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Yes, but I mentioned brains without activity in the sentence directly before. An example suggesting the plausibility that a flatlined brain can still ...

Carrol would say that the mental is nothing m9re than the physical. The issue isn't a blanket denial of the physical. The issue is that other claims a...

Lots of possible explanations. We really don't have knowledge enough about the brain to rule anything you. But, for example, you can fins studies sugg...

But what does it do in your picture that is left out of the scientistic one?

Do you actually believe the NPC hypothesis?

Yes it does. Stochastic mechanics doesn't have the same problems for QFT other than the fact that it is explicitly non-local. However, there is a vers...

Yes, ofcourse. Interestingly, you can produce bombtester-like behavior in baths of fluid: e.g. https://share.google/images/jaVQyTd1htud4odMt For me, a...

So essences is just giving definitions.

I think my main issue is just that, given how my views toward scientific realism and anti-realism have evolved over time, I just don't see the point o...

I think not seeing the point is a rebuttal. If something doesn' have any interesting consequences then I don't see a reason to uphold it.

For me, when we say that people just call things "cat" just "because people do" its alluding to the fact that we are very good at identifying, recogni...

I don't think Its mudslinging because I have made responses to your perspective befote where I have basically said that. I don't think there is any me...

Yes, this conception seems to be trivial and have no interesting consequences most of the time which is why I think Wayfarer's crusade is largely vacu...

From my perspective, no one here is saying cats don't exist. But the idea of bundling up the characterization of cats neatly in terms of essences feel...

:up: :100: Good post and article. Simple but effective. Should put the whole thing to bed.

Apparently, there is a field of plant neurobiology, ha! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2017.0096?__cf_chl_tk=EnNihJj2VrCqoJY...

Yes, sure. LLMs don't encounter information in the same way we do, they cannot choose how they encounter information in the way we do, they don't have...

They are capable of intelligibly talking about experiences even though they don't even have the faculties for those experiences. An LLM has a faculty ...

I don't think either of these philosophers claim that what you experience doesn't exist in some sense though. Dennett I believe is just refuting our c...

The way to view it is that in quantum mechanics the statistics of complementary variables have to abide by uncertainty relations in all physical situa...

Because registering a measurement result requires the measuring device to physically interact with the system you are measuring. The stronger the meas...

But they are. They are obviously physical events happening out in reality. If you do a double slit experiment and close or measure one of the slits, i...

I was implying the realism was straightforward (specifically in the Bohmian mathematical description). The non-locality may not be given that it is pr...

Yes, but when you belueve in God, you don't have to justify it! Perfect solution.

I posit that there is no fact of the matter of me having a different subjective experience of red to someone else. because my experience of red can be...

I like to say the same about your phenomenal-noumenal distinction. Not very useful, adding extra mystery where none needed.

Your views are about as incoherent than Many Worlds. In fact, I think that Many Worlds is actually very coherent. Its fault is not intelligibility but...

Bohmian mechanicsisjust straightforward realism that happens to involve non-locality.

Sure people are going to pick interpretations in ways aligned with their philosophical inclinations. I don't believe we should be picking them as a me...

I was directly replying to mention of the combination problem. If my answer was not coherent with the topic, it is because the combination problem was...

Not really sure what this is trying to convey. Thefe are several coherent realist perspectives on QM which don't invoke any form of collapse, such as ...

Again, a number of different realist accounts of quantum theory exist. There is no consensus on this at all that quantum theory has gotten rid of real...

There's various realist positions that don't actually question the theory either!

Sure, but there is no like established consensus or even empirical accessibility on these issues where you could appeal to an expert's opinion on "rea...

The combination problem is more or less the problem of strong emergence from a panpsychist perspective. Replacing combination with emergence does not ...

PHD on philosophy makes you an expert in physics? Does not compute.

I really doubt he qualifies as an expert in the field. He doesn't seem to have a physics PHD. "Realism" is also more interpretational / foundational a...

Well, in my scenario, he doesn't believe in God anymore. And as much as postivists detest metaphysics maybe Berkeley also detested talk about things t...

Do you believe in ghosts as well then?

But they weren't necessarily materialists, they were first and foremosts empiricists who wanted to constrain what could be talked about in terms of ob...

I distinctly remember my impression of Berkeley from university was that he had quite scientific mind, he had sharp, cogent arguments. However, he was...

They actually do have some studies like this on people. Also on animals, the look at their brains during dying.

I think these kind of things needs more controlled scientific study. We don't even really have a full understanding or mastery of the brain yet to hav...

In my opinion its perfectly reasonable to be skeptical in these strange scenarios. Knowledge and evidence here is to sparse substantiate anything as w...

Then how do dead people have knowledge of physical events suring NDEs when their brain is shut off?

Well its clearly not if dead people can have complex experiences without a functioning brain.

I dunno, brains seem like a complex, expensive bit of machinery, biologically speaking. Seems weurd that we would go through all the trouble to evolve...

Why do we have brains if we don't need them for complex experiences?

Honestly, I don't think A.I. is reliable at doing this. Its only good if you know what you're looking for and are both willing and able to check what ...

No clue what you're taking about