Apustimelogist

Phenomenal consciousness as traditionally depicted obviously cannot have evolved because evolution is a physical process involving things like DNA. If...

Genuinely surprised that "no first-person experience" is leading.

I think you are looking for something that doesn't really exist. I don't think the mind consists of like substantive thoughts as objects which can be ...

I find it funny some people are obsessed with some standard upon which people *should* agree on things (i.e. truth, realism). Yet, in practise, they k...

I will never understand this obsession which only seems to exist in America.

I don't think this is true for everyone. I mean, it should be regardless of sex I think.

I am kind of skeptical of the difference that a nuclear family makes here. Kids can thrive I think with any person as caregiver and it is possible yo ...

There are far more pressing and less banal issues in this world than resurrecting the nuclear family. For me, moving the world back toward that kind o...

Thanks for the reply, and some nice insights! To be honest I deeply respect the idea of someone who is uncompromising to put their stamp on a goal or ...

I have question, apologies if already has been answered somewhere, but: Do you think it needed to be unenjoyable to be the art it is, in your view? I ...

This is precisely to point of the private language argument.

Well this is the point, nothing helps. You may say that "you know as well as I do" but if I interpret "forever" in a non-standard way that is consiste...

No, the point is the rule can never be determined, If he says 5, someone will just ask him to show he was using phlog-ddition!

You've just repeated a synonym for "forever" so how does that help? What does "no limit" mean and does any of this really help without specifying what...

But what do you mean when you say "adding" or "forever". How am I sure you don't actually mean "qu-orever" instead of "forever"? So what, this doesn't...

I have addressed the thing you asked me to demonstrate, now I think you should try and address what I asked you to demonstrate. You say you unddrstand...

What is also interesting i find, is that the kind of very very very basic description of hebbian learning / spike timing dependent plasticity in the b...

The connection is that: it is only in the context of public language as we use everyday, in a way that must be consistent with other people's language...

It has been of use though because all of the examples of addition you have used so far in your life have been consistent with some quus-like rule. If ...

Not necessarily because there are other rules other than plus which are consistent with that sum also. There are no specific instances which where alt...

Why are you asking me how they differ when I know you know how they differ. quus operations are the same as plus except for numbers over 57 where it e...

The point here is that in order to show you are following a specific rule, you need to give me a reason to believe that it is one rule or the other. T...

Its about the fact that everything you have done so far is consistent with multiple different rules. The rules can then be different but your behavior...

It has everything to do with it because you're adamant that even when the situation is underdetermined, you dogmatically lean on plus even though you ...

Maybe the point to take away then is that we don't need an overarching theory of meaning. If you want to know how language and words work and how info...

It only dispells it if you think dogmatism is a valid way to objective truth. In addition, your point of view comes to the bizarre conclusion that und...

I think this misses out the point that this problem is supposed to only be an illustrative example of a generic problem that applies to all uses of la...

I am probably not understanding this at all correctly because its too technical for me but it sounds like its bolstering the Kripke's skepticism rathe...

Let me know if you want me to help you put the toys back in the pram.

What I am getting from this post mainly is that things like "forms of life" lack some kind of inflated metaphysical underpinning or something, but con...

I believe brains are the foundation, if I am understanding you correctly. Brains are complicated dynamical systems with self-organizing behaviour. Net...

Yes, I would agree with this and agree with it myself. I don't know of there is anything particularly special about logic and am drawn in the directio...

I am not sure I would characterize them all as heuristics or "quick and dirty" solutions since they are just the same processes that underlie everythi...

For me, what the point of the impoverishment of language shows is that the way we use words and concepts does not trickle down prescriptively from def...

Well though the math thing you get at is related, its not exactly the same. The rule thing is about definition and description and is just meant to be...

But a brain is just a type of computer working using algorithms in a way that is not qualitatively different to what goes on in machine learning. I do...

Yup, and then the issue regresses as to what makes someone recognize a similarity between pointing a finger and sign-posts. This is all what I meant w...

I only really see your conceptualization here being tenable in a very sollipsistic way because everyone might have their own different personal meanin...

Well, I wasn't agreeing that experience is required, just that we agree on the mental being experiences. Before I said that there isn't really anythin...

It can be really difficult to read to be fair. Its one of those books where possibly what the book says has not been as influential as what othwrs hav...

I am not denying the mental in the sense I am not denying my own experiences. But I side with Wittgenstein and Thelen in saying that I think the evide...

I genuinely don't think I know what meaning can mean outside of the context of use. Even my internal experience of pain has meaning only in a function...

It depends on what we both mean by think. What I meant here was just the internal vocalization of the word which we nonetheless still experience. To m...

But surely there cannot really be a notion of shared meaning based on someones personal pain independently of observable pain-related behaviors. infac...

I actually do agree on this because I don't think all uses of words are what we would normally think of in terms of meaning. But I also think the boun...

Not sure about Kripke but Wittgenstein definitely mentions stuff l like that in philosophical investigations. rules and explicit definitions are more ...

See, evrn in this reply you don't make a constructive point which makes it difficult for me to have an answer or even know what I am supposed to be de...

I think that Wittgenstein seems to apply his skepticism to mental states in a way which I find just as convincing. I think it is possible to deflate t...

I don't know, I would have to think about it, I am neithere here or there.

Because I can construct a rule just like quus which is consistent with all of the additions you have done so far in your life and would yield the same...