the crux of the problem - if anything, the hard problem probably presupposes indirect realism. It's...

Well alright, but then I think I would be interested in whether you would think it acceptable for an indirect realist to call you an indirect realist,...

I would ask whether anything could ever count as indirect under this view. On the other hand, if you think of the fact that we, as parts, can be decom...

Yup, definitely agree with your sentiments in this post! I think this applies to all our learning. All we have are "stories" that are constructed and ...

It depends what you mean by representation I think. You can have very minimal notions which do not do very much work or richer notions which are just ...

Yes, I agree though I don't know if there is necessarily a dichotomy here. I think what you call modeling still relies on some underlying processes wh...

See, for me I do not see why it would not be the case for the brain to have the same experiences if the sensory inputs were the same. I don't think a ...

Yes for that thought experiment, but what I am talking about is the question of whether if you artificially stimulate sensory receptors of a brain wit...

I am not exactly sure what you mean by this but the picture I was painting I wasn't necessarily implying anything about representation. I am a bit agn...

Sorry, I am not following what you've said at all. So you're an indirect realist or a direct realist?

Its how many half-pizzas you get in one pizza.

In the sense of physical chains of events, then maybe it is trivially the case that what the brain is doing and perceiving relies on what is happening...

Rest in Peace!

It may be an objective fact that everyone hates murder. But this is no more objective than a fact of one person liking murder. So I don't see how anyt...

That's fair. I didn't actually think you were making an argument, I just didn't know where you were coming from. To me it looked like you had misunder...

Amen, ha

I'll just point out there are some nice, accessible lectures on youtube from the philosopher Banno cites, Gillian Russell. Highly recommend taking a l...

I just don't understand what the intention of your initial comment was. From my perspective it doesn't follow from the rest of the thread I was follow...

That would suggest you are implying information is randomness; the original point of my post presupposes this is not necessarily the case.

Yes, but then it is another issue how that might relate to what people call information.

Yeah, I guess that is fair. I haven't watched the video so I can't comment too much. Maybe it again comes down to this whole use of the word 'informat...

Well compressing a file is eliminating all the redundancies or regularities in the data. So if you keep compressing data you are removing all the patt...

The thing is that we have no access to physical things beyond our physiological boundaries. Physical things are themselves only latent in images of ex...

But surely if they had different labels, they would learn after a while that they were not talking about the same things and they would end up changin...

It depends what you mean by information. The word I think is used so loosely that you may be able to solve this issue purely by working out your seman...

Well I said both. I just don't understand the context of what you have said, you'll have to explain the entire context. The point is that biology is r...

Sorry, I'm finding it hard to follow what you mean on either of these but nevermind. This seems redundant to me. I find it hard to believe what is bes...

Volume? What do you mean? What should matter is empirical facts about the actual scenario? There is no need to ask "what is in line with biological fa...

Yes, I think our main difference is that you want to hang on to the idea of true sentences and I do not really care for that.

But wouldn't you say that all these examples are very different and societies can live in many different ways? Sometimes its more egalitarian, sometim...

I think I have to ask for an elaboration on what your view is exactly to answer any of this because I am not sure of the direction you are coming from...

Biology trivially determines behavior in the way that physics does. All our behaviours are the output of biological processes, scaffolded on processes...

Yes, I do play the game, there's no other choice, but there's always a caveat. I think its impossible to view the world outside of some particular per...

Honestly, I feel like my views on the world would actually be less consistent if I didn't think that my views or the things I said did not suffer thos...

The way I see it, these paradoxes show in a nice way how all truth is an idealization. Why? Because we never have direct objective access to some kind...

Yes, I wasn't necessarily trying to identify meaning with function but more like there isn't anything more to what we call meaning than 'function' whi...

there are neither intensional nor intentional states imo Not sure what you're saying here but definitely a fan of Kripkenstein.

I am not sure what you are suggesting the problem of consciousness is then. I think it must be related to explanation because if there was an explanat...