Yes, I guess it depends on how easily convinced you are about this being case. For me, without further reason to believe otherwise, it seems like the ...
Well, if we can in principle explain our reports and behaviors regarding our own conscious experiences in terms of physics and biology, and epiphenome...
But everything in your previous post was "third-person mechanics". Which is when scientists disagree with each other. But scientists don't generally s...
I don't really find this that interesting in the context of the problem of consciousness. Its almost a triviality of science that different problems, ...
To me, they would if they had exactly the same brains as us but just devoid of any "lights on" inside. My impression is that there is nothing really i...
What's also interesting here imo is the the question of why something "simply physical" would exclaim things that to us sound like proclamations of co...
In the Markov Blanket perspective, there are no strict boundaries and systems under this definition can be recursively nested within each other, which...
Well I don't think there is any picture or theories of any kind of physics or metaphysics where a point particle wouldn't be a kind of idealization or...
Rather, experience cannot be disentangled from the functional structure of the brain; attempts to do so result in bizarre paradoxes like the p-zombie ...
No one's going to take you seriously unless you are going to back up your mathematical claims. I would like to see how you got to these numbers. Edit:...
Yes, it does seem odd that even though we don't need brains for experiences, our earthly-transcendent spirits have experiences of the exact same kind ...
But you can say the wavefunction is just mathematical object that is describing the behavior of physical particles without being identical to them. Yo...
This can only be done statistically. Because forensics is based on established science which is used to assess whats going on. History makes much weak...
But you can interpret the wavefunction in other ways coherently. From my perspective, fact that people decided to try to interpret it as the physical ...
Well, I endorse an interpretation that has a measurment problem so this is solved for me, personally. No, the measurement problem is a result of the f...
Hmm, I misread this bit as something to do with philosophical zombies. The point being I don't think there's anyway something could not experience thi...
This is very obviously, fallaciously presuming that these specific case studies have some kind of priority here when in reality the problem people mig...
They don't though, and seemingly a majority of posters don't agree with you on this thread. You have this bizarre attitude that the fact that actual e...
But there seems to be largely agreement that measurement does not require consciousness because there is simply nothing in quantum theory to suggest t...
Just seems to me like you're gerrymandering standards of evidence in a way that no one would reasonably accept outside of the vicnity of yourself and ...
I disagree. Such a brain would still report its own consciousness and talk its own consciousness in the exact same way we all do. It would be able to ...
I don't really like these quantum examples because you are getting to a point where people don't really know what these things mean in a metaphysical ...
They aren't criticisms, and if you just read the papers and try to understand what is being said then you will see that. Your best criticism was "beli...
Of the papers I linked, including Friston! Friston has even talked about examples like the rock in zoom discussions. Yes, a point which refuses to eng...
This is just a strawman if you refuse to engage with the way "belief" is intended by the authors of the theory. Bayesianism is just probability theory...
You can give a description in terms of what brains do and perhaps how brain relates the perception in of thought. One can say that money or love or me...
Yes, but then I do not believe the distinction in your other post that there are these mental things separable from physical things and have to someho...
Well it depends on how complicated the system is, what it does. But again, the free energy principle applies in principle even to just a description o...
Again, you're interpreting "belief" in a way that is more elaborate than the minimalist version used in the theory which is not much more than Bayesia...
It does. Bayesian mechanics and Free energy principle can apply to anything sufficiently complicated. As said in the first paper I linked before: if s...
An account that is extremely general, simple but I believe mathematically rigorous, well-defined. https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cluster=7909771...
What we call meaning is completely explainable in terms of sciences, even if difficult. Its just anoyher thing brains do. Statements like this just ma...
That is what a flatlined brain is. When they say that a brain has no activity, they mean it is flatlined. The point is that clearly the report of a fl...
But again, the fact that people report experiences doesn't entail an interpretation unless you can rule out alternatives, doesn't matter how many peop...
But physics, biology, machine learning explains how we can learn things about the world and interact with it efficaciously, including words and symbol...
It can all be explained in terms of physical events and brain activity. I don't see that as contoversial. There is nothing else additional going on. Y...
Why? If you can explain vision physically via a brain, why not meaning? How vision would be explained physically and by the brain is not really much l...
The "meaning" is not different to the sounds, squiggles and neuronal events in anyway that suggests some inherent divide between physical and mental. ...
Case studies aren't causal, and without detailed imvestigation of possible explanations in a controlled way, there is no reason why someone should not...
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