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Uhh yes, I think you are implying exactly this when you say... You are implying that someone saying that torturing babies is not a stance independent ...

Yes, definitely, I agree. I am not entirely sure it is *essential*. Maybe acceptance may have been unlikely in the Einsteinian case - who's to say - b...

The fact you have an opinion or preference does not mean you are expressing a belief about something being objectively correct. Saying ice cream is de...

But what if the object of translation was not optical redness but brain states? It seems then that the context problem doesn't apply because Mary's pe...

Well I would say I am more of an anti-realist generally so I think the shapeshifter thing might be apt. I think you "information is what its like to b...

Is there any kind of fact that doesn't suffer the kinds of ambiguities that moral facts do? The notion of a 'fact' is a cognitive tool. Language is id...

In all fairness, I don't think the question of deciding 'what one should do' is necessarily the same as the question of whether 'what one should do' i...

I would say you could argue that they are somewhat equivalent, the ambiguity of the latter implying the former. Can you elaborate on what this means?

Yea, I think I agree with this; I just use terms like 'qualia' and 'phenomrna' etc interchamgeably. ah alright, fair enough

No, the theories are incommensurate because they don't have matching directly translatable terms but because they are incommensurate doesn't prevent s...

Can a scientific theory talk about the notion of truth though in the way Davidson does? Can science tell you about translatability in the sense a phil...

Precisely the opposite, aha! (Quoting myself quoting IEP) Theories can be interpreted and made intelligible, just there cannot be translation between ...

I am not really sure I understand this bit at all but my intuition is probably yes it would make more complicated but I don't know how much difference...

I am not really convinced by the referentialism talk there. I find it hard to believe that what we refer to wouldn't have a meaning that is itself the...

Well I think I agree with you generally. From my perspective, what people like Wittgenstein and Quine seemed to do is take away the foundation out fro...

I'm sorry, something must be lost in translation between us - both ways presumably - because I still don't understand exactly what you are contesting ...

Just went through this, very interesting and nice apologetics for aristotle, if you will. It does seems that it can be reconstructed as a mathematical...

I will be thinking about this but first impression is I like this a lot. A kind of Carollian regress. My intuition is that it makes sense and probably...

Well, yes but I don't know what you are addressing in my post.

What do you mean?

What makes you say this, out of interest? I am not too familiar with those, but the parts of reality we cannot directly access independently of our pe...

I don't think its a contradiction to say that there is an objective world and I just don't have access to it.

The more I think about this the more complicated it seems to get in ways that ultimately might only be resolvable through neuroscience, cognitive perc...

I don't see why stopping here wouldn't be the reasonable solution.

As far I can see you are just begging the question that there is no such thing as a mind-independent reality. I'm sure lots of people would say that: ...

Well, the way I view it, all concepts are ultimately constructs. Information to me is a very general and flexible one that can be applied to almost an...

I don't think I am trying to make an especially deep metaphysical characterization of information, and it's certainly vague. It's closest to what you ...

Yes, those 3 numbered sections outlining the theory pretty much outline the kind of central relationships I have about information, the brain and expe...

You misread me there because that statement about boiling down was referring to what brains do. But anyway, I don't think it is reductionism or elimin...

Argument that there is more to perception than information? All thrme factors you mentioned I would say come under the banner of information in the sa...

Well, possibly. I don't know. I don't know enough to make a judgement about this or what I think it even means in order to disagree. I will be lazy an...

So you don't think the act or event of distinction itself is information? That just hearing something and knowing it is not information? As far as I a...

Why is that? To me, this is having information. Though I think we are getting into the territory where we will have disagreements about the contents o...

But is there ever a way to describe it in which it is not information?

Yes, sure: what is more information in the mind. Well so is the phrase 'what its like to be information' and in fact. When we hear music, that is info...

I was alluding to something along the lines of the extended mind idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_mind_thesis

I see. I think I understand what you mean. It seems rather arbitrary though: where does the extension end? At the actual physical objects we perceive?

Ah, fair enough! I think I would agree.

What do you mean here that it can be said for animals but not nervous systems?

I wasn't trying to imply anything to do with capacity in the definition I said. I am just making the point that experiences are clearly information fo...

(from here.) Well I say this for several reasons: 1. You say information is about sending and receiving, about behaviour of systems. I agree with this...

I was under the impression you were saying this would be a benefit even if moral realism were not true.

Don't you think, in a way, that qualia is just what it is like to be information?

Yes, the link between the semantics of words like "information" and the shannon formalism is vague at best. I think entropy is best characterized as u...

I think a more general way of seeing use is in terms of state transitions. The way you use a cup is a special case since how I use a cup is a sequence...

To be honest, I'm not sure I see why belief in moral realism is required for any kinds of benefits you allude to

very simply, "aboutness" is an illusion

I think there are ways around this. Lack of a single joint probability distribution doesn't mean that same information cannot be represented in multip...

maybe what is fundamental in the universe isn't some kind of fixed set of objects at any particular scale but generally things like invariances, struc...

The wave analogy in quantum mechanics is a very unfortunate and misleading coincidence. Schrodinger equation is more closely related to a diffusion eq...