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Not at all. I'm saying there is nothing special about science. I believe knowledge and methodology evolves in different ways to best suit the field. T...

I think science is just how human knowledge naturally manifests for particular kinds of subject matter. If the hard problem cannot be resolved in scie...

Yes, I think this is reasonable insofar as it doesn't devolve into dualism.

I don't know if I think epistemological priority comes into this. For me its about consistent observations we make. This stuff: Might be one. Facts ab...

Reading this article is like trying to translate a completely different Kuhnian paradigm. Its just completely disconnected from the way I think about ...

I'm not sure I understand where you're coming from. I'm pretty sure its been proven neural networks are like universal computers that can pretty much ...

I like this doppelganger thing. Think most interesting question is how you would treat an identical copy of say, a family member or friend. Maybe to m...

Why does this need to be the case? I don't see why the brain needs anything else other than, effectively, remember its own activity through processes ...

Recurrent neural networks.. essentially. Not literally.. but similar concept in regard to allowing time-sensitive, history-dependent behavior.

Unfortunately for many of you, I am 85% sure the stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct. Unfortunate, because it is very boring and...

I'm still not entirely sure whether you mean some kind of dualism or just that something like math is obviously not a physical concept. The way I see ...

I was talking about general explanations appropriate to their respective scales of being as opposed to mind-physical reduction. I don't have the same ...

Yes, I think it makes sense that we cannot and maybe sometimes should not go for the most reductive explanations. I don't think of science as having a...

Yes, I can see that, though I also think maybe the general public might not really know what reductive physicalism means their views might be still qu...

Yes, just that representations and symbols are not fundamental nor necessary to this picture. Yup, thats the big mystery. I just fall on the position ...

I think one issue with this whole thing is there are various ways you could conceptualize physicalism. On one hand, you can just define it as explanat...

Yes, I think the causes of sensation are inherently underdetermined, indeterminate. There is no inherent fact of the matter of what they mean or repre...

I think my point on is that these aren't really part of the nature of the hard problem, fullstop. And my quote was never intended to directly refer to...

I think neither of these really reflect the problem of explaining phenomenal experiences. There is something very different about the way experience c...

Well arguably these are not analogous scenarios in the respective worlds.

Yes, this is a good point which always gets me thinking. I guess this is an open question depending on how someone conceives phenomenal experiences. I...

Just a random thought. But seems to me that things like materialism, physicalism, naturalism are all kind of difficult to define in a way that doesn't...

Oh I see, quite right; however, I was not trying to invoke that kind of model of the brain or mind. I wouldn't say efficient coding necessatily entail...

I think we both more or less agree about what is happening in the picture physically and causally in the scenario you are talking about so maybe there...

Yes but my point is that if there is no objective identity then this seems trivial in the sense that it is trivial that we are always constantly chang...

Yes, I agree this is a much better way of looking at it. What do you mean on this bit?

I think my point in the context of this post here is that if "personal identity" is not objective then the gamete point is trivial because there is no...

Well @"Moliere" can correct me if I am wrong but I think they are using intension to motivate an argument which is about extension.

Yes, I think this is a core part of science. We carve up nature into systems that are easier to handle, ignoring its interactions with the outside wor...

I am denying objective identity and so I am denying that the developmental trajectory of an organism is deeply intwined with some objective identity. ...

My view: 1. There is no dualism; this is demonstrated by the incoherence of the p-zombie concept. 2. The question then becomes about epistemological r...

Simply because if one is skeptical about a coherent ontology for identity then there is nothing for it to be potent about. All it would then be about ...

Yes, yes. I think we must have got some wires crossed in this topic. I don't think people necessarily really mean h2O when they say water.

Other notes: It seems to be idealizations everywhere though. Even if you want to go past the idealization of water=H2O, then the less idealized descri...

Well I think this is a different topic to what I was saying in my post you replied to but I would say this causo-historico thing presumes a coherent o...

Yes, I think you are right about proposing a certain kind of model and it being undermined in the sense that either the model is outright wrong or the...

Yes but they are still necessary for the properties of water like electrical conductivity, even if little in comparison - if they were not present, it...

Its interesting because really, we can get arbitrarily specific about different kinds of water. When H2O molecules react it results in various differe...

Ha, have any of your suspicions been verified? I had a suspicion of that kind of nature once about another poster who hasnt posted in this thread, the...

Totally agree about this water thing. I more or less have the same idea but I extend it to individuals too.

Well said on these various posts.

I wouldn't say research like this would be helping with the Hard Problem of consciousness though. Ofcourse, the more we learn, the more we might preci...

Oh, this is an actual question about another poster? No I am not him. Why did you think that? Never heard of that name until I looked it up just now.

I am 100% sure, there is absolutely no way that neuroscience can solve the hard problem of consciousness in a way where our descriptions in neuroscien...

P-zombies are definitely incoherent by any normal standard of a good, coherent description of how the world probably works. It makes absolutely no sen...

For me here I think it gets hazy because since in my example everything is completely identical except for this gamete part, it seems to me I could pl...

What about a possible world where the only thing that was different was that George 1 came from gamete 2 instead of gamete 1, which just happen to be ...

Well given that a p-zombie: 1) Behaves identically to a regular person; 2) The reason it behaves are for the same reasons as a regular person (i.e. it...

Well in the the gamete example, it is about a world where that person was not born as opposed to a world where some property of the person has been ch...

Very interesteing reading all of these experiences. Thank you, this has been very insightful!